I'm 46 and metal culture satisfies my need to slaughter everyone without slaughtering anyone. Other people can take it or leave it but overall, I mostly get genuine respect, everywhere I go. It feels good to be an aging metalhead.
Only dollar a day could save this metalhead from being bankrupt. So please act now and get this Gorguts Cd and patch as a gift for saving these magnificent specimen.
Same, literally in my walmart cart its literally filled with shirts, 1 pair of cat ear headphones, angus young funko, and a stitch plushie. The rest are a shit ton of shirts
One of the truest thing ever is on the episode of the Simpsons when Otto is getting married and his bride to be says he's got to choose between her or his heavy Metal, and then it cuts to Otto driving away in the bus with the band and leaving her by the side of the road. I could never give up metal for a woman, it's too engrained in who I am. I've been listening to it since I was 11 and I'm 49 now. I remember when my buddy, who's not even a metalhead, was dating this girl and she hated metal(we never got along), she would make him stop listening to Metallica when ever she got in the car....And it was the fucking Black Album! She was over my place one time and I'm playing King Diamond and Biohazard and she says "I feel like I'm in Hell". I wish he had dumped her instead of the other way around. Once I was at a bar and this lady asked me to dance, and I turned her down...because I hate dancing. She asked me "Why" and I said " I really don't like the music." So she asks "What music do you like." and I say "metal and classical", then she goes "Hummph," turns up her nose and walks away. Yup, being a diehard metalhead is a lonely life. But honestly there seems more women in metal now than when I was getting into it in the early 80s, which is a good thing.
I dont talk to ANY of the friends i had 2 years ago anymore... They thought it was weird that i grew my hair out and spend all my money on physical music instead of just listening to Spotify.
New generations will never understand the feeling of owning a vinyl or a CD of a band you love like the old days when it was not always easy to get that material... Here in Brazil, when I was kid (I'm 43 now) when one of our friends bought a vinyl, everyone would borrow it to record on tape... vinyl was extremely expensive... that didn't change at all around here
I didn't grow my hair out because I have a history with having long hair and it's always annoyed me and made me self conscious, and I no longer buy physical media because it's so expensive and space consuming. But regardless, yeah most people I've ever met think I'm weird that I love metal and horror movies.. Even my fiancée (soon to be wife in 3 months) doesn't share my love for metal or horror movies, but at least she doesn't try to change me, and she doesn't mind watching a few horror movies every now and then and she does like some softer metal like OG heavy metal, Thrash and some Nu-metal. Plus she likes stuff like Rammstien and Marilyn Manson, but just not the heavier aspects of them. But all the Black, Death, Funeral Doom, Grindcore etc etc that I'm really into? Nahh.. She just doesn't see what I enjoy in them. As for Spotify? I have never used it, All the music you can find on Spotify you can just find on RUclips, and with RUclips downloads then boom, songs on my phone with no need to subscribe to Spotify.
I feel more accepted in the metal community, and I don't care about what people think of me, and yes, there are some negative prices you have to pay to be a metalhead, but if you ask me, being in the metal community with nice and friendly people is better than being stuck in some high school group of assholes who you just happen to be grouped with
A lot of people say high school years are some of your greatest but that's a load of shit to me lol I couldn't wait to get out of there! Once you're finished it things get a lot better, you can get way more real friends going to shows and hanging out afterwards doing what you want. I have great relationships, you form a greater stronger group of new friends who all like what you like and respect it. It's like this for my car enthusiast friends as well whenever we see each other at car meets or at the drag strip. Sure, people outside of that will give you looks/comments but I've just learned to laugh it off and think of it nothing more than they're just afraid of something they don't understand. I'm too old to give a shit anymore anyway lol
@@DeathMetalThrasher u made some really valid points that most of us can relate to, metalheads have always been outsiders, but that's ok, because outsiders tend not to care what people think, metalheads tend to be on each others side since most of them know what it's like to be outcasted and judged
I loved not looking or dressing like everyone else in school. Those people seemed so bland and boring to me. And if my long hair and Slayer shirt stopped them from wanting to be friends with me, oh well.
I remember being the ONLY metal head at my school. Extremely alienating at times when you wanna talk about something you're passionate about and nobody knows or cares what it is. There were emo kids but stylistically, it was a totally different vibe to the thrash and grunge I'm into and was especially deep in as I was just discovering it at the time.
as far as i was the only kid who listened to thrash and hardcore punk and crosssover back in middle school, there was this one guitarist kid i knew who was a diehard mcr fan and was into some death metal bands.
I didn't pay much of a price because I had also reached the point of no longer giving a shit what anybody thought. What others thought never seemed very good anyway so the bar was very low. I think the writing was on the wall because as a kid I always loved the heavy and intense metal-like music in video games. I'll always remember how badass "Floating Continent" from Final Fantasy 3 sounded on Super Nintendo. That was the first thing that stuck out for me. My actual interest in metal started around the same age, 8th grade, but I never went to the extent of changing my appearance or behavior, other than that I would then always be wearing headphones and usually had it up loud enough that people said it sounded like they were exploding. Several friends were also getting into it and we would trade song/band suggestions, others weren't but didn't resort to severing ties. By high school I was into far more extreme stuff that I found on my own and I was always blasting it while driving, not to make some kind of statement, just because I loved it loud. Later working in a store, one guy jokingly told a new girl that I was a satanist and she got freaked out until I brought her back down to reality, though I did egg it on a bit initially. Once, when I got home from work, a neighbor who was outside asked me what I was listening to and if I also liked some other band - only notable because it was an neighbor. Years later working in tech I'm free to listen to it on the job which is great for tuning out others. A few years ago on my way to work, after pulling into the parkade, a very old lady asked me "is that Russian death metal?" to which I simply said "Norwegian" as I walked by... just a few examples I remember. Me being a loner is a much bigger social price than whatever obscure things I like.
Oh also the time I bought about 7-8 CDs from my local music store, which I did once or twice a month in the early 2000s. On that particular day, one of them was "The Wretched Spawn" by Cannibal Corpse, which had a huge black sticker on the shrink wrap to cover the lower half of the front cover. The absolute WTF look on the face of the girl at the counter... priceless.
Satanic panic of the 80's, Tipper Gore, and all the pearl clutching karens whining about us Satan worshiping stoners... was a great childhood being a metalhead
I had fun scaring the Karen's of the day in my small town when they seen me walking down the street they would shoo their kids into the house and lock the door. It was so funny back then and now I am the weird mom in the neighborhood.
I personally whole heartedly agree. I’m 15,and I don’t get much hate for being a metal head, but I do get trash talked for my long hair. Usually just petty insults calling me a girl and a hippie. Shit like that. But mostly nothing.
I know. I'm also 15, as well in my Sophomore year(God the coincidence) I hardly ever get picked on with being a Metalhead. I get compliments all the time with my battlevest and how I dress(my jeans, combat boots, municipal waste and Suicidal Tendencies hat, and of course my metal shirts) And I also get compliments on my long hair, with it being blonde and all. I surprisingly don't get picked on about that neither. So I live a pretty easy school life but my mom hates the way I dress. She says I look like a scumbag deadbeat. Lol. Anyway, I don't have much problems with other kids, even my little brother is getting into metal and is thinking of making himself a battlevest and he's only 10! I have influenced him well, gotta say
am a 15 year old in my freshmen year, haven't been to regular highschool yet but in middle school I got told constantly how shitty my music was and how i should listen to real music like Eminem and some other shit. makes me sick. and then my brother tells me how fucking ridiculous i look
It is a price I gladly pay, since I was a little boy. Many people thought and said many things about me and Metal music and culture. Some other people even tried to bully me, but I don't care. The Månegarm t-shirt that you are wearing in that video is awesome! 🤘 🤘STAY BRUTAL! 🤘
I will be 50 years old in a couple months and have been into metal since I was about 12 and I have never really felt that I paid a price for being a metalhead.
Most relatable thing I've ever heard. I don't like pity parties either but I've been receiving weird looks ever since the 5th grade. All started with KISS and AC/DC and went on to Maiden and Metallica in the 2nd half of middle school. My friend group went from a dozen to none in a couple years and to this day the only metal friends I have are my own dad and his childhood best friend, but everyone my own age left me in the dust to "fit in". And yeah I know I was annoying too just like you said, but now I'm the only person from my class that's never even tried a sip of alcohol or a hit from a bong.🤷♂️
You'll always see that the ones trying to fit in are the ones who drink/smoke the most. I tried alcohol a few times already and I still prefer soda at parties, so 🤘🏻
Growing up as a metalhead wasn't easy. I was about 11 when I realized that I really liked metal. In school, I was known as the 'weird kid' and never made friends. Not that I didn't want to, but nobody wanted to talk to me. So I was all alone lol. At home, my mom found the music I listened to 'satanic'. Now I'm 20 and in college. Not a lot has changed, I met so many people in high school and college that were just trying to get me into religious stuff. I refused to do that, I mean why would I change myself for someone. So I don't really have friends who are into metal but I do have like 2 friends in general who don't really care what I'm into. So it's like what you said, the older you get, the less people are going to care about your taste in music.
