First of all. Glad to see you back dude. Second. I had a few friends try to stop me because I liked Avenged Sevenfold in 3rd or 4th grade. Their reasoning was "it's not popular, too old, can't be played at a dance" problem was it worked. I stopped listening to anything heavy or anything rock for a few years because I wanted to fit in. I never connected as much to the popular music everyone was into. By 8th grade, I rediscovered my love for heavier music and started to not care even if my class would still say "why do you listen to that? I thought you were normal" now I'm surrounded by people who don't judge me for my music and appreciate me.
Tbh dude you're probably the reason I really got into the metal culture and style, I already loved metal but when I found your channel I thought "I want to look like THAT!" You made me want to grow an awesome beard and long hair like you, which I'm working on. And you're the reason I made my battlejacket! I purposely got an XL so it's too big for me and I can fit more and more patches onto it! I've been a metal head and huge horror movie fan for ages but since I've embraced the style I feel so much more confident in myself and I love embracing the things I love. Over the years I have had people make fun of me for liking metal but it has never bothered me. As for authority figures thankfully they've never cared. But I'm 23 now so I do what I want and my wife let's me be happy too, she only really likes power metal and alternative though.
I really do hope this doesn't happen to today's kids. Back in the 90's my cousin and I were teenagers. One day my aunt found out I liked black metal and forbade her daughter from seeing me for the next few years. I used to just stay in my bedroom listening to music while my cousin hanged out with sketchy people, did lots of drugs and failed two years in a row in high school. But "I" was the "bad influence"... 😒
to those who corrected my grammar, I'm sorry my f*cking third language isn't good enough for you, so much that you felt the need to point out one word while I was sharing a shitty, lonely part of my life. Hope that makes you feel good.
My friends have never tried to really stop me when I listen to metal. They have mostly mocked the look and music saying how I "need a haircut" or "all metal sounds the same."
Really, I think that's the worst I ever got, and I've been listening to hard rock and metal since the '70s and '80s: either "normies" just shunning me on one hand, or friends who didn't "get it" doing the "get a haircut, hippie!" or "that all sounds like noise!" or "that'll make ya kill yourself!" routine. Never bothered me, but damn, I always wished i knew people I could lend a tape or CD to, or trade tapes with, or whatever, to say "have you heard _____ ? This stuff's great!", and see them enjoy it as much as I do. On the bright side, I did have a bunch of friends and family who listened to a wide enough variety of music I cold at least get into - my brother liked punk and hardcore and Goth rock, my parents liked British Invasion hard rock and psychedelic rock, one of my friends liked movie soundtracks (like "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly", or Tangerine Dream's soundtracks) and 'what I guess would be called J-pop today, another liked '80s New Wave,, another liked radio-friendly hard rock and alternative, and another liked classic country and bluegrass, a couple of neighbors liked Motown, and someone else that liked world music and New Age, and you could always count on someone working in some opera or symphony or jazz... there was always something new to hear, and that kept things interesting. And any normies hanging out with my friends and I would about lose their minds - "too much culture shock!" and "why don't you guys ever listen to anything NORMAL?", I think was the way one of them put it :D Anyway, I don't think I ever got discouraged, at least not enough to leave a lasting impression. Just a lot of people who were vocal about not getting it, which only bothered me because it always seemed to me that they were so proud of not being interested in listening to anything that wasn't "safe" and radio-friendly!
That stinks, I have a friend who likes like Led Zeppelin and AC/DC but he doesn’t mind metal and one time we weee cruisin down the main road in his old truck blaring cannibal corpse 😂 ah, the good ol days
Glad you are back, The burnt out feeling is very relatable. I've been a metalhead for 14 years, over the years of my previous and current job, I have been feeling very burnt out, and metal usually gets me through tough situations, but sometimes life can feel like holding up a tree from smashing you into pieces. Great video. You are one of my favorite metal UA-camrs. Edit: I love metal so much, and I am always alone because people probably think I'm a satanist. I have dyed hair blue and red, I wear my battle vest some days and Goth aesthetic other days since I'm also goth, and love Goth Rock to.
I think it's weird that people say that. No one says, It's a phase, when you're older you won't be listening to country/pop/rap/whatever it is that you like. It's just music.
So happy to see you back making videos. I am almost 40 and have been fighting the good fight for metal longer than not. Ive never had people actively try to coerce me out of my musical taste but I have caught alot of flack for it. But really fuck the haters, Horns up for ever! 🤘
Yes, there were people who tried to get me stop listening to Metal. But, I've been always ignoring them. They were telling me things like "How come a good boy like you is listening to that kind of music?" and "You will never get a girlfriend if you are a Heavy Metal fan.", but as I said I've been always ignoring them. I'm listening to the kind of music that I like and I don't give a damn. Album recommendation: Schammasch - "Triangle"
Im so lucky to have open minded teachers and friends thats, while they dont listen to it, they dont mind it. And as for my parents, my mom, she kinda is ok with it, but she gets frustrated after awhile of listening to it (Metallica btw) and as for my dad. Hes the one that introduced me to metal and rock. (Im 15 and going into my sophomore year, ive been listening to metal since kindergarten
I'm about 50, I grew up with mostly the opposite problem of Blackmetal Werewolf: nobody tried to discourage me from listening to whatever I liked - rather, most people just shunned me for it, while my parents just sort of tried to encourage me to keep trying something different so that I grew up with a lot of great rock music and so on, while I got so much joy from listening to metal and other weird music, I wanted to share that with other people, but I was the only one I knew who was interested in giving any of it a try. So, instead of anyone trying to discourage me, I was constantly bugging other people to try metal, with absolutely no takers. My parents never really understood the metal thing, but to me, it was just an extension of the music my parents listened to when I was growing up: On one hand, I grew up watching horror movies from a very young age (some of the first movies I remember ever watching were horror movies!), and with the horror movies came a lot of weird and creepy avant-garde music that isn't very far removed from extreme metal. On the other, my parents would listen to a lot of rock music that was just a step or so removed from metal: the Kinks and the Doors, the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Animals, Jethro Tull, The Who, Iron Butterfly, Stepenwolf, Hendrix, KISS, Alice Cooper, and so on. When I heard metal for the first time, and then all kinds of extreme metal, I took to it like a duck to water - "oh, this is like rock, with a little horror movie soundtrack mixedin!" Worked for me, but for all my normie classmates, friends, cousins, and so on, it was several steps too weird! I guess their version of the "Exorcism of Metal Demons" video is about weird metal guys who keep trying to discourage them from listening to country music and hip-hop :D Anyway, I'm glad your parents, friends, teachers and all encourage you to try different things, without trying to discourage you from listening to what you like. That's especially good with the teachers to challenge you, and step out of your comfort zone, while also keeping in touch with who you are and where you came from!
@@pietrayday9915 yea man i get you. I dont only listen to metal. I also like some pop music, music that i normally hear where i live (cumbias and Mexican music), and some 80s rap
The same thing happened to me a long-long time ago I was 3 years old when I was since introduced to metal and then people didn't understand it, my parents are okay with it but some of my friends denoting me as an evil person even though its not.
When my friends listen to something and I ask them about it they always say „oh, it‘s not your kind of music“ even tho I keep telling them that metal isn‘t even my main.
when I went to high school I had two friends I hanged out with, one hiphoper and one who where into pop. I was the metal chick, and we never had a argue over music, we respected each other, but didn't like the other persons music taste. I'm sorry you had to go thru such bad times having friend ditching you...must have been hard
After hearing this I can't help but remember how in the US the FBI labeled people who like Juggalo music as a 'gang' causing some police departments to declare open season on people for liking the wrong music. Hearing others say music you like sux or them trying to talk you out of listening to it is one thing. The govt. actually punishing people for their choice in tunes is something else entirely. Even if you hate that type of music yourself just think, if they can do it to them, they can do it to people who like heavy metal, jazz, bluegrass, etc.
