For sure, at least the bands I know best from the genre, Skillet and Creed, certainly have some great songs.
Well if blink-182 is playing a setlist of only The Rock Show the crowd will only be energized for so long.
I don't mean the entire set list has to be full of high energy songs. I just mean that the overall setlists should have energy.
Honestly the only older bands I pay attention to are Pink Floyd and The Cranberries, all the others have 1 or 2 good songs in my view.
Well, Master of Puppets is the best Metal album of all time imo. At least early Metallica is Thrash Metal perfection.
In terms of the Metal that Metallica makes all these bands are great and way better than Metallica: -Iron Maiden -Judas Priest (My personal favorite Metal band) -Motorhead -Pantera -Deep Purple -Black Sabbath -Slayer -Megadeth -Anthrax -Dio -Manowar -Babymetal Off the top of my head. I know I'm forgetting some. And if you include all forms of metal I could ramble on for days.