your local metalheads

zim · Post by **zim** » 17 Apr 2011, 00:33

my town:

me: do you like metal?

all of them: yeah! SLIPKNOT AND METALLICA OMG SO HEAVY

Lavabug · Post by **Lavabug** » 17 Apr 2011, 00:36

I will cut my hair as a consequence.

supa tuna · Post by **supa tuna** » 17 Apr 2011, 00:50

once, in high school, a kid said he listened to "the heaviest of the heavy, like disturbed"

fucking

Lavabug · Post by **Lavabug** » 17 Apr 2011, 01:16

*insert compulsory trash talk about mallcore*

Does anyone else feel embarrassed about liking metal in general?

Hugo. · Post by **Hugo.** » 17 Apr 2011, 01:21

There are some absolute knob-ends that show up at metal bars here, but there's some decent chaps too.

I remember going for a smoke and walking past a hard-on bearer in an Evile shirt. I told him i missed Evile when they were supposed to support Amon Amarth and Entombed (when their bassist died). He just gave me a 'cool story, bro now fuck off' look. I dont give a fuck, no one has the right to be that fucking condescending, i didnt need to talk to him i've got fucking friends.

There were nothing but nice folk at the last amon amarth.

I do not associate with mallcore wanklets, thank fuck theyre in the decline here.

Meat Engine · Post by **Meat Engine** » 17 Apr 2011, 01:24

I could not care less about other metal fans that I do not know.

Mr. P · Post by **Mr. P** » 17 Apr 2011, 01:31

Me and my wife are the youngest couple living in this part of town. My nextdoor neighbors are all between 50 years old and grave. There are some younger kids who live here with their parents but I don't really interact with any of them.

I know one of the kids, who is around 14 I guess, do wear Dimmu Borgir and Cradle Of Filth shirts when I see him but that is all. So if that is the stereotype of metal head in here then yes!

Prolly 99 % of my neighbors do listen this type of music.

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But I really don't. When I'm at the office I might be wearing tie and listening Immortal from head phones and playing double bass fills with my feet.

Meat Engine · Post by **Meat Engine** » 17 Apr 2011, 01:35

[quote name="Lavabug"]*insert compulsory trash talk about mallcore*

Does anyone else feel embarrassed about liking metal in general?[/quote]

Not really. I don't let my enjoyment of metal dictate what I should wear, how I should feel towards other music, or anything else really. Some days I want to wear a band t-shirt. Most days I don't. If I can talk to someone about the music I like, that's fine. If I can't, whatever. I don't really give it much thought these days. I do not run away from the label, but I don't care to run toward it either.

Hugo. · Post by **Hugo.** » 17 Apr 2011, 01:38

I was pretty impressed with the decent metal crowd at O reilly's, a new-ish bar in dublin. Nice folks with some decent (ie old school) taste in music.

Hallucinating dead · Post by **Hallucinating dead** » 17 Apr 2011, 02:43

no one listens to death metal in the whole city

Methuselah Honeysuckle · Post by **Methuselah Honeysuckle** » 17 Apr 2011, 02:51

I don't give a fuck about people I dont know

Lavabug · Post by **Lavabug** » 17 Apr 2011, 02:56

[quote name="Meat Engine"]
[quote name="Lavabug"]*insert compulsory trash talk about mallcore*

Does anyone else feel embarrassed about liking metal in general?[/quote]

Not really. I don't let my enjoyment of metal dictate what I should wear, how I should feel towards other music, or anything else really. Some days I want to wear a band t-shirt. Most days I don't. If I can talk to someone about the music I like, that's fine. If I can't, whatever. I don't really give it much thought these days. I do not run away from the label, but I don't care to run toward it either.[/quote]

I pretty much avoid band shirts now or even talking about music, doesn't really do me any favors in interacting with fellow students much less profs. Being a metalhead of any variety here is pretty much synonymous with being a lazy potsmoking do-nothing that lives with their parents (deservedly, as far as metalheads in my region go).

baron von blondle · Post by **baron von blondle** » 17 Apr 2011, 04:37

you can imagine here in London everyone is personal friends with Lee Dorrian/Shane Embury/Ozzy Osbournes gardener and the ones that aren't are Journalists who are personal best friends with Lee Dorrian/Shane Embury/Ozzy Osbournes petsitter

It's a horrendously cliquey/I'm cooler than you/emperors new clothes type vibe so subsequently I tend to stay at home unless it's absolutely unavoidable.

Having said that there are the odd few, really a few tho, awesome supportive characters that are just into the music and love to drink and bang their fists.

