Anyway, if you want to make people think, you are a normal teenage girl with no vendetta against life, who just likes guitars, than tell people you listen to hard rock.
[Irony]It’s basicly the same without the baby eating and school shooting[/Irony]
I completely agree with you! I’m a HUGE metalhead, and I dress in pretty normal clothes. A few skulls now and again, but basically the average person’s clothes. Although I do have outrageously long hair, so….. y’know. Let’s just say, you could spot me in a croud pretty easily.
The only reason a few people think this guy is a normal teenage girl is because of his long, greasy, straight, centre-parting haircut he undoubtedly has.
yeeeaah…right, i have long NOT greasy hair, that parts at the side kinda, and NO ONE thinks i’m a girl, so you sir, are a horrible Generalization maker
This is really sad, but I walked into a store and knocked something down (on accident, mind you) ad I bent down to pick it up, naturally. Some dude ran into me and said, “sorry, sir.” I replied in my oh-so-very-feminine voice, ” that’s okay.” You should have seen the look on his FACE!!!! X^D
I lol’ed at your graph. A good friend in grad school was always listening to heavy metal OR classical music. He triple majored at Oberlin in math, economics and classical violin. I’m fairly certain that he never ate any babies (although he’s definitely NOT a teenage girl).
There was a time when metal meant “Praise the Devil, for he is awesome cause he makes everyone die.” and “Kill everyone, everywhere, with extreme hate because they’ll never see it coming.” and half of it was about that stuff. That was the 80′s. Now, it’s about freaking people out and making them think you’re into the above stuff, but a lot of songs are about things like going to the market or the awesome date you just had, and say things like “I LIKE CHEESE!!!” in German. LOL \M/ -|- \M/
actually, most of the metal in the ’80s wast about satanism and hate either. Some exceptions, like Venom, sure, but most of it had the same themes as now. And even bands like Venom were just going for the shock-effect, just like Slayer with their Catholic frontman.
Yeah, the PMRC were freaking out about it, but they also freaked from Prince and Madonna back then. Try thinking for yourself instead of believing the moral panics.
I said *most*, not all. I know a lot of metalheads. I’d say maybe 15-20% of them are nice, at least here where I live The rest is kinda nice – more angry than nice.
yeah right, you baby-eating, child-hating, mass-murdering person, you! You with your “=D”.
I shall stare at you for eternity!
“0-0″
(staring at you with fuzzy ears!)
EAT THAT LIKE YOU EAT BABIES!
We had a coffee club in town where the local hard rock metal-oid garage bands would play. Most people were in black and chains and fishnets and all that good stuff. Every weekend The God Squad would be out in full force telling us we’re going to burn and that we’re sinners and all that good crap.
“If you’re happy and you know it it’s a sin.
If you’re happy and you know it it’s a sin.
If you’re happy and you know it,
If you’re happy and you know it,
If you’re happy and you know it,
It’s a sin.”
“If you’re happy and you know it it’s a sin.
If you’re happy and you know it it’s a sin.
If you’re happy and you know it,
And you really wanna show it,
If you’re happy and you know it,
It’s a sin.”
Could you really be more generalizing and stereotyping and all-around annoying? I’m exactly like this girl and I have never, repeat, NEVER been inclined to eat a baby. It’s funny because most people are, without good reason, afraid of other people who happen to like their music a little darker than everyone else. Ask any of my friends, or this girl’s friends, I’m sure, and they’ll tell you that we’re completely normal, and probably a lot nicer than all of you conformist haters who want everyone to be the same.
she forgot “singing ancient litanies in languages man was not meant to hear to invoke the elder gods while standing in a pentagram made out of blood soaked papyrus pages of the necronomicon”.
I used to generalize like that. Now I listen to a lot of metal (though by no means a metalhead) and I feel a little foolish for my past generalizations. Please accept my apologies!
I listen to a _lot_ of genres, but metal is one of my favorites (Power, Progressive, and Harmonic mostly). I’m also an extremely happy vegetarian pacifist. Admittedly, I don’t really like children…so that one may apply to me…
yeah, i will have Heavy Metal playing off my phone on the bus thats louder than the radio the only plays “The Hits” (yeah, right) and i get bad looks all the time
i understand where you are coming from, but the other people on the bus do it as well, just with more Rap, even though the station on the radio NEVER changes (BTW i meant a school bus lol)
But just to help, maybe the gap between Heavy Metal and Pop Culture should be created without destroying Metal, don’t you think?
Like “TMF Iron” (TMF is the Dutch Music Video Channel under MTV, and Iron for the Metal)
I perfectly understand the lyrics of the bands I listen to.
I wasn’t aware every metal band screamed. Oh well, I guess this is another guy thinking metal is just angry emo :L
Dude! They don’t! Listen to some Iron Maiden, or old stuff from Judas Priest (he picked up screaming in the 90s). Especially old metal doesn’t do a lot of screaming. And definitely no grunting. Grunting sucks!
Hey, heavy metal is nothing. I listen to death metal. People seem to think I’m a serial murderer who performs human sacrifices every Tuesday afternoon. I never get a chance to explain that the death metal I listen to is melodeath, or music with really good lyrics and instruments that just happens to be growled/screamed.
I like metal/death metal/various screamy things when I’m angry. Ironically it calms me down. Gets it out of my system and then I’m all nice and chipper again.
