I don't think we really have a thread that tries (or claims) to objectively-analyse the musical genre I shall call 'Scream Rock' but: it deserves to be picked-over and pinned-down.
Having just sat (and stood) through a stage performance of Steve Steinman's Meat Loaf/Jim Steinman tribute act (unique though that is in itself, in a number of ways)... I feel we need to truly know what is going on (or not) in the odd, not-really-hard scream-scenes schools of Rock.
Tenacious D. Ozzy. Black Sabbath. All these bands that claim to have sold their souls to the devil, in song and synthetic spirit, yet in reality are really milder than mulled wine at a PTA social.
I do understand that it's sanitised pseudo-satanic sing-song screamalong, in the main. Shrink-wrapped synthetic shock. But as pointed-out by
@GNC (and others here, previously) why is there so much melodic harmonised side-referencing within the canon (eg from Tenacious D) where they claim to inferentially-worship an intense style of music that they, themselves, tend really to avoid playing? I mean by this that they often all seem to
minstrel about Rock music, as opposed to riffing-up the rock,
itself.
Is there an explanatory musicological thesis possessed of anyone, fully-formed, fragmentory (or, faltering) that can shine some more light into this floodlit stage(d) of undarkness?
[And: it is very (very) odd to watch old & aged 'rockers', as an audience, at a rock concert. It is metalogically mad, and deserves in itself to be mauled, mercilessly]