Devy · Post by **Devy** » 17 Apr 2011, 06:26

[quote name="Nick"]I don't give a fuck about people I dont know[/quote]

Grudge · Post by **Grudge** » 17 Apr 2011, 06:34

Metalheads are immature 17 year-olds who have nothing better to do but to throw up those stupid devil horns in their pictures and videos. I hate slayer fans, I hate Nile fans, I hate Pantera fans. I hate Devourment fans if they flaunt themselves as such. I hate people who like to show and prove to others that they are metal. Why can't people act normally? I hate people so much. I hate you too.

rhino · Post by **rhino** » 17 Apr 2011, 06:37

[quote name="IRONMAN"]Metalheads are immature 17 year-olds who have nothing better to do but to throw up those stupid devil horns in their pictures and videos. I hate slayer fans, I hate Nile fans, I hate Pantera fans. I hate Devourment fans if they flaunt themselves as such. I hate people who like to show and prove to others that they are metal. Why can't people act normally? I hate people so much. I hate you too.[/quote]

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 17 Apr 2011, 06:59

i started hanging out with the metalhead crowd 10 years ago, eventually drifted away from that scene. i run into those folk around town now and then, and pretty much all of them are doing the exact same shit as 10 years ago. still dressing in the metal uniform, no goals outside of getting drunk on some certain night or another, etc..

only real difference is they've built an insular metal scene here, which by my estimation follows the same basic pattern of any local music scene: a core of musicians and their friends who all agree to go to each others' shows, all the while producing nothing of actual value.

agony bagony · Post by **agony bagony** » 17 Apr 2011, 08:13

we've probably got some but i don't know em

Mesarthim · Post by **Mesarthim** » 17 Apr 2011, 21:54

there aren't a lot of metalheads here sadly. lately i've been noticing that the punk/crust loving kids have been showing up at shows here.

Hugo. · Post by **Hugo.** » 17 Apr 2011, 22:17

[quote name="baron von blondle"]you can imagine here in London everyone is personal friends with Lee Dorrian/Shane Embury/Ozzy Osbournes gardener and the ones that aren't are Journalists who are personal best friends with Lee Dorrian/Shane Embury/Ozzy Osbournes petsitter

It's a horrendously cliquey/I'm cooler than you/emperors new clothes type vibe so subsequently I tend to stay at home unless it's absolutely unavoidable.

Having said that there are the odd few, really a few tho, awesome supportive characters that are just into the music and love to drink and bang their fists.[/quote]

Which reminds me, Emperor have a new range of clothes this season.

Hugo. · Post by **Hugo.** » 12 Nov 2011, 03:01

[quote name="IRONMAN"] I hate Devourment fans if they flaunt themselves as such. [/quote]

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 12 Nov 2011, 04:12

[quote name="Lavabug"] Being a metalhead of any variety here is pretty much synonymous with being a lazy potsmoking do-nothing that lives with their parents (deservedly, as far as metalheads in my region go).[/quote]
[quote name="IRONMAN"]Metalheads are immature 17 year-olds who have nothing better to do but to throw up those stupid devil horns in their pictures and videos. I hate slayer fans, I hate Nile fans, I hate Pantera fans. I hate Devourment fans if they flaunt themselves as such. I hate people who like to show and prove to others that they are metal. Why can't people act normally? I hate people so much. I hate you too.[/quote]

[quote name="Derek Waters"]i started hanging out with the metalhead crowd 10 years ago, eventually drifted away from that scene. i run into those folk around town now and then, and pretty much all of them are doing the exact same shit as 10 years ago. still dressing in the metal uniform, no goals outside of getting drunk on some certain night or another, etc..

only real difference is they've built an insular metal scene here, which by my estimation follows the same basic pattern of any local music scene: a core of musicians and their friends who all agree to go to each others' shows, all the while producing nothing of actual value.[/quote]

All of this. Metalheads were fun when I was in my early 20s. Now, I just cannot be bothered. They're fucking idiot conformists and just a couple small notches up from a Juggalo, as far as I'm concerned. Punks are the same. In fact, fuck anyone who identifies themselves with a scene.

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Hugo. · Post by **Hugo.** » 12 Nov 2011, 04:16

I was a gig last weekend talking to a hard-on bearer who KNOW for a fact is well clued in to his metal and he refused to engage me in metal talk referring only to his love for duran duran who he 'LOVES' apparently. Thats a whole new type of elitism.

Redd · Post by **Redd** » 12 Nov 2011, 04:33

One of my friends up here is into metal, but he's nothing like the stereotype. He's awesome.

Met a few others who are a little into it and they're nice people too, totally normal looking people with normal personalities, behaviors, etc etc.

As for back home in NJ, well...

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 12 Nov 2011, 04:36

[quote name="Redd"]One of my friends up here is into metal, but he's nothing like the stereotype. He's awesome.

Met a few others who are a little into it and they're nice people too, totally normal looking people with normal personalities, behaviors, etc etc.