If people think that makes me scary… oh well I guess. I can just laugh at them for being afraid of a short, skinny girl. Muahaha.
Though it doesn’t get me nearly as weird of looks (is that phrase even remotely grammatically correct?) as the goth. People are all like “isn’t it depressing? isn’t it all about death?” ummmmm noooooooo? Most of the songs in the genre I’m most fond of are actually love songs. Boy does THAT screw with people. lol I just like the sound.
Yeah, people were scared of me in high school too. Because of how I dress, and songs I like. Go figure. I only got scary when people got in my face too many times though. LOL!
I used to be about as outwardly hardcore Goth as a poor teenager can get… and I had so many friends! It was kinda weird, since I never really encouraged it. I think a lot of them just wanted the rep of “friend of the scary insane girl who commits random violence”. Not that that rep ever kept the racist hicks from telling me my Goth boots were taking me straight to hell. They never realized arguments like that don’t works on Atheists. XD
lol, awfully thin skins on all these ‘bad ass, tough as nails’ metal heads.
Just realise that a large part of your motivation towards this music is that it pisses other people off. You wear the uniform of the metal fan because you know it will evoke a negative reaction, so that you can then puff yourself up as being such a badass in the face of adversity.
i feel you. i hate people that judge me by my music… though i like scaring people…
me and the rest of my (metal) band went to the mall and just got a bunch of weird looks, old people yelling at us, and parents pulling their 5 year olds away from us…
I have lived in Finland my whole life, and well, the North is the Mecca of metal as some of you probably know. I had some friends that introduced me metal, starting from death metal and some powerish bands (Arch Enemy, CoB, In Flames etc.). I started liking it and listened to a lot of music of this kind. Eventually, I also found some thrash and black metal bands, like Final Breath, Machine Head, Lamb of God, Keep of Kalessin, Immortal etc. After that, I decided to try something even more brutal, grind and some technical death metal for example, Faceless, Scarve, Negrophagist..
Basically the people who say “I listen to power metal, I’m so metal” make me wanna laugh nothing against power though, don’t get me wrong.
Luckily people never looked at me as if I was crazy. Even though I listen to Norwegian black metal, it does not mean I burn churches. I’m actually none of the things stated in the graph.
I also think that even if you do dress in black and listen to metal, it doesn’t mean that you ONLY listen to metal. This is the impression most people get when they see me. When I say I have 9 years experience of playing classical guitar, they’re damn surprised. I love classical music, acoustic music and also some jazz. Mainly metal, yes, but I don’t stick to that.. stereotypics are slowly fading away luckily.
I’m liking your tastes in technical metal. Personally, I’m not “metal” but I like the music. I don’t look like the typical metalhead at all.
Blind Guardian was my gateway band. I’m a sucker for dark tinged fantasy music and they certainly fit the bill (they also do it without being overly cheesy and with a bit of musical complexity). From there it was a short road to symphonic and progressive (I’m a classically trained violinist, I appreciate the complexities in some forms of metal). Opeth has won my heart and opened me up to new stuff.
Technical isn’t something I’ve heard of before, but now that you’ve mentioned it, and I’m looking it up, I’m liking it. Thanks for the good stuff you’re sharing out here.
*walks out wearing a Blind Guardian T shirt and Hi 5′s the guy who mentioned Necrophagist and starts humming do do do didodo do DEEEEE do do Diddley deeeeeeeee dododo do didodo do DEEEEEE*
OH LOOK WHO IT IS! its Again! the guy who thinks WoW is worst than Meth, well guess what, everyone outdid your arguments last time, and it will happen again, so stop being a troll, and stop purposely ticking people off
I’d rather bring home the girl who listens to metal to meet the parents than one that listens to lady gaga. The first likes what she likes. The latter probably only cares about what’s cool and trendy.
Do I smell more generalization? You can generalize about any genre/clique besides metal/metalheads, amirite?
Don’t get me wrong, I am not a scene girl, and I don’t like Bring Me The Horizon, but I find it funny (and by funny, I mean really annoying) that people like you jump all over anyone who makes generalizations/stereotypes about “metalheads” and then turn around and make generalizations about people who listen to other genres of music.
You’ve made my day; except for the fact that I get called Emo, and people say I listen to “screamo.” I need new shirts, I’m stuck in Rise Against and Slipknot, but I’m all for Behemoth and Whitechapel these days. Don’t let the stereotypical losers get you down.
could always be worse. I would listen to Zombie and Slayer and Megadeth and Iron Maiden and nobody ever said a freaking thing to me, but my little brother acts so hardcore, swears he loves “metal” and yet walks like he’s smuggling a christmas ham between his legs with his pants around his knees, listening to my chemical romance and fallout boy on his phone’s speakerphone. I wonder what doctor assembled his brain from so many different facets of human culture.
x.x So much hate on Death Metal… at least from what I skimmed over.
Maybe I like bree-breeing, sweeping and burst picking… both when I do it or when someone who gets paid to do it does it.
Hey, you up there, you’re awesome for mentioning The Faceless! Wherever you are… >.>
Coincidentally, I’m a geek who likes anime and apperently, according to everyone else, writes killer romances even if I don’t see it. I swear, Guardian was an Action story where a guy literally takes on an army. It goes to prove nobody’s one dimensional and cliches are retarded.