I also got into metal at 11, my dad was responsible for it. My mom... tolerates it lol but anyway as for school I never dressed or appeared to be a metal head and not because I wanted to hide it I just never got around to wearing band shirts or any of that stuff until my 2nd year of high school. I definitely had moments where I was judged, ridiculed even but it was more so outside of school rather than in it. I used to practice catholicism a long time ago, I went to youth bible study classes after mass and hated it, I only did it for my deathly ill grandmother at the time. While there I was subjectgated and became the black sheep, the punching bag so to speak for some of the topics during classes. At school there was tensions with "friends" over dumb shit connecting my taste for music and I just stopped talking to them entirely. Everyone has their own walk of life, sticking to what you're passionate about is ultimately the best thing you can do for yourself. All the dots will connect eventually, I know because that's where I'm at now. I work at a music & gear shop and have the opportunity to work closely with the local metal community in Boston and have accumulated a great deal of experience, money and most importantly joy from it. It was a very time-consuming and rough road for sure, but it all came full circle and paid off.
I've been a metalhead for over a decade. I have no friends just because I'm a metalhead. I became a metalhead when I was 14, and I'm 25. People give me horrible looks all the time, but hey they can keep on walking!
This video inspired some self-reflection for me. I guess hearing your experience as a teenager makes me realize how lucky I was. There was a goth clique at my HS that I naturally fell in with. We would constantly be sharing new bands and going to shows with each other. A lot of support. Sure there was some judgmental looks from the other kids here and there but we had each other.
The biggest prize I have paid is that I don't get a lot of friends. Because a lot of people don't share the enthusiasm for the darker stuff like metal, Edgar Allan Poe, Nietchze, Satanic bible and horror movies, and whatnot. It's not only that they aren't into it, but they really dislike that kind of stuff, especially metal where I am from.
being a metalhead has some negative aspects, but just the fact that we get to listen to kick ass music, wear awesome clothing and just do whatever the fuck we want easily pays that price.
Growing up in the 80's, most kids I knew loved metal music & I was well accepted, in fact if someone said that they didn't a metal band, kids acted like "why not". When I said there was a band I liked, I was commended. But the stories I hear these days about younger metal heads, I'm glad I grew up when I did, although maybe younger metal heads who stick with it, have more guts than when I was a kid?
I think older metalheads were ostracized by parents and teachers but since older metalheads are OUR parents and teachers, we get more respect from you guys than our peers.
I'm a bit older than you, I was in high school (US) when the Columbine HS shooting happened in the 90s (before it was a typical thing in the US) and Marilyn Manson, metal, and video games were blamed. Suddenly overnight the metalheads, goths, rockers, punks, etc were looked on like we were about to shoot up the school, dress codes were issued, and we ended up being called into the school counselor's office to assess if we were a danger to ourselves or others.
I’m heading into adulthood and my parents a still freaking out about all my band shirts telling me people won’t want to talk to me because of my Cannibal Corpse shirts😂
Realistically every once in a while someone will but when they do it's like you found a pot of gold. And honestly those are the people you want talking to you. My roommates don't like me because I don't talk to them but I told them hey if we can't have a conversation about Slayer or King Diamond if you even know who or what that is then there's no point in talking to me and there's no point in me talking to you.
My old boss told me metalheads have a below average I.Q. based on a survey he found. I replied what I.Q. do country music fans have (he being a country fan) lol
It's been proven country shows have the worst fans by the actual employee's. The best obviously was metal and rock. Too many egos and people who get drunk and can't handle it at country shows lots of entitlement there. I've seen it myself
Well, the problem when I was in highschool was that none of my friends liked metal, so if i wanted to hang out with them, I had to tolerate their music and most of the times i just couldn't. After graduating i married a very metalhead man and lived happily ever after. Our children are also metalheads today.
I wore my love for metal as a sort of badge of honor. I was badass and if you didn’t get it I didn’t give a fuck. I was fortunate in that I had a large group of buddies in high school that were metal as fuck and we were like a gang of rad dudes who listened to rad shit and we all had cute ass girl friends. I had zero troubles. I’m not bragging in any way that was just my personal experience. 🤘
I got sure agree 100%. My dad, who is a huge prog-head and who basically inducted me into rock and heavy metal basically from the womb has told me multiple times that this way of life is a cursed one. But I've found is a road paved with the most genuine and caring people. It may have it's outliers but I wouldn't change this community for any other. \m/
Dude I was at the store not to long ago that usually doesn't have that much metal but sometimes they have a lot. But there was a kick ass thrash band I think you'd like their called subtype zero
I got you all beat.Ihave been a metal head for 36 years and I am a Christian.i get crazy from all 4 corners of the spectrum and I never cared.Thousands of dollars spent on music,shirts concerts ect.But my friends didn't care.
I became a metalhead when i was 14 years old and i lost most of my friends and i said to them to fuck off, because i don't want someone who dislike my lifestyle as a friend, then all of my "metalhead" started to go to discos, because they thought that there was no future in metal with girls, and when i met girls i prefered they were metalheads nut if they were not, at least i wanted they to respect me, and in the end i got a friend and i show her my music and she liked it and she became my girlfriend she was like 3 years with me, nowdays she is not, but in the end everything is about to respect yourself, and respect the ones who respect, and the ones who does not respect you can just fuck off, Long live Rock n' Roll and Metal!!!!
My apologies in advance if my comment ends up being a little long, I'll try to keep it short, but I have a few things to say on the matter as I think this is a very good topic to discuss. First off I'm 39 and basically was born into a hard rock/metal family. My dad had Alice Cooper, AC/DC and Van Halen records mixed in with the Southern rock bands of the 70s like Lynard Skynard, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Outlaws . While my mom didn't go quite that far she listened to stuff like Bon Jovi, Elton John and Queen. Unless it was on MTV there wasn't any pop/dance/rap type of music as my parents preferred actual musicians and bands that played their hearts out My uncles all still have to this day their official KISS Army cards. They are huge Black Sabbath/Ozzy/Dio fans and life long Iron Maiden fans. One of my uncles when I was about 12 made 2 Cassette tapes for me. One was Metallica - Kill Em All with enough space left for Garage Days Revisited the other was Megadeth - Peace Sells But Who's Buying and side A of Killing Is My Business and Business Is Good. Like I didn't start off with stuff to ease you into it I was dumped into the deep end (by the standards of the time) and got educated on what Hard Rock/Metal was and how to find more. I half-jokingly tell people that I wasn't even aware other forms of music even existed until I hit Jr. High School. I grew up in a poor neighborhood where nearly all my peers were in single family homes so for many of them as we hit our teens in the early 90s through to when we graduated in 2000 they all got into Gangster Rap hard. N.W.A., Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, Wu-Tang Clan, 2Pac, Notorious B.I.G. that was the be-all, end-all for them. Meanwhile I'm over here listening to Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, In Flames (90s In Flames people keep that in mind!), Therion, Slayer, Fear Factory and so on. When I was 15 my uncle calls me up and says "Hey, I'm going to a concert and the guy I was going with just bailed on me. You want to see Ozzy?" I'm like Hell yeah! Went to the show and the openers were Type O Negative and Pantera! I have NEVER been the same since. After that show I literally went out and bought every Pantera album I could find and was obsessed. I didn't really notice the difference between myself and other people until I hit High School. I actually had a teacher point out that not only was I the ONLY student he saw in the entire school wearing an Iron Maiden T-shirt, but it was the first time he'd SEEN an Iron Maiden T-shirt in a number of years. Girls... I had a weird situation with them to begin with, Metal fan aside, as I hit puberty early. Like I was 5 foot 5 inches in the 4th grade! Didn't grow much taller after that (5'9) but by high school I had hair as long as yours and a full on massive beard that while in my Pantera phase I shaved it and had the Dimebag style goatee, same length and everything. I also had learned to play Drums and had bands I played in. So girls didn't see me as a boy or average teen but as like a Man and like the cool, long haired, musician type. So I got attention by girls in school but then we'd get to talking and they'd ask me about the whole "Metal" thing and it would go to shit fast. I lucked out my Sophomore year when I met a girl who was into Metal/Punk/Industrial bands. Listened to Megadeth, Danzig, Misfits, Sex Pistols, KMFDM, Ministry, Die Krupps and shit like that. Dated until we got out of High School, but without her it would have been brutal on the dating front and to be honest it's been mostly brutal since as at the time I'm writing this I'm single and don't see it changing in the foreseeable future as single women my age (usually from Divorce) see any man with any hobbies or interests at all as not a "real man". Sad, but true. Even if they were interested I have no interest in such women. The years since then to now have been a trip. Quick and Dirty: I don't fit in. Even at my job working with guys even older than me I still get made fun of for what I listen to and how I look (bald now but rocking a Viking sized beard). It never ends. However, I've noticed the younger generation is far more accepting and even respectful of Metal music and fans of it. But, here's where it gets interesting (as if this isn't fucking long enough right? Bare with me it'll be worth it). The thing I've noticed about myself and a lot of metalheads vs everyone is since Metal is outside of the norm to start with and finding the GOOD stuff takes effort to search for we're pretty much naturally trained or hardwired to expand our horizons. Listening to Metal is simply ONE form of this tendency. Those who aren't don't really grow as people or expand their knowledge very much. Metalheads on the other hand seem to me more knowledgeable on a WIDE variety of subjects. You can watch Raz0rfist videos as a great example of a Metalhead with a mind for Politics. I find if I'm talking to a dude about history or Philosophy they tend to have Metal leanings if not outright a fan. Books, fiction, non fiction, comics, manga. We're voracious readers. And not to be a dick but if I see some Yeah-Dude Bro, or someone who looks like they're straight out of a Hip Hop video I am absolutely NOT going to ask them for movie recommendations. But a Metalhead? He'll likely ask me what genre, era or which Country I'm interested in at the moment? Because more likely than not he knows his shit. So as for the price? While being ostracized to a large degree I would not trade all the knowledge and experiences I have gained, all the amazing Metal shows I've seen (my last one, before everything went to shit, was Kind Diamond with Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats which was fucking unbelievably good). Being the kind of person I am the idea of being accepted and carrying on the mind numbing, vapid conversations the "normal" people have would be intolerable. Too afraid to step outside their boundaries for fear of judgment. Fuck that! I'd rather be alone and choose what path in life I take over that. That's my personal idea of what Hell is. So it's been all worth it for me. Also, go figure, out of all those peers I grew up with I'm the ONLY one without a criminal record (probably because I just kept to myself or was left alone by others) and not paying child support or alimony. At my age, in my book, I've won at life by comparison.
