The Direction of Modern Metal

[Shoden]

It is true, KISS did and still do put their brand ahead of their music. But their latest album has music that's barely commercial at all and will still sell and makes millions because it has the KISS brand on it.
They have everything and more, they charge a lot of merchandise. I had to pay £30 for a tour shirt at their gig and usually I pay £20 for a shirt, the Gene Simmons signature bass is £6000 and its horrible. I'd rather have my Rickenbackers over them anyday!

They're just a good show band, they put a lot of money and effort into the show but. Then again. Isn't that to make a maximum profit from the show? And get more people to come to their shows?
KISS are just the absolute cliche of glam rock times a thousand and still to this day they are.

Their music was and still is nothing unique or special, some cool riffs and such here and there but really they are nothing special, they did change their sound to fit the changing scene in the 80's when they took off their makeup and changed back again to a grungier sound that didn't work too well before reverting back to their original lineup, toured a bit, changed members.

It all about money! I do agree about that. Its the same formula, change your image and music to gain popularity.
A fashion show with a bunch of mediocre musicians posing on stage going through songs that angsty teengirls would orgasm over. XD

What exactly the scene band thing is, is that there are hundreds upon hundreds of bands doing the exact same thing with the exact same formulas for being a band. I can't tell the difference between You Me At Six, My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon, Black Dahlia Murder, Cryptosy or Whitechapel XD there's probably MORE Trivium, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, Bullet for My Valentine, Funeral For a Friend. They're all clones of one and other I swear.

That's what I don't like, they're all trying to be one and other, nothing unique, nothing new, special and this is what's killing metal. There's less bands wanting to be original and revolutionary and more bands that want to stick to this trap. =\ They call themselves metal so I'll humour them and evn if I don't classify these bands as metal, well that doesn't matter in the comparison, unless you're Dragonforce and call yourself EXTREME METAL!