natatandaan ko pa kuya...
mid 80's - punk / ska and hardcore bands dominated the scene while a small minority of new wave / neo-romatic-goth inspired act were making their presence felt...
late 80's to 1990 - the neo-romatics and the new wave inspired people were the dominant part of the local underground. punk and hardcore was being confused with speed metal and trash...
early 90's - while new wave inspired bands one by one caught the attention of the local gigsters here in manila while being converted to grunge and other widely accepted form of mainstream college radio fodder, high velocity metal of all forms became the flavor of the underground... but in cebu, new wave was the flavor of that period...
mid 90's - punk was resurrected but still, metal held it's ground inspite of grunge's popularity world wide, i never remember it becoming big in the local underground movement. also, by the end of this period goth established itself as "the other" underground movement with a truly "hardcore" following... another scene was also making it's presence felt but on a very "restricted level". this was the local shoegaze scene...
late 90's - alternative became a joke... the underground was still the haven for local metal (specially death metal), punk / ska, goth, the newly christened "indie" movement (shoegaze, indiepop and indierock) scene and even hip-hop. but during this period, new rap metal bands made their mark in the underground and on to the mainstream...
2000 until present - not much has changed, still the same cast of genres either trying their best to avoid wide mass acceptance or simply couldn't get any wider mass acceptance... it was during this period that "indie" went the way alternative did (it also became a joke)inspite of some local indiepop bands getting notice, respect and rave reviews from the foreign indie community. new metal became bigger and ska / new punk got a wider audience...
the future... i can see ABS/CBN Chanel 2 GOING UNDERGROUND!!! oi! oi! Oi! sarah geronimo and martin neivera releasing split 7" eps, mark bautista releasing a covers 12" with songs by still little fingers, the accused, napalm death and ice T. both will top all undreground top 10 charts in every barangay in the country... rico blanco wins a best actor award for his indie film "maging sino ka man the next generation" and a palanca awards for the lines "...nobody cares" which by that time, will be the undergound battle-cry for many years to come... yuck! yuck and YUCK!
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