My Basic Philosophy on Music Pt. 1

So this is where some debate is going to jump into my posts on music. As I've mentioned before, I've developed a strong passion for music from playing music mostly. The main music era I listen to right now is the 70's to late 90's and early 2000's, and the main genres are progressive rock and progressive metal. A lot of the progressive metal bands I listen to are completely underground because they are newer. These are bands such as Angra, Symphony X, Excalion, Masterplan, Nocturnal Rites, Kamelot, Circus Maximus, Thunderstone, Silent Force, and last of all: Dream Theater. I thought to myself why these bands are underground. It didn't take me long to realize that they are because all of the modern "music" that mostly solo artists are putting out. I don't think this is fair at all. People who push buttons, talk into a microphone and "play" instruments are getting more fame than these bands who put out what music was from the beginning. This isn't the way it used to be, so why did it change? I guess people just go for attractive artists and catchy riffs in order to be considered "good music". I'm not saying that every single mainstream artist and band these days fits this category, but 90% of them do. I really can't put into words how I totally feel about this subject, because it's so unreal that people with no musical experience or talent can make money by simply buying a guitar and trying to play it. I'll get more into this general topic later, but the next topic I want to go to is something that draws a lot of controversy: Screamo music. A lot of people are seeming to love it nowadays, and I really can't understand why. Does it relieve stress to some people? I don't see how it could. A lot of these bands do have a fair amount of musical talent, but throw it in the trash when the vocalist with no distinguishable vocals comes out. I really don't have much else to say about this topic, so we'll jump to the next: The evolution of heavy metal. I guess you could say that heavy metal was started (or at least influenced) by Led Zeppelin, who passed it on the Iron Maiden. They started bringing out some power metal in their music, which has influenced all sorts of bands from all sorts of genres to this day. Some of Iron Maiden's "sons" were Fates Warning, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Black Sabbath/Ozzy (the oldest), and many many more. This is where heavy metal hit its peak in my opinion. Remember that progressive metal is not included in this particular topic. As is progressed through the 90's, you started to get branches off of heavy, power, and thrash metal of the 80's which we all enjoy. You started to get bands like Slipknot Lamb of God, and Witchery. These three branches are known as speed metal, death metal, and black metal. That's where metal should have stopped. Death metal is pretty much screamo 10 octaves lower, speed metal is just a knock off of thrash metal, and black metal is just pure evil. You can even tell in the band's names. All though there are some bits and pieces of bands that are alright, are they really worth looking for. Fighting through growling, evil lyrics, and profanity is not what I'm looking for to discover new music. I don't see why so many people throw the 80's greats under the bus to make room for the new death metal musicians on board. Yes, they do have musical talent. No, they didn't choose the right path to take that talent, which results in straight up noise, and nothing else. Well that's it for today, but I will definitely touch up on these topics more as time goes on. Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoyed this.