Juggalo's did it to themselves. there are whackjob Juggalo's that literally take ICP etc music as a lifestyle, are violent , associate with known violent gangs ; The Bloods, Crips
I am almost 50 and lbeen listening to really heavy stuff since I was 11. First album I had my mother buy me was Gorguts Considered Death and Atheist Piece of Time. I dont listen to Satanic stuff anymore but I will always listen to metal and the heavier the better. It is my coffee in the morning and keeps me going while I work. I love it and will listento it till I am dead.
I’m happy to have open minded teachers and family who don’t ridicule me for my love of metal, most of them like metal themselves primarily classic heavy metal and thrash, I do get questions about my love for Black Metal tho which I personally think is pretty funny. I unfortunately have classmates at my school who think I’m weird for liking metal and I’ve been made fun of and judged just for liking a genre of music but it doesn’t bother me that much because we all know metal rules
I’m pretty young (13) and no one has actively gone out of their way to stop me, kids at my school really don’t care (as if they cared about me in the first place) and my parents say, “well, he gets straight As so we can’t really say no to anything” my other relatives occasionally mock but in a playful way, nothing harsh or demeaning.
I really appreciate this video 🖤🖤 I have also experienced hate for listening to metal. It's very frustrating when people pass harsh judgement, but you cant please everyone. I will continue enjoying Mayhem, Cannibal Corpse and many many others.
Thankfully most of my friends are ok with me listening to metal and they are not even close to metal, each one of us listens to his own kind of music and we are like 8 people so it's preety wholesome
Was this largely a US / Canadian “thing”? I don’t remember metalheads getting grief in the UK during the 80’s as there were so many musical tribes - New Romantics / 2-Tone / Industrial / Indie / Bauhaus & Sisters Goth / Psychobillies etc. and being a metal fan was just another “tribe” with their own dress code / clubs etc. P.S. Yes, I am that old.
Hey dude I had the same shit happen to me and I just learned to not pay attention to posers and people that don’t understand just keep on keeping on brother 🤘
My ex husband always hated when I played metal (and classic music too) and always talked shit about it. So I started to only listen to it when I was alone. Whenever he "caught" me listening to metal he also said its because of this and this person. So in his eyes I couldn't have a taste in music by myself and it's just the influence of others. That felt so degrading and it honestly made me stop listening for years. After I left him it was like coming home to myself and be myself again. I'd say that I got rid of my exorcist!
I was a late bloomer. I didn't really start listening to metal until I was 17 straight out of high school, I was told I was going through a faze by friends and relatives, well Im 57 now and still haven't gotten over the faze yet and boubt I ever will. In fact my taste has gotten heavier the older I got
I never really had that problem. Most of my friends have listened to metal or if they didnt ive known them for a long time and music taste doesnt matter
I thankfully never had to deal with this problem, my father is a metalhead, my mom's mom was a metalhead before she became die-hard christian, my dad's parents didn't care, my aunt was a metalhead, my teachers didn't care as long as it didn't break dress code (aka no chains at all) hell my US History teacher in High School is the singer of a punk band, and I quickly found friends that were into metal as well (I was the loner kid that sat towards the back of the cafeteria anyway), it's actually because of one of my friends that I first heard anything heavier than Slipknot or Slayer (Venom's Black Metal album specifically) but my dad for sure went through that cuz he grew up in the 80s during the height of, what is referred to as, the Satanic Panic, he actually got dragged to a "concert" from one of Black Sabbath's old members that went full on "metal is the devil's music", he also made a bet with a pastor that if he spent 1 week listening to christian music he would convert from the lyrics and if he didn't the pastor would pay him back for all the albums he bought, what my dad did was go to the record store and found some albums from Christian Black Metal bands that were honestly more brutal than even stuff from HorrorCore rap (see MCBushpig's song Clinical Sodomy)
@@killchrist124 it's honestly the only song I know by him but I'm just a fan of dark shit in stuff in general that I may have heard others but just not known it
I have been listening to Metal since I was 15 in 1987 I’m now 50. So many people tried to stop me listening to it. Foster parents would find my Metal albums I had to hide and they would burn them. Like I say I’m 50 now I still think Metal is the greatest form of music I’ve ever heard and will continue to listen as long as I live. 13 September 2022
There was a girl who conversed with me to stop listening to metal because of my provocative subject such as death and horror which is in short death metal, she's a Christian I'm a Christian too and we know what we believe she's just being opposite and compromising of what I like or enjoy in music so what I did is explaining to her about the instances of metal music to be broadened somewhat she disagrees of what other's do enjoy it's a big body bag to argue within differences in intererest.
Fortunately it seems I was lucky. My father is a music enjoyer so he understands my passion for music and even if he doesn't really like violent or Satanic imagery he has never told me to not listen to something or that it was just bad, simply he knows it's not his thing (but he appreciates metal subgenres like gothic, power or neoclassical metal), also my mother doesn't care, but I don't really share with her my music taste so she doesn't know what usually I listen to, and with my teachers I was lucky since when I mantioned (if asked) what music I like or play and I said metal their respond would always simply be "ok". I should mention that I started listening to metal when I was 15/16 so I don't know I don't know how my middle school teachers would have reacted.
Sage advice as always dude. Great to see you back. I've only ever heard of this happening here in Australia to younger people who were the offspring of fundamentalist Christian or Muslim parents. I know a couple of Muslim guys who, sadly, have to keep their love of metal a secret from their families.
This video reminds me of how fortunate I am growing up with rock/metal parents and family. No one ever tried to change my interests in anything. It just goes to show don't fear what you don't understand. I am 45 years old. My parents and family are rockers from the 70 and still are. I think my dad is the best example his favorite band was Judas Priest and still is he's pushing 70. 🤘🤘
There were people who tried to stop me from listening to metal but I made them understand that I meant it and they understood me and I understood their music taste as well and we are all cool
I don't have that problem I never really did because I keep a clean cut appearance for work reasons and also I was a really weird kid in school already so it wasn't a shocker when I got into metal
I haven't really got much flack from what I listen except from some family members, though most of the time my mother just say as long that it's Christian, as if she can tell what the lyrics are,lol, and even when my friends found out it was pretty chill and one did the horns, mostly some annoyances are in the internet, and uptight family members
I guess I was lucky, my family doesnt mind and I never really had more than a few friends anyway but beyond that some of the male teachers at high school wore Iron Maiden shirts and I could tell that they hangout and listen to them it actually helped me get to listening to more stuff. One day I was finishing homework in calculus class listening to Losfer Words by Iron Maiden through headphones but it was loud enough for people to hear cause I caught the teacher humming along.
I personally have never had anyone try to stop me from listening to metal I've had people talk crap about metal and make fun of me for liking it but I can remember this kid I went to high school with we would chat from time to time but we weren't really friends I remember asking him if he liked heavy metal music and he told me that his parents would let him listen to heavy metal cuz they were Christians and they thought heavy metal was the devil's music I thought it was kind of funny but I felt bad
You are so funny and I know exactly what you mean. I'm a metalhead for life and both family and friends have tried to change me unsuccessfully. The first metal band I ever heard was Black Sabbath in the 70s when I was a child and I always dressed in all black, spikes and safety pins in my ears. I've literally gotten into physical altercations over my music and appearance. Now, at 52 years old I still wear all black and my doc martens. I really don't care if I scare people because the ones that matter accept me for myself.
