There's so much negativity on the internet these days that most fans consider evolving as selling out at least when it comes to rock/metal. All I ever hear is comments like "first x albums were their best and then they went to ####". Metallica always comes to mind in this discussion. They constantly evolved as the first album was speed metal then they evolved to thrash and in the back half of their catalogue more metal. I wouldn't say they sold out and more that they just evolved as they aged and you can debate if they were better for it. I certainly preferred their early stuff but I can't fault any musicians that actually want to make new music and not the same album over and over but it doesn't always work out. Linkin Park for example lost me when they turned into a pop band.
I certainly don't agree with AC/DC. Their sound changed slightly after Bon Scott passed but everything after that is basically the same album over and over again.
As far as bands go I would have to say In Flames has to be the one that's changed the most as from 1994 to today they have probably covered almost every major genre in metal from death metal, melodic death metal, nu-metal, metalcore, metal, to rock. I have never heard such a varied discography from any band in the rock/metal genre.
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