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At least somebody gets it.
Your opinions are no better then anybody elses Dino, we all view things differently depending on our experiences. Art is not as black and white as you make it seem, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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There seems to be two groups of people.
Those who seek and appreciate meaning in art.
Those who actually appreciate it for what it is aesthetically.
The latter being the most logical method of appreciating art. Appreciating a concept or meaning, by way of appreciating the beauty of the meaning as a work of art (sculpting emotion) is (in my opinion) invalid. There are better means of doing it. Art that attempts to have a meaning is art that wants to be literature. Film and literature are (I believe) where this meaning should be expressed, because they are a better stage for it. The majority of the time you'll find some truely great concepts and meanings that have been totally wasted in a work of 'art', when really they perhaps deserve a book or film, or to a lesser extent perhaps a piece of music. 99% of the time it's because the means of conveying the meaning itself is ugly (IE scrapmetal, a pig cut in half).
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Look, they're not special. Just come to terms with the fact they're not anything new, they're Alternate Metal, they sound almost like every other band in this genre. I'm not criticising liking something that sounds exactly like something else, as I do myself.
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To be honest Super Munch, it requires more talent and artistic ability to make a good song with the same essense, atmosphere, and continuity of style with another song, but still retain originality. No matter how similar it is to something else, if it still sounds recogniseably different, and is still rockin, then it's still originality and artistic creation, just within different parameters, different borders. Rather than working with a completely blank canvas, it's like painting a paint-by-numbers in a really funky and different way. You've still got the same image, but it's arranged in a totally different and very creative way.
Look at graffiti for example - there are some noticeably prolific styles, but that does not mean that they are copied. Each work tends to be completely original, but it's still very definately graffiti. If it strays too far from what it is, then it loses it's identity, but if it hangs too close to one idea, it becomes repeated.
Basically, there's a difference between being a copycat, and working within a genre. At the end of the day, it's up to you to use your better judgement and disgretion to work out which one of those two things something is.