I think i fall in the everything and everything catagory! i listen to a different band every day! interesting topic though! one of my best friends only listen exclusively to black metal and he thinks death metal is a joke, weird

There are some who listen to fewer bands, but are much more loyal and hold a stronger following.

My music library or however you could call it is pretty tiny band-wise compared to many people I know and have seen, but I'm almost a fanatic about my favourite bands and if I say I "know" a band, then I know them pretty well.

On a more basic musical level, I'm not really big on certain musical concepts, like technicality, progressiveness or the great white whale, individuality. I couldn't give two fucks if a band is playing some super original blend of death/black/jazz/dubstep/circus organ music. I find bands that put these things before raw emotional connection and enjoyability in their music are often too obnoxious to listen to. For this reason, I avoid most modern tech death, prog metal and symphonic metal. Europower is also not really all that appealing to me.

* There are some who listen to fewer bands, but are much more loyal and hold a stronger following.

* Then there's the fan who listens to anything and everything, but isn't necessarily a huge fan of any one band.

* Then there's the genre follower, who only sticks to his genre, and everything else is crap in his eyes.

Most of the high pitched vocals are hell on my ears due to physical issues

I like whatever sounds good, and I listen to, support and endorse whatever sounds good and isn't tarnished by any associations with views I consider reprehensible. I don't jive with that "this artist is a fascist, faggot-and-whore-hating dipshit, but he doesn't write about it in his music per se" defense, either. I'm pretty fucking strict about that, and that alone. There is a very small handful of exceptions to this rule (most of the exceptions being non-metal), and I consider them relatively well-reasoned exceptions, too.

People can be snarky and judgmental about that all they want (and I only say this because they often are, most probably because they are insecure or embarrassed about the fact that they listen to RAC with headphones on, but will never bump it in their sled while rolling through the PJ's), but at least I have some principles I can stick to.

I am not really devoted to any Metal genre or subculture at all, but I am mostly or almost exclusively drawn to the "old school" end of extreme metal, grindcore, and what might be considered "unorthodox", "unusual" or "unique" Black Metal.



I am like this as well. Despite the wide variety of styles I enjoy, I tend to stick to a select few favorites in each style, but I explore those favorites in great depth.

I really don't consider myself a metalhead. I mean I don't follow the culture, style and ideology much, I just like the music

Hessians are people who have made heavy metal into a way of life. It is not a phase or hobby, and they are not going to give it up because a boss, parent, significant other or spouse asks them to. Hessians are more than “headbangers” or “metalheads” because their commitment to the music is lifelong and absolute.

http://www.hailmetal.org/faq/

His opinion....was basically....(coming from a martial arts analogy since that is my other big interest) that unless you are a BLACK BELT in metal appreciation...you aren't a "metal head"...