Amen brother.i could tell stories for days about the ignorance of people.gone through hundreds of band shirts from about 86 til today.now my teenagers have to explain thier parents🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Being a Metalhead is gonna haunt me everyday of my life but that's ok. I got bullied in middle school and high school cuz I listened to "School Shooter" music but I'd rather burn a church cuz that's much more metal lol. Nowadays my music taste is more diverse, I started listening to alt rap artists like Lil Peep and Ghostemane. I still love metal but a lot of bands these days basically copy each other, it gets kinda boring when you feel like you're listening to the same few songs over and over again.
I don't listen to any newer metal at all anymore...it's kind of disappointing. I was always into newer bands for over 20 years, but the last 10 years and more there hasn't been any new metal that I've found interesting. I instead gone back to the 70's and looking to discover heavy music from that era. I just wish there was more "metal" in the 70's because I love 70's Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Lucifer's Friend, Budgie, Rainbow. Those first 5 Budgie albums were the best discovery of the last year
Metal is so diverse and there’s so much to discover. You can only say it’s boring if you’ve listened to every sub genre and all the major bands in each sub genre and even then there is always more to find
I wouldn't say most bands sound the same because when you look at band such as Edge Of Sanity(which I highly recommend if haven't heard of them)they aren't your standard melodic death metal band that tries to copy from In Flames or At The Gates, they have a more punishing and crushing sound that not many melo-death bands have and is much more satisfying then ever. As long you take a deep and solid look, you'll be ok👍.
Johnnydeefan I know right, there’s so much metal out there it’s insane. To say that every band sounds the same without trying to delve further into the genre is quite unfair.
Not sure what your on about as everyone I've introduced to my Marduk shirts here in the deep American south seems to love me. Always wishing me a Blessed day 😇 Can't wait til my Raped by Pigs merch comes in
What dimension are you from?? I always imagined the opposite being the case, that Black Metal and the Deep South don't get along. I assumed that Groove Metal and 80's Metal would be more popular.
I never had a problem being a metalhead. Only Thing is when i am out shopping an wearing My battle vest. People stare at me. But hey i do it for me! If People dont like it . I really dont give a shit 🤷♂️😂
Nice talk man.. yeah I still struggle with society in general. I can respect a person that is not like me, but most people can't do the same. And that has nothing to do with age, profession, etc, but character.
well, as prices I have paid for being a person who loves this style of music and also expresses it in its aesthetics, (sometimes, because sometimes I only have a pair of black jeans and a black T-shirt and thats all) yes I have lived in curious and somewhat annoying situations, or quite annoying. In the family, there was a certain degree of concern about how it would be when growing up, how if the music influenced for the bad, I started listening to rock and metal at 8 years old, at home they tolerated a lot of things like Guns n roses or Aerosmith, because they have songs popular, but as soon as I began to listen to Iron Maiden, they began to be alarmed although it did not last long, the only thing that was changing was my taste for the black color in the clothes and the t-shirts of that band ... then, in school I always had excellent grades, I was always good at school, so it was not something that worried the rest but outside of there if the fact that I was a little different from the other girls began to draw attention, I began to be "the neighbor who wears black" and people began to associate this with negative things for them, they believed that I was doing drugs or things like that, or that I was a promiscuous teenager or probably "not heterosexual",( I am talking about 15 or 12 years ago, when in my country the vision about EVERYTHING in general was much more closed, and being gay could be seen as something negative, although today there are still people like that stupid, I think they are the exception and not the rule). I think that in addition to the price of being metal, in my case it happens that I also have the price of being a woman, so outside of metal, I was a rare person in the eyes of the rest, people constantly wanted me to change, to stop using Band clothes, going out into the common places of young people, wearing colored clothes, not wearing makeup the way I used to, is kind of silly, but at that age it was annoying to feel that everyone wants to change the way i was, the way You express and that they believe that it is a stage, that yes, in fact many people leave all that after some time but many others do not... But in addition to that, within the metal environment things were not simple either, because of being a girl, at that time, they (the metal dudes, even some girls too XD) made you feel out of place, or as if you were there to be "the girl" of some guy, they despised Or they directly believed that you did not know a band well or that you were a poser, although over time I think that is one more feature of our macho society, since men are often like that with us everywhere, but in many different forms. I hope that things are better today in my country (Argentina) for young people who are beginning to be interested in this music. My price for being metal was not very very high, I think, but in Argentina, in its beginnings and even when I was a teenager, being metal was something negative to the most of people... :/
Watching this... I feel so lucky for having metalhead friends and being the son of two awesome metalhead parents. People do stare at me with a sideways look after telling them about (black and death mostly) metal and I sympathize with my parents who always had to hide their music taste in order to avoid social complications.
So we got a new girl in class and my friends were like: aight let's try to fit her in. When we had lunch break the subject somehow came to music and someone said their taste about the others. So when they came to me they said heavy metal. And the new girl said this: really, I like that too.' At that moment my heart skipped two beats. Sadly being the introvert I am I didn't continue the conversation. Any tips for how to continue?
Not a professional in these things, but try talking a bout bands (obviously), but don't "overwhelm" her, maybe exchange with CD's if you have them. But once again, I ain't a professional in these things - Anyways, good luck
my suggestion is to just go for it and not care how awkward you sound, and yes you're going to sound pretty awkward, at least at first. That's just how it is. Wear your t-shirts to school like the other commenters said try talkin about different bands I'd recommend copying CDs for the ones you're going to share or give away because yeah with no bad intent through either party you might wind up losing them if you take the original CDs and share them around. There are a dozen things that could happen to CDs in public and I've seen most of them happen.
Sorry about all the details about all the bad things that could happen to CDs I have a bit of a war wound concerning a legitimate 1980s iron maiden number of the beast tape and a close to original release Metallica kill em all CD and I don't want to see it happen to other people.
As late as I am to commenting, here are two cents: I’m a teenager, and metal has been my life for about two or so years now. Got into it when my father showed me Rammstein, and it snowballed from there. I listen to Venom, Mayhem, Darkthrone and a plethora of other bands on a daily basis. But there is a price to pay, both monetarily and not. I can’t get shirts of my favorite bands because: A) my family can’t afford to spend money like that, B) where I live, shipping adds about $80 and I can’t find any local retailers, and C) my friends and teachers won’t like it. I’ve got the support of my parents and siblings as far as growing my hair out goes, which is awesome \m/ but I can’t help to shake the feeling of “Who will befriend me?”. A lot more is there, but for a basic rundown, that’s all I’ve really got.
Personally, my situations were similar to yours. However, I never had administration or school officials go after me. If anything, I caused a lot of discussion between classmates and teachers about my interests. At first it was nice, but the questions about "Are you a satanist (which, yes. I am)" or things involving do we have violent tendencies or wish commit to violence simply became redundant. The price I paid was I had "friends" in high school, but I was more so the token metal friend or the token Satanic Witch friend, much like how people tokenize people of ethnic backgrounds. It felt like I was being valued for my interests and not my character, which upsets me. It also instilled a mentality I still struggle with to this very day, which is I feel that people won't like me for aspects such as my music tastes. It's a defense mechanism I took up at a young age after severe bullying in middle school, which made me not want to talk to anyone or get defensive when approached. I could go all day, but I feel like it would be preaching to the choir.
Back in The 80s I got into Metal exclusively and there was a girl I liked who jokingly called it "Devil Music" and sang the praises of Hall And Oates, who were popular at the time. My first serious girlfriend first met me when I was a Metalhead and still liked me but we hadn't dated until after I cut my hair, which I did because by 1989 Thrash was becoming stagnant. She was thrilled but she still would have been with me if my hair had still been long.