I'm 50 years old, and lived through all the panic during the 80's . The 20/20 specials, the PMRC, the satanic panic, all that. My parents tolerated me being a metalhead..lol. However I had this youth group teacher at church that blasted me in front of all my peers over a Van Halen album. (Hahahahaha) it's funny now, but at the time , it was crushing to me to get reamed out in front of everyone. I only brought in that album because I thought it was light enough for the other kids.. I left my slayer albums at home. Lol
I never had this problem. All my friends and people that I know respect the fact that I like metal. I did have one guy in high school that called it creetion music but I just ignored him. Even the people in my old catholic young adult groups respected the fact that I like metal. I have a good friend from one of those groups and I show him my music from time to time and he finds some of it interesting.
I remember back in High School I had ex friends that tried to stop me from becoming a Metalhead. They just didn't liked the subculture and the lyrics of the music and they thought that was a bad influence on me. But screw them, I don't need people like that in my life. I also had a preppy girl that liked me and wanted me to quit listening to Metal and change my dark clothes for Hollister, Aeropostale, Abercrombie, etc etc. I told her if you don't like this of that about me go for someone. I'm not gonna change for others
Black Metalhead we are biggest nerds tbh! And teacher is not for teacher tbh. And Black Metal is no drugs even no alcohol or cigarettes type of music... Hail Black Metal!
WB! Yeah, when I was first getting into metal, punk and new wave were the new big thing - much of which I liked, myself - but because the image I identified with mostly was metal [still is], I caught a lot of shit from friends and people I didn't know. "Cut your hair, faggot!" and "Heavy metal sucks!" were things I would often hear walking down the street from tough guys in cars as they sped past. I remember I was walking around with some gear on once, and some dude in a truck pulling out of his driveway said, "That's just Satanism", which isn't insulting to me in concept, but the fact that somebody would judge me as some kind of villain because of the clothes I had on was insulting. And, of course, as a musician, I got shit from [almost] everyone in my family. From women I'd be interested in, I'd hear a lot of "You'd be cute if you just cut your hair." And don't get me started on all of the jobs I couldn't get because of the way I looked - I was always broke as shit, while my friends always had money for stuff. I just got so sick of trying to explain myself - why should I? Of course, thrash and hardcore crossover happened, so I got a lot less flack from punk rockers, but my metal career never took flight, so I got a bunch of 'told ya so's. I still don't care - I'm a lifer. But now there's a new kind of ugly discrimination I never saw coming, and it's name is ageism: lots of young people [comparatively] new to the scene seem to judge older heshers as all racist/sexist/homophobic Nugent types, of which I never, ever was. This hurts a lot, because I've taken a lot of shit from older folks and people my own age for loving metal my whole life, and stayed fully into it - but now comes a whole wave of people saying I'm somehow to blame for a plethora of issues because I'm 'technically' [and just barely] considered a boomer. A lot of kids and young people are still cool, but there's plenty of judgemental a-holes coming up now too.
Yeah. My Work Skills teacher and My dad at school during summer holidays discussing something about the "music that I listen too" and SUPPOSEDLY having to throw it away AND My dad asking Me what I was listening to because I was singing a song about cocaine. It was My Ozzy Osbourne Speak of the Devil album cassette. He told Me to take it out of My tape deck and cracked it in half of the dining room chair. It's not the first time that My father deliberately committed vandalism, even when I wasn't there. And the list goes on. Heartbroken, but it didn't stop Me though. My male sibling, BEING THE FUCKING PRINCESS THAT HE IS...was, of course, ALLOWED to listen to WHATEVER HE WANTED! 🤔😒🙄🤨🤬
There would be issues like that, since there are still people who frown upon certain types of music. Otoh there are a lot of kids whose older relatives grew up listening to metal and stuff, so probably plenty of open minded folks too. I had to hide some of my tapes and CDs because they were considered inappropriate.
i had a best friend of 10 years and like when i was 13 and started getting into metal music like he just severed all contact with me like he stopped talking to me in school not on the phone and we just stopped being best friends
Im quite lucky. No one close to me has tried to stop me from listening to metal. My parents hate it but they understand that I love it and it's the same with the rest of my family and closest friends. Iv had people at work try to stop me which is weird because I never play it in front of them.
My mom is just trying to make me feel bad somehow. She calls me weird and stuff but I am used to it🤷🏻♂️ Some people who don't like me and listens to slipknot and korn and stuff calls me a poser just bc I don't know the names from the people of the band. I am a bad learner so I can't change it🧍🏻♂️ Also my brother and my mom just mocks metal bands. I took my bestfriend to a rock festival and she was just like "Wow they are just screaming, I can do that too". I don't know why people just can't stop that. It's annoying
I've been through this several times. From time to time I see people talking bad about metal. I was once personally exhorted not to listen to rock music, this was because of a gossip they made about me. Honestly, those people who condemn metal and don't understand the lyrics of the songs should evaluate their concept well and see that not everyone who listens to metal is going to do shit. It's not because I like Cannibal Corpse that I'm going to become a murderer or practice necrophilia and it's not because I listen to Slayer that I'm going to become a Satanist, people have the habit of putting labels on people unfortunately.
I did have some family ask me why I listen to metal, and all I said was that I just like it. I think they just don't really understand the real extreme stuff. It's not for everyone. It's cathartic to me, but it's noise to another person, and that's fine, everyone has their own taste in music.
I grew up listening to metal ( started with a genre that the posters haven't heard of...Acid Rock at the age of 5)...& never was chided for it by anyone...
But to add something cheerful: my six year old daughter went to. Kindergarten in her Amon Amarth shirt and the teachers where interested and even played some songs. One of the teachers is also very much into thrash metal, so it's all pretty cool 😁
No one tried to get me to stop listening to Metal. My mother got on me all the time about my hair. she said that people would think she was a bad parent for "letting me" grow my hair long. as if they wouldn't criticize her parenting skills for making me live my life her way. I also had a great justification for being a Metalhead. I got into Metal in the early 80s so I told people that I prefer to not listen to Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, Huey Lewis, Hall And Oates and all the other crap that was out there. Fate gave me an option Corey Hart or Slayer. I'll take Slayer please. I was also a Christian back then (still am) so if any of my fellow Jesus freaks came at me I was armed with knowledge of scripture. One day in February of 1987 I went to see Dark Angel and Possessed. The show was at The Paradise in Boston and I had to walk from the T stop in Kenmore Square to get there. once I let the Kenmore station 2 men followed me. I don't know if they were LDS but they lectured me and I told them that Jesus was always talking about not judging people. Even though I'm a Christian I won't avoid Horror movies and Thrash Metal because I need to relax some wsy.
I scared the living hell out of my parents growing up in a lot of ways. I was very experimental in my youth with my relationships, skipping class, some light partying, and sneaking out. These things drove my parents mad but then I got into metal and boy did it really kick things up a notch. I remember vividly them throwing out all my cds and tossing out my shirts. I suppose they might have thought it was the music making me do all these crazy things but that was happening before the music, I was just a wild kid who turned out absolutely fine btw. I graduated college, hold down a job, and have a house at an age unheard of in my age group. (Not saying to anyone you have to do any of those things btw just contrasting their fears with conventional expectations)
The satanic panic is hugely to blame. And to the people who aren't a part of the metal community they'll never understand why we like and support such crazy bands. In metal the more extreme the better. What's accepted in metal is usually rejected by the "real world." Not to mention when tragedies like Columbine happen, the media seems to try and make it out to be the entertainment to blame. Mental illness is to blame. If someone does commit a horrible act and they are into metal, that doesn't mean the metal is to blame. But it's a battle we'll have to keep fighting.