Anyway, this is the first meaningful graph I’ve seen in a looong time. Just… don’t worry about those people– they’re just… well, dumb.
I ought to show my parents this graph. The reason I don’t have any younger siblings is probably due to their fear that I would eat them.
Metal is definitely not about Satan-worshipping,not most of it anyways. Especially since my favourite band is Scar Symmetry, their songs are mainly about scientific theories and you’d think they’d calm down a tad….unfortunately they automatically think death growls = Subliminal messages converting our daughter to ~THE DARK SIDE~.
Ah, well. That’s what headphones are for, I suppose.
Thanks for bringing that up, I was wondering why it was in all caps. It’s as if she’s saying that she’s only going to shoot a few people, not EVERYONE.
Always confused me when people put emphasis on the wrong word in sentences. Like, you mean that you really didn’t expect it, right? I mean, say that sentence aloud.
In highschool, we would walk through the halls in a pack between classes, and sometimes teachers would walk by with their babies. We would stare at them and say “Oh my god take that thing away, you’re making me SO HUNGRY!”
Inorite?! People think I have the black plague because they dont know any of my music. I get the weirdest reactions:
Black Sabbath: Isnt the sabbath on Sunday?
Queen: Isn’t that the gay band?
Alice Cooper: Isn’t that the freak with the snake who kills babies?
A few years ago I was at the Unholy Alliance show in Cleveland, and after the show, there was a little girl about 4 or 5 sitting on her father’s shoulders screaming “SLAAAAYYYYYYYYERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!”
You forgot the section “Worships the devil” according to the kids at my old school, because I wore eyeliner and liked metal, it automatically made me a Satanist o_O bizarre children, they’re stranger than me I swear
It was this stereotype that nearly killed me in middle school. In high school now though, I hang out with normal people who listen to alternative rock, I’m happy, and no one thinks I’m an evil satanist.
It’s probably because I don’t act angry, I’m smiling a lot, and I dress normally. No one can really imagine me listening to metal, but the truth is I’m really into it. I think 70% of my iPod is metal now, and I like going to concerts.
Oh, and I don’t like nu metal/metalcore much. Mostly death metal, thrash, gothic, power, folk, symphonic metal.
Actually and (unfortunatelly) this is true. I’m a girl and when I say people that I like heavy metal, they look me like “O.o”
But, I can hate childrens, eat babies and be angry, I just can’t hide a gun in my room! I have no space for it! It’s full of bats, and dead babies bodies
No other genre has such a strong emphasis on talent. Pop “singers” usually can get by with an abysmal voice. Jazz, although nice listening, rarely breaks into very difficult ground. Country is. . . .country. The list continues, but the point is that if someone hasn’t much talent, they fall in metal quickly.
I disagree about the jazz…real jazz is quite difficult, but the better a performer you are, the easier it sounds.
It’s like playing Mozart. Beginners can play his piano music, but you have to be very talented and work very hard to play it WELL.
Oh, wow. Those people are idiots. Not all heavy metal is freaking evil just because a few popular ones are. I listen to heavy stuff and I’m mostly nice. X_X
Also, I think BBQ babies are the best…..
HAHA just kidding!
But no really, its interesting the kind of reactions I get when I tell people some of my favorite bands. When I tell people I like “Children of Bodom” for example, they say “is that like Children of the Corn?”
Most people would never guess that I like metal though. I used to do the black band t-shirts a lot back in high school. But I wear a lot of normal looking sweaters and jeans now. It accentuates my womanly figure better =p
Ps. Most metalheads I know like other music too. Guilty pleasures I guess you would call them. My friend loves Jazz. I also like most alternative rock or regular rock I guess you could say. I LOVE MUSE for example. heh
hvis der fandtes sådan en pige (i danmark) var det vidst nok min drømme pige hvis der er en pige derude der hører hard rock/heavy metal, ser sød ud og hader kristendommen så skriv til mig på facebook mit navn er Tobias Hansen.
um, do you people know NOTHING!?
All metal isn’t satanist.
I listen to August burns red, Demon hunter, oh sleeper, haste the day, and destroy the runner.
CHRISTIAN METAL FOR THE WIN!
also, there are plenty of bands that don’t clasify as christian bands, but are made up entirely of christians. one of the most popular metal bands ever, as i lay dying, is all christians.
and, when you really think about it, christain metal bands have a higher probablility of being really great bands. i’ve listened to a few songs by non-christian metal. a good 75% of them really sucked. in comparison, it is hard to find a christian metal song i don’t like.
and christian metalheads don’t want to kill everybody… we just want to kill demons.
But I heard that the specific frequencies used in metal music, based on the heavy distortion, pounding drums and growling lyrics, actually is one of the most effective way to SUMMON a demon, via audiogenesis. That’s why people were so worried about it when the first metal bands appeared. It seems a bit out of keeping to have Christian metal which is tempting those Helldwellers to come out of their hole.
These comments are hilarious. : )
Unfortunately, they made me laugh so hard I spit out all my babies, and my gun, with which I was using to kill ALL of my classmates, fell out of my hand… : /
But I like scaring little children… although it’s usually the parents who are scared, the little kids liked to stare at my clothing.
Haha, yes… A little girl walked up to my friend and said she wants to dress just like her when she grows up XDD
\m/o.O\m/
win.
