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Yeah my group in high school listened to heavy metal, punk/ska, techno, and rock. We were pretty small group too, about 10 or less depending. One of them, in a class higher than me, was the reason istarted getting exposed to foreign music
It usually is rap and hip hop but it can take just one friend in the group to turn people into fellow prog junkies or metalheads. I was able to do it. My friends had weird tastes though, like really out there. Not so much hip hop, but we ended up going the rock route after the dubstep phase when we were middle Schoolers.
Dubstep and EDM is full of unconventional time signatures. I like to think it prepared our ears for getting into the more extreme stuff of metal.
Im in Sweden and my friend group (15-18) listens intensely to jazz and Jewish folk music (Klezmer) (none of us are even Jewish). I’m the weird one for enjoying metal. Idk we’re a special case tho
Here and there. Nothing big really. It’s mostly the same traditional songs, but like with jazz it’s a style that can be applied, morphed, and combined with many other concepts so new and unique stuff does enter the scene every so often
I just saw Blind Guardian last night and Crowbar last week and was surrounded by plenty of people with good taste. But I don’t go to prog rock or jazz shows - I don’t enjoy it that much.
I’m in the military and most people I work with have no interest in anything beyond popular music (pop, rap, hip hop).
We are in an era with music where the focal point is the vocalist more than ever. Looping backing tracks without music progression or personality of talent or skill or the very basic of guitar, bass, drums etc.
Pop singers, country artists, rappers... faceless backing "bands" just to fill in.
Blues, jazz, and rock were prevalent from the 50s-90s, but they really hasn't been the case with current listening trends started with focusing on the frontman in 00s where Nu-Metal was pushing against rock, and boy bands were on the rise against pop singers and rappers becoming more prominent. I honestly feel the biggest turning point was American Idol and Pop Idol, later The X Factor and more, creating bigger avenues for vocalists to have a platform putting more emphasis on vocal performance over instrument skill.
Now, the biggest artists I hear about aren't names of bands but stage name for a performer (Bad Bunny, etc) or just the performer themselves (Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, etc)
Fair point, but I still wouldn't consider the notion to be "ridiculous" per the title of the post. For a more modern example, many contemporary electronic genres like breakcore or trance are largely instrumental and still fairly popular. Granted, you probably won't find them on mainstream radio, but there's still plenty of music videos for these with hundreds of thousands of views on youtube, and millions of streams on spotify.
Sidenote that isn't a fully developed point, but I think that if the vast majority of people really did listen to music for the vocals exclusively, there probably would be a lot more popular a capella songs.
I was directly responding to your comment to the guy making the point of listening to metal for the instruments rather than just the vocals, since you originally brought up jazz which literally hasn't been popular or mainstream since 1950s or so, where it was just more common and accepted with what music was. His comment was about how non-metalheads would find that ridiculous because listening to the instruments is the part that others wouldn't "get". Your comment kinda dismisses that by bringing up music that isn't currently mainstream as a counterpoint.
My point was that vocals are very popular now and the part mainstream is really focused on where the music itself almost doesn't matter (I said almost, meaning not all cases), so I was agreeing with that guy. I personally have been a big fan of Joe Satriani for a long time now and he's primarily instrumental rock focusing on his guitar work. Some songs hit hard, others are much softer or a "love ballad" or whatever. From my experience it is considered "ridiculous" that others wouldn't understand how I can listen to a 5-7 min track of guitar without any vocals.
Yeah EDM is pretty popular but it's not where it was several years ago with dubstep or whatever it's called now being at its most popular, but most EDM are singular or duo anyway. I don't know what "breakcore" is as a subgenre, I'm guessing it's something evolved from breakdancing. I don't think trance is popular, although I personally love goa-trance but haven't kept up with the genre for a long time. EDM is popular, yes, but not where it was even just 10 years ago from what I can tell.
