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I'm a black, cis, straight male who's a goth/deathrocker, lots of women in my scene. But as a whole we're more gender fluid with fashion and expression of self. Most of the Goth Rock, Darkwave and Deathrock bands I listen to have a female vocalist. Also the scene has LGBTQ+, bipoc folks in it and is accepting. In contrast to the Metal scene (I enjoy the music) which is not always welcoming to others. Most people I have met at a show were okay but there were times I had been looked at in a way I found to be negative. (I'm black and muscular so I always stand out, but especially when you aren't what people expect to see at a show. You will really stand outif you are female in a male dominant space.) I find this to be true more so now in 2024 with the apathy towards conservative and bigoted beliefs. Though I have seen the younger generation pushing back. Perhaps there is hope. I typically just stay with my "tribe" as we don't tolerate that shit.

My main introduction was the Lost Highway soundtrack, which included Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails. As for "what is metal?" Subculture wise - a group of people who listen to Metal. Then you have to define the music, and here I can only quote some politician who said "I dont know how to define it, but I know when I see it" (he was talking about "obscene material" though). Its a terrible definition, but it is very easy to get bogged down in the minute details. I think the requirement of a string instrument like a guitar a commonly understood. But what about band only using bass buitars? What about lutes, or banjos? Is a real drumset required, or can it be subsituted by a synth? Lots of things to split hairs on.

Video is already trash 🗑️ the baby metal shirt is sickening

"Boohoo, women are only valued for their looks", yeah because. they can't do anything else. Female bands suck, none of them can put out music as good as most male bands because metal is male, not female. There will never be a female Corpsegrinder. The closest the metal scene ever got was Som from Cerebral Bore and that band is dead. Women can cope all they want, but no female will ever be able to put out aggressive music like men can. Women will always be judged for their looks, because men want to fuck them (shocker), besides that they don't offer much anymore. You exist to complement men by giving birth, raising kids, cooking, cleaning and, most importanly, shutting the fuck up.

Not sexist enough apparently, women are cringe. The Wretched Spawn is CCs best album cover by far, precisely because it put women down.

Metal is such a wide umbrella term that I don't think there's anything in particular that characterises it right now. You have bands with widely different sounds, views and styles that anybody could be a metalhead without anyone else realizing. Also, I feel like the gatekeep is what I find most prevalent, but the recommender algorithms in social media and web pages got much better at isolating ourselves from people with other musical taste, that it isn't as wild and annoying as it used to be a decade ago

Good to see a metal channel that's more accepting to other identities. I have no doubt that there are many close minded guys who saw the title and made negative comments in response. As there are some people who are too close minded to be reasoned with.

They do it to minorities too. As they say we look like we don't belong in metal.

Judging by your hair color its evidently woke shit.

This is a whole lot of poser talk.

at 7:17 I was about to comment "individualism" haha

I think that it is very hard to define what Metal is, because of how big it got. I find it really interesting to compare the Metal genre to the EDM genre. It has many subgenres that can be very different and it became so big that there is not one distinct feature that unites every fan and their interests. For me personally the feature of metal that is most distinct is its motive to be different from others, but I feel like many features of metal support individualism as you pointed out in the video, therefore making it difficult to unite the fans. I suppose there are many features like the interest in black clothing, morbid symbols and lyrics, politics, and many more that overlap therefore creating maybe more like chains that hold some people together but these features are maybe not strong enough or its about the way Metal as a genre grew, that caused it to not have one uniting factor.

Any Metal fan that gate-keeps Metal isn't a real Metal fan... They're just an A-hole... Doesn't matter what sub-genre of metal you like. If you like metal, you like metal. Everyone has prefences. If someone doesn't recognize that, they're just dumb.

Thrash was my introduction

I think emo opened the door for me to metal/death metal. Suicide Silence - Blundeoned was my first obsession in the genre.

Metal will survive because it does touch some basic emotion of human experience. You are correct about the gate keeping, some of the stupidest arguments I have heard are about who is real metal and who is not. I think each band develops a tribe of individual tastes and feelings. Metal evolves and fuses with other style of music. Just as we have fusion cuisine in restaurants we have fusion metal. Because metal is very much for the individual it allows for more evolution. More evolution equals more "New" sounds which will always have a push back.

I would say the defining factor for metal is heavy music, which doesn't necessarily need to be death metal heavy. But it could also be emotionally heavy by confronting emotions such as anger, sadness, and even happiness depending on the subgenre. Also, I would say the dark, mysterious and alternative aesthetic could be another defining factor.

Why do you call it a subculture? It is very prominent and dominant all over the earth and throughout all age groups

Gatekeeping is one of the dumbest things ever. Just let people be what they wanna be, like what they wanna like and do what they wanna do (as long as it isn't harmful to others) and keep your nose by yourself. So sad, that so many human beings don't get such a simple thing. But if we really wanna talk about what "trve" metal is: Something between Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. Everything after that is just building on these foundations, just as they themselves built on rock, which was built on blues and so on and so forth...

Being a metal head is to tap in all the pools of metal... I might not like your type of metal but if you dig it great .... metal is not a religion to follow a certain way saying you go off course you'll be going to pop hell... like what you like but don't be upset if I don't like it... be metal

Oh no. I don't gatekeep. I can yap all day long about music. But most people would not touch some creepy stuff. Oh, and that's not only Metal but something like Electro-Industrial. You see, I am yapping already 😂 😂😂

The future ??? Sabbath all very creatively reimagined. It's limitless.

