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"The album fared poorly commercially due to its release coinciding with the advent of the grunge era, which ultimately resulted in a dramatic decline in the popularity of heavy metal music in general." Wrong, wrong, WRONG!!! The album may have been a commercial disappointment, but it was NOT because it was released at a time when grunge was edging out old-school metal. Monster Magnet had far, far more in common with the "grunge" bands of the time than it did with the hair-metal and old-school metal bands that they displaced. Grunge was very heavily influenced by garage, psychedelia and punk, and that fit Monster Magnet to a T.
99.110.212.94 (talk) 23:03, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I strongly disagree. MM was very much a part of the metal scene which was "dethroned" so to speak during the grunge alternative heyday of the 90s. Yes, they may have had something in common with some grunge bands of that era, but having lived through that period and buying Superjudge when it was first released, I can say that MM was definitely regarded as part of the "hair metal" scene. As such, they were not at all regarded at that time as having anything at all to do with grunge or alternative. They were, sadly, regarded as a part of the old metal scene and not part of the new alternative scene. I believe the removed sentence was very much accurate. Freshfighter9talk23:13, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
