we should just sit in our fucking basements on a computer and raise our post count by bitching about the same old shit then, huh? Cause thats how saviors are made.
ANUS is the single foremost proponent of quality metal and has thousands of people a day reading its articles. That's doing nothing? Working with local bands, writing about music, promoting quality music?
What you don't understand is that a scene isn't made of just musicians. It needs more, including some people to keep those musicians heading toward some creative goal.
You're missing the main point, which is that the 100,000 metal bands we have now should have just stayed in their basements typing on computers... they're not achieving anything else, with a handful of exceptions.