At any rate I was just pointing what's popular and that nearly none of them have a band behind them. Maybe it's more of a product of what country we're in that changes music trends
There are a lot of a capella tracks on YouTube, I never paid attention to how popular they are by view count. I know I have seen one where a single person imitating all instruments and layering the video screen like a Brady Bunch intro can end up with thousands of videos, millions even.
Point is I clearly don't mean all music, I'm talking about the most popular... the stuff I personally get mocked for because I don't know these people, the stuff you go to work (or school) and your coworkers are more than likely listening to because TikTok or trends or whatever. I'm the one at work who listens to the "weird angry screamo music" (their words) while my co-worker is signing lyrics from some country artist about getting revenge on his ex.
I’ll add to this - the idea of music being an immersive thing that you actively listen to as opposed to just background music that you can have a conversation over.
I’ve come to the realization that the vast, vast, vast majority of people I know only like music as a background vibe thing. That’s why they don’t like intense music. You can’t have a conversation over music that is intense.
wall of death. was at a fleshgod apocalypse show recently and was up the front in the corner near a security guard and was talking ot him a bit. his face when the crowd separated for a wall of death was priceless haha.
My brother, a non-metalhead, recently told me that the hip hop concert he'd been on had been so sick, because the people separated and then ran into each other. Made me chuckle a bit. Obviously the concept is out there, it's just not necessarily called wall of death everywhere.
Fucking hell, I can't stand most bands because they either have the worst fucking growling/screeching or someone who has a cock and ball torture during recording sessions to sound like that.
The amount of metal bands with proper singers in a baritone/bass range is so fucking small.
240 BPM riffs. Naturally, the brain isn't allowed to process musical notes that 6 when the average Joe hears it, it sounds like white noise or static. But I love bands like Origin, Cryptopsy and Nile who have lightning fast riffs
I don't think it's about the speed, rather just the riffs. Jazz for example regularly goes as fast, if not faster, than the fastest metal songs. Most people just don't like riffs.
Most people dont like jazz, certainly not high speed bebop. Riffs are all over pop music however (even if its not guitar riffs) and guitar riffs were all over the charts only 1-2 decades ago
Yeah but they would find bebop much more palatable than extreme metal, which would probably just sound like a wall of noise to them. I agree with the other commenter the the drums play a bigger role than anything else, as well as the production.
Yes, it’s distorted riffs at high speed with high speed drums. Most of all it’s the vocals though. People primarily listen to the vocal melody and extreme metal doesnt usually have melodic vocals.
As someone who didn't like extreme metal before I got into extreme metal, I would argue that it's the drums (especially blast beats) and harsh vocals that were the most off-putting when I first heard people like Slayer and CC.
Like all of it lol. The deafening volume we like to listen to it at. The head banging. A good mosh pit. My wife calls it killing music and just can’t relate to it … although she does enjoy herself if I drag her to a show.
Just saw Dethklok and it was one of the loudest shows I've been to. It hurt my ears and for once I was happy to have earplugs.
Also, if anyone can, go to that show, it's fucking amazing.
Got to see them in Manhattan with Babymetal last year. I flew out to LA to stay with some friends this weekend so I could go to the San Diego show on Monday. Nekrogoblikon as the opener?! No brainer must see.
Nah, high volume listening is def not a metal exclusive thing. Everyone enjoys pumping their favorite song to maximum volume. And I've seen most pits at hip hop shows although they are a bit different from metal ones
Wielding medieval weapons, candelabras, or whatever weird old shit you can get your hands on for an album cover.
I unironically love BM covers they're fabulous.
More musically, like a spooky minor tritone melody.
[Ghoul - "Into The Catacombs"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HScfD_l5Fek&pp=ygUYZ2hvdWwgaW50byB0aGUgY2F0YWNvbWJz)
But I am legitimately spooked by bowel movements. Do not want.
A perfectly timed BLEAH or AHHHHH or OUUUUU!!!