So pop-punk, hard rock and so on were parallel discoveries to me as metal. Not progressive one after another

I went straight to it. Linkin Park, Evanescence, Slipknot, Rammstein, Nightwish, Apocalyptica. All of them I started to listen when I was around 10. Twenty years ago

Stellt Oxford eigent/ich auch Metall her?!?!?!

All it takes to not be a metal poseur is to know more about metal than only Metallica, Pantera, or Slipknot. That's it! I've been into metal since '88, have traded more records/CD's/tapes at local stores than most will ever hear on stupid Spotify, and I'm telling you, it's not a high bar!

How to not be a poser: just like what you like and don't worry about other what other people are doing.

When it comes to darkthrone and mayhem,the old mayhem and darknthrone were true black metal but these new are posers.

still gonna wear my burzum shirt and listen to it, im not a nazi nor do i agree with it but its an album i like that has lotr themes i like 🤷‍♂️

I mostly listen to metal music, but I'm also a big fan of retro wave pop music🙂

First thing you can do is STOP wearing Baby Metal merchandise. It just screams, "I listen to this band because everyone else likes them and they aren't really Metal, but we all pretend they are because, it's in the name! Same goes for Metallica too!"

Everything is political. Literally. Trying to "keep politics" out of something is impossible. If you don't care what the opinions of artists are, good for you, it's not about censoring them it's about knowing who you're potentially supporting and calling people out if they are being assholes. You can listen to music without agreeing with the musician, but it doesn't make the opinion less problematic and if you "don't care" or say it's "apolitical" you're just being ignorant on purpose.

In my experience, women have always liked other musical genres, pop singers "divas" and music that you can dance to, more than rock and metal. And that's fine. I'm a man and I prefer to listen to a man singing. If women prefer to listen to women, I think that's perfectly natural. People like to form groups with whom they are similar, according to their age, sex, or whatever. So maybe we are all sexist and our ears are sexist. So what? And music has changed. Some genres and subgenres emerge, others decline. In the 80s women liked glam (hair) metal, but now it's a genre that people make fun of. That's why glam metal never came back. There is no place for new metal or rock bands on MTV or radio stations. And metal in general has become more extreme in the last 30 years. All this makes rock and metal less popular than ever. That's why only bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns N Roses, Acdc and Ozzy Osbourne can play in large stadiums and arenas. Once they retire, no one will take up their space. Everything will be over. And many kids think that rock and metal are genres for older people, the genres your father or grandfather would listen to. All this is what excludes women from rock and metal.

But politics should stay out of Metal though.. I don't want that gay candy-ass tree-hugging liberal bullshit in my fucking music.

the ONE thing that pisses me off is when someone has only heard one band, usually one or two songs and claims they are an expert on the Metal so much that they go out of their way to talk down to other people about Metal, and then they'll proceed to call Metallica underground. . .

It's people who are poser fishing. Looking for someone to pick on. Most people are not trying to pretend. Most people who are into metal, like metal but it might not be your type of metal. As i have seen people targeting for liking certain bands and subgenres. Meanwhile we have people who pretend to not like something because they fear their buddies will call them posers. I think that's being a poser if you have to pretend you're not into something. Most average person doesn't care about metal and they're not desperate to come into the scene. I think those who believe there is some huge queue of people lining up to pretend to be into metal, obviously don't get out much. They're the types who have bad hygiene and should worry more about that than posers. Take a shower or bath and stop judging people for liking different bands.

When i do get a band t shirt i do hold on to it forever; i will mend it when it gets tesrs and when its too worn out i will upcyle or repurpose the shirt. I don't throw away cloths

About that merch cut... I don't how it is in other festivals out there but at least in my hometown we have this festival, where bands can keep all the money they get when selling their merch. And that's one of the reasons I've been there every year.

This is pretty good

i hope that 80 euro tool poster has lickeble DMT if not no way no thanks

Congrats on the progress. Playing drums is really hard, and you’re doing well.

Siiiick drumming🤘🏼🤘🏼🔥🔥

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So impressing what progress you’ve made in just one month 😻🫶

I didn’t know that was a thing until I saw it on UA-cam. No one has ever asked me. Someone asked my wife recently to name three songs from a band shirt she was wearing. That she took from my closet. She asked the guy when he last met a woman that actually wanted to speak to him.

Anyone that doesn’t think there is sexism in metal. Is not very well educated, and may have a learning disability. If anyone doesn’t think women are treated harsher if they don’t look like the Hollywood version of a “goth girl”. Regardless of if they’re an artist or a fan. Then you have great drugs. Over 30 years ago. I was one of many men that said something similar to. Checkout that band, they have a chick singer/guitarist/drummer/whatever. Or checkout that band, they’re all hot chicks. Now I couldn’t care less if a band has a woman or a guy. As long as it hits my ears right. Am I perfect about not judging a band based on gender? Not at all. Also, the marketing of a lot of bands. That have women in them. Don’t do anything to help portray the women as anything more than objects to be desired.

...no bonus cat? Unsubscribed. Congrats on getting that good in just a month, the hand-leg coordination alone would take me twice as much!

Great progress and cool drumming!😎

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