Otherwise known as the horrible affliction that swept the previously incredible 80's thrash
metal bands in the early 90's, reducing them to greedy, selfish, hypocritical sell-out posers.
Subjects exhibiting
Metallica Syndrome copies everything the disease's namesake does; build up a huge, devoted fanbase in the mid-80's underground by making fast,
heavy, amazing albums, then suddenly fuck over all those true fans by releasing a softer, mainstream,album sometime around 1992-is, a sell-out album.
Later symptoms include earning a huge amount of money and even more fans (mostly weekend headbangers and posers), while abandoning devoted original fanbase, and core values and the style they were famous for in the first place.
More signs bands have
Metallica Syndrome include a sudden, sharp increase of the band's attempted publicity, like on TV and the radio, conforming with mainstream
music and its neverending attempt to force you to hear their
music.
The last and most obvious symptom of the disease is making a 'comeback album', an CD like their 80's albums in style and intensity, basically one that should've been released in place of the shit albums. These albums sell just as well, if not better than their previous tries, and are often critically acclaimed as 'a return' or 'the comeback'. Most of the
time, the bands have gone through a shitload of lineup changes and record labels, and don't
sound the same, though faggot posers who say they like
whatever band argue they do.
Unfortunately, several of the best thrash
metal bands have been infected with
Metallica Syndrome:
1. Megadeth (their non '...' containing album titles and
Endgame)
2. Testament (anything in the 90's, basically, and The Formation of Damnation)
3. Exodus (1991-2007, followed by The Atrocity Exhibition later that year)