I was taken on a ride with one of my parents (who mind you, has done no listening or research on metal, also religious so you know what to expect or do you?) and I was basically “explained” to for over an hour that metal lyrics have magic in their lyrics and how that magic will manipulate me into becoming a Satan worshipper and the very feeling of the songs will re shape me, imagine getting told that bullshit!! But I will give my parents credit as at one point they did turn a new leaf and tried to understand the music and took time to listen to the different genres and dissect lyrics so I must give them that credit.
I don’t dress like a metal head besides a few band tees I can’t grow my hair out I was cursed with curly hair that just looks like a Afro when I grow it out it doesn’t look good because I’m a pale white boy though some can pull the hairstyle off but one teacher told me I should listen to Christian music when I was wearing a cannibal corpse tee. And I don’t have any trouble with girls because I’m only really into metalhead girls goth girls and punk girls just alternative girls in general so they mostly like the same music I like or when it’s goth and punk girls I also like there music to and there more open minded when it comes to music like metal
Been a metalhead for 16 years and lucky in high school I had teacher that was a metal fan and got me into the Canadian prog band Rush which was his favorite band of all time. But at home my mom was a devout Christian and wouldn't allow metal music in the house. Her house her rules. Now that I'm almost 30 and leaving the nest I don't care what people think about what I listen too and what my beliefs are. I've been disrespected nurmous times by toxic friends, family, janitoral work, public school etc. I'm a devout Roman Catholic and metal music is my therapy. No where in the bible said it's evil. I'm African American living in the all white American Midwest dealt with racism and having a hard life and it's time for me to seek success and what makes me happy inside. From a mental illness patient.
Glad your feeling better Always be true to your music Don't let people dictate what you listen to If they don't like it that's their problem A true friend excepts you for who you are what ever kind of music you listen to There is a saying " people are critical or condem what they don't understand" Metal rules Bang your head Enjoy the metal 🤟
@@Anonymous-wb3nz you got nothing better to do than pick holes In people's comments and wishing people well and comments This is UA-cam You are not sitting your A. Level exams
A few of teachers constantly comment on me liking metal, one in particular who always tells me I’m going through a phase, I share alotta my musical taste with my dad, I’ve been listening to metal since I was a little kid, I’m an adult now technically, the fact they even comment on it is ridiculous to me but quite funny, nonetheless I’ll be outta there real soon anyways 💀
I am a metal vocalist who is told by his friends and parents to soften out his metal vocals and sing more like Ed Sheeran. They associate my metal singing with a "Cat Yelling" or "someone being murdered".
My damn colleague tried to excorcise my metal demons today at work. Now I can't stand this guy at the best of times, he's incompetent, he's always dodging customers cause he thinks they "might" shout at him and he's cost the company quite a few lucrative orders cause he failed to pay attention. Oh yeah, and the sumbitch gave me Corona and I don't mean the beer. He describes metal as "just screaming into a microphone" and played some generic drivel saying "see? This is music!" And he wonders why I'm always humming amon amarth's "Blood Eagle!" He should be thankful he can't see the images spinning through my head!
What the hell is this new trend of trying to get people to stop listening to metal? Ive been listening to it for almost 40 years. Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus you name it I love it and will always love it. I have never heard of people trying to sway people from metal. This is wierd to hear of this. I would've said to your colleegue your wife screams when I am banging her and sounds more like music than the garbage you listen too bwahahah. I am a sarcastic sob and dont give a F. But I been this way my entire life so.
Your still making videos ? Good for you! Btw do you still think that grindcore is just an edgier name for metalcore ? Im just curious if you did your homeworks
Personally, I've never had anyone try to stop me from listening the Metal Music. However I've known some people who thought I was listening to the Devil's Music. These days, I like to make a joke "Hey I'm going to my local record store to buy some demon music"
Imagine living as a Korean metalhead under Christian Family. As you know, many old Christians in Korea are like Westboro Baptist Church, and they say even KPOoP is satanic music. Then, imagine what would happen when you come across them, while in shirt with satanic symbols. Besides, I was the only metalhead among almost 1000 students in my school. One thing good to be Korean metalhead is no young people gives a shhhhhieet about my attire, even if because they don't know anything about metal.
I really don’t understand why people think metal is a phase I mean no other form of music is treated this way. Why would I listen to metal till a certain age and then completely change my personality and dress sense and start listening to pop music like Ed Sheeran? Normies are the worst people
I once dated this Christian girl and she and her entire family tried to get me to stop listening to metal. They kept saying that it's a faze and that I shouldn't listen to Satan music. Of course I left her after that interaction.
I'm only 26 but my family had their priorities straight on that it's just music not meth like would you rather you're kid have a crush on will ramos or have meth mouth think about that
I can't say anyone ever tried to stop me from listening to metal and punk. Some people have judged me for it. But only the most hardcore of Bible-thumpers.
This shouldn't have to be mentioned, but I feel like it does: Respect is a two-way street. Treat people the way you want to be treated. The respect issues described in this video do not apply exclusively to metal; metalheads are hardly the only group to be on the receiving end of those issues, despite insinuations otherwise. Make sure to give those who listen to other types of music the same courtesies and respect you expect to receive as a metalhead; otherwise, you are a hypocrite. I see too many metalheads (including friends) who talk a big game about letting people be free to listen to and enjoy the music they like without any judgement, who then turn around and judge others and give them shit for listening to rap or ska or country or kraut rock or gospel or radio rock or swing or rockabilly or pop or college rock or jazz or shoegaze or soft rock or edm or literally anything that isn't "metal" enough for them, even blues (!!!).
Metal is still a genre outside the norm even though it has gained an exponential amount of listeners and thank fucking God, who wants to be a normie anyway?
I find it funny when people from school and your leaving they're like "yeah let's keep in contact, we will still be friends"never happens 😂 I only talk to two people from then and they're both metalheads
You cannot preform a exorcism on metal demons. Because demons do not exist. Holds true with with the ideal of literately trying to preform and exorcism. And the idea that you can bargain your way to getting someone to do what you want.
Creepin on your video sorry. BUT I watch these at work and this is the 2nd video I've heard you say something like that in the intro. 1. We all care so it's nice you're being honest about your burnout. 2. Most of us are experiencing it too, so you're not alone. 3. You are so sweet and perfect in every way so never be sad. 4. Do your paranormal videos. It's ok if you switch gears to something that inspires you. We will all still watch it. Do what makes you happy. 🩵
First of all. Glad to see you back dude.
Second. I had a few friends try to stop me because I liked Avenged Sevenfold in 3rd or 4th grade. Their reasoning was "it's not popular, too old, can't be played at a dance" problem was it worked. I stopped listening to anything heavy or anything rock for a few years because I wanted to fit in. I never connected as much to the popular music everyone was into. By 8th grade, I rediscovered my love for heavier music and started to not care even if my class would still say "why do you listen to that? I thought you were normal" now I'm surrounded by people who don't judge me for my music and appreciate me.
Tbh dude you're probably the reason I really got into the metal culture and style, I already loved metal but when I found your channel I thought "I want to look like THAT!"
You made me want to grow an awesome beard and long hair like you, which I'm working on. And you're the reason I made my battlejacket! I purposely got an XL so it's too big for me and I can fit more and more patches onto it!
I've been a metal head and huge horror movie fan for ages but since I've embraced the style I feel so much more confident in myself and I love embracing the things I love.
Over the years I have had people make fun of me for liking metal but it has never bothered me. As for authority figures thankfully they've never cared.
But I'm 23 now so I do what I want and my wife let's me be happy too, she only really likes power metal and alternative though.
Same here.
I really do hope this doesn't happen to today's kids. Back in the 90's my cousin and I were teenagers. One day my aunt found out I liked black metal and forbade her daughter from seeing me for the next few years. I used to just stay in my bedroom listening to music while my cousin hanged out with sketchy people, did lots of drugs and failed two years in a row in high school. But "I" was the "bad influence"... 😒
*hung out. Spelling matters....