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Blackmetal Werewolf , I grew up with Hard Rock & Acid Rock .. back in the 70s ,there wasn't any black lash for Metal heads... Hell, I wore a Led Zeppelin T-shirt to school & nothing was said or done about it... But, I went to Public School though Going through the Public School system nay have been beneficial for you at the time Because I was rqaised by Adults to be with adults ...so I had trouble relating to the kids I was growning up with So I never had any friends
Hey I got a question for all you metalheads out there with long hair. Do you guys ever think about cutting your hair? Cause whenever I grow my hair out it don’t look that good and when it gets to that awkward stage where it’s not too long but it’s still decently long where it’s not past your shoulder length I always think about getting a hair cut but whenever I cut my hair I always miss my long and decide to grow it back again. So I guess what I’m trying ask is any tips for making the awakes stage length of hair more manageable? If any of this makes sense
I have 2 stories: 1.) This happened in June of this year. So I was in this seminar where we explored music from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. So we're in the 90s and the teacher plays the music videos she chose, and then she asks for recommendations of 90s music videos, and she plays them in order of who asked. So I had asked for Slayer's "Seasons In The Abyss". So as soon as one of the pop videos someone chose ends and Slayer begins, EVERYONE took out their phones and I was the only one looking at thee video. Like I'm not but hurt (even if I sound like I am) about it, if they don't like metal that's OK, but like I payed attention to the videos they wanted to watched (even if I didn't like the music), but they can't show that kind of respect to at least take a look at what someone else may like. And the moment the video ended and some other video came on, everyone put their phone away. Either way it's pretty stupid, bunch of dumbasses. Slayer was the best of the videos that were showed lol 2.) In May, Sophomores (the grade I was in this year) and the Juniors had to be in school cause the Juniors were doing some state test, and we (Sophomores) has to do the practice one to get a feel for what we were gonna do. Anyway, this staff (idk if he was from the school or not) but he said everyone could use their phones for 15 minutes before the test began cause we couldn't get any phone breaks until the test ended. So anyway, I put my earbuds in, now granted I did have my volume to the max while I was listening to "World's End" by Heathen (awesome thrash metal song, totally recorded), but you'll see what made me fucking mad. So the staff comes to me and says in a mad tone while whispering "You better turn that down, or else next time I come here I'm taking your earbuds until the end of the test". So ofc I do, but before I do, I can literally hear some dudes music (he had earbuds) from across the room (he was listening to shitty modern rap). And even when I put my earbuds on, I didn't see him tell that guy anything. I really wanted to put him earbuds to the max just to see how pissed he'd get, but didn't. It's stupid cause like only cause I was listening to metal, that staff dude targeted me, but not the other guy who wasn't listening to metal. Pretty fucking stupid.
I had very similar stories at school, heh. Once one guy who was two grades upper than me said that I should stop listening to MeTaLlIcA (He thought that metallica was a genre, lol) and that it's not music. One question: why the hell he can tell me what I should or should not like?
I’d play Metallica’s Orion cause no lyrics lmfao. I’m trying to sew on as many patches I can on my jacket just to see how far I can go with it to work lol.
Among my high school class in 90’s Australia was one guy who was into Metallica, Faith No More, etc. I used to give him so much shit for liking what I thought was good ol’ “jUsT nOiSe, ThEy DoN’t EvEn SiNg PrOpErLy”. I was a pianist/flautist/singer who studied musicals and classical music, though I did (and still do) enjoy rock (Bon Jovi’s awesome and screw you if you disagree!). I really wish I could remember his last name so I could try and Google him or something because I owe him the GREATEST, HUGEST, MOST CONTRITE APOLOGY any one has ever attempted to give in the history of ever. I was so wrong, and he was so right. I really hope he’s still a metalhead, and he’s somewhere in the world, living his best, happiest life.
I feel that the "negative consequences" you experienced were more a consequence of people with a lot of negativity within themselves. They sounded to me like very insecure and controlling types, insisting that everyone conform to their standards of living. It may initially feel like a negative consequence to break with such people, but the alternative of trying to please them usually results in many small deaths inside.
Thankfully, although none of my friends share my love for metal, we have remained just as close as ever, we don't have to share the exact same passions. Most of them are obsessed with cars, often times I go with them to car meets, which I think is boring and very uninteresting (not to mention the fuking noise....) But I do it because I want to spend time with my friends, but while they're paying all their attention to the cars I'm happily sat there with my headphones in listening to metal.
Man, having watched this video, I'm really grateful the people in my life just let me be. The people I hang around don't really care what I listen to, nor do they ever give me a hard time about it. I do still worry about it at times when it comes to the dating scene, despite being in college, but I guess my theoretical partner is just going to have to deal with it.
It's worth it because I don't know about you guys but I totally sold out for a girl once. I pretended to like EDM and would listen to it to impress her she wanted me to go see this DJ that was coming to town. And then one day I was like I like this girl but God I'm kinda miserable. I then realized I had become a dirty sellout poser and I picked going back to my metal ways then having the girl. I had a small chance to be part of the cool kids but it wasn't a happy experience I'm way happier being an outcast and yeah you suffer the bullying and the glares but eventually you'll find another misfit like you. I now met a girl who actually likes slayer and such and I'm way happier being with someone who accepts me even if I'm not "popular" in the traditional sense. She thinks I'm cool simply because I'm not popular and I've doubled down in the years I go to class in denim with my battle jacket and she loves it she has her own jacket too. Like slipknot said we are not their kind so just gravitate to your own kind you'll find em. So stay true to yourself never sell out.
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And here we see the rare occurrence of sleeves!
@Hyldýpið longsleeves are comfy
@@jakethesnake1691 not in summer
@Hyldýpið fair enough
I'm 46 and metal culture satisfies my need to slaughter everyone without slaughtering anyone. Other people can take it or leave it but overall, I mostly get genuine respect, everywhere I go. It feels good to be an aging metalhead.
Amen brother,im 47 and buy more shit than i did 30 yrs ago(of course its easier when tou make the money)
Same! Only I’m 56.
@@Garrett111strong I'm 52 and wearing my Nile longsleeve now, and I work in a posh restaurant in a posh town.
Hail Brother! Proud to be Loud!
Other people are addicted to drugs, alcohol or gambling. Im addicted to t-shirts
Only dollar a day could save this metalhead from being bankrupt. So please act now and get this Gorguts Cd and patch as a gift for saving these magnificent specimen.
I'd take that offer. I need Gorguts merch
Patches for me
im on all of those ... fuxs !
Same, literally in my walmart cart its literally filled with shirts, 1 pair of cat ear headphones, angus young funko, and a stitch plushie. The rest are a shit ton of shirts
One of the truest thing ever is on the episode of the Simpsons when Otto is getting married and his bride to be says he's got to choose between her or his heavy Metal, and then it cuts to Otto driving away in the bus with the band and leaving her by the side of the road. I could never give up metal for a woman, it's too engrained in who I am. I've been listening to it since I was 11 and I'm 49 now. I remember when my buddy, who's not even a metalhead, was dating this girl and she hated metal(we never got along), she would make him stop listening to Metallica when ever she got in the car....And it was the fucking Black Album! She was over my place one time and I'm playing King Diamond and Biohazard and she says "I feel like I'm in Hell". I wish he had dumped her instead of the other way around. Once I was at a bar and this lady asked me to dance, and I turned her down...because I hate dancing. She asked me "Why" and I said " I really don't like the music." So she asks "What music do you like." and I say "metal and classical", then she goes "Hummph," turns up her nose and walks away. Yup, being a diehard metalhead is a lonely life. But honestly there seems more women in metal now than when I was getting into it in the early 80s, which is a good thing.
The price of metal is heavy
haha 😂
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I dont talk to ANY of the friends i had 2 years ago anymore... They thought it was weird that i grew my hair out and spend all my money on physical music instead of just listening to Spotify.
Physical albums and singles will ALWAYS be better. \m/
I have Spotify so i can listen to it while gaming, but i rlly prefer to pay for CDs instead, coz u dont get the stupid ads
New generations will never understand the feeling of owning a vinyl or a CD of a band you love like the old days when it was not always easy to get that material... Here in Brazil, when I was kid (I'm 43 now) when one of our friends bought a vinyl, everyone would borrow it to record on tape... vinyl was extremely expensive... that didn't change at all around here
@@LeeExtremus 16 year old me with a crap ton of CD's and now started to collect vinyls too: ok boomer
I didn't grow my hair out because I have a history with having long hair and it's always annoyed me and made me self conscious, and I no longer buy physical media because it's so expensive and space consuming.
But regardless, yeah most people I've ever met think I'm weird that I love metal and horror movies..
Even my fiancée (soon to be wife in 3 months) doesn't share my love for metal or horror movies, but at least she doesn't try to change me, and she doesn't mind watching a few horror movies every now and then and she does like some softer metal like OG heavy metal, Thrash and some Nu-metal. Plus she likes stuff like Rammstien and Marilyn Manson, but just not the heavier aspects of them.
But all the Black, Death, Funeral Doom, Grindcore etc etc that I'm really into? Nahh.. She just doesn't see what I enjoy in them.
As for Spotify? I have never used it, All the music you can find on Spotify you can just find on RUclips, and with RUclips downloads then boom, songs on my phone with no need to subscribe to Spotify.
I feel like people around me don't even know what metal is...... Being a metalhead in China, sad
Usually around $6.66
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Every patch store ever.
What currency is that?
