| At its core, Alternative Metal uses the same conventions that heavy metal always has -- loud guitars and bludgeoning riffs -- but it subverts the genre with post-punk concepts. Instead of adhering to the traditional lightweight lyrical topics that dominate mainstream metal, alternative metal bands tackle weightier matters, much like Metallica but without the insanely fast tempos, intricate guitar solos, and hoarse, bellowed vocals. Musically, the bands tended to be more atonal than traditional metal, but that all changed after Nirvana became popular in the early '90s and grunge became the dominant form of hard rock. After Nirvana, alternative metal ranged from the grinding, dissonant Helmet to the big riffs of Stone Temple Pilots, who closely followed the formula of '70s hard-rock acts. Soon, many new metal bands were packaged as alternative acts, though there was little besides visual presentation and a trademark fuzzy distortion to distinguish them from conventional metal bands. | ||
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