:/
That sounds like hell
*hung, not "hanged".
to those who corrected my grammar, I'm sorry my f*cking third language isn't good enough for you, so much that you felt the need to point out one word while I was sharing a shitty, lonely part of my life. Hope that makes you feel good.
My friends have never tried to really stop me when I listen to metal. They have mostly mocked the look and music saying how I "need a haircut" or "all metal sounds the same."
Same here man
Really, I think that's the worst I ever got, and I've been listening to hard rock and metal since the '70s and '80s: either "normies" just shunning me on one hand, or friends who didn't "get it" doing the "get a haircut, hippie!" or "that all sounds like noise!" or "that'll make ya kill yourself!" routine. Never bothered me, but damn, I always wished i knew people I could lend a tape or CD to, or trade tapes with, or whatever, to say "have you heard _____ ? This stuff's great!", and see them enjoy it as much as I do.
On the bright side, I did have a bunch of friends and family who listened to a wide enough variety of music I cold at least get into - my brother liked punk and hardcore and Goth rock, my parents liked British Invasion hard rock and psychedelic rock, one of my friends liked movie soundtracks (like "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly", or Tangerine Dream's soundtracks) and 'what I guess would be called J-pop today, another liked '80s New Wave,, another liked radio-friendly hard rock and alternative, and another liked classic country and bluegrass, a couple of neighbors liked Motown, and someone else that liked world music and New Age, and you could always count on someone working in some opera or symphony or jazz... there was always something new to hear, and that kept things interesting.
And any normies hanging out with my friends and I would about lose their minds - "too much culture shock!" and "why don't you guys ever listen to anything NORMAL?", I think was the way one of them put it :D
Anyway, I don't think I ever got discouraged, at least not enough to leave a lasting impression. Just a lot of people who were vocal about not getting it, which only bothered me because it always seemed to me that they were so proud of not being interested in listening to anything that wasn't "safe" and radio-friendly!
That stinks, I have a friend who likes like Led Zeppelin and AC/DC but he doesn’t mind metal and one time we weee cruisin down the main road in his old truck blaring cannibal corpse 😂 ah, the good ol days
Could say the same for their music, just sayin.
Glad you are back, The burnt out feeling is very relatable. I've been a metalhead for 14 years, over the years of my previous and current job, I have been feeling very burnt out, and metal usually gets me through tough situations, but sometimes life can feel like holding up a tree from smashing you into pieces. Great video. You are one of my favorite metal UA-camrs.
Edit: I love metal so much, and I am always alone because people probably think I'm a satanist. I have dyed hair blue and red, I wear my battle vest some days and Goth aesthetic other days since I'm also goth, and love Goth Rock to.
Someone told me what I was going through was a phase and by the time I was 30 I wouldn’t be listening to metal I’m 26 and im still listening to metal
I was told the same thing when I was 14. I'm now 51 & loving metal as much as ever.
Lots of people told me that when I was 15 years old. That was 35 years ago and I just bought the newest albums from Kreator and Amorphis last week.
I think it's weird that people say that. No one says, It's a phase, when you're older you won't be listening to country/pop/rap/whatever it is that you like. It's just music.
"It's either me or metal"
*You did the right choice*
man got his priorities straight
Anyone who acts like that is a red flag for a control freak
Glad that you are back to your "normal" self....we do care..
So happy to see you back making videos. I am almost 40 and have been fighting the good fight for metal longer than not. Ive never had people actively try to coerce me out of my musical taste but I have caught alot of flack for it. But really fuck the haters, Horns up for ever! 🤘
Yes, there were people who tried to get me stop listening to Metal. But, I've been always ignoring them. They were telling me things like "How come a good boy like you is listening to that kind of music?" and "You will never get a girlfriend if you are a Heavy Metal fan.", but as I said I've been always ignoring them. I'm listening to the kind of music that I like and I don't give a damn.
Album recommendation: Schammasch - "Triangle"
Im so lucky to have open minded teachers and friends thats, while they dont listen to it, they dont mind it. And as for my parents, my mom, she kinda is ok with it, but she gets frustrated after awhile of listening to it (Metallica btw) and as for my dad. Hes the one that introduced me to metal and rock.
(Im 15 and going into my sophomore year, ive been listening to metal since kindergarten
I'm about 50, I grew up with mostly the opposite problem of Blackmetal Werewolf: nobody tried to discourage me from listening to whatever I liked - rather, most people just shunned me for it, while my parents just sort of tried to encourage me to keep trying something different so that I grew up with a lot of great rock music and so on, while I got so much joy from listening to metal and other weird music, I wanted to share that with other people, but I was the only one I knew who was interested in giving any of it a try. So, instead of anyone trying to discourage me, I was constantly bugging other people to try metal, with absolutely no takers.
My parents never really understood the metal thing, but to me, it was just an extension of the music my parents listened to when I was growing up:
On one hand, I grew up watching horror movies from a very young age (some of the first movies I remember ever watching were horror movies!), and with the horror movies came a lot of weird and creepy avant-garde music that isn't very far removed from extreme metal.
On the other, my parents would listen to a lot of rock music that was just a step or so removed from metal: the Kinks and the Doors, the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Animals, Jethro Tull, The Who, Iron Butterfly, Stepenwolf, Hendrix, KISS, Alice Cooper, and so on.
When I heard metal for the first time, and then all kinds of extreme metal, I took to it like a duck to water - "oh, this is like rock, with a little horror movie soundtrack mixedin!"
Worked for me, but for all my normie classmates, friends, cousins, and so on, it was several steps too weird! I guess their version of the "Exorcism of Metal Demons" video is about weird metal guys who keep trying to discourage them from listening to country music and hip-hop :D
Anyway, I'm glad your parents, friends, teachers and all encourage you to try different things, without trying to discourage you from listening to what you like. That's especially good with the teachers to challenge you, and step out of your comfort zone, while also keeping in touch with who you are and where you came from!
@@pietrayday9915 yea man i get you. I dont only listen to metal. I also like some pop music, music that i normally hear where i live (cumbias and Mexican music), and some 80s rap
The same thing happened to me a long-long time ago I was 3 years old when I was since introduced to metal and then people didn't understand it, my parents are okay with it but some of my friends denoting me as an evil person even though its not.
Glad to see you're feeling well man! We all need a break sometimes. Looking forward to seeing more amazing content
When my friends listen to something and I ask them about it they always say „oh, it‘s not your kind of music“ even tho I keep telling them that metal isn‘t even my main.
when I went to high school I had two friends I hanged out with, one hiphoper and one who where into pop. I was the metal chick, and we never had a argue over music, we respected each other, but didn't like the other persons music taste. I'm sorry you had to go thru such bad times having friend ditching you...must have been hard
After hearing this I can't help but remember how in the US the FBI labeled people who like Juggalo music as a 'gang' causing some police departments to declare open season on people for liking the wrong music. Hearing others say music you like sux or them trying to talk you out of listening to it is one thing. The govt. actually punishing people for their choice in tunes is something else entirely. Even if you hate that type of music yourself just think, if they can do it to them, they can do it to people who like heavy metal, jazz, bluegrass, etc.
Juggalo's did it to themselves. there are whackjob Juggalo's that literally take ICP etc music as a lifestyle, are violent , associate with known violent gangs ; The Bloods, Crips
I am almost 50 and lbeen listening to really heavy stuff since I was 11. First album I had my mother buy me was Gorguts Considered Death and Atheist Piece of Time. I dont listen to Satanic stuff anymore but I will always listen to metal and the heavier the better. It is my coffee in the morning and keeps me going while I work. I love it and will listento it till I am dead.
