5. Respectably Recognise Their Position and Influence
Many people (especially rock fans) still view Bullet as one of those great bands who have a corking debut album that dissipated with each subsequent release. Whilst I dont agree with that personally (Scream, Aim Fire was my entry point, and a good three-quarters of Fever is brilliant), as soon as you read about how Temper was meant to be a gateway album designed to allow a wider mainstream audience to get into metal, the entire project makes sense, but in-turn also completely falls apart artistically. Its admirable in some way to be that band that are the critically-acclaimed, parent-offending, high-school/water-cooler-debated next big thing, sitting just on the periphery of listenability for the masses, gradually being accepted on their own terms a la all the great bands of old. Where that system completely fails is offering up subpar song-structures in the hope that people will get into you on the way to the aforementioned greats, thereby further illuminating how watered down your sound is in the first place.