Gamers and Metal Music
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Just played Brutal Legend. Now I am not into metal. I don't know about metal but I do like some of the songs from that game. Ozzy - Mr. Crowley, Def Leppard - Rock of ages are my favorites at the moment but there are many songs that I've never heard of but I do like them.
I am not into metal it's just I hear songs I like. Guns n Roses is my thing anyway. I like rock but not heavy metal rock.
I am not into metal it's just I hear songs I like. Guns n Roses is my thing anyway. I like rock but not heavy metal rock.
I don't really like metal, but my friend who I game with is getting me into it. Usually I listen to stuff like Coheed and Cambria, Rage Against the Machine, the Decemberists, Rise Against, so on and so forth. Way too many to list, but hardly any metal.
My hate for metal cannot be quantified.
I'd rather get chlamydia, chicken pox and be impaled by a pineapple on the same day than have to listen to some people scream like they are suffering from a botfly infection (do NOT google that shit) or experience the variations in the metal genre.
Still, the human race is diverse. People are entitled to love things beyond the norm and I have no problem with it. I don't necessarily agree with metal music but I won't burn anyone at the stake for listening to it either.
Live and let live, eh?.
I'd rather get chlamydia, chicken pox and be impaled by a pineapple on the same day than have to listen to some people scream like they are suffering from a botfly infection (do NOT google that shit) or experience the variations in the metal genre.
Still, the human race is diverse. People are entitled to love things beyond the norm and I have no problem with it. I don't necessarily agree with metal music but I won't burn anyone at the stake for listening to it either.
Live and let live, eh?.
Eh don't know really. I like metal music, but I also like classic rock, jazz/fusion,blues, and golden-age hip hop
Its a just stereotype I suppose
Its a just stereotype I suppose
My gaming tastes and music tastes are independant of each other, there just happens to be a large number of metalheads on this website.
There's probably another correlation rather than gaming.
There's probably another correlation rather than gaming.
Meh i used to love metal when i was a lot younger but I dont really like it anymore. Except for White Zombie. Jaysus I love White Zombie. Listening to a lot of post rock at the moment like Mogwai - lots of instrumental pieces and Philip Glass. And just rediscovered Fleetwood Mac and loving it.
I think most gamers like metal music because metal has always been very much "alternative" and outside the mainstream. Many gamers relate to things which are considerd outside the mainstream, because gaming is traditionally not mainstream. Things are starting to change though however, as gaming slips deeper into mainstream culture. As this happens, i will expect the old correlation of gamer's likeing metal to become increasingly distorted.
For the record, i'm a gamer, who likes Metal music, how steriotypical am i?
For the record, i'm a gamer, who likes Metal music, how steriotypical am i?
I don't know. Its weird though that most nerds tend to like bands like Tool.
I like all music though.
I like all music though.
I didn't listen to metal until I was 25, and what I'm talking about when I say "metal" is probably not particularly analogous to what the OP was thinking of when they started this thread, or the kind of metal most people here say they listen to.
It's actually kind of sad that to the average non-special interests listener, Metal = a bunch of guys with long hair screaming incoherently while noisily thrashing away at their instruments as if they hate them so much they need to inflict their rage upon us in the form of a sonic onslaught.
This is not the case: Progressive Metal, Power Metal, Gothic Metal, anything incorporating Symphonic aspects, all of it tends to be actual music and not just subtly nuanced noise to headbang to, and quite a lot of it is really good.
For a long time I had pretty much the same mental image of Metal that most of the world has, and two years back I would have loudly scoffed at the notion that I'd ever be defending Metal as a valid musical genre... and then I encountered Within Temptation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Within_temptation], a Dutch female-fronted symphonic metal/rock band.
Then I discovered there was an entire sub-sub genre of female-fronted symphonic metal, discovered power metal was also pretty damn solid, found a bunch of bands from other sub-genres that I liked, and now Metal is the genre I listen to the most outside of Classical, my first and greatest love. So do yourself a favor and at least sample some Within Temptation, or Nightwish, or Epica - you may find yourself viewing 'metal' as something other than an epithet that clues you in on what to stay far far away from.
It's actually kind of sad that to the average non-special interests listener, Metal = a bunch of guys with long hair screaming incoherently while noisily thrashing away at their instruments as if they hate them so much they need to inflict their rage upon us in the form of a sonic onslaught.
This is not the case: Progressive Metal, Power Metal, Gothic Metal, anything incorporating Symphonic aspects, all of it tends to be actual music and not just subtly nuanced noise to headbang to, and quite a lot of it is really good.
For a long time I had pretty much the same mental image of Metal that most of the world has, and two years back I would have loudly scoffed at the notion that I'd ever be defending Metal as a valid musical genre... and then I encountered Within Temptation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Within_temptation], a Dutch female-fronted symphonic metal/rock band.
Then I discovered there was an entire sub-sub genre of female-fronted symphonic metal, discovered power metal was also pretty damn solid, found a bunch of bands from other sub-genres that I liked, and now Metal is the genre I listen to the most outside of Classical, my first and greatest love. So do yourself a favor and at least sample some Within Temptation, or Nightwish, or Epica - you may find yourself viewing 'metal' as something other than an epithet that clues you in on what to stay far far away from.
Meh, I'm not a big metal head, apart from a little Iron Maiden and Slayer, I like all kinds of genres, they call me the Genre Spanner (cookie for the reference? No?)
if I had to choose a genre, it would be 60s through 80s Rock, Queen and Def Leppard type stuff
on a related topic, my favourite band is AC/DC although I'm not sure what to count them as, any opinion?
if I had to choose a genre, it would be 60s through 80s Rock, Queen and Def Leppard type stuff
on a related topic, my favourite band is AC/DC although I'm not sure what to count them as, any opinion?
Metal is quite a juvenile genre on the whole, and a significant proportion of gamers are teenage and/or 'young at heart'.
Personally, I listen to Opeth, Unexpect and Cradle of Filth, but that's as far as my forays go. They rest is stuff like Radiohead, Slowdive, Squirrelnutzippers, Philip Glass and so forth. Diversity is good. All that matters is the musicianship.
Personally, I listen to Opeth, Unexpect and Cradle of Filth, but that's as far as my forays go. They rest is stuff like Radiohead, Slowdive, Squirrelnutzippers, Philip Glass and so forth. Diversity is good. All that matters is the musicianship.