I’m happy to have open minded teachers and family who don’t ridicule me for my love of metal, most of them like metal themselves primarily classic heavy metal and thrash, I do get questions about my love for Black Metal tho which I personally think is pretty funny. I unfortunately have classmates at my school who think I’m weird for liking metal and I’ve been made fun of and judged just for liking a genre of music but it doesn’t bother me that much because we all know metal rules
Glad you're okay
I’m pretty young (13) and no one has actively gone out of their way to stop me, kids at my school really don’t care (as if they cared about me in the first place) and my parents say, “well, he gets straight As so we can’t really say no to anything” my other relatives occasionally mock but in a playful way, nothing harsh or demeaning.
I really appreciate this video 🖤🖤 I have also experienced hate for listening to metal. It's very frustrating when people pass harsh judgement, but you cant please everyone. I will continue enjoying Mayhem, Cannibal Corpse and many many others.
Buen vídeo black metal werewolf y saludos y llevo tiempo siguiendo lo en youtube y viendo sus vídeos
Glad your feeling better. Should never force yourself to do something you're not feeling.
Thankfully most of my friends are ok with me listening to metal and they are not even close to metal, each one of us listens to his own kind of music and we are like 8 people so it's preety wholesome
Im glad to hear that you did what you needed to do for yourself. Keep up the great content \m/
Was this largely a US / Canadian “thing”? I don’t remember metalheads getting grief in the UK during the 80’s as there were so many musical tribes - New Romantics / 2-Tone / Industrial / Indie / Bauhaus & Sisters Goth / Psychobillies etc. and being a metal fan was just another “tribe” with their own dress code / clubs etc.
P.S. Yes, I am that old.
Definitely an American thing. Yes I'm that old as well.
Most definitely an American thing that's still going on today. And yes, I'm that old as well, and still very Metal.
I'm a 13 year old metalhead and no one has tried to stop me from listening to metal but alot of people make fun of me for listening to metal
Hey dude I had the same shit happen to me and I just learned to not pay attention to posers and people that don’t understand just keep on keeping on brother 🤘
My ex husband always hated when I played metal (and classic music too) and always talked shit about it. So I started to only listen to it when I was alone. Whenever he "caught" me listening to metal he also said its because of this and this person. So in his eyes I couldn't have a taste in music by myself and it's just the influence of others. That felt so degrading and it honestly made me stop listening for years. After I left him it was like coming home to myself and be myself again. I'd say that I got rid of my exorcist!
I was a late bloomer. I didn't really start listening to metal until I was 17 straight out of high school, I was told I was going through a faze by friends and relatives, well Im 57 now and still haven't gotten over the faze yet and boubt I ever will. In fact my taste has gotten heavier the older I got
I’m 47 and still metal with my taste also getting heavier and more diverse as I get older.
There is no such thing as "late bloomer" when it comes to music taste. It's not 1950....
I never really had that problem. Most of my friends have listened to metal or if they didnt ive known them for a long time and music taste doesnt matter
I thankfully never had to deal with this problem, my father is a metalhead, my mom's mom was a metalhead before she became die-hard christian, my dad's parents didn't care, my aunt was a metalhead, my teachers didn't care as long as it didn't break dress code (aka no chains at all) hell my US History teacher in High School is the singer of a punk band, and I quickly found friends that were into metal as well (I was the loner kid that sat towards the back of the cafeteria anyway), it's actually because of one of my friends that I first heard anything heavier than Slipknot or Slayer (Venom's Black Metal album specifically) but my dad for sure went through that cuz he grew up in the 80s during the height of, what is referred to as, the Satanic Panic, he actually got dragged to a "concert" from one of Black Sabbath's old members that went full on "metal is the devil's music", he also made a bet with a pastor that if he spent 1 week listening to christian music he would convert from the lyrics and if he didn't the pastor would pay him back for all the albums he bought, what my dad did was go to the record store and found some albums from Christian Black Metal bands that were honestly more brutal than even stuff from HorrorCore rap (see MCBushpig's song Clinical Sodomy)
holey shit you like mc bushpig too?!?!? im a big butchers harem fan!!!!!1
@@killchrist124 it's honestly the only song I know by him but I'm just a fan of dark shit in stuff in general that I may have heard others but just not known it
@@gearsfan6669 oh…
I have been listening to Metal since I was 15 in 1987 I’m now 50. So many people tried to stop me listening to it. Foster parents would find my Metal albums I had to hide and they would burn them. Like I say I’m 50 now I still think Metal is the greatest form of music I’ve ever heard and will continue to listen as long as I live.
13 September 2022
There was a girl who conversed with me to stop listening to metal because of my provocative subject such as death and horror which is in short death metal, she's a Christian I'm a Christian too and we know what we believe she's just being opposite and compromising of what I like or enjoy in music so what I did is explaining to her about the instances of metal music to be broadened somewhat she disagrees of what other's do enjoy it's a big body bag to argue within differences in intererest.
I love Metal & being sober is hard now when you lived that party lifestyle. Metal can get through the tough times. Up the Irons bro!
I've been through different phases but metal has stayed through all of them.
Fortunately it seems I was lucky. My father is a music enjoyer so he understands my passion for music and even if he doesn't really like violent or Satanic imagery he has never told me to not listen to something or that it was just bad, simply he knows it's not his thing (but he appreciates metal subgenres like gothic, power or neoclassical metal), also my mother doesn't care, but I don't really share with her my music taste so she doesn't know what usually I listen to, and with my teachers I was lucky since when I mantioned (if asked) what music I like or play and I said metal their respond would always simply be "ok".
I should mention that I started listening to metal when I was 15/16 so I don't know I don't know how my middle school teachers would have reacted.
I used to have that problem and luckily I don't have that problem anymore. I'm 29 and I'll always love metal no matter what
Sage advice as always dude. Great to see you back. I've only ever heard of this happening here in Australia to younger people who were the offspring of fundamentalist Christian or Muslim parents. I know a couple of Muslim guys who, sadly, have to keep their love of metal a secret from their families.
This video reminds me of how fortunate I am growing up with rock/metal parents and family. No one ever tried to change my interests in anything. It just goes to show don't fear what you don't understand. I am 45 years old. My parents and family are rockers from the 70 and still are. I think my dad is the best example his favorite band was Judas Priest and still is he's pushing 70. 🤘🤘
There were people who tried to stop me from listening to metal but I made them understand that I meant it and they understood me and I understood their music taste as well and we are all cool
I don't have that problem I never really did because I keep a clean cut appearance for work reasons and also I was a really weird kid in school already so it wasn't a shocker when I got into metal
I haven't really got much flack from what I listen except from some family members, though most of the time my mother just say as long that it's Christian, as if she can tell what the lyrics are,lol, and even when my friends found out it was pretty chill and one did the horns, mostly some annoyances are in the internet, and uptight family members
I guess I was lucky, my family doesnt mind and I never really had more than a few friends anyway but beyond that some of the male teachers at high school wore Iron Maiden shirts and I could tell that they hangout and listen to them it actually helped me get to listening to more stuff. One day I was finishing homework in calculus class listening to Losfer Words by Iron Maiden through headphones but it was loud enough for people to hear cause I caught the teacher humming along.
Also awesome advice Metal Warewolf couldn't have said it better myself
Warewolf lol
I personally have never had anyone try to stop me from listening to metal I've had people talk crap about metal and make fun of me for liking it but I can remember this kid I went to high school with we would chat from time to time but we weren't really friends I remember asking him if he liked heavy metal music and he told me that his parents would let him listen to heavy metal cuz they were Christians and they thought heavy metal was the devil's music I thought it was kind of funny but I felt bad
Once metal is in your blood it never leaves.