\m/o.O\m/
ROCK ON
\mmm/
…too much rock for one hand. =D
Sooo … are people right?
Anyway, if you want to make people think, you are a normal teenage girl with no vendetta against life, who just likes guitars, than tell people you listen to hard rock.
[Irony]It’s basicly the same without the baby eating and school shooting[/Irony]
except its totally different
I listen to mainstream pop, for me it’s all the same lout noisy guitar stuff.
Learn how to spell before you criticize.
I listen to Metal and your pop is all the same talentless wailing.
“I listen to Metal and your pop is all the same talentless wailing.”
WIN!!!
““I listen to Metal and your pop is all the same talentless wailing.”
WIN!!!”
I can’t do nothing but repeat that with another word.
EPIC WIN!
“““I listen to Metal and your pop is all the same talentless wailing.”
WIN!!!”
I can’t do nothing but repeat that with another word.
EPIC WIN!”
i have to say the same WIN
I’d like to add that now most of those who listen to metal (because of Nu Metal, Hardcore and metalcore) dress like normal people.
And by normal people I mean the average person.
Metalhead here, I can vouch for this as I do so myself.
Those people listen to metal?
Yes. I listen to metal and I dress like your average everyday bystander.
I completely agree with you! I’m a HUGE metalhead, and I dress in pretty normal clothes. A few skulls now and again, but basically the average person’s clothes. Although I do have outrageously long hair, so….. y’know. Let’s just say, you could spot me in a croud pretty easily.
The only reason a few people think this guy is a normal teenage girl is because of his long, greasy, straight, centre-parting haircut he undoubtedly has.
yeeeaah…right, i have long NOT greasy hair, that parts at the side kinda, and NO ONE thinks i’m a girl, so you sir, are a horrible Generalization maker
Some guys can do the long hair thing…there are other guys that really just should not. It makes it awkward for the rest of us when we can’t tell.
This is really sad, but I walked into a store and knocked something down (on accident, mind you) ad I bent down to pick it up, naturally. Some dude ran into me and said, “sorry, sir.” I replied in my oh-so-very-feminine voice, ” that’s okay.” You should have seen the look on his FACE!!!! X^D
“area”? dang, you have some weird zoning laws
Umm… I AM a girl…
news flash girls listen to heavy metal too!
WHAAAAAT?!
no reason girls can’t listen to metal…. personally ill take a girl that likes metal over some girl that likes mainstream/rap/jonas brother
My girlfriend is a metalhead.
She likes newer stuff.
I like older stuff and Swedish metal!!
Go dream evil!!
But we love the Big 4!!!!
And I play thrash guitar.
I lol’ed at your graph. A good friend in grad school was always listening to heavy metal OR classical music. He triple majored at Oberlin in math, economics and classical violin. I’m fairly certain that he never ate any babies (although he’s definitely NOT a teenage girl).
you do realize this isnt a guy right…
There was a time when metal meant “Praise the Devil, for he is awesome cause he makes everyone die.” and “Kill everyone, everywhere, with extreme hate because they’ll never see it coming.” and half of it was about that stuff. That was the 80′s. Now, it’s about freaking people out and making them think you’re into the above stuff, but a lot of songs are about things like going to the market or the awesome date you just had, and say things like “I LIKE CHEESE!!!” in German. LOL \M/ -|- \M/
Ich leibe Kase.
Ich liebe Käse, actually.
Umlaut callout.
i dont know why that made me lol so hard xD
lol, Trying to type accented letters screws up my browser.
Then get a better browser.
Ich mag Käse, actually.
Tun wir das nicht alle? :3
Nein, ich bin eher der Wurst Esser. \m/
I don’t just like Cheese, I Love Cheese.
actually, most of the metal in the ’80s wast about satanism and hate either. Some exceptions, like Venom, sure, but most of it had the same themes as now. And even bands like Venom were just going for the shock-effect, just like Slayer with their Catholic frontman.
Yeah, the PMRC were freaking out about it, but they also freaked from Prince and Madonna back then. Try thinking for yourself instead of believing the moral panics.
the PMRC flipped at twisted sister…. and Araya’s catholic?
Remember when everyone also assumed that even rock ‘n’ roll was “evil”? Those were funny days.
The truth is, most heavy metalers are very often angry for no reason.
Stop generalizing, as a metalhead I disagree.
You sounded angry when you disagreed.
as a metal head i kindly would like to point out that i tink you sound angry and that rj did not \m/
I think it’s the “\m/” that makes metalheads look stupid/angry…
Metallers don’t ever get angry in fact, they just go hunting for babies instead. True fact, I saw it on a documentary.
metalhead (though we are badass, and will kick people ass if need be) are actually some of the nicest people in the world
I said *most*, not all. I know a lot of metalheads. I’d say maybe 15-20% of them are nice, at least here where I live
The rest is kinda nice – more angry than nice.
I scare children, eat babies, and go on shooting sprees. But I’m never angry. =D
I lol’d
yeah right, you baby-eating, child-hating, mass-murdering person, you! You with your “=D”.
I shall stare at you for eternity!
“0-0″
(staring at you with fuzzy ears!)
EAT THAT LIKE YOU EAT BABIES!
We had a coffee club in town where the local hard rock metal-oid garage bands would play. Most people were in black and chains and fishnets and all that good stuff. Every weekend The God Squad would be out in full force telling us we’re going to burn and that we’re sinners and all that good crap.