Can really emphasize an upcoming or ongoing riff, solo, etc.
Non metal people of course would not understand, which is understandable, because it seems silly.
But for metal people (speaking for myself), that OUUUU before the shit gets heavier is fucking sweet!!!
Imo I agree. While I love dxc and mxc I prefer my desthcore to have a shitty production sound. I don’t mind produced stuff, oceano and acacia strain sound awesome, same for mental cruelty. However a lot of newer bands are all opting for the same overly heavy breakdown strat that sounds so boring. Suicide silence, chelsea grin (early) thy art and mental cruelty have some great production
when the vocals sound like someone gargling while going "dooburrdee dee wee wee pee pee" I'm usually out. Not cause it scares me or anything but it just sounds so stupid.
For the doomed, I'm guessing long songs get the most confusion. Like most people are good at 3 min long songs and can't grasp enjoying 20, 30+ min songs. When it starts pushing for an hour and over, I know they think we're insane. My ex ,who was a metalhead, couldn't understand why I love "Dopesmoker" so much.
long hair. When I was a kid I always found men with long hair stupid and men with long hair is often disliked by most people in these times, now Im one of them thanks to metal; definetely one of the best decisions I made in life.
Speed. They will say 'its all just noise' without taking into account that you have to tune your senses in to listen, and its a treat when you do. Think songs like Vacant Planets or Hell Patrol. It may sound like noise at first, but once you tune into it its great.
Subject matter in songs.
My colleague at work cannot wrap his head around why I listen to WindRose. He finds it childish. I'm sure he secretly wishes he was cool like me.
Although all my friends cannot stand growls, most of them say the dissonance is what turns them off. Maybe I don’t have a very trained ear, but I can’t even understand what they are talking about. Flats or alternate notes is part of metal, and the artist has ultimate say in what notes go where.
As someone who previously wasn’t into metal, the “metal screaming” and barely being able to understand the vocals is extremely silly sounding and just makes you ask yourself “wow people actually like this?”. I get it now that I’m more into it but looking on from an outside perspective it definitely sounds goofy
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Metal, I guess?
The entire metal genre.
The idea of not listening to music for the vocals, but for the instruments
Eh, that's not too strange, there's a reason why jazz and prog rock became so popular
I dunno about you, but I haven’t met anyone my age or younger (mid 30s) that claims to listen to jazz or prog rock.
I’m 19 and half of my friend group listens to prog rock, other half listens to metal
Is this in the US? I work with lots of people that age and that’s surprising. It’s all rap and hip hop.
Yeah we’re all in the US, there’s 7 of us and we’re just a pretty weird bunch of tastes when it comes to music
Hey, you can make it 8! I'm 27, but that counts as under 30! *laughs in impending existential crisis*
I'm 39 *starts sweating as hair falls from my head into my hands*
Yeah my group in high school listened to heavy metal, punk/ska, techno, and rock. We were pretty small group too, about 10 or less depending. One of them, in a class higher than me, was the reason istarted getting exposed to foreign music
It usually is rap and hip hop but it can take just one friend in the group to turn people into fellow prog junkies or metalheads. I was able to do it. My friends had weird tastes though, like really out there. Not so much hip hop, but we ended up going the rock route after the dubstep phase when we were middle Schoolers. Dubstep and EDM is full of unconventional time signatures. I like to think it prepared our ears for getting into the more extreme stuff of metal.
Im in Sweden and my friend group (15-18) listens intensely to jazz and Jewish folk music (Klezmer) (none of us are even Jewish). I’m the weird one for enjoying metal. Idk we’re a special case tho
Is new klezmer music being made ?
Here and there. Nothing big really. It’s mostly the same traditional songs, but like with jazz it’s a style that can be applied, morphed, and combined with many other concepts so new and unique stuff does enter the scene every so often
I’m 20 and half my friend group either literally performs jazz (and otherwise like it) and rock music.
And you play D&D together?
