At what point did it become wrong to expect metal to have a place in the main stream market?

[Derrick]

I realize metal, new metal, progressive metal, or commercial metal has had it's ups and downs but you can't find much industry support like videos on MTV or VH1 or real categories on the grammies etc.....Thankfully we have youtube and other social networks where you can find what you want. but it seems as if we are being forcefed what they want us to listen to instead of giving us a real choice. There is a new wave of metal coming that deserves more industry support.

[Albert Meadows]

Because the main stream market is too focused on untalented washed up trash like country music or that fruit bieber.

They forgot what real music is like,

[Marc]

Metal hopefully will never be mainstream, im a metal lover and i think it would be dead if it went mainstream.

[kindthrill695]

It's because of the history behind alot of the metal... Look at Norwegian black metal like Burzum..... Murdering and killing each other... Cradle of Filth uses slogans like "Jesus is a Cunt" and very sacreligious lyrics, depictions and so on... Thats why metal does not get as much recognition... I LOVE metal, but society as a whole doesn't.... \m/ Rock on bro.

[Michael]

Metal in my school and country is SOO! Mainstream......it's annoying

[Seederman]

If the masses wanted it, it would be mainstream. No dis to metal, but the fact is that it is always going to be a niche market, and because its listeners often specialize a couple of very narrow subgenres and exclude others, every band is going to be a niche band. Television doesn't show metal acts because more viewers don't want to see it than do.

To answer your question, metal stopped being mainstream around 1974, when glam rock, funk, disco, punk, and soft rock were catching on. But it will always exist, as a niche market, and many bands will make a very good living selling their recordings and show tickets.

Most of the best music is niche music, it's just the order of the universe.

[Vergil]

Forget the mainstream. Leave that shit to Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. People are too stupid to realize how good it is, and you know what? Don't let them, I think if bands like Avenged Sevenfold, Falling In Reverse, Hollywood Undead, and all other forms of good music were to go Mainstream they wouldn't be as good. And in case you haven't noticed MTV, VH1 MTV2 etc, aren't even about music anymore, their all about that reality crap. So let them advertise their Pop Techno Rap shit while we stick to what we do. Rock will never die to this Mainstream crap, remember that.
And really getting to your question well people (the general public) are just closed minded and stupid. They look at Metal as punk, emo stuff (Not saying that some of it isn't) And don't actully take the time to figure out the meaning to it. Take a song like The Diary (Hollywood Undead) and put it next to Baby (Justin Bieber). The Diary is 20000x more romantic if you really listen to what they say in it and think about it, while Bieber just says 1 word the whole song and people think he's freaking Cupid. The point is people take the easy way, they don't want to think

I hope I helped you, I was kind of just venting the whole time :3

[phatzwave]

When I heard Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath in 1970, Mainstream sucked even way before that.