Poll: Do you listen to metal?

[BanicRhys]

Hell no, I can't stand the stuff, it just sounds like random noise to me, and this is coming from someone who likes dubstep (kind of).

The closest thing to metal on my playlist is this:

 

[Casual Shinji]

No, not at all.

I'm sure there'll be a metal track somewhere that sounds good to me, but overall I really don't give a shit.

I generally find the whole genre a bit silly.

 

[JenSeven]

Black Sabbath (both vocalists)

Those would be Ozzy and Dio I guess.
So you don't count Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes and Tony Martin?

 

[jurnag12]

Yup. And a variety of sub-genres as well, meaning everything from Sabbath to Meshuggah, Priest to Dimmu Borgir, Metallica to Nightwish, Sabaton to Dream Theater, Dragonforce to Amon Amarth, and every single thing that Devin Townsend has ever done.

...I might have a somewhat unhealthy obsession with the guy's music.

Also an aspiring metal vocalist, but that has no meaning in relation to the thread besides the fact that my love for metal inspired me to start singing.

I decidedly don't like high voices.

I just got to ask you here. I know you aren't well versed in genres and things, but I'm curious. You say you like Judas Priest. Yet the bands vocalist, Rob Halford, is famous for having some of the highest vocals in music, period. In their classic song, "Victim of Changes", towards the end, he does one of the more notable screams in Judas Priest's discography. The way you say you don't like "high voices" after listing Judas Priest as a band you like just interests me, is all.

I thought this would come up. I guess I wasn't clear. I mean the youthful male high voice. It's a distinct thing, at least to me. I hear it a lot in modern music and just don't like it at all. While Rob Halford is both male and high pitched, it's a MUCH different style. I hope you get what I mean.

So you're talking about the Bieber-esque (First guy I could think of, sorry to name drop the guy in a metal thread) type of voice, not the use of head voice and falsetto used by guys like Halford?

 

[5-0]

Yep. I usually lean towards more progressive metal, but I do like a bit of sludge, thrash, some of the classic stuff, gothic and doom. And then there's whatever the hell Tool is.

 

[Psycomantis777]

Depends what you mean when you say metal, because I swear to Danzig if someone asks me what my favourite slipknot album is again I might drown their firstborn...
It's the same as when you hear people saying "Oh yeah, I'm a Goth" and you go "Oh, cool, do you like Bauhaus?" and they reply "Who?" And go on to talk about My Chemical romance...
Humans irk me so, sometimes.
But otherwise, yes, listen to a lot of metal stuff, lot of other stuff too, but I was practically raised on Type O Negative, Danzig and Sabbath...

 

[Yuno Gasai]

I adore metal, but I wouldn't consider myself to be a metalhead.

I enjoy a wide variety of music, though I always seem to come back to the same three genres - rock, alternative and metal.

While I am fairly accepting of varying types of music, I can appreciate that others aren't, and I'm pretty sure that there are at least a handful of metalheads who would want my head on a pike because I love 90s/00s pop just as much as I love Metallica.

 

[Caffiene]

Yes, I listen. No, I dont care about sub-genres.

I think half of the subgenres are so vague that theyre pretty much meaningless (as can be seen by the list of about 20 different genres that supposedly apply for any given metal band on wikipedia), and the names are possibly the least useful and descriptive names in existence.

And the other half of the subgenres seem to be the ones invented by one guy with too much time on his hands that consist entirely of a single example band.

Maybe metal should switch to a labeling system like clothing. "XXXLHeavy. 70% Melodic, 30% Screaming. Do not tumble dry."

 

[DragonLordSerge]

yeah im a metal head i kind of listen to most metal i like some more than other but i usually give any metal band a try i even liked some christian metal divine fire i believe my top bands are iced earth, blind guardian, death, exodus and kamelot

 

[Eddie the head]

I love metal, my favourite metal band being Iron Maiden.

Second.

Anyway my favorite sub-genre is likely power metal. Sabaton, Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Iron Mask, Iron Savior ect..

 

[Autotelic]

Lately I've been interested in post metal. My friend introduced me to Alcest yesterday and I loved it.

My only trouble is that I don't really like the sound of screaming/growling. When Alcest does it I think it sounds ok, but generally, no. I'm hoping it will grow on me so that I can still appreciate good metal that happens to have some screamo in it.

I'm also interested in industrial metal, since I like industrial rock.

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

 

[shrekfan246]

My favorites genres are metalcore, post hardcore,

The reason I don't identify myself as a "metalhead" or anything is because most of the 'purists' will scoff you away if you so much as mention metalcore or post-hardcore because "They're more punk than metal" and they're my two favorite sub-genres as well.

Metalcore is much more metal and punk now anyway.

Yeah, but try telling that to all of the elitists who are overly concerned with genre labeling as if it actually matters somehow. Like your second and third paragraphs say, there are far too many people who will say bands don't count as "real" metal because reasons, and it's entirely too obnoxious for me to want to deal with.

If you (not you specifically, Mr. Fish) want to say that As I Lay Dying doesn't count as metal, fine, go right ahead, I'll just keep on listening to them and not caring that much about trivial things that really make no difference to my life.

 

[Mr Fixit]

Oh hell yes I listen to metal & I don't give a damn about what sub-genre it is. If it's good metal then it's good metal & I'll listen to it.

 

[Thyunda]

I have no idea what counts as metal - the subgenres are all very confusing. I go to a biker club every Saturday night and I'm pretty sure it's metal that they play there. 100% sure, anyway.

My usual are Disturbed, System of a Down, Slipknot, Mindless Self Indulgence (though defining those is kind of hard), and Hollywood Undead. A bit of a colourful mix, but there you go.

 

[Something Amyss]

Yes, some. I'm not a "metalhead," because I think that's ridiculous. I'm also not a rockhead, a folkhead, a blueshead, or a raphead.

But honestly, you might as well ask how many people on here like video games.

 

[windlenot]

I enjoy metal, but not really growling, with the exception of Mastodon. I'm not big on the genres, but I like Dream Theater, so progressive metal, I can enjoy heavy metal like Black Sabbath and other classics. I really like System of a Down, so categorize that wherever. And I like speed metal, like 3 Inches of Blood or Dragonforce.

I like variety then. With a general distaste of death metal.

 

[lolcatize]

yes i very much like metal and its subgenres, some more and some less but overall a healthy well rounded diet with a lot of styles genres and subgenres

 

[GabeZhul]

Variety. I mostly listen to symphonic and power metal, but I usually listen to so many bands in tandem that after a while it's hard to tell where one sub-genre ends and another begins.

I also listen to a huge variety of other genres as well, from classic rock, j-pop, symphonic orchestra, random one-hit-wonders and quite a few alternative bands so I don't think I could really be called a "metalhead".