Keenan Ryan
Generally, the United States Dollar. Many online patch stores in the US price them at $6.66.
Lol
I feel more accepted in the metal community, and I don't care about what people think of me, and yes, there are some negative prices you have to pay to be a metalhead, but if you ask me, being in the metal community with nice and friendly people is better than being stuck in some high school group of assholes who you just happen to be grouped with
Yes me too
A lot of people say high school years are some of your greatest but that's a load of shit to me lol I couldn't wait to get out of there! Once you're finished it things get a lot better, you can get way more real friends going to shows and hanging out afterwards doing what you want. I have great relationships, you form a greater stronger group of new friends who all like what you like and respect it. It's like this for my car enthusiast friends as well whenever we see each other at car meets or at the drag strip. Sure, people outside of that will give you looks/comments but I've just learned to laugh it off and think of it nothing more than they're just afraid of something they don't understand. I'm too old to give a shit anymore anyway lol
@@DeathMetalThrasher u made some really valid points that most of us can relate to, metalheads have always been outsiders, but that's ok, because outsiders tend not to care what people think, metalheads tend to be on each others side since most of them know what it's like to be outcasted and judged
@@DeathMetalThrasher yes after a few months I'll be gone from there too 😀
\m/
The price of metal: YOUR SOUL
@@aamonnorthseeker4542 Nope. I am nobody's uncle.
I did the Metalocalypse deal of keeping my Soul and giving The Devil a gift card to Hot Topic. He's still pissed at me. I don't blame him.
nah man the price of metal is the metallization of your soul
Only to the Religious nutcases
I wonder how they would feel if someone played their " gimmucky music " backwards..like they did to metal
According to the church 😂
I loved not looking or dressing like everyone else in school. Those people seemed so bland and boring to me. And if my long hair and Slayer shirt stopped them from wanting to be friends with me, oh well.
Yea, fitting in with the in-crowd can sometimes be dangerous.
Being interesting is kinda worth it amidst the Costs
Dude I miss slayer 🤘🏻🤘🏻 fuckkkkkin slayer
Pantera shirts for me lol
I paid like over $80 just for pins lol shirts... definitely over $400 probs (not including shipping costs)
Damn, I paid over $5k in guitars and equipment I don't even use. Like it just sits there collecting dust, I feel dumb af
@@sithlord7182 I don't know what to tell you man lol
I spent at least 68,420 dollars on fortnite
@@sithlord7182 damn thats sad lmao. Ion know wat to say
You could get a good guitar and amp totaling 320 these days
I remember being the ONLY metal head at my school. Extremely alienating at times when you wanna talk about something you're passionate about and nobody knows or cares what it is. There were emo kids but stylistically, it was a totally different vibe to the thrash and grunge I'm into and was especially deep in as I was just discovering it at the time.
as far as i was the only kid who listened to thrash and hardcore punk and crosssover back in middle school, there was this one guitarist kid i knew who was a diehard mcr fan and was into some death metal bands.
This reminds me so much of Richmond from the IT crowd when he first discovers Cradle of Filth.
I didn't pay much of a price because I had also reached the point of no longer giving a shit what anybody thought. What others thought never seemed very good anyway so the bar was very low.
I think the writing was on the wall because as a kid I always loved the heavy and intense metal-like music in video games. I'll always remember how badass "Floating Continent" from Final Fantasy 3 sounded on Super Nintendo. That was the first thing that stuck out for me. My actual interest in metal started around the same age, 8th grade, but I never went to the extent of changing my appearance or behavior, other than that I would then always be wearing headphones and usually had it up loud enough that people said it sounded like they were exploding. Several friends were also getting into it and we would trade song/band suggestions, others weren't but didn't resort to severing ties. By high school I was into far more extreme stuff that I found on my own and I was always blasting it while driving, not to make some kind of statement, just because I loved it loud. Later working in a store, one guy jokingly told a new girl that I was a satanist and she got freaked out until I brought her back down to reality, though I did egg it on a bit initially. Once, when I got home from work, a neighbor who was outside asked me what I was listening to and if I also liked some other band - only notable because it was an neighbor. Years later working in tech I'm free to listen to it on the job which is great for tuning out others. A few years ago on my way to work, after pulling into the parkade, a very old lady asked me "is that Russian death metal?" to which I simply said "Norwegian" as I walked by... just a few examples I remember.
Me being a loner is a much bigger social price than whatever obscure things I like.
Oh also the time I bought about 7-8 CDs from my local music store, which I did once or twice a month in the early 2000s. On that particular day, one of them was "The Wretched Spawn" by Cannibal Corpse, which had a huge black sticker on the shrink wrap to cover the lower half of the front cover. The absolute WTF look on the face of the girl at the counter... priceless.
Satanic panic of the 80's, Tipper Gore, and all the pearl clutching karens whining about us Satan worshiping stoners... was a great childhood being a metalhead
I had fun scaring the Karen's of the day in my small town when they seen me walking down the street they would shoo their kids into the house and lock the door. It was so funny back then and now I am the weird mom in the neighborhood.
Funny how the word "weird" got conflated with "genuine" when it came to metalheads.@@mjkt00
Hey at least the cops didn’t blame some horrible crime on you just cause you were different like the west Memphis three
Well with all the band shirts, denims, patches, and records starting to add up to quite a hefty price but hell it's worth every penny.
I personally whole heartedly agree. I’m 15,and I don’t get much hate for being a metal head, but I do get trash talked for my long hair. Usually just petty insults calling me a girl and a hippie. Shit like that. But mostly nothing.
Just fuck it rock out lol I shaved my head pantera style, but long hair is Metal asf
I know. I'm also 15, as well in my Sophomore year(God the coincidence)
I hardly ever get picked on with being a Metalhead. I get compliments all the time with my battlevest and how I dress(my jeans, combat boots, municipal waste and Suicidal Tendencies hat, and of course my metal shirts)
And I also get compliments on my long hair, with it being blonde and all. I surprisingly don't get picked on about that neither. So I live a pretty easy school life but my mom hates the way I dress. She says I look like a scumbag deadbeat. Lol.
Anyway, I don't have much problems with other kids, even my little brother is getting into metal and is thinking of making himself a battlevest and he's only 10! I have influenced him well, gotta say
am a 15 year old in my freshmen year, haven't been to regular highschool yet but in middle school I got told constantly how shitty my music was and how i should listen to real music like Eminem and some other shit. makes me sick. and then my brother tells me how fucking ridiculous i look
It is a price I gladly pay, since I was a little boy. Many people thought and said many things about me and Metal music and culture. Some other people even tried to bully me, but I don't care.
The Månegarm t-shirt that you are wearing in that video is awesome! 🤘
🤘STAY BRUTAL! 🤘
Friends circle ? Small
Merchandide ? Heavy
School ? Trouble
Hotel ? Trivago
I will be 50 years old in a couple months and have been into metal since I was about 12 and I have never really felt that I paid a price for being a metalhead.
Misread it as the "Prince of Metal" smh
barlowantonio same
I mean...he could be.
same
Who could be the prince of metal? I mean u got the prince of darkness Ozzy Osbourne, but who IS the prince of metal?
@@lunahetfield dio
Most relatable thing I've ever heard. I don't like pity parties either but I've been receiving weird looks ever since the 5th grade. All started with KISS and AC/DC and went on to Maiden and Metallica in the 2nd half of middle school. My friend group went from a dozen to none in a couple years and to this day the only metal friends I have are my own dad and his childhood best friend, but everyone my own age left me in the dust to "fit in". And yeah I know I was annoying too just like you said, but now I'm the only person from my class that's never even tried a sip of alcohol or a hit from a bong.🤷♂️
You'll always see that the ones trying to fit in are the ones who drink/smoke the most. I tried alcohol a few times already and I still prefer soda at parties, so 🤘🏻
had a chick come up to me and freak out because i put highway to hell on in art class. it was fickin ridicoulous
Growing up as a metalhead wasn't easy. I was about 11 when I realized that I really liked metal. In school, I was known as the 'weird kid' and never made friends. Not that I didn't want to, but nobody wanted to talk to me. So I was all alone lol. At home, my mom found the music I listened to 'satanic'. Now I'm 20 and in college. Not a lot has changed, I met so many people in high school and college that were just trying to get me into religious stuff. I refused to do that, I mean why would I change myself for someone. So I don't really have friends who are into metal but I do have like 2 friends in general who don't really care what I'm into. So it's like what you said, the older you get, the less people are going to care about your taste in music.
Many you really stuck to the guns. 11's such an early age and to stay in it amidst the judgement from everyone is honorable
Damn bro. I just got a feeling lots of good things will hapen to you
I also got into metal at 11, my dad was responsible for it. My mom... tolerates it lol but anyway as for school I never dressed or appeared to be a metal head and not because I wanted to hide it I just never got around to wearing band shirts or any of that stuff until my 2nd year of high school. I definitely had moments where I was judged, ridiculed even but it was more so outside of school rather than in it. I used to practice catholicism a long time ago, I went to youth bible study classes after mass and hated it, I only did it for my deathly ill grandmother at the time. While there I was subjectgated and became the black sheep, the punching bag so to speak for some of the topics during classes. At school there was tensions with "friends" over dumb shit connecting my taste for music and I just stopped talking to them entirely. Everyone has their own walk of life, sticking to what you're passionate about is ultimately the best thing you can do for yourself. All the dots will connect eventually, I know because that's where I'm at now. I work at a music & gear shop and have the opportunity to work closely with the local metal community in Boston and have accumulated a great deal of experience, money and most importantly joy from it. It was a very time-consuming and rough road for sure, but it all came full circle and paid off.
