Macheteswordgun said:
amaranth_dru said:
If metal is/was a "phase" for you, then you really didn't know yourself. Its not for everyone, and I know a lot of people who were "hardcore" rap fans in high school but then learned that its not the music that you listen to that makes you "cool" nor is it the clothes you wear. Whatever makes you happy in your life and comfortable with yourself is what makes you "cool".
Metal makes me happy, strange as it may sound. I've always found a light inside the darkness that is hard/heavy rock.
Pop music irritates me, as does new (post 90's) rap. Metal has rarely moved away from the core that began it (Ozzy/Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Anthrax, AC/DC, etc.) it has only evolved into more brutality and violence. But the funny thing is I feel safer at a metal concert than I do at a rap concert.
Then again, the definition of metal varies from person to person. I've had people tell me that Nine Inch Nails is "metal" when they're nowhere on the metal radar. Awesome music, but they're more industrial rock than metal.
But to return to being OT, metal's not generally "fad" music except for people who're still searching for who they really are, or people who are mad at mommy and daddy and want to piss them off.
I was never a "rebel", never used music as a weapon against my parents, nor did I dress in black to scare people off or look dark and spooky or to be different. Well, yes I did (and still do) dress in black, but thats because I find it comfortable and a lot of my best clothes are black (plus its easier to match with...).
You bring some points i'd like to elaborate on. I myself am a metal head who dresses like one. Typicaly attire band t shirt *i have like 30 i wear more signed* denium jeans wallet with chain and black boots *i have weird feet so boots are amazing <3* but there is a typical attire that us metal heads can point each other out. But nothing is more insulting than someone thinking your emo *they never did me cause i dont have black hair i drink i smoke and i have sex and im a giant* or those kids "claiming" their metal wearing lightly colored shirts pants some of the women ive fucked cant fit into and some kind of silly shoes and being fucking pansys and doing stupid things in the pit. This sucks cause it gives normal *i use the term lightly* people a shitty impression of metal heads. But i also admit the shirts i have are always brutal and its fun to fuck with people who see me in them and my size scare them shitless. As for the sound i understand it just speak to you on so many different lvls mood feelings life etc there a song for it in metal i promise. More stuff i wanna talk about but i lost my train of thought
One of my best friends died this past month and he was the drummer for a local metal band down here. People talk all kinds of crap on how evil metal is and how bad people who listen to it are, but we had a service for my friend at a local bar and over 150 people showed up (I live in Key Largo, a small island off the tip of Florida about a mile wide and 7 miles long, so that might give you an idea of how many people knew and liked him). Not one person had a bad thing to say about my friend, and I saw even some of the most metal people I've ever known break down and cry at the wake/service (very reminiscent of the day my friends and I heard Dimebag Darrell had been shot and killed). 3 local metal bands showed up and played their hearts out for him.
He (my friend) lived and breathed metal, and yet was the type of person who would bend over backwards to help out even his worst enemy, of which he had none. So whenever I hear anyone down or dis people for listening to metal as "evil" or "bad" or "troubled" people, I think of my friend Steve-O and all the lives he touched through his music and through his life. Hell, he had dreads, piercings and tattoos and if I'd seen him out in public and never knew him, I'd have thought he was probably someone I wouldn't want to mess with. But he also had a heart of gold, and even saved a 4 year old kid's life. But if you ever met him in the pit, you'd leave with a few good bruises
Actually his death put life into perspective for me, and started me back down my own path of making awesomely brutal music... I guess I'm rambling a bit, but my point was and will always remain, people rarely look past the outside layers of a person; how they dress, tattoo's/piercings/hairstyles... And they make judgements solely on that, which I've always believed to be wrong, same with judging people by the music they listen to.
Attitude and heart are what you should be judged on (if anything you should be judged on).
