Quoted from usandthem:How do you suddenly stop being a Metallica fan after being one? It's not like you're a 12 year old girl and they're One Direction or something. How can you be fickle toward a band that's been around for over 30 years?
I can see people who didn't necessarily grow up on early Metallica and were more around for the post-Black Album period being very much over the band. All that Load/Reloaded garbage was kind of a bad scene. It seems telling to me that everyone thinks of nu metal when you talk about metal nowadays...hard for someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s to conceive but there it is.