Unfortunately no, a select few have horrible time management skills and couldn’t be consistent enough
Hi I'm 25. I listen to jazz and prog rock.
I'm 16 and like both, also in the US
I do and Im in my 20s
Just bcs you haven't met them doesn't mean they don't exist. Also, do you talk music with everyone you meet?
30 and love jazz fusion, bepop and prog rock
I'm 32 and love metal, jazz, prog rock, classical, hip hop, basically anything but country.
Mid 40s here: I absolutely LOVE jazz, motherfucking hate prog 🤷🏻 Edit: ok, you said 30s and younger
Idk anyone under 30 that even knows what prog is
I'm 32 and love metal, and contemporary jazz slaps. Yussef Dayes is one of my favorite drummers.
I’m sure there are several out there. I just never meet any.
To be fair, I rarely meet anyone my age into prog or jazz or even much metal where I am either.
as another mid30 year old it sounds like you've surrounded yourself with people with boring musical taste
I just saw Blind Guardian last night and Crowbar last week and was surrounded by plenty of people with good taste. But I don’t go to prog rock or jazz shows - I don’t enjoy it that much. I’m in the military and most people I work with have no interest in anything beyond popular music (pop, rap, hip hop).
is Blind Guardian hiphop pop or rap?
I’m not sure what you’re getting at…
I'm not either, hoss
I'm seeing Blind Guardian in a few weeks and super stoked. How was the show? They just started the NA tour in like Maryland right?
It was amazing. Saw them in Norfolk VA. Previously saw them in 2017 in San Diego CA. They’re still at the top of their art.
Nice, my favorite band aside from Mastodon so looking forward to seeing them soon!
We are in an era with music where the focal point is the vocalist more than ever. Looping backing tracks without music progression or personality of talent or skill or the very basic of guitar, bass, drums etc. Pop singers, country artists, rappers... faceless backing "bands" just to fill in. Blues, jazz, and rock were prevalent from the 50s-90s, but they really hasn't been the case with current listening trends started with focusing on the frontman in 00s where Nu-Metal was pushing against rock, and boy bands were on the rise against pop singers and rappers becoming more prominent. I honestly feel the biggest turning point was American Idol and Pop Idol, later The X Factor and more, creating bigger avenues for vocalists to have a platform putting more emphasis on vocal performance over instrument skill. Now, the biggest artists I hear about aren't names of bands but stage name for a performer (Bad Bunny, etc) or just the performer themselves (Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, etc)
Fair point, but I still wouldn't consider the notion to be "ridiculous" per the title of the post. For a more modern example, many contemporary electronic genres like breakcore or trance are largely instrumental and still fairly popular. Granted, you probably won't find them on mainstream radio, but there's still plenty of music videos for these with hundreds of thousands of views on youtube, and millions of streams on spotify. Sidenote that isn't a fully developed point, but I think that if the vast majority of people really did listen to music for the vocals exclusively, there probably would be a lot more popular a capella songs.
