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the "next big thing," in hopes of looking cool.

Stop for a moment and ask yourself how a band such as Nickelback could attain such wealth and fortune, with almost no musical skill or talent to back them up? Nickelback has been called out countless times for blatantly ripping off their OWN songs, purely because the original song did so well on the musical charts. To make matters worse, the other low-grade bands at the bottom of the talent pool have resorted to copying each other's songs almost bar for bar. What we have, essentially, is one really large band, where different musicians guest on each album. Gone are the days of a popular music band actually sounding DIFFERENT than their peers. These days all it takes is a ridiculous hairstyle, a garage-band musical skill level, and songs aimed towards the preteen audience to assert their fame and fortune.

There is one shining light at the end of this deep, dark tunnel. Ironically, it lies underground. The underground music scene is where the REAL rock and roll has fled, and it's quite willing to sit back and laugh while waiting for the surface-dwellers to rip themselves apart. All you need do is look for yourself. The Internet is a POWERFUL search tool, and real hard rock fans craving that feel-good sound won't have to look far. In fact, rock n' roll has branched out into so many different forms of fun music, that it's impossible not to at least take a look. Below are a few bands to get you started, classified in terms of extremity. Happy hunting!

MEGADETH (hard rock, heavy thrash) THE DARKNESS (glam, power metal) BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (hard rock, power metal) F5 (heavy metal) NIGHTWISH (symphonic power metal) DRAGONFORCE (power speed metal) SONATA ARCTICA (heavy metal) EDGUY (power speed metal) HAMMERFALL (power metal) LORDI (hard rock) CHILDREN OF BODOM (speed, thrash metal) KAMELOT (power metal) ARCH ENEMY (melodic death metal) KILLSWITCH ENGAGE (heavy thrash metal) ENSIFERUM (folk, speed metal)

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