I agree but if you were in the scene at the time (yes I'm an old bastage), you would have been floored just like me when JP jumped on the hair wagon, or tried to rather. You've got to understand that bands like Bathory, CF and Venom were not quite held in the same regard, even with the true, at that time.
You're misunderstanding this because you have no choice.. The hair bands you speak of were never so much as acknowledged by the true at the time, you only think so because Mtv made you. It's really no different than the garbage on Mtv nowadays right, you made the brittany analogy, same difference if you think about it right? Glammed up commercialized corporate sponsored horse poo, thru and thru.
Dude I poop you not, when Turbo came out it changed all the rules. If a band like JP could just flat sell out and send all their followers scurrying for a rock to hide under in embarrassment then ANYBODY could.
Keep in mind that there were not torrents or youtube either so you actually had to pay for the music you heard oftentimes before even hearing it. And on top of that, try to imagine tracking down a copy of a Bathory record in BFE in those days.. If kmart or sears didn't have it you were pretty much SOL where I lived.
I firmly believe that this, what we've been speaking of, contributes directly to bands going nu or core, or whatever's not metal and sells records nowadays. I guess it's one thing to never be metal and quite another, most shameful, thing to have been metal once. These people have neither any soul nor respect for the music they make as far as I can see, so, tell me friend...
WTF should I turn my cheek when they spit in my face?