You are so funny and I know exactly what you mean. I'm a metalhead for life and both family and friends have tried to change me unsuccessfully. The first metal band I ever heard was Black Sabbath in the 70s when I was a child and I always dressed in all black, spikes and safety pins in my ears. I've literally gotten into physical altercations over my music and appearance. Now, at 52 years old I still wear all black and my doc martens. I really don't care if I scare people because the ones that matter accept me for myself.
3:44 when you put it into words, you'll realise how ridiculous that truly is. :) Thanks
I'm 50 years old, and lived through all the panic during the 80's . The 20/20 specials, the PMRC, the satanic panic, all that. My parents tolerated me being a metalhead..lol. However I had this youth group teacher at church that blasted me in front of all my peers over a Van Halen album. (Hahahahaha) it's funny now, but at the time , it was crushing to me to get reamed out in front of everyone. I only brought in that album because I thought it was light enough for the other kids.. I left my slayer albums at home. Lol
I never had this problem. All my friends and people that I know respect the fact that I like metal. I did have one guy in high school that called it creetion music but I just ignored him. Even the people in my old catholic young adult groups respected the fact that I like metal. I have a good friend from one of those groups and I show him my music from time to time and he finds some of it interesting.
I remember back in High School I had ex friends that tried to stop me from becoming a Metalhead. They just didn't liked the subculture and the lyrics of the music and they thought that was a bad influence on me. But screw them, I don't need people like that in my life. I also had a preppy girl that liked me and wanted me to quit listening to Metal and change my dark clothes for Hollister, Aeropostale, Abercrombie, etc etc. I told her if you don't like this of that about me go for someone. I'm not gonna change for others
Remember to exercise your demons... Keep them in shape.
Black Metalhead we are biggest nerds tbh! And teacher is not for teacher tbh. And Black Metal is no drugs even no alcohol or cigarettes type of music... Hail Black Metal!
WB! Yeah, when I was first getting into metal, punk and new wave were the new big thing - much of which I liked, myself - but because the image I identified with mostly was metal [still is], I caught a lot of shit from friends and people I didn't know. "Cut your hair, faggot!" and "Heavy metal sucks!" were things I would often hear walking down the street from tough guys in cars as they sped past. I remember I was walking around with some gear on once, and some dude in a truck pulling out of his driveway said, "That's just Satanism", which isn't insulting to me in concept, but the fact that somebody would judge me as some kind of villain because of the clothes I had on was insulting. And, of course, as a musician, I got shit from [almost] everyone in my family. From women I'd be interested in, I'd hear a lot of "You'd be cute if you just cut your hair." And don't get me started on all of the jobs I couldn't get because of the way I looked - I was always broke as shit, while my friends always had money for stuff. I just got so sick of trying to explain myself - why should I? Of course, thrash and hardcore crossover happened, so I got a lot less flack from punk rockers, but my metal career never took flight, so I got a bunch of 'told ya so's.
I still don't care - I'm a lifer.
But now there's a new kind of ugly discrimination I never saw coming, and it's name is ageism: lots of young people [comparatively] new to the scene seem to judge older heshers as all racist/sexist/homophobic Nugent types, of which I never, ever was. This hurts a lot, because I've taken a lot of shit from older folks and people my own age for loving metal my whole life, and stayed fully into it - but now comes a whole wave of people saying I'm somehow to blame for a plethora of issues because I'm 'technically' [and just barely] considered a boomer. A lot of kids and young people are still cool, but there's plenty of judgemental a-holes coming up now too.
Yeah. My Work Skills teacher and My dad at school during summer holidays discussing something about the "music that I listen too" and SUPPOSEDLY having to throw it away AND My dad asking Me what I was listening to because I was singing a song about cocaine. It was My Ozzy Osbourne Speak of the Devil album cassette. He told Me to take it out of My tape deck and cracked it in half of the dining room chair. It's not the first time that My father deliberately committed vandalism, even when I wasn't there. And the list goes on. Heartbroken, but it didn't stop Me though. My male sibling, BEING THE FUCKING PRINCESS THAT HE IS...was, of course, ALLOWED to listen to WHATEVER HE WANTED! 🤔😒🙄🤨🤬
There would be issues like that, since there are still people who frown upon certain types of music. Otoh there are a lot of kids whose older relatives grew up listening to metal and stuff, so probably plenty of open minded folks too.
I had to hide some of my tapes and CDs because they were considered inappropriate.
If this comment repeated, my bad. My internet is complete shit right now.
i had a best friend of 10 years and like when i was 13 and started getting into metal music like he just severed all contact with me like he stopped talking to me in school not on the phone and we just stopped being best friends
Im quite lucky. No one close to me has tried to stop me from listening to metal. My parents hate it but they understand that I love it and it's the same with the rest of my family and closest friends. Iv had people at work try to stop me which is weird because I never play it in front of them.
My mom is just trying to make me feel bad somehow. She calls me weird and stuff but I am used to it🤷🏻♂️
Some people who don't like me and listens to slipknot and korn and stuff calls me a poser just bc I don't know the names from the people of the band. I am a bad learner so I can't change it🧍🏻♂️
Also my brother and my mom just mocks metal bands.
I took my bestfriend to a rock festival and she was just like "Wow they are just screaming, I can do that too".
I don't know why people just can't stop that. It's annoying
I've been through this several times. From time to time I see people talking bad about metal. I was once personally exhorted not to listen to rock music, this was because of a gossip they made about me. Honestly, those people who condemn metal and don't understand the lyrics of the songs should evaluate their concept well and see that not everyone who listens to metal is going to do shit. It's not because I like Cannibal Corpse that I'm going to become a murderer or practice necrophilia and it's not because I listen to Slayer that I'm going to become a Satanist, people have the habit of putting labels on people unfortunately.
I did have some family ask me why I listen to metal, and all I said was that I just like it. I think they just don't really understand the real extreme stuff. It's not for everyone. It's cathartic to me, but it's noise to another person, and that's fine, everyone has their own taste in music.
I grew up listening to metal ( started with a genre that the posters haven't heard of...Acid Rock at the age of 5)...& never was chided for it by anyone...
But to add something cheerful: my six year old daughter went to. Kindergarten in her Amon Amarth shirt and the teachers where interested and even played some songs. One of the teachers is also very much into thrash metal, so it's all pretty cool 😁
That is awesome!!!!
No one tried to get me to stop listening to Metal. My mother got on me all the time about my hair. she said that people would think she was a bad parent for "letting me" grow my hair long. as if they wouldn't criticize her parenting skills for making me live my life her way.
I also had a great justification for being a Metalhead. I got into Metal in the early 80s so I told people that I prefer to not listen to Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, Huey Lewis, Hall And Oates and all the other crap that was out there. Fate gave me an option
Corey Hart or Slayer. I'll take Slayer please.
I was also a Christian back then (still am) so if any of my fellow Jesus freaks came at me I was armed with knowledge of scripture. One day in February of 1987 I went to see Dark Angel and Possessed. The show was at The Paradise in Boston and I had to walk from the T stop in Kenmore Square to get there. once I let the Kenmore station 2 men followed me. I don't know if they were LDS but they lectured me and I told them that Jesus was always talking about not judging people. Even though I'm a Christian I won't avoid Horror movies and Thrash Metal because I need to relax some wsy.
I scared the living hell out of my parents growing up in a lot of ways. I was very experimental in my youth with my relationships, skipping class, some light partying, and sneaking out. These things drove my parents mad but then I got into metal and boy did it really kick things up a notch. I remember vividly them throwing out all my cds and tossing out my shirts. I suppose they might have thought it was the music making me do all these crazy things but that was happening before the music, I was just a wild kid who turned out absolutely fine btw. I graduated college, hold down a job, and have a house at an age unheard of in my age group. (Not saying to anyone you have to do any of those things btw just contrasting their fears with conventional expectations)
The satanic panic is hugely to blame. And to the people who aren't a part of the metal community they'll never understand why we like and support such crazy bands. In metal the more extreme the better. What's accepted in metal is usually rejected by the "real world." Not to mention when tragedies like Columbine happen, the media seems to try and make it out to be the entertainment to blame. Mental illness is to blame. If someone does commit a horrible act and they are into metal, that doesn't mean the metal is to blame. But it's a battle we'll have to keep fighting.