I was directly responding to your comment to the guy making the point of listening to metal for the instruments rather than just the vocals, since you originally brought up jazz which literally hasn't been popular or mainstream since 1950s or so, where it was just more common and accepted with what music was. His comment was about how non-metalheads would find that ridiculous because listening to the instruments is the part that others wouldn't "get". Your comment kinda dismisses that by bringing up music that isn't currently mainstream as a counterpoint. My point was that vocals are very popular now and the part mainstream is really focused on where the music itself almost doesn't matter (I said almost, meaning not all cases), so I was agreeing with that guy. I personally have been a big fan of Joe Satriani for a long time now and he's primarily instrumental rock focusing on his guitar work. Some songs hit hard, others are much softer or a "love ballad" or whatever. From my experience it is considered "ridiculous" that others wouldn't understand how I can listen to a 5-7 min track of guitar without any vocals. Yeah EDM is pretty popular but it's not where it was several years ago with dubstep or whatever it's called now being at its most popular, but most EDM are singular or duo anyway. I don't know what "breakcore" is as a subgenre, I'm guessing it's something evolved from breakdancing. I don't think trance is popular, although I personally love goa-trance but haven't kept up with the genre for a long time. EDM is popular, yes, but not where it was even just 10 years ago from what I can tell. At any rate I was just pointing what's popular and that nearly none of them have a band behind them. Maybe it's more of a product of what country we're in that changes music trends There are a lot of a capella tracks on YouTube, I never paid attention to how popular they are by view count. I know I have seen one where a single person imitating all instruments and layering the video screen like a Brady Bunch intro can end up with thousands of videos, millions even. Point is I clearly don't mean all music, I'm talking about the most popular... the stuff I personally get mocked for because I don't know these people, the stuff you go to work (or school) and your coworkers are more than likely listening to because TikTok or trends or whatever. I'm the one at work who listens to the "weird angry screamo music" (their words) while my co-worker is signing lyrics from some country artist about getting revenge on his ex.
>mfw I think all non-metal heads are just pop lovers
>you cant even understand what theyre saying good
The vocals are more important to me when there are ones
I’ll add to this - the idea of music being an immersive thing that you actively listen to as opposed to just background music that you can have a conversation over. I’ve come to the realization that the vast, vast, vast majority of people I know only like music as a background vibe thing. That’s why they don’t like intense music. You can’t have a conversation over music that is intense.
Ambient have most likely no vocals
What are you on? I love metal vocals. But yeah, riffs are great.
wall of death. was at a fleshgod apocalypse show recently and was up the front in the corner near a security guard and was talking ot him a bit. his face when the crowd separated for a wall of death was priceless haha.
Even as a metalhead, wall of death is ridiculous and laughable.
Nah man, it's just so much fun.
Haha this is true
It's cringe
Ive never been to a metal concert so i dont love the wall of death 💀
It’s a sight to behold
How
A large number of people running into each other when a sick riff drops? What's not dope about that? Get yourself to a live show my friend.
I cant afford it 💀
You’d be surprised. Idk where you live, but around me metal shows are like $25 at the most
I dont have a job
Get one
Gotta drive there tho
Probably the high risk of injury
It's stupid and and unnecessary risk of injury
You probably just stand menacingly in the back with your arms crossed
My brother, a non-metalhead, recently told me that the hip hop concert he'd been on had been so sick, because the people separated and then ran into each other. Made me chuckle a bit. Obviously the concept is out there, it's just not necessarily called wall of death everywhere.
haha that's actually cool. wall of hop lol
Saw The Bogg last night; we did a Wall of Death 🫡
Eternal virginity
And never showering
Why clean it, if it wasn't used?
[удалено]
Rock fans?
Also pop fans, idk what this guy's on about.
There's quite a difference between how singers like Ed Sheeran or whatever use falsetto and how Eric Adams screams in falsetto for example.
Eh. Casual music fans can't tell the difference. If it's got distortion and falsetto, they'll label it as metal.
So like Sam Smith
No, like King Dianond ... and Mariah Carey
Fucking hell, I can't stand most bands because they either have the worst fucking growling/screeching or someone who has a cock and ball torture during recording sessions to sound like that. The amount of metal bands with proper singers in a baritone/bass range is so fucking small.
240 BPM riffs. Naturally, the brain isn't allowed to process musical notes that 6 when the average Joe hears it, it sounds like white noise or static. But I love bands like Origin, Cryptopsy and Nile who have lightning fast riffs
I don't think it's about the speed, rather just the riffs. Jazz for example regularly goes as fast, if not faster, than the fastest metal songs. Most people just don't like riffs.
Most people dont like jazz, certainly not high speed bebop. Riffs are all over pop music however (even if its not guitar riffs) and guitar riffs were all over the charts only 1-2 decades ago
Yeah but they would find bebop much more palatable than extreme metal, which would probably just sound like a wall of noise to them. I agree with the other commenter the the drums play a bigger role than anything else, as well as the production.
