Alright, here is my reponses,
Deftones - You're either an OG fan who's dismayed by the increase of zoomer/bpd/over-emotional soyboys and tiktok-ethot girls, or are said zoomer/bpd/over-emotional soyboys and tiktok-ethot girls.
I heard about Deftones back in the days but I never really listen to their music since I kinda lost interest in metal in the late 90s when it took a quality decline, many bands sold out and Groove and Nu-Metal was the norm. Alternative metal isn’t my cup of tea also.
Lou Reed - You unironically do heroin and other opioids (IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE) and have no concept of craft when it comes to songwriting.
I only remember him as the guy who collaborated with Metallica to make what is to be the worst album Metallica has ever made more than a decade ago. This opinion is spot on. Guy manages to destroy the Metallica band more than Lars.
Sewerslut - Pedo Apologists. Full stop. You think somehow having the same reskins of sad anime girls is somehow deep, and therefore makes your genre made of cut up loops is high art. You pull no bitches, and are an incel troon.
I never even heard of Sewerslut until just now. I don’t know much of this music and now I just heard about this, I’m staying far away from this artist knowing that the community surrounding it are all pedos and troons.
Any Prog Music Post-Animals As Leaders - Perfect argument of how "Modern art is just made for the sake of art, and not a reflection of someones view or reality" While the technical bar has been raised for the umpteenth time, tracks from AOL, Architects, and similar bands all sound like they fit in a AA game score. There's absolutely nothing fun, exciting, or subversive to keep someone interested who doesn't throw 4k on a guitar.
I’m more of a old school metal guy and I do listen to progressive metal however, I haven’t listening to anything that was post Animals as Leaders and to be clear, I haven’t gotten into Animals as Leaders at all. I learn more towards pure heavy metal, hard rock, NWOBHM, Thrash, Doom, and Death Metal, over something like Prog.
Sublime - Peaked in highschool, if you even graduated. Probably has an SA charge. Doesn't listen to Robbin' The Hood which is actually criminal.
I never heard much about Sublime despite being a teenager/young adult in the early 1990s, probably a alternative rock band I don’t usually care about.
100 Gecs - Troon chaser and/or just a troon. Doesn't understand that The Garden is a superior band, with actual coherent storytelling and has a better thought out appeal and aesthetic.
Never even heard the name at all, I’m a middle-aged Gen Xer and probably not as up to date on popular culture to know what it is, but now seeing that the fans are all troons, like Sewerslut, I’m probably staying far away from this band if it is even that.
Maroon5, Beyonce, Post-2007 Coldplay and T.Swift
I do know what they are, they all fucking suck just like how 90% of all modern pop artists since the mid-2000s are all shitty zero-talent artists who managed to make songs that are even more ear grating then the shittest metal song ever made. I don’t even listen to their songs considering that now I have methods of avoiding their songs. I may have heard their songs playing on the radio when I shop, but then again, it’s on the radio, it’s beyond my control.
5FDP, all other Red State Rock - Same as Maroon5, Beyonce, and T.Swift fans, just the other side of the horseshoe.
See what I wrote about modern pop music but this time, not in some gentrified area. Still same crap I avoid at all costs.
Deathmetal, Black Metal, Modern Punk Subgenres - As explained by others in the thread, if you're in the arts or have been to enough shows, these are all 20-30 yo aimless losers who have to use the cultures as a coping mechanism in order to fill a hole in their life. They just seethe at seeing successful people who are better at writing songs, have some business sense, and are not retarded for over-saturating their local venues by playing 3 times a month.
This is the point where our opinions started to diverge. I do agree that modern punk music is shit and should be avoided as almost all modern punk listeners are antifa scumbags. However, Death and Black Metal…….. Well, those were good genres and I liked those genres since I discoversd them in the 1990s when I was in University, Keep in mind, plenty of death metal bands were very intense at the time and the ones I saw live back them with my old dorm buddies were not some broke losers. Black Metal, apart from the first waves (like Venom. Celtic Frost, Bathory, and few others), and 2nd ones (Immortal. Mayhem, Emperor and Gorgorth and few others), I have mostly avoided due to the toxicity of those political spergs of both sides and, just like prog metal, their pretentiousness was too much for me. Both Black (bands I know) and Death Metal are still good though, and is still superior to the modern pop crap and the “red state“ rock you listed earlier, even if the musicians themselves might be lolcows.
The Smiths - You're either self aware of how melodramatic the music is and find Morrisey funny, or you're gonna be raising someone else's kid.
I never really liked the Smiths tbh. I don’t know much about their music.
NF - Your gangsta pass is revoked. Permanently.
I don’t really listen to rap music and have no idea what NF is. I’m still staying away from rap music.
Any of the Thrash Big 4 - Has lost all of its edge, are now evergreen bands in the same vein as the Stones, Beatles. Slayer is the worst by far and is only attracts wannabe zoomer edgelords.
I can agree with you on that. I was a o.g fan for all those big 4 thrash bands back in the 1980s. In fact, as I can say as somebody who used to like these bands since the 1980s. I was very pissed off when they began to sell out to the mainstream in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s and made albums that were so shitty that I got put off from listening to them. Even to this day, the only one of the “big 4“ thrash metal band still I listened to is Megadeth. Even with that, there is much more better thrash then that and I recommend anybody who looking into Thrash metal music to look beyond just the big 4 thrash bands and look at other thrash scenes (like Teutonic thrash such as Sodom, Kreator and Destruction, whom I got into back in the early 1990s and many more scenes). You might find something that transcends the quality of the big 4 bands.
Pearl Jam - Congrats, you like the Grateful Dead of the grunge era.
Grunge is not my area of field. I listen to Heavy Metal, and it’s subgenres, with a sprinkle of Hard Rock and 1990s IDM/electronica, not stuff like Pearl Jam.