Ah, the good ole days.
Please tell me they really called themselves The God Squad.
I’ve seen a shirt with that exact phrase on it. No joke.
Might still exist, I dunno. That was years ago.
No, they didn’t. That would involve a sense of humor. I’m pretty sure that’s a sin.
“If you’re happy and you know it it’s a sin.
If you’re happy and you know it it’s a sin.
If you’re happy and you know it,
If you’re happy and you know it,
If you’re happy and you know it,
It’s a sin.”
UR DOIN’ IT RONG!
“If you’re happy and you know it it’s a sin.
If you’re happy and you know it it’s a sin.
If you’re happy and you know it,
And you really wanna show it,
If you’re happy and you know it,
It’s a sin.”
Church fanatics….always good for a laugh or two.
I’m a Christian metalhead. There are crazy people from all walks of life. Blame the person, not the religion. =)
Christians smell.
I am still trying to figure out why this is funny. All of these things are true. That is what Heavy Metal does to you. Baby Eater!
Chopin Rules!
Could you really be more generalizing and stereotyping and all-around annoying? I’m exactly like this girl and I have never, repeat, NEVER been inclined to eat a baby. It’s funny because most people are, without good reason, afraid of other people who happen to like their music a little darker than everyone else. Ask any of my friends, or this girl’s friends, I’m sure, and they’ll tell you that we’re completely normal, and probably a lot nicer than all of you conformist haters who want everyone to be the same.
Ummm…I was being sarcastic. I grew up in the wonderful late ’70s and early ’80s of Heavy Metal birth. When the MAN bit the head off a bat…yesssss.
Chill out.
That was a perfect chance to be a complete troll and you just passed it up. I am disappoint :[
she forgot “singing ancient litanies in languages man was not meant to hear to invoke the elder gods while standing in a pentagram made out of blood soaked papyrus pages of the necronomicon”.
Oh no no no NO. that’s roleplayers silly internetter.
Nonono I thought that was goth.
Nahh that’s mostly wearing fishnets and doing the Southpark goth dance while listening to Bauhaus
i’m a goth chick who listens to metal and plays pen-and-paper roleplaying games.
so far, the elder gods haven’t contacted me once. not even Nyarlathotep, who’s usually into that sort of thing.
Argument void: Girls like Miley Cyrus, not metal.
*shun* Leave. Just leave.
I second that reply. *nods*
Awww :C
correction: annoying girls like Miley Cyrus. Good girls like metal
This can be avoided with good parenting.
If only that were true. I’ve seen a few girls who have been subjected to good parenting and still like Miley Cyrus.
My Dad got me into metal when I was 7.
My Mum wasn’t happy.
She still goes on about where her “Curly haired daughter in pink dresses went”
D:
Finally someone who makes clear that liking metal is just having a good taste for music and not being suicidal and freaky.
Totally right. Now I hope all rappers quit being famous.
While at it, add Cyrus, Bieber, Jonas and Germanotta (a.k.a. Lady GaGa) as well.
I used to generalize like that. Now I listen to a lot of metal (though by no means a metalhead) and I feel a little foolish for my past generalizations. Please accept my apologies!
Well, for the many metal heads out there, I say you are forgiven. You have realized your foolishness and repent. Good job, for many will not do this.
I listen to a _lot_ of genres, but metal is one of my favorites (Power, Progressive, and Harmonic mostly). I’m also an extremely happy vegetarian pacifist. Admittedly, I don’t really like children…so that one may apply to me…
So, if you don’t like children why on earth would you eat them?
Easy answer, if they are gifted they gonna raise your IQ.
She ain’t vegetarian no mores.
>=)
Wouldn’t eating babies make you a bad vegetarian?
no, your girlfriend just uses that excuse so she doesn’t have to swallow.
OOH SNAP
Is moshing against pacifism? Do you consider it wrong to smash into people and fighting for the fun of it? (consentually, of course)
I don’t think that show on adult swim helps any with the stereotyping and generalization of metal fans.
Thats why its funny…
/facepalm
metalocalypse? …. the show with Dethclok
i love that showw
best show EVAR
Suuuuurrrreeee … baby eater!
*trolls*
My friends think I’m a freak just cause I hate rap, hip hop, and techno with a burning passion.
Gotta love rock and metal
HELLS YA
yeah, i will have Heavy Metal playing off my phone on the bus thats louder than the radio the only plays “The Hits” (yeah, right) and i get bad looks all the time
Maybe because you use your phone as a speaker in a public place, thereby disrupting others that don’t want to listen to your music? Just a thought.
not..want… metal…? is that posible?
no, it’s not. they’re mad that you didn’t turn it up.
i understand where you are coming from, but the other people on the bus do it as well, just with more Rap, even though the station on the radio NEVER changes (BTW i meant a school bus lol)
Of course.
But just to help, maybe the gap between Heavy Metal and Pop Culture should be created without destroying Metal, don’t you think?
Like “TMF Iron” (TMF is the Dutch Music Video Channel under MTV, and Iron for the Metal)
Up the Irons from The Netherlands! \m/
I’ll stop thinking your angry when you stop thinking I’m uncool cause I like music in which I can understand the lyrics!
I dont think people who like other genres are uncool. I just don’t like to be stereotyped.
last time i checked people couldn’t understand rap…
Last time I checked those lyrics were produced in a factory designed to enslave you.
