It's easy to just form an opinion of an entire genre based on the dumbed down pop shit that is the mainstream face of the music.
Most heavy metal sounds nothing like Bon Jovi, much like it is a terrible mistake to base one's view of hip hop on shite like 50 Cent, Sean Paul or Ja Rule.

I loved the backpack scene in the late 90s/ early 00s- bands like Company Flow, J5, Cannibal Ox and Anti-Pop Consortium. A fantastic time for conscious, intelligent hip hop. That whole Rawkus scene was tremendous too.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 16 Jan 2011, 16:41, Reply)