Thank you, Blackmetal werewolf.
Your Welcomee
@@AliJr_MetalGames_MetalGuitar *you're. Punctuation is hard for the low IQ individuals.
Just love the intro!!
I've been a metalhead for over a decade. I have no friends just because I'm a metalhead. I became a metalhead when I was 14, and I'm 25. People give me horrible looks all the time, but hey they can keep on walking!
This video inspired some self-reflection for me. I guess hearing your experience as a teenager makes me realize how lucky I was. There was a goth clique at my HS that I naturally fell in with. We would constantly be sharing new bands and going to shows with each other. A lot of support. Sure there was some judgmental looks from the other kids here and there but we had each other.
The biggest prize I have paid is that I don't get a lot of friends. Because a lot of people don't share the enthusiasm for the darker stuff like metal, Edgar Allan Poe, Nietchze, Satanic bible and horror movies, and whatnot. It's not only that they aren't into it, but they really dislike that kind of stuff, especially metal where I am from.
being a metalhead has some negative aspects, but just the fact that we get to listen to kick ass music, wear awesome clothing and just do whatever the fuck we want easily pays that price.
I really needed to hear this today. Mostly the last like 8 minutes. Thank you.
Growing up in the 80's, most kids I knew loved metal music & I was well accepted, in fact if someone said that they didn't a metal band, kids acted like "why not". When I said there was a band I liked, I was commended. But the stories I hear these days about younger metal heads, I'm glad I grew up when I did, although maybe younger metal heads who stick with it, have more guts than when I was a kid?
I think older metalheads were ostracized by parents and teachers but since older metalheads are OUR parents and teachers, we get more respect from you guys than our peers.
So called friends who turn their back on you because of your interests shouldn't be classified as friends.
I'm 51. Been into Metal since the late 1970's. Metal to the death.
Tony F. Corpse (Post Mortem Superstar)
I'm a bit older than you, I was in high school (US) when the Columbine HS shooting happened in the 90s (before it was a typical thing in the US) and Marilyn Manson, metal, and video games were blamed. Suddenly overnight the metalheads, goths, rockers, punks, etc were looked on like we were about to shoot up the school, dress codes were issued, and we ended up being called into the school counselor's office to assess if we were a danger to ourselves or others.
This is true! I lived it myself
I’m heading into adulthood and my parents a still freaking out about all my band shirts telling me people won’t want to talk to me because of my Cannibal Corpse shirts😂
Realistically every once in a while someone will but when they do it's like you found a pot of gold. And honestly those are the people you want talking to you. My roommates don't like me because I don't talk to them but I told them hey if we can't have a conversation about Slayer or King Diamond if you even know who or what that is then there's no point in talking to me and there's no point in me talking to you.
My old boss told me metalheads have a below average I.Q. based on a survey he found. I replied what I.Q. do country music fans have (he being a country fan) lol
It's been proven country shows have the worst fans by the actual employee's. The best obviously was metal and rock. Too many egos and people who get drunk and can't handle it at country shows lots of entitlement there. I've seen it myself
Man I love your album recomendations. Your videos are truly a gem. \m/
Say no to drugs, kids. Unless it’s black metal.
Well, the problem when I was in highschool was that none of my friends liked metal, so if i wanted to hang out with them, I had to tolerate their music and most of the times i just couldn't. After graduating i married a very metalhead man and lived happily ever after. Our children are also metalheads today.
Sounds badass it's hard times to be a metalhead or punk very underground thing in 2020 were not in the 80s 😴 I would be moshing on the stage lol
Imagine high fiving this dude, missing completely and catching those spiked arm guards instead.
I honestly never experienced this
I had it very easy too. Only some judgement for extreme metalling and only once did a girl insult my tastes.
@@AliJr_MetalGames_MetalGuitar I read your last word as testicles ROFL :D
I certainly paid that price. lost many friends but also made many friends who share the same passion
I wore my love for metal as a sort of badge of honor. I was badass and if you didn’t get it I didn’t give a fuck. I was fortunate in that I had a large group of buddies in high school that were metal as fuck and we were like a gang of rad dudes who listened to rad shit and we all had cute ass girl friends. I had zero troubles. I’m not bragging in any way that was just my personal experience. 🤘
I got sure agree 100%. My dad, who is a huge prog-head and who basically inducted me into rock and heavy metal basically from the womb has told me multiple times that this way of life is a cursed one. But I've found is a road paved with the most genuine and caring people. It may have it's outliers but I wouldn't change this community for any other. \m/
Dude I was at the store not to long ago that usually doesn't have that much metal but sometimes they have a lot. But there was a kick ass thrash band I think you'd like their called subtype zero
I got you all beat.Ihave been a metal head for 36 years and I am a Christian.i get crazy from all 4 corners of the spectrum and I never cared.Thousands of dollars spent on music,shirts concerts ect.But my friends didn't care.
I get teased or ridiculed for my metal passion. It sucks but it never has made me stop or feel ashamed
I became a metalhead when i was 14 years old and i lost most of my friends and i said to them to fuck off, because i don't want someone who dislike my lifestyle as a friend, then all of my "metalhead" started to go to discos, because they thought that there was no future in metal with girls, and when i met girls i prefered they were metalheads nut if they were not, at least i wanted they to respect me, and in the end i got a friend and i show her my music and she liked it and she became my girlfriend she was like 3 years with me, nowdays she is not, but in the end everything is about to respect yourself, and respect the ones who respect, and the ones who does not respect you can just fuck off, Long live Rock n' Roll and Metal!!!!
I remember having a mature moment when I was around 19 , I bought my first Motörhead cd , I was like these guys are awesome
metalheads: ugh why is band merch so expensiveee!?!?!
Bolt Thrower fans: *laughs in war*
My apologies in advance if my comment ends up being a little long, I'll try to keep it short, but I have a few things to say on the matter as I think this is a very good topic to discuss.
First off I'm 39 and basically was born into a hard rock/metal family. My dad had Alice Cooper, AC/DC and Van Halen records mixed in with the Southern rock bands of the 70s like Lynard Skynard, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Outlaws . While my mom didn't go quite that far she listened to stuff like Bon Jovi, Elton John and Queen. Unless it was on MTV there wasn't any pop/dance/rap type of music as my parents preferred actual musicians and bands that played their hearts out My uncles all still have to this day their official KISS Army cards. They are huge Black Sabbath/Ozzy/Dio fans and life long Iron Maiden fans. One of my uncles when I was about 12 made 2 Cassette tapes for me. One was Metallica - Kill Em All with enough space left for Garage Days Revisited the other was Megadeth - Peace Sells But Who's Buying and side A of Killing Is My Business and Business Is Good. Like I didn't start off with stuff to ease you into it I was dumped into the deep end (by the standards of the time) and got educated on what Hard Rock/Metal was and how to find more.
I half-jokingly tell people that I wasn't even aware other forms of music even existed until I hit Jr. High School. I grew up in a poor neighborhood where nearly all my peers were in single family homes so for many of them as we hit our teens in the early 90s through to when we graduated in 2000 they all got into Gangster Rap hard. N.W.A., Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, Wu-Tang Clan, 2Pac, Notorious B.I.G. that was the be-all, end-all for them. Meanwhile I'm over here listening to Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, In Flames (90s In Flames people keep that in mind!), Therion, Slayer, Fear Factory and so on. When I was 15 my uncle calls me up and says "Hey, I'm going to a concert and the guy I was going with just bailed on me. You want to see Ozzy?" I'm like Hell yeah! Went to the show and the openers were Type O Negative and Pantera! I have NEVER been the same since. After that show I literally went out and bought every Pantera album I could find and was obsessed.
I didn't really notice the difference between myself and other people until I hit High School. I actually had a teacher point out that not only was I the ONLY student he saw in the entire school wearing an Iron Maiden T-shirt, but it was the first time he'd SEEN an Iron Maiden T-shirt in a number of years. Girls... I had a weird situation with them to begin with, Metal fan aside, as I hit puberty early. Like I was 5 foot 5 inches in the 4th grade! Didn't grow much taller after that (5'9) but by high school I had hair as long as yours and a full on massive beard that while in my Pantera phase I shaved it and had the Dimebag style goatee, same length and everything. I also had learned to play Drums and had bands I played in. So girls didn't see me as a boy or average teen but as like a Man and like the cool, long haired, musician type. So I got attention by girls in school but then we'd get to talking and they'd ask me about the whole "Metal" thing and it would go to shit fast. I lucked out my Sophomore year when I met a girl who was into Metal/Punk/Industrial bands. Listened to Megadeth, Danzig, Misfits, Sex Pistols, KMFDM, Ministry, Die Krupps and shit like that. Dated until we got out of High School, but without her it would have been brutal on the dating front and to be honest it's been mostly brutal since as at the time I'm writing this I'm single and don't see it changing in the foreseeable future as single women my age (usually from Divorce) see any man with any hobbies or interests at all as not a "real man". Sad, but true. Even if they were interested I have no interest in such women.