I perfectly understand the lyrics of the bands I listen to.
I wasn’t aware every metal band screamed. Oh well, I guess this is another guy thinking metal is just angry emo :L
Dude! They don’t! Listen to some Iron Maiden, or old stuff from Judas Priest (he picked up screaming in the 90s). Especially old metal doesn’t do a lot of screaming. And definitely no grunting. Grunting sucks!
Hey, heavy metal is nothing. I listen to death metal. People seem to think I’m a serial murderer who performs human sacrifices every Tuesday afternoon. I never get a chance to explain that the death metal I listen to is melodeath, or music with really good lyrics and instruments that just happens to be growled/screamed.
I like metal/death metal/various screamy things when I’m angry. Ironically it calms me down. Gets it out of my system and then I’m all nice and chipper again.
If people think that makes me scary… oh well I guess. I can just laugh at them for being afraid of a short, skinny girl. Muahaha.
Though it doesn’t get me nearly as weird of looks (is that phrase even remotely grammatically correct?) as the goth. People are all like “isn’t it depressing? isn’t it all about death?” ummmmm noooooooo? Most of the songs in the genre I’m most fond of are actually love songs. Boy does THAT screw with people. lol I just like the sound.
Just like with metal.
Just like with anything else I listen to.
Yeah, people were scared of me in high school too. Because of how I dress, and songs I like. Go figure. I only got scary when people got in my face too many times though. LOL!
I used to be about as outwardly hardcore Goth as a poor teenager can get… and I had so many friends! It was kinda weird, since I never really encouraged it. I think a lot of them just wanted the rep of “friend of the scary insane girl who commits random violence”. Not that that rep ever kept the racist hicks from telling me my Goth boots were taking me straight to hell. They never realized arguments like that don’t works on Atheists. XD
lol, awfully thin skins on all these ‘bad ass, tough as nails’ metal heads.
Just realise that a large part of your motivation towards this music is that it pisses other people off. You wear the uniform of the metal fan because you know it will evoke a negative reaction, so that you can then puff yourself up as being such a badass in the face of adversity.
At least I can think without the help of the puppeteer guiding your every move.
i feel you. i hate people that judge me by my music… though i like scaring people…
me and the rest of my (metal) band went to the mall and just got a bunch of weird looks, old people yelling at us, and parents pulling their 5 year olds away from us…
Death metal is nothing either.
I have lived in Finland my whole life, and well, the North is the Mecca of metal as some of you probably know. I had some friends that introduced me metal, starting from death metal and some powerish bands (Arch Enemy, CoB, In Flames etc.). I started liking it and listened to a lot of music of this kind. Eventually, I also found some thrash and black metal bands, like Final Breath, Machine Head, Lamb of God, Keep of Kalessin, Immortal etc. After that, I decided to try something even more brutal, grind and some technical death metal for example, Faceless, Scarve, Negrophagist..
Basically the people who say “I listen to power metal, I’m so metal” make me wanna laugh
nothing against power though, don’t get me wrong.
Luckily people never looked at me as if I was crazy. Even though I listen to Norwegian black metal, it does not mean I burn churches.
I’m actually none of the things stated in the graph.
Absolutely agreed.
I also think that even if you do dress in black and listen to metal, it doesn’t mean that you ONLY listen to metal. This is the impression most people get when they see me. When I say I have 9 years experience of playing classical guitar, they’re damn surprised. I love classical music, acoustic music and also some jazz. Mainly metal, yes, but I don’t stick to that.. stereotypics are slowly fading away luckily.
I’m liking your tastes in technical metal. Personally, I’m not “metal” but I like the music. I don’t look like the typical metalhead at all.
Blind Guardian was my gateway band. I’m a sucker for dark tinged fantasy music and they certainly fit the bill (they also do it without being overly cheesy and with a bit of musical complexity). From there it was a short road to symphonic and progressive (I’m a classically trained violinist, I appreciate the complexities in some forms of metal). Opeth has won my heart and opened me up to new stuff.
Technical isn’t something I’ve heard of before, but now that you’ve mentioned it, and I’m looking it up, I’m liking it. Thanks for the good stuff you’re sharing out here.
as a metal head I would like to add the following to this debate:
SLAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! \m/
*walks out wearing a Blind Guardian T shirt and Hi 5′s the guy who mentioned Necrophagist and starts humming do do do didodo do DEEEEE do do Diddley deeeeeeeee dododo do didodo do DEEEEEE*
*walks up wearing LOG T shirt and Hi 5′s the guy in the Necrophagist shirt*
*high 5s*
A Twist in the Myth was a great album
(damn, misspelled Necrophagist earlier.. It’s all so hard with phone :/)
*High fives everyone, then strolls casually out humming Brother Wolf and wearing her Sonata Arctica shirt*
ATITM was quite good.
dude heav metal and death metal!!!!all my friends think im a creepo though and my mom thinks im going to the darkside
“Heavy Metal” music is for LOSERS like goths and nerds.
Why can’t you like what everyone else likes? F**king drama queens…
nerds invented this world, everyone else just followed XD
True!!!!!
why should you like what everyone else likes? to bring forth a way to old argument, if everyone else jumps into the water, would you?
Jeez, different people, different tastes, accept it.
