Have any of you wondered why metalheads are the most active/caring on their music?

 

 

 

 

 

As in, let's say, in my city there are usually 2-4 "concerts" (tokines) where local bands play, but i have never heard of a local rap concert in my life, and i have friends that don't like Metal. Metal listeners defend the genre with complete devotion, and most of the times they know of a wide array of sub-genres or other genre. It's weird, but i think that it is because of a simple reason:

 

 

 

Metalheads are all a community. They all feel safe hanging with each other, in a concert, most of them are helpful and they want to have fun. In mosh pits for example, when you are kicked by someone hard and you fall to the ground, most of the times someone will help you to stand up and get you out of there is someone is bleeding hard. The metal genre currently is one of the most varied in music. metalheads have been called "satanist" or "useless to society" which i think makes them feel better and comfortable when they are with each other. Most of them are open to new ideas, and there have been studies that show that metalheads are very creative and are obsessed with their music.

 

 

 

Put a heavy metal fan together with a classical music buff and you might expect the result to be far from harmonious.

 

 

 

But while their appearance could be vastly different, lovers of the two musical genres actually have much in common.

 

 

 

Both types tend to be creative, at ease with themselves and introverted.

 

 

 

The findings come from research into the personalities of more than 36,000 music fans from all over the world.

 

 

 

Professor Adrian North, who led the study at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, admits he was surprised by the findings. 'Apart from the age differences, they were virtually identical,' he said.

 

 

 

'Both were more creative than other people, both were not terribly outgoing and they were also quite at ease.'

 

 

 

Like classical lovers, metal fans verge on the obsessive about their music. They have divided the genre into ever smaller sub-groups such as death metal, thrash metal, Christian metal, glam metal and neo-classical metal.

 

 

 

'There's also a sense of theatre which is common with both groups,' Professor North added. 'For heavy metal bands it's about putting on a show.'

 

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052606/Take-note-Fans-heavy-metal-classical-music-lot-common-study-finds.html

 

 

 

Metalheads are also more in touch with their music, they are dedicated fans, running from forums to blogs to magazines run by themselves.

 

 

 

What do you think of this? And why does this happens?

Metal is defended ardently because ignorant [bleep]s who refuse to listen to anything besides the very entry-level bash it.

Same could be said for any type of music SilverSword.

 

 

 

Rap for example, you're going to get alot of abuse if you say its all about hos, [bleep]es etc...

I think on some level that is true. Out of all styles of music, metal is probably the most derided by the general public (well, along with rap music), so people who listen to metal will find comfort being with their own kind and forming a community of sorts. On that basis you could probably call metal music a counter-culture.

 

 

 

I think for the most part this is a great thing, though taken to the extreme it can produce metal elitism. If the psychological attachment becomes so much that you can't see that other forms of music can be good, it's gone too far.

 

 

 

I think the excessive genre definitions are partly from how passionate metalheads can be, but also because metal is actually very diverse.

Same could be said for any type of music SilverSword.

 

 

 

Rap for example, you're going to get alot of abuse if you say its all about hos, [bleep] etc...

Yeah, I was just trying to related it to this thread.

 

 

 

Loads of music is derided for no good reason at all. Metal needs all the subgenres because of how many bands there are that try to bend the boundaries of their given genre - not to mention that bands, on an elementary level, sound different to one another.

 

 

 

Agreed on metal being a counter-culture too.

It was all alright until you said "Metalheads are all a community". I hate metalheads..

That is from The Daily Mail, and therefore void.

Actually, it seems pretty legit.

 

 

 

Really, they've got to have something accurate once in a while.

That is from The Daily Mail, and therefore void.

 

 

 

Agreed.

That is from The Daily Mail, and therefore void.

 

 

 

Agreed.

 

 

 

 

 

The same people who called My Chemical Romance an "emo death cult" :roll:

That is from The Daily Mail, and therefore void.

 

 

 

Agreed.