As for back home in NJ, well...

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Being an intelligent person who enjoys metal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a metalhead

Hugo. · Post by **Hugo.** » 12 Nov 2011, 08:02

Well there goes the only acceptable motion.

Grudge · Post by **Grudge** » 12 Nov 2011, 09:19

Yea my views on metalheads haven't changed since my last post on this matter.

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 12 Nov 2011, 10:50

[quote name="IRONMAN"]Yea my views on metalheads haven't changed since my last post on this matter.[/quote]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

shadowalk · Post by **shadowalk** » 12 Nov 2011, 11:19

Round these parts, the term 'metalhead' would usually denote skinny guys with black shirts and colorful chuck taylor shoes that usually jam to the likes of All That Remains, Darkest Hour and the like.

vega · Post by **vega** » 12 Nov 2011, 13:36

here are local metalheads who will wear sometimes t-shirts of metallica, iron maiden, megadeth, slayer etc.

the fans of death metal and black metal are less.

shadowalk · Post by **shadowalk** » 12 Nov 2011, 14:24

That sounds like a preferable environment right there.

vO)))id · Post by **vO)))id** » 12 Nov 2011, 18:00

most metalheads here are "roadburners" or "neurotic deathfest"-folks.

and most of them are about my age and over.

of course we also have the kiddie scene with slipknot, him, and all those crappy emo fuckers.

Phantoon · Post by **Phantoon** » 12 Nov 2011, 18:37

I used to live near a town here in England called Maidstone. There's plenty of goths, emo, metalheads there. I don't look or dress like a metalhead, but I do look rather miserable all the time so if that counts

I once saw a hard-on bearer with a Nile shirt. I didn't say anything but he saw me looking at his shirt with a knowing look of "fellow brethren". I think he got it

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 12 Nov 2011, 21:34

Every now and then some hard-on bearer at the checkout line or on the street will ask about my Morbid Angel hat. Then, they will freak out, "zomg I never knew there were other metalheads..." really? "...that's so awesome dude fuckin' metal

" and I will politely smile and walk away. Sure, you were friendly, but you called me a metalhead. Fuck you.

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 13 Nov 2011, 01:53

[quote name="Skinoperable"]well you are wearing a metal band's logo on your head, so that's kind of to be expected :doubleoldliteral:[/quote]

It is. However, I'm not going to stop simply because I don't like someone else's reaction. I like my Morbid Angel hat.

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 13 Nov 2011, 05:33

Never said you said I should.

SCUNT · Post by **SCUNT** » 13 Nov 2011, 06:22

metal band hats

SCUNT · Post by **SCUNT** » 13 Nov 2011, 06:53

also the metalheads here are pizza burgers/idiots and classify their bands in genres they really aren't

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 13 Nov 2011, 06:57

[quote name="Skinoperable"]
[quote name=";,,;"]Never said you said I should.

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never said you said i said you said i said you should

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I never said you said I said you said I said you said I said you said I sard.

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 13 Nov 2011, 06:58

[quote name="smelly"]metal band hats

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I sewed a Morbid Angel patch onto a beanie

Lavabug · Post by **Lavabug** » 13 Nov 2011, 22:01

Sowing? You gay, mate?

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 13 Nov 2011, 23:56

I am not a farmer

But I do garden a bit

deckard · Post by **deckard** » 14 Nov 2011, 00:08

fuck these greasy morons

Grudge · Post by **Grudge** » 14 Nov 2011, 00:31

[quote name="Skinoperable"]well you are wearing a metal band's logo on your head, so that's kind of to be expected :doubleoldliteral:[/quote]

Like when a chick wears a skimpy outfit on a Saturday night and objects when guys hit on her.

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 14 Nov 2011, 00:36

[quote name="IRONMAN"]
[quote name="Skinoperable"]well you are wearing a metal band's logo on your head, so that's kind of to be expected :doubleoldliteral:[/quote]

Like when a chick wears a skimpy outfit on a Saturday night and objects when guys hit on her.[/quote]

Except I am not objecting?

Except I am not objecting.

Sure, it is a tad annoying, but it is expected and wearing my hat which I enjoy outweighs the occasional reaction it receives.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » 14 Nov 2011, 00:49

i never said i didnt get it

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 14 Nov 2011, 00:51

Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man · 14 Nov 2011, 07:38

Haven't really dabbled in the metal scene here yet, but I've met lots of nice folks at hardcore shows, contrary to the stereotype

Abzu · Post by **Abzu** » 14 Nov 2011, 09:07

Hardcore shows

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neckred · Post by **neckred** » 14 Nov 2011, 10:16

[quote name="Nick"]I don't give a fuck about people I dont know[/quote]

this

and I don't really care about genres, I just like what I like

if people don't like what I like, it's cool with me