The years since then to now have been a trip. Quick and Dirty: I don't fit in. Even at my job working with guys even older than me I still get made fun of for what I listen to and how I look (bald now but rocking a Viking sized beard). It never ends. However, I've noticed the younger generation is far more accepting and even respectful of Metal music and fans of it. But, here's where it gets interesting (as if this isn't fucking long enough right? Bare with me it'll be worth it). The thing I've noticed about myself and a lot of metalheads vs everyone is since Metal is outside of the norm to start with and finding the GOOD stuff takes effort to search for we're pretty much naturally trained or hardwired to expand our horizons. Listening to Metal is simply ONE form of this tendency. Those who aren't don't really grow as people or expand their knowledge very much. Metalheads on the other hand seem to me more knowledgeable on a WIDE variety of subjects. You can watch Raz0rfist videos as a great example of a Metalhead with a mind for Politics. I find if I'm talking to a dude about history or Philosophy they tend to have Metal leanings if not outright a fan. Books, fiction, non fiction, comics, manga. We're voracious readers. And not to be a dick but if I see some Yeah-Dude Bro, or someone who looks like they're straight out of a Hip Hop video I am absolutely NOT going to ask them for movie recommendations. But a Metalhead? He'll likely ask me what genre, era or which Country I'm interested in at the moment? Because more likely than not he knows his shit.
So as for the price? While being ostracized to a large degree I would not trade all the knowledge and experiences I have gained, all the amazing Metal shows I've seen (my last one, before everything went to shit, was Kind Diamond with Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats which was fucking unbelievably good). Being the kind of person I am the idea of being accepted and carrying on the mind numbing, vapid conversations the "normal" people have would be intolerable. Too afraid to step outside their boundaries for fear of judgment. Fuck that! I'd rather be alone and choose what path in life I take over that. That's my personal idea of what Hell is. So it's been all worth it for me. Also, go figure, out of all those peers I grew up with I'm the ONLY one without a criminal record (probably because I just kept to myself or was left alone by others) and not paying child support or alimony. At my age, in my book, I've won at life by comparison.
Amen brother.i could tell stories for days about the ignorance of people.gone through hundreds of band shirts from about 86 til today.now my teenagers have to explain thier parents🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Being a Metalhead is gonna haunt me everyday of my life but that's ok. I got bullied in middle school and high school cuz I listened to "School Shooter" music but I'd rather burn a church cuz that's much more metal lol. Nowadays my music taste is more diverse, I started listening to alt rap artists like Lil Peep and Ghostemane. I still love metal but a lot of bands these days basically copy each other, it gets kinda boring when you feel like you're listening to the same few songs over and over again.
I don't listen to any newer metal at all anymore...it's kind of disappointing. I was always into newer bands for over 20 years, but the last 10 years and more there hasn't been any new metal that I've found interesting. I instead gone back to the 70's and looking to discover heavy music from that era. I just wish there was more "metal" in the 70's because I love 70's Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Lucifer's Friend, Budgie, Rainbow. Those first 5 Budgie albums were the best discovery of the last year
"Metal bands copy each other" says the modern rap fan :/
Metal is so diverse and there’s so much to discover. You can only say it’s boring if you’ve listened to every sub genre and all the major bands in each sub genre and even then there is always more to find
I wouldn't say most bands sound the same because when you look at band such as Edge Of Sanity(which I highly recommend if haven't heard of them)they aren't your standard melodic death metal band that tries to copy from In Flames or At The Gates, they have a more punishing and crushing sound that not many melo-death bands have and is much more satisfying then ever. As long you take a deep and solid look, you'll be ok👍.
Johnnydeefan I know right, there’s so much metal out there it’s insane. To say that every band sounds the same without trying to delve further into the genre is quite unfair.
Love the Manegarm shirt.
You always make great videos! 👍👍
Not sure what your on about as everyone I've introduced to my Marduk shirts here in the deep American south seems to love me. Always wishing me a Blessed day 😇
Can't wait til my Raped by Pigs merch comes in
What dimension are you from?? I always imagined the opposite being the case, that Black Metal and the Deep South don't get along. I assumed that Groove Metal and 80's Metal would be more popular.
@@AliJr_MetalGames_MetalGuitar I'm from the dimension known as Sarcasm. It's a casm out in the sar cluster
Whats the band on ur shirt?
Månegarm
@@GoofyGoober3594 thanks
My friend’s mom found out I’m a metalhead and kinda freaked out
METAL is the way dude🤘🏻🤘🏻
lidsboy 45 yesssir
ridiculous.
I never had a problem being a metalhead. Only Thing is when i am out shopping an wearing My battle vest. People stare at me. But hey i do it for me! If People dont like it . I really dont give a shit 🤷♂️😂
Great video !! Question I 'd like to ask u : What was the Best concert u ever attended ?
Nice talk man.. yeah I still struggle with society in general. I can respect a person that is not like me, but most people can't do the same. And that has nothing to do with age, profession, etc, but character.
Knew a guy in that moved away in grade 4
He moved back In grade 8
Didnt have the best reunion
Haven't talked to him since
Out grew each other
well, as prices I have paid for being a person who loves this style of music and also expresses it in its aesthetics, (sometimes, because sometimes I only have a pair of black jeans and a black T-shirt and thats all) yes I have lived in curious and somewhat annoying situations, or quite annoying. In the family, there was a certain degree of concern about how it would be when growing up, how if the music influenced for the bad, I started listening to rock and metal at 8 years old, at home they tolerated a lot of things like Guns n roses or Aerosmith, because they have songs popular, but as soon as I began to listen to Iron Maiden, they began to be alarmed although it did not last long, the only thing that was changing was my taste for the black color in the clothes and the t-shirts of that band ... then, in school I always had excellent grades, I was always good at school, so it was not something that worried the rest but outside of there if the fact that I was a little different from the other girls began to draw attention, I began to be "the neighbor who wears black" and people began to associate this with negative things for them, they believed that I was doing drugs or things like that, or that I was a promiscuous teenager or probably "not heterosexual",( I am talking about 15 or 12 years ago, when in my country the vision about EVERYTHING in general was much more closed, and being gay could be seen as something negative, although today there are still people like that stupid, I think they are the exception and not the rule). I think that in addition to the price of being metal, in my case it happens that I also have the price of being a woman, so outside of metal, I was a rare person in the eyes of the rest, people constantly wanted me to change, to stop using Band clothes, going out into the common places of young people, wearing colored clothes, not wearing makeup the way I used to, is kind of silly, but at that age it was annoying to feel that everyone wants to change the way i was, the way You express and that they believe that it is a stage, that yes, in fact many people leave all that after some time but many others do not...
But in addition to that, within the metal environment things were not simple either, because of being a girl, at that time, they (the metal dudes, even some girls too XD) made you feel out of place, or as if you were there to be "the girl" of some guy, they despised Or they directly believed that you did not know a band well or that you were a poser, although over time I think that is one more feature of our macho society, since men are often like that with us everywhere, but in many different forms. I hope that things are better today in my country (Argentina) for young people who are beginning to be interested in this music.
My price for being metal was not very very high, I think, but in Argentina, in its beginnings and even when I was a teenager, being metal was something negative to the most of people... :/
Watching this... I feel so lucky for having metalhead friends and being the son of two awesome metalhead parents. People do stare at me with a sideways look after telling them about (black and death mostly) metal and I sympathize with my parents who always had to hide their music taste in order to avoid social complications.
Luckily none of my friends (non-metalheads) have stoped hanging out with me bc of metal. They respect it and that's awesome!
That’s really lucky a lot of my friends drifted away because I listen to metal
True music is metal 🤘🏻
Fuckin METAL 🤘🏻🤘🏻 if you listen to Death Metal its not just scream I guess u have to be a musician to really appreciate the art of brutal music lol
So we got a new girl in class and my friends were like: aight let's try to fit her in. When we had lunch break the subject somehow came to music and someone said their taste about the others. So when they came to me they said heavy metal. And the new girl said this: really, I like that too.' At that moment my heart skipped two beats. Sadly being the introvert I am I didn't continue the conversation. Any tips for how to continue?
Not a professional in these things, but try talking a bout bands (obviously), but don't "overwhelm" her, maybe exchange with CD's if you have them. But once again, I ain't a professional in these things - Anyways, good luck
my suggestion is to just go for it and not care how awkward you sound, and yes you're going to sound pretty awkward, at least at first. That's just how it is. Wear your t-shirts to school like the other commenters said try talkin about different bands I'd recommend copying CDs for the ones you're going to share or give away because yeah with no bad intent through either party you might wind up losing them if you take the original CDs and share them around. There are a dozen things that could happen to CDs in public and I've seen most of them happen.
Wow sorry I thought I saw a comment about wearing band T-shirts to school.
Sorry about all the details about all the bad things that could happen to CDs I have a bit of a war wound concerning a legitimate 1980s iron maiden number of the beast tape and a close to original release Metallica kill em all CD and I don't want to see it happen to other people.
I used to hide that I liked metal when I was younger haha
Same people are quick to judge now i just blast metal and play drums lol
As late as I am to commenting, here are two cents:
I’m a teenager, and metal has been my life for about two or so years now. Got into it when my father showed me Rammstein, and it snowballed from there. I listen to Venom, Mayhem, Darkthrone and a plethora of other bands on a daily basis.
But there is a price to pay, both monetarily and not.
I can’t get shirts of my favorite bands because: A) my family can’t afford to spend money like that, B) where I live, shipping adds about $80 and I can’t find any local retailers, and C) my friends and teachers won’t like it.
I’ve got the support of my parents and siblings as far as growing my hair out goes, which is awesome \m/ but I can’t help to shake the feeling of “Who will befriend me?”.
A lot more is there, but for a basic rundown, that’s all I’ve really got.
Check out a band from the UK called Hellfekted - album woe to the kingdom of blood. They are blackened thrash
Did you call The Beatles crap?
+sound of record scratch+
Personally, my situations were similar to yours. However, I never had administration or school officials go after me. If anything, I caused a lot of discussion between classmates and teachers about my interests. At first it was nice, but the questions about "Are you a satanist (which, yes. I am)" or things involving do we have violent tendencies or wish commit to violence simply became redundant. The price I paid was I had "friends" in high school, but I was more so the token metal friend or the token Satanic Witch friend, much like how people tokenize people of ethnic backgrounds. It felt like I was being valued for my interests and not my character, which upsets me. It also instilled a mentality I still struggle with to this very day, which is I feel that people won't like me for aspects such as my music tastes. It's a defense mechanism I took up at a young age after severe bullying in middle school, which made me not want to talk to anyone or get defensive when approached. I could go all day, but I feel like it would be preaching to the choir.
Back in The 80s I got into Metal exclusively and there was a girl I liked who jokingly called it "Devil Music" and sang the praises of Hall And Oates, who were popular at the time. My first serious girlfriend first met me when I was a Metalhead and still liked me but we hadn't dated until after I cut my hair, which I did because by 1989 Thrash was becoming stagnant. She was thrilled but she still would have been with me if my hair had still been long.
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when did you get your first band shirt?
I became a headbanger when I was 16 in 1983.
Blackmetal Werewolf , I grew up with Hard Rock & Acid Rock ..
back in the 70s ,there wasn't any black lash for Metal heads...
Hell, I wore a Led Zeppelin T-shirt to school & nothing was said or done about it...
But, I went to Public School though
Going through the Public School system nay have been beneficial for you at the time
Because I was rqaised by Adults to be with adults ...so I had trouble relating to the kids I was growning up with
So I never had any friends
Cant wait to go back over 3 days to school ofc wearing my immortal shirt
@Tsumuro You do realize that the majority of metalheads are SMART and get good grades, right? Please do not make the rest of us look stupid.
@Tsumuro LOL!!!!!!!!!!
@Tsumuro I know all those things. But, you were asking why someone was laughing. So I gave you a possibility to consider.
It'll be great if u give some advice for beginner metalheads
Yea there are so many people that wantet to change me. Even my Parents but when they realised that they cant change me they supportet me
Me wearing cannibal corpse shirt at lunch, my mom throwing up...
Really?!
@@ravenclaw_3160 yeah
@@petardjukic6309 Wow...
Brutal dude 🤘🏻🤘🏻 cannibal corpse was the first show I ever went to in FL
The price of Metal in the underground world is awes.....
Oh i tell you, i certainly am not a cheapskate...
**Sarcasm!**
Hey I got a question for all you metalheads out there with long hair. Do you guys ever think about cutting your hair? Cause whenever I grow my hair out it don’t look that good and when it gets to that awkward stage where it’s not too long but it’s still decently long where it’s not past your shoulder length I always think about getting a hair cut but whenever I cut my hair I always miss my long and decide to grow it back again. So I guess what I’m trying ask is any tips for making the awakes stage length of hair more manageable? If any of this makes sense
Please can you do more vlogs exploring record shops in your local area obviously if it's safe to do so. Great video!
I have 2 stories:
1.) This happened in June of this year. So I was in this seminar where we explored music from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. So we're in the 90s and the teacher plays the music videos she chose, and then she asks for recommendations of 90s music videos, and she plays them in order of who asked. So I had asked for Slayer's "Seasons In The Abyss". So as soon as one of the pop videos someone chose ends and Slayer begins, EVERYONE took out their phones and I was the only one looking at thee video. Like I'm not but hurt (even if I sound like I am) about it, if they don't like metal that's OK, but like I payed attention to the videos they wanted to watched (even if I didn't like the music), but they can't show that kind of respect to at least take a look at what someone else may like. And the moment the video ended and some other video came on, everyone put their phone away. Either way it's pretty stupid, bunch of dumbasses. Slayer was the best of the videos that were showed lol
2.) In May, Sophomores (the grade I was in this year) and the Juniors had to be in school cause the Juniors were doing some state test, and we (Sophomores) has to do the practice one to get a feel for what we were gonna do. Anyway, this staff (idk if he was from the school or not) but he said everyone could use their phones for 15 minutes before the test began cause we couldn't get any phone breaks until the test ended. So anyway, I put my earbuds in, now granted I did have my volume to the max while I was listening to "World's End" by Heathen (awesome thrash metal song, totally recorded), but you'll see what made me fucking mad. So the staff comes to me and says in a mad tone while whispering "You better turn that down, or else next time I come here I'm taking your earbuds until the end of the test". So ofc I do, but before I do, I can literally hear some dudes music (he had earbuds) from across the room (he was listening to shitty modern rap). And even when I put my earbuds on, I didn't see him tell that guy anything. I really wanted to put him earbuds to the max just to see how pissed he'd get, but didn't. It's stupid cause like only cause I was listening to metal, that staff dude targeted me, but not the other guy who wasn't listening to metal. Pretty fucking stupid.
I had very similar stories at school, heh. Once one guy who was two grades upper than me said that I should stop listening to MeTaLlIcA (He thought that metallica was a genre, lol) and that it's not music. One question: why the hell he can tell me what I should or should not like?
Hah i also met a guy in my school who though Metallica was the name of the genre
Hey bro are you Asatru or do you just wear the hammer for the metal aesthetics
I had the opposite experience. I would say I gained more friends when I got into metal.
I can't believe that in the 21st century, we are still looked down on.
I can.
I’d play Metallica’s Orion cause no lyrics lmfao. I’m trying to sew on as many patches I can on my jacket just to see how far I can go with it to work lol.
Among my high school class in 90’s Australia was one guy who was into Metallica, Faith No More, etc. I used to give him so much shit for liking what I thought was good ol’ “jUsT nOiSe, ThEy DoN’t EvEn SiNg PrOpErLy”. I was a pianist/flautist/singer who studied musicals and classical music, though I did (and still do) enjoy rock (Bon Jovi’s awesome and screw you if you disagree!). I really wish I could remember his last name so I could try and Google him or something because I owe him the GREATEST, HUGEST, MOST CONTRITE APOLOGY any one has ever attempted to give in the history of ever. I was so wrong, and he was so right. I really hope he’s still a metalhead, and he’s somewhere in the world, living his best, happiest life.
I didn't have friends at primary - no problem
I feel that the "negative consequences" you experienced were more a consequence of people with a lot of negativity within themselves. They sounded to me like very insecure and controlling types, insisting that everyone conform to their standards of living. It may initially feel like a negative consequence to break with such people, but the alternative of trying to please them usually results in many small deaths inside.
If your a metalhead and feel alone you are not . Maybe people around aren't into it but trust me we are out there.
*you're
Thankfully, although none of my friends share my love for metal, we have remained just as close as ever, we don't have to share the exact same passions. Most of them are obsessed with cars, often times I go with them to car meets, which I think is boring and very uninteresting (not to mention the fuking noise....) But I do it because I want to spend time with my friends, but while they're paying all their attention to the cars I'm happily sat there with my headphones in listening to metal.
I'm 54, always liked metal, always will, till the day I die. METAL LIVES FOREVER!! (even if I won't).
What's the intro track that is playing?
Man, having watched this video, I'm really grateful the people in my life just let me be. The people I hang around don't really care what I listen to, nor do they ever give me a hard time about it. I do still worry about it at times when it comes to the dating scene, despite being in college, but I guess my theoretical partner is just going to have to deal with it.
It's worth it because I don't know about you guys but I totally sold out for a girl once. I pretended to like EDM and would listen to it to impress her she wanted me to go see this DJ that was coming to town. And then one day I was like I like this girl but God I'm kinda miserable. I then realized I had become a dirty sellout poser and I picked going back to my metal ways then having the girl. I had a small chance to be part of the cool kids but it wasn't a happy experience I'm way happier being an outcast and yeah you suffer the bullying and the glares but eventually you'll find another misfit like you. I now met a girl who actually likes slayer and such and I'm way happier being with someone who accepts me even if I'm not "popular" in the traditional sense. She thinks I'm cool simply because I'm not popular and I've doubled down in the years I go to class in denim with my battle jacket and she loves it she has her own jacket too. Like slipknot said we are not their kind so just gravitate to your own kind you'll find em. So stay true to yourself never sell out.