 

The same people who called My Chemical Romance an "emo death cult" :roll:

 

Well someone DID commit suicide to join the Black Parade. :o

 

 

 

edit:

 

 

 

Hannah was a happy 13-year-old until she became an 'emo' - part of a sinister teenage craze that romanticises death. Three months later she hanged herself. Here, her devastated mother tells other parents: No child is safe

 

...Oh.

Really?

 

 

 

wow :wall:

 

 

 

I didn't know that, sorry, i'm not American.

 

 

 

Here:

 

 

 

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2441316.0.why_heavy_metal_and_classical_fans_make_sweet_music_together.php

 

 

 

Is it okay?

 

 

 

 

 

Well, can i have the link to the emo story, please?

 

Here:

 

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2441316.0.why_heavy_metal_and_classical_fans_make_sweet_music_together.php

 

 

 

 

Sweet, I like that article. I think it's more or less spot-on.

 

The same people who called My Chemical Romance an "emo death cult" :roll:

 

Well, like this fella said;

 

 

Really, they've got to have something accurate once in a while.

 

:P

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... t-emo.html

 

 

 

= Emo story.

 

 

 

I like classical music. :twss:

I like metal a lot (mostly metalcore like Disturbed and Atreyu) but I am very open to other genres. I may be the only metalhead that has a full playlist of hip hop.

 

 

 

OMG UNHEARD OF. A "METALHEAD" WHO LISTENS TO HIP-HOP? OMFG, YOU'RE SO UNIQUE.

I like metal a lot (mostly metalcore like Disturbed and Atreyu) but I am very open to other genres. I may be the only metalhead that has a full playlist of hip hop.

 

No, not even close to the only one.

It does make sense though.

I like metal a lot (mostly metalcore like Disturbed and Atreyu) but I am very open to other genres. I may be the only metalhead that has a full playlist of hip hop.

 

 

 

You may be wrong as well.

I like metal a lot (mostly metalcore like Disturbed and Atreyu) but I am very open to other genres. I may be the only metalhead that has a full playlist of hip hop.

 

 

 

OMG UNHEARD OF. A "METALHEAD" WHO LISTENS TO HIP-HOP? OMFG, YOU'RE SO UNIQUE.

 

Are you okay? You always seem sarcastic and cranky :(

That's Adio for you.

 

 

 

He calls people out a lot.

My grandfather listens just about exclusively to classic music, I listen mostly to hard rock/metal (but also a ton of other genres after I grew a bit older) and I got a lot in common with him, and he thinks pretty much in the same way as I do, is semi-introverted, and at ease with himself. Of course 2 people are a pretty small test panel to support that study, but it could have something to do with reality.

 

 

 

I got just about nothing in common with my relatives who listen to pop, immature 'bling' rap (not the tupac kind), etc., I don't judge people at all by meaningless facts like what they wear, eat, listen to, etc... It just happens to be that way. Also, almost all of my friends in real life & online listen to metal, or techno

That's Adio for you.

 

 

 

He calls people out a lot.

 

 

 

haha, this guy was really asking for it. "I may be the only metalhead that listens to hip-hop" I wonder what it is that makes people say stuff like that.

That's Adio for you.

 

 

 

He calls people out a lot.

 

 

 

haha, this guy was really asking for it. "I may be the only metalhead that listens to hip-hop" I wonder what it is that makes people say stuff like that.

 

 

 

The need to feel unique.

That's Adio for you.

 

 

 

He calls people out a lot.

 

 

 

haha, this guy was really asking for it. "I may be the only metalhead that listens to hip-hop" I wonder what it is that makes people say stuff like that.

 

 

 

The need to feel unique.

 

Tip:It: What comes up, will get beaten down :lol:

 

 

 

Also worth noting that a lot of metal musicians apparently were influenced in some way by Classical music. Only examples I know a name of for sure are Kirk Hammett and Randy Rhoads. Could also cite Yngwie Malmsteen...

 

Anyone else care to complete that? :lol: