Honestly, I know people who've been listening to metal for 30 years and still don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

Once around '92 my 'ol man asked me if there were any females in metal. Told him there were a few and just to be an ass I played him the part in Nuclear Death's "The Third Antichrist" where Lori actually starts to sing "Acid rain falls listless from the sky no one has the chance to wonder why...die!". He just said 'jeez' and had on one of those saddened expressions like the world just went down a notch or two in his book.

So to summarize this 7 page thread...

1. Your favorite band is screamo.
2. Your favorite band sounds like a cat getting skinned and you should listen to normal music with singing.

Totally trve

haha yes but being called screamo is what upsets me the most. whatever, you think my music stinks. i know their wrong and they just can't comprehend it. but getting called screamo, thats like saying manowar is glam metal and metallica is the way more brutal.

And I've learned that many people only have very run-of-the-mill stories to share. Acrobat's stories and a few others I skimmed through were entertaining; the rest were bland, usually revolving around people calling metal screamo or thinking that the metalhead in the story is soooo crazy. I'd share stories but I don't really have any. I guess people seem to think I'm more aggressive than is normal but I don't think that's just because of music.


There are always exceptions (and perhaps these people have just... aged?), but my point was that the 30 year still-going-strong veterans are way more likely to know what they're talking about. Let me put it this way: I'd say that, in a company of metalheads who've been into the music for different spans of time, it's often wise for the newer fans to try to learn from longtime fans instead of striving to impress.

Reactions to a gig I (and other metal groups) played at a school:
"Too noisy."

Generally, even my closed-minded friends who dislike metal find the instrumental side tolerable, even very good in some cases. It's the harsh vocals that turn off the majority, and I've heard many quite funny (but cliché) comments about them.

English class, today, talking about marlowe's Doctor faustus

tteacher: would you sell your soul to the devil for fam, power and such?

me: I can't

teacher: why?

me: I already sold my soul to heavy metal

teacher: .... (speechless)

that just came from my heart

Whenever my mom's in the passanger's seat I fart, roll the windows up, and blast Severed Survival at full volume.

It's just a knee-jerk reaction.

Kid looking for members for his 'death metal' band:
"If you like slipknot and metallica you're the one."

Random people at school:
"You don't like linkin park! But I though you listened to metal. What about disturbed?"

Also the general 'yelling' or 'shouting' music comments come daily.

Try adding something more interesting to the thread. This is exactly like the last 4 pages of posts.