Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: the end is near

Back in the day, the arrival of bands such as Warrant and Poison spelled the end of the 80s metal scene because they were so obviously a joke. The sheer crumminess of such bands served to open the door to Nirvana and weed out everyone who wasn't 100% legit, leaving a handful of bands like Metallica. A similar thing is beginning to happen now. Hawthorne Heights is so bad that one would be inclined to laugh, except this is no joke. They are merely representative of the tripe excreted by the industry at the moment. No one's listening. I mean, really - when the guy who has the screaming part of the lyric looks like the dude the geeks, nerds and dweebs picked on, how seriously can anyone take it?