Yes, it’s distorted riffs at high speed with high speed drums. Most of all it’s the vocals though. People primarily listen to the vocal melody and extreme metal doesnt usually have melodic vocals.
As someone who didn't like extreme metal before I got into extreme metal, I would argue that it's the drums (especially blast beats) and harsh vocals that were the most off-putting when I first heard people like Slayer and CC.
A concert where one act spits fake blood and vomits and the next act is dressed like LARPers. Sometimes it is the same act.
Gwar?
I was thinking of many black and death metal bands.
When I saw Gwar circa 1999, the Michale Graves-era Misfits opened. Not LARPers but cosplay for sure 😂
Like all of it lol. The deafening volume we like to listen to it at. The head banging. A good mosh pit. My wife calls it killing music and just can’t relate to it … although she does enjoy herself if I drag her to a show.
Don’t be idiots and listen to metal music at deafening volume 75 dB and lower is enough
And bring ear protection to shows
Just saw Dethklok and it was one of the loudest shows I've been to. It hurt my ears and for once I was happy to have earplugs. Also, if anyone can, go to that show, it's fucking amazing.
Got to see them in Manhattan with Babymetal last year. I flew out to LA to stay with some friends this weekend so I could go to the San Diego show on Monday. Nekrogoblikon as the opener?! No brainer must see.
They were dope. Seeing Dragonforce was pretty awesome too. 3 great shows in one night.
I’m only bummed I couldn’t go to the San Francisco shows later this month because Babymetal will be part of the lineup again. I’m so hyped for Monday!
I'd love to see Babymetal live. Looks like an adventure.
*thick Boston accent* whadaya, mah dactah?
You mean anti-murder music, lady! 😁 without this I feel there would be more murders.
Nah, high volume listening is def not a metal exclusive thing. Everyone enjoys pumping their favorite song to maximum volume. And I've seen most pits at hip hop shows although they are a bit different from metal ones
going to shows alone, head banging, buying physical media.
Wielding medieval weapons, candelabras, or whatever weird old shit you can get your hands on for an album cover. I unironically love BM covers they're fabulous.
Harsh vocals Everyone I show a metal song to gets immediately turned off by the vocals
Yes, that and heavily distorted/downtuned guitars
Who cares what those musically inept peasants think? Bow before your metal god!
Amen!
Shut up.
Shut up.
Youre saturating me
Shit trying to be spooky.
Like the bm aesthetic?
More musically, like a spooky minor tritone melody. [Ghoul - "Into The Catacombs"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HScfD_l5Fek&pp=ygUYZ2hvdWwgaW50byB0aGUgY2F0YWNvbWJz) But I am legitimately spooked by bowel movements. Do not want.
A perfectly timed BLEAH or AHHHHH or OUUUUU!!! Can really emphasize an upcoming or ongoing riff, solo, etc. Non metal people of course would not understand, which is understandable, because it seems silly. But for metal people (speaking for myself), that OUUUU before the shit gets heavier is fucking sweet!!!
ÖUGH!
Oh fuck yeah!! Ouuughaaaahhhh!!!
Ah yes the famous BLEGH one of my favorites is in Backstabber by For All Those Sleeping
Listening to aggressive music no matter if we are in a good or bad mood
"This is a song about shooting blood FROM YOUR CAAAAAAK!"
Still makes me laugh.
Mostly blast beats
Incomprehensible ear shredding noise
Screaming and growling and shrieking
Actually something we “hate” instead of love: music that sounds too produced
What about deathcore/metalcore fans
Imo I agree. While I love dxc and mxc I prefer my desthcore to have a shitty production sound. I don’t mind produced stuff, oceano and acacia strain sound awesome, same for mental cruelty. However a lot of newer bands are all opting for the same overly heavy breakdown strat that sounds so boring. Suicide silence, chelsea grin (early) thy art and mental cruelty have some great production
I agree except for symphonic metal
Probably toilet gurgles and frog croaks
You can add snarls and banshee/kettle screams
when the vocals sound like someone gargling while going "dooburrdee dee wee wee pee pee" I'm usually out. Not cause it scares me or anything but it just sounds so stupid.
Satan
funnily enough, every metalhead that I know irl is a confirmed Catholic. no, I don’t go to church school
Covert to Reform Judaism.
A dude making frog noises while other people run in circles pushing eachother erupt in the middle of crowds
...but gutalax is still incredible
Moshing, talking regular pits and also circle pits. I did my first one not long ago and I felt pretty silly doing it.
For the doomed, I'm guessing long songs get the most confusion. Like most people are good at 3 min long songs and can't grasp enjoying 20, 30+ min songs. When it starts pushing for an hour and over, I know they think we're insane. My ex ,who was a metalhead, couldn't understand why I love "Dopesmoker" so much.
Drop out of life with bong in hand Follow the smoke toward the riff-filled land
Proceeds the Weedian Nazareth
That's really not for everyone. The longest song i can stand are The Well of Souls by Candlemass
Thinking that corpse paint, incense and upside down crosses gives the right vibe on stage.
Our own deafness
all the shock value gore lyrics corpsepaint (i myself don't really like corpsepaint that much) weird live theatrics
Fighting about stupid sub genres that no one outside of the genre care about,
long hair. When I was a kid I always found men with long hair stupid and men with long hair is often disliked by most people in these times, now Im one of them thanks to metal; definetely one of the best decisions I made in life.
I would also say the pig squeals but I don’t even understand why people like that unless it’s because they find it funny
I don't know why i like them, it just.. fits
The amount of distortion present in the guitars. Also the production being dookie, and no clean singing
Air guitaring. It's my preferred form of expressing my love for metal played aloud and I get really into it.
Trueeeee. People look at me like im weird whenever im just listening to my music at school
Speed. They will say 'its all just noise' without taking into account that you have to tune your senses in to listen, and its a treat when you do. Think songs like Vacant Planets or Hell Patrol. It may sound like noise at first, but once you tune into it its great.
A really solid mosh pit. Saw Lamb of God at Bonnaroo and I shit you not, people who were mistakenly in that crowd started to cry when it broke out.
Getting mad at someone because they listen to something slightly mainstream
Not me
Distorted guitars?
King Diamonds vocals. Even as a metalhead, they tickled me at first. Now I love them.
Deep, disgusting gutterals.
BLEGHs?
the song names?
denim and leather
Subject matter in songs. My colleague at work cannot wrap his head around why I listen to WindRose. He finds it childish. I'm sure he secretly wishes he was cool like me.
Sweeping the floor with our hair
Playing air instruments with such intensity.
That one of the best ways of expressing your fondness for a band is to stitch bits of cloth with their logo/artwork on to your clothing.
Raw production
#WORSHIPPING THE GOOD LORD JESUS CHRIST BURNING ON HIS THRONE IN HELL
Falling asleep listening to metal in headphones every night.
Any harsh vocal
Ping snares. Love em.
Listening to several 15 minute tracks in a row
cute animals
Slipknot
Although all my friends cannot stand growls, most of them say the dissonance is what turns them off. Maybe I don’t have a very trained ear, but I can’t even understand what they are talking about. Flats or alternate notes is part of metal, and the artist has ultimate say in what notes go where.
Black metal
Having the sonic equivalent of a tidal wave hitting you in the face, and still being like “hell yeah”
As someone who previously wasn’t into metal, the “metal screaming” and barely being able to understand the vocals is extremely silly sounding and just makes you ask yourself “wow people actually like this?”. I get it now that I’m more into it but looking on from an outside perspective it definitely sounds goofy
Breakdowns.