I was taken on a ride with one of my parents (who mind you, has done no listening or research on metal, also religious so you know what to expect or do you?) and I was basically “explained” to for over an hour that metal lyrics have magic in their lyrics and how that magic will manipulate me into becoming a Satan worshipper and the very feeling of the songs will re shape me, imagine getting told that bullshit!! But I will give my parents credit as at one point they did turn a new leaf and tried to understand the music and took time to listen to the different genres and dissect lyrics so I must give them that credit.
I don’t dress like a metal head besides a few band tees I can’t grow my hair out I was cursed with curly hair that just looks like a Afro when I grow it out it doesn’t look good because I’m a pale white boy though some can pull the hairstyle off but one teacher told me I should listen to Christian music when I was wearing a cannibal corpse tee. And I don’t have any trouble with girls because I’m only really into metalhead girls goth girls and punk girls just alternative girls in general so they mostly like the same music I like or when it’s goth and punk girls I also like there music to and there more open minded when it comes to music like metal
I totally agree, and yes
Been a metalhead for 16 years and lucky in high school I had teacher that was a metal fan and got me into the Canadian prog band Rush which was his favorite band of all time. But at home my mom was a devout Christian and wouldn't allow metal music in the house. Her house her rules. Now that I'm almost 30 and leaving the nest I don't care what people think about what I listen too and what my beliefs are. I've been disrespected nurmous times by toxic friends, family, janitoral work, public school etc. I'm a devout Roman Catholic and metal music is my therapy. No where in the bible said it's evil. I'm African American living in the all white American Midwest dealt with racism and having a hard life and it's time for me to seek success and what makes me happy inside. From a mental illness patient.
Glad your feeling better
Always be true to your music
Don't let people dictate what you listen to
If they don't like it that's their problem
A true friend excepts you for who you are what ever kind of music you listen to
There is a saying " people are critical or condem what they don't understand"
Metal rules
Bang your head
Enjoy the metal 🤟
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@@Anonymous-wb3nz you got nothing better to do than pick holes In people's comments and wishing people well and comments
This is UA-cam
You are not sitting your A. Level exams
A few of teachers constantly comment on me liking metal, one in particular who always tells me I’m going through a phase, I share alotta my musical taste with my dad, I’ve been listening to metal since I was a little kid, I’m an adult now technically, the fact they even comment on it is ridiculous to me but quite funny, nonetheless I’ll be outta there real soon anyways 💀
I am a metal vocalist who is told by his friends and parents to soften out his metal vocals and sing more like Ed Sheeran. They associate my metal singing with a "Cat Yelling" or "someone being murdered".
My damn colleague tried to excorcise my metal demons today at work.
Now I can't stand this guy at the best of times, he's incompetent, he's always dodging customers cause he thinks they "might" shout at him and he's cost the company quite a few lucrative orders cause he failed to pay attention.
Oh yeah, and the sumbitch gave me Corona and I don't mean the beer.
He describes metal as "just screaming into a microphone" and played some generic drivel saying "see? This is music!"
And he wonders why I'm always humming amon amarth's "Blood Eagle!" He should be thankful he can't see the images spinning through my head!
What the hell is this new trend of trying to get people to stop listening to metal? Ive been listening to it for almost 40 years. Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus you name it I love it and will always love it. I have never heard of people trying to sway people from metal. This is wierd to hear of this. I would've said to your colleegue your wife screams when I am banging her and sounds more like music than the garbage you listen too bwahahah. I am a sarcastic sob and dont give a F. But I been this way my entire life so.
eeeeeewwwwwwwww, that's bad.
Your still making videos ? Good for you! Btw do you still think that grindcore is just an edgier name for metalcore ? Im just curious if you did your homeworks
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5:58 Very poor choice of words
Lol mom in middle school “honey your just going through a phase.” “ 15 years later I’m 29 still a metal head mom it’s not a phase.
What demons ?
You needed to take time for yourself
I grew up listening to metal...
No one can make me stop listening to the music that I love
My dad tried to get me to stop listening to metal and rap music.
All music is trendy and is a phase, but True Metal is not just music, it's the rest of your life
Tunes before poons 😎😎
Personally, I've never had anyone try to stop me from listening the Metal Music. However I've known some people who thought I was listening to the Devil's Music. These days, I like to make a joke "Hey I'm going to my local record store to buy some demon music"
Imagine living as a Korean metalhead under Christian Family. As you know, many old Christians in Korea are like Westboro Baptist Church, and they say even KPOoP is satanic music. Then, imagine what would happen when you come across them, while in shirt with satanic symbols. Besides, I was the only metalhead among almost 1000 students in my school. One thing good to be Korean metalhead is no young people gives a shhhhhieet about my attire, even if because they don't know anything about metal.
I really don’t understand why people think metal is a phase I mean no other form of music is treated this way. Why would I listen to metal till a certain age and then completely change my personality and dress sense and start listening to pop music like Ed Sheeran? Normies are the worst people
I once dated this Christian girl and she and her entire family tried to get me to stop listening to metal. They kept saying that it's a faze and that I shouldn't listen to Satan music. Of course I left her after that interaction.
I'm only 26 but my family had their priorities straight on that it's just music not meth like would you rather you're kid have a crush on will ramos or have meth mouth think about that
I can't say anyone ever tried to stop me from listening to metal and punk. Some people have judged me for it. But only the most hardcore of Bible-thumpers.
My dad is a metalhead so I don't have to deal with it alot hahaha
My dad just kept calling me a punk, so I became a black metal crust punk,
This shouldn't have to be mentioned, but I feel like it does: Respect is a two-way street. Treat people the way you want to be treated.
The respect issues described in this video do not apply exclusively to metal; metalheads are hardly the only group to be on the receiving end of those issues, despite insinuations otherwise. Make sure to give those who listen to other types of music the same courtesies and respect you expect to receive as a metalhead; otherwise, you are a hypocrite. I see too many metalheads (including friends) who talk a big game about letting people be free to listen to and enjoy the music they like without any judgement, who then turn around and judge others and give them shit for listening to rap or ska or country or kraut rock or gospel or radio rock or swing or rockabilly or pop or college rock or jazz or shoegaze or soft rock or edm or literally anything that isn't "metal" enough for them, even blues (!!!).
Metal is still a genre outside the norm even though it has gained an exponential amount of listeners and thank fucking God, who wants to be a normie anyway?
Never had anything like this. Iam me if people dont like it. Than fuck them dont care
My mom forced me to make a promise to never listen to black metal ever again I broke it :)
I find it funny when people from school and your leaving they're like "yeah let's keep in contact, we will still be friends"never happens 😂 I only talk to two people from then and they're both metalheads
You cannot preform a exorcism on metal demons. Because demons do not exist. Holds true with with the ideal of literately trying to preform and exorcism. And the idea that you can bargain your way to getting someone to do what you want.
Creepin on your video sorry. BUT I watch these at work and this is the 2nd video I've heard you say something like that in the intro. 1. We all care so it's nice you're being honest about your burnout. 2. Most of us are experiencing it too, so you're not alone. 3. You are so sweet and perfect in every way so never be sad. 4. Do your paranormal videos. It's ok if you switch gears to something that inspires you. We will all still watch it. Do what makes you happy. 🩵