The fusion of genres brings variety, new ideas and a breath of fresh air. I think this should be encouraged more in a genre that sees less and less innovating bands & cool surprising ideas. Not that it never does, just less.

Personally on that matter, I'm all for opening the flood gates. Alt-metal and -core isn't pseudo neither is it non-metal, it's just another blend of it. Metal that isn't scared to experiment. I love it and I want to see more of it

Adding bands that not a single Metal Storm user has mentioned in over a year seems like a pretty pointless waste of time to me.

completely worthless. Blessthefall is a good example. The profile has existed for 14 months, but there hasn’t been a single post. We could delete the profile again, and no one would even notice.

Many people don’t understand that our database doesn’t aim to be complete. It’s simply meant to serve as a foundation for generating real content (user comments, reviews). Without that content, band profiles are, IMO

But lately when I look at the metalcore community and I see pseudo or half metal bands like Sleep Token or Falling In Reverse exploding in popularity despite very average albums (in my opinion), it distances me from this community

Honestly I enjoy these genres but I'm like the other MS users, they are not my favourites but I still think it isn't a reason to snub them