OH LOOK WHO IT IS! its Again! the guy who thinks WoW is worst than Meth, well guess what, everyone outdid your arguments last time, and it will happen again, so stop being a troll, and stop purposely ticking people off
Well aren’t you the mature one.
And to you, lmao at your logic, if that can be called logic.
I’m very happy not liking everything else everyone likes. Doesn’t mean I flaunt it in everyone’s face.
this is my favorite graph I’ve seen so far.
omg so true one time this little girl came up to me and said she wanted to dress like me and the mom got really scared AND THEN I LOLED!
I’d rather bring home the girl who listens to metal to meet the parents than one that listens to lady gaga. The first likes what she likes. The latter probably only cares about what’s cool and trendy.
Do I smell more generalization? You can generalize about any genre/clique besides metal/metalheads, amirite?
Don’t get me wrong, I am not a scene girl, and I don’t like Bring Me The Horizon, but I find it funny (and by funny, I mean really annoying) that people like you jump all over anyone who makes generalizations/stereotypes about “metalheads” and then turn around and make generalizations about people who listen to other genres of music.
Metallica + Lamb Of God = EPIC
im seein them on Mayhem with Korn, Five Finger Death Punch, and Rob Zombie…
I love this graph
Me too, and all the comments it generates !!!
You’ve made my day; except for the fact that I get called Emo, and people say I listen to “screamo.” I need new shirts, I’m stuck in Rise Against and Slipknot, but I’m all for Behemoth and Whitechapel these days. Don’t let the stereotypical losers get you down.
could always be worse. I would listen to Zombie and Slayer and Megadeth and Iron Maiden and nobody ever said a freaking thing to me, but my little brother acts so hardcore, swears he loves “metal” and yet walks like he’s smuggling a christmas ham between his legs with his pants around his knees, listening to my chemical romance and fallout boy on his phone’s speakerphone. I wonder what doctor assembled his brain from so many different facets of human culture.
that’s what happens to me, i like heavy metal, so what?
x.x So much hate on Death Metal… at least from what I skimmed over.
Maybe I like bree-breeing, sweeping and burst picking… both when I do it or when someone who gets paid to do it does it.
Hey, you up there, you’re awesome for mentioning The Faceless! Wherever you are… >.>
Coincidentally, I’m a geek who likes anime and apperently, according to everyone else, writes killer romances even if I don’t see it. I swear, Guardian was an Action story where a guy literally takes on an army. It goes to prove nobody’s one dimensional and cliches are retarded.
Anyway, this is the first meaningful graph I’ve seen in a looong time. Just… don’t worry about those people– they’re just… well, dumb.
Here I am
Xenochrist <3
I ought to show my parents this graph. The reason I don’t have any younger siblings is probably due to their fear that I would eat them.
Metal is definitely not about Satan-worshipping,not most of it anyways. Especially since my favourite band is Scar Symmetry, their songs are mainly about scientific theories and you’d think they’d calm down a tad….unfortunately they automatically think death growls = Subliminal messages converting our daughter to ~THE DARK SIDE~.
Ah, well. That’s what headphones are for, I suppose.
come to the dark side we have cookies
and red lasers >:3
and more metal
Rename to : what alarmist Christians and mothers THINK I will do because I listen to heavy metal.
thats soo true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But babies are delicious!
YOU BET THEY ARE! Living ones are the best!
\m/ I love this graph \m/
I’m relieved that you aren’t going to shoot EVERYONE at your school.
Thanks for bringing that up, I was wondering why it was in all caps. It’s as if she’s saying that she’s only going to shoot a few people, not EVERYONE.
There is guitar in heavy metal?
Not necessarily, search for a band called Cause for Effect on youtube
grind with bass & drums.
……..You’re joking right?
wow….. i am taking away all of your musical privileges
HA! WIN!
Check out Van Canto. Metal with drums and… And voices.
But I eat little babbies
Marry me? \m/(>.<)\m/
LOL this was a comment I DID not expect!
im surprised there isnt more
Always confused me when people put emphasis on the wrong word in sentences. Like, you mean that you really didn’t expect it, right? I mean, say that sentence aloud.
Got it right in the graph, though. O_o
In highschool, we would walk through the halls in a pack between classes, and sometimes teachers would walk by with their babies. We would stare at them and say “Oh my god take that thing away, you’re making me SO HUNGRY!”
Wow you guys were SOOOOO cool.
Seriously, your teachers brought their babies to school with them? Really?
Win.
Maybe we just need to give in… and start eating bebe’s
Onnomnom!
Inorite?! People think I have the black plague because they dont know any of my music. I get the weirdest reactions:
Black Sabbath: Isnt the sabbath on Sunday?
Queen: Isn’t that the gay band?
Alice Cooper: Isn’t that the freak with the snake who kills babies?
Amen sister! \m/ Metal for the Win \m/
I think that graph represents what everyone “will” do if they listen to heavy metal male or female. Metal kicks every other genre to the bricks.
Just want to post here that Necrophagist RULES. that is all. best albums Epitaph or Onset of Putrefaction.
Metal Chicks ftw! \m/ \m/
ITT: Lots of people trying to be funny, then being attacked by a hungry pack of wolves (aka “metalheads”) for “generalizing.”
A few years ago I was at the Unholy Alliance show in Cleveland, and after the show, there was a little girl about 4 or 5 sitting on her father’s shoulders screaming “SLAAAAYYYYYYYYERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!”
