Nope, there are a lot of great successful bands out there. They just don't appear on MTV.
Let's be real, most people stuck doing that are NOT making great music. There hasn't been a good local band here in Texas in years, sadly.
To undermine the success of bands you have no idea about is totally, well, idiotic. You don't even have a clue as to what bands I like and are going off assumptions I only listen to this stuff that comes out of garages. It couldn't be further from the truth, honestly. If you want to go ahead and call Korn, Disturbed, Justin Timberlake, Brittany Spears creative geniouses, that's fine and dandy. As I'm tone deaf, lawl, I'd go for you being musically challeneged on all levels but too each their own.
There are bands like Everygrey, Isis, Red Sparrowes, Aborted, Arsis, Vital Remains, (not forgetting some formentioned classics: Opeth, In Flames, Soilwork, Katatonia just because they have sense changed) and other bands from their genres making the paper/success but you'd never hear about them because they aren't on your precious hit list. May have heard of Isis but ONRY for them supporting Tool on the road. Now, you could say you hate the Death/Thrash/Ambient/Progressive metal worlds because -(insert whatever silly reason here)- but most of them that are sucessful and never heard of in the mainstream, if you want to talk money, have just as much as the chart toppers.
If everyone listened to the same stuff I did, I'd finally be pleased with the worlds musical taste. Then I wouldn't have to stomach half of the bullshit I hear daily about how awesome these nu-"metal" bands are. Sadly, it'll never happen.