Ronnie James Dio on what killed metal.

Very true

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Ronnie is not wrong. I am a child of the 70s and grew up hearing & watching my heroes get erased due to plane crashes (Randy Rhoads), bus roll overs (Cliff Burton), helicopter crashes (SRV), asphyxiation due to drinking (John Bonham & Bon Scott) and not one of them or their bands had a video on Mtv.
Everyone insisted they had to have videos because they created a wider audience & made their music accessible to more people (and a new cash stream) BUT they looked and sounded like clowns. Watch Iron Maiden, Judas Priest & Celtic Frost videos from the late 80s, they dressing like all the other Glam "bands?" singing teenie bopper stuff and the music truly suffered.
The problem is the VJ's and DJ's called all these Glam Rock bands Metal. All us Stoners/Metalheads/Headbangers knew damn well that those mid to late 80s guys (who wore make up (not corpse paint like King Diamond or The Misfits were) amd dressed like strippers were exactly what Metal was not. They were not playing Metal music & their music took 2nd place to what these posers were wearing and dressed like. Their videos were all Pop music with bubblegum lyrics and these guys were placed on the covers of magazines and the videos sold their albums and the music for the most part sucked, and they were all trying to look like Stevie Nicks.
It was not Metal but they were selling out stadium tours and looking like clowns. Selling millions of Pop Rock records in the guise of Metal.
I'm glad there was a big Thrash movement plus the Black & Death Metal scenes formed as a necessity to keep actual Metal alive. Then the Seattle scene exploded and together with the "Nu Metal", Alt Rock & Grunge scenes destroyed the abomination of fake poser Glam rock
Although classic Metal suffered, it was not dead. The Pop/Party bands no longer sell out stadiums and they went quietly away into the history books.
Thank you Ronnie🤘 RIP
The world is full of Kings & Queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams Heaven & Hell
🤘☮️

It's called glam metal and no I don't like it. Dio was 100% right about this. They ruined it. And let's be honest it's not metal.

If another genre killed metal, so that means that the music business killed it or didnt care about its survival
Plus, everyone knows bands were suffering a collettive lack of creativity
Take Metallica, they reached the top of the world with the weakest album in their carrier and I still have to listen to metalheads longing for that age

Hard disagree on this one. If anything Grunge was a biggest hit against Metal music than Glam ever was. Grunge completely killed the momentum Thrash Metal had and finished off Trad Heavy Metal which was already struggling at that point. And even in that scenario, Metal survived. Death, power, black and doom formed niche audiences and not only survived but probably peaked on the 90s.

But Glam didn't kill Metal. Thrash Metal was basically formed as a counter culture to glam and was extremely popular on the 80s. And regarding Trad Heavy Metal, the new subgenres that started to appear in the 80s had as much of a negative impact on Trad Heavy as glam did.

When I hear musicians talking negatively about Glam it gives me bitterness vibes. Like, extremely talented people like Dio, who can sing like no other, looking at Glam bands, who are in general less talented, but could pull more people because they made their sound more commercial and appealed to sex. I can't really blame him, but that's the music business.

IMO the closest we are from Metal being dead is right now. We may have a lot of new bands right now, but they're all playing the same subgenres as always. Aside from djent (which I don't like) I can't even name a new subgenre that came up in the 2010s, let alone in the 2020s.

How true

Kt's not MTV … it's the makeup that killed Metal !😂

Dio was wise enough for all of us ✌️🙏