Nothing tops that.
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That would suck if it were true because everyone and their freaking granny listens to heavy metal
SOO TRUE!! I hate when people thinks I´m a satanist :@
ya i no me 2 it suks balls
metal rocks like death metal,grindcore,nu anykind rocks!!!!
btw has anyone noticed that the total number of votes is:
1349?!?!
*sits in cave in norway with candles while blasting Celestial Deconstruction*
heh heh heh its a good thing to be the black sheep of modern society
cause criminals and bums are soooo 2007
As a sociopathical, canniballistic and quite angry metalhead girl, I feel quite outcasted.
were all metalheads… thus all outcasts
I know, why are people that like heavy/death/industrial metal music thought to be angry, homicidal maniacs? Its a thousand times better than rap.
You forgot the section “Worships the devil” according to the kids at my old school, because I wore eyeliner and liked metal, it automatically made me a Satanist o_O bizarre children, they’re stranger than me I swear
Metal-heads aren’t crazy psychopaths, they’re just elitist about their opinion.
Stupid ass pop listener. Go crawl in a hole and die.
Pretty much. Heavy metal is for children, amirite?
Haha, yeah, they are a lot of the time.
Most “metal-heads” on the interwebs are kids in the ages of 14-19 that think being different is the be all and end all.
“NAH METAL DOESN’T SUCK STFU POP/RAP/ANYTHING ELSE SUX. STOP GENERALISING NOOB”, etc.
…hm… same to you then…
You left out “Worship Satan”.
SSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR
It was this stereotype that nearly killed me in middle school. In high school now though, I hang out with normal people who listen to alternative rock, I’m happy, and no one thinks I’m an evil satanist.
It’s probably because I don’t act angry, I’m smiling a lot, and I dress normally. No one can really imagine me listening to metal, but the truth is I’m really into it. I think 70% of my iPod is metal now, and I like going to concerts.
Oh, and I don’t like nu metal/metalcore much. Mostly death metal, thrash, gothic, power, folk, symphonic metal.
Actually and (unfortunatelly) this is true. I’m a girl and when I say people that I like heavy metal, they look me like “O.o”
But, I can hate childrens, eat babies and be angry, I just can’t hide a gun in my room! I have no space for it! It’s full of bats, and dead babies bodies
Hun, if you really liked guitar you wouldn’t be listening to heavy metal.
No other genre has such a strong emphasis on talent. Pop “singers” usually can get by with an abysmal voice. Jazz, although nice listening, rarely breaks into very difficult ground. Country is. . . .country. The list continues, but the point is that if someone hasn’t much talent, they fall in metal quickly.
I disagree about the jazz…real jazz is quite difficult, but the better a performer you are, the easier it sounds.
It’s like playing Mozart. Beginners can play his piano music, but you have to be very talented and work very hard to play it WELL.
Oh, wow. Those people are idiots. Not all heavy metal is freaking evil just because a few popular ones are. I listen to heavy stuff and I’m mostly nice. X_X
It’s okay, I’m a girl and I like metal too =).
Also, I think BBQ babies are the best…..
HAHA just kidding!
But no really, its interesting the kind of reactions I get when I tell people some of my favorite bands. When I tell people I like “Children of Bodom” for example, they say “is that like Children of the Corn?”
Most people would never guess that I like metal though. I used to do the black band t-shirts a lot back in high school. But I wear a lot of normal looking sweaters and jeans now. It accentuates my womanly figure better =p
Ps. Most metalheads I know like other music too. Guilty pleasures I guess you would call them. My friend loves Jazz. I also like most alternative rock or regular rock I guess you could say. I LOVE MUSE for example. heh
hvis der fandtes sådan en pige (i danmark) var det vidst nok min drømme pige hvis der er en pige derude der hører hard rock/heavy metal, ser sød ud og hader kristendommen så skriv til mig på facebook mit navn er Tobias Hansen.
Om Nom Nom Delicious babies?
I feel your pain. You should see the looks I get when I’m blasting Pantera in my quiet, white and old people dominated suburb.
I listen to Death Metal and people think I’m normal.
um, do you people know NOTHING!?
All metal isn’t satanist.
I listen to August burns red, Demon hunter, oh sleeper, haste the day, and destroy the runner.
CHRISTIAN METAL FOR THE WIN!
also, there are plenty of bands that don’t clasify as christian bands, but are made up entirely of christians. one of the most popular metal bands ever, as i lay dying, is all christians.
and, when you really think about it, christain metal bands have a higher probablility of being really great bands. i’ve listened to a few songs by non-christian metal. a good 75% of them really sucked. in comparison, it is hard to find a christian metal song i don’t like.
and christian metalheads don’t want to kill everybody… we just want to kill demons.
But I heard that the specific frequencies used in metal music, based on the heavy distortion, pounding drums and growling lyrics, actually is one of the most effective way to SUMMON a demon, via audiogenesis. That’s why people were so worried about it when the first metal bands appeared. It seems a bit out of keeping to have Christian metal which is tempting those Helldwellers to come out of their hole.
hahahaha, i feel like i knoe you hahaha
These comments are hilarious. : )
Unfortunately, they made me laugh so hard I spit out all my babies, and my gun, with which I was using to kill ALL of my classmates, fell out of my hand… : /