Why I'm a metalhead.

[FraternallyYours]

This is more of a playlist dump than a MyTake. So if you don't like extreme music you want to leave.

This is my music of choice.

Whenever people ask me what kind of music I'm into and I tell them I primarily listen to rock and metal music they always ask the same thing- Why?

Why would someone like me, the furthest thing from a booze-fueled, testosterone-laden hesher, have anything to do with heavy music? It comes down to how the music makes me feel. I like the aggression of it, and how it makes me feel a part of something.

I started listening to this kind of music way back when I was 11 years old. My father got a good-paying job in a town hours away from the one we were living in, so the whole family uprooted and moved. I went to a new school and knew absolutely nobody, I was the quiet kid and I was also going through puberty far earlier than my classmates. As you would imagine, the more established kids would pick on me horrendously.

I felt alone, isolated, and afraid.

Eventually, I did make friends at school, and one of those friends was a huge fan of stuff like Slipknot. She would show me some of the magazines with all these different bands and being the artistic type I was drawn to a lot of the artwork and the outlandish images some of the bands were trying to portray. In these bands and artists, I saw outcasts like me.

My new friend took note of my budding interest in Rock/Metal as well as the Goth subculture, so she eventually sent me a bunch of Limewire links (Oh Lord) via MSN Messenger for stuff like Slipknot (of course), old school Metallica, Slayer, Marilyn Manson, etc. Needless to say, I obliterated my parents' computer with viruses in my quest to consume a bunch of music they likely didn't approve of.

I've been through some serious shit since then, but this music that people claim a girl like me shouldn't enjoy has always helped me pull through the tough times and motivated me to give %110 in everything I set my mind to. If you ask me, growing up a metalhead has propelled me to where I am today.

[Hellraiser1984]

I love it for the same reasons. Bullying, abusive father, mother who chose him over her kids. No family, interested in ghosts, warlords, and monsters. It's cathartic. I listen to cradle of filth or dimmu borgir and I imagine destroying my enemies and am relaxed. I fall asleep. I like Industrial because it (I don't mean this in a bad way) it's synthetic and it gives me a sense of disconnection from reality. I'm somewhere else. Not here. I don't like rap or country because I just don't. I like ICP because they're funny. Lots of love for weird Al too. Rock on my sister!

[ohshee]

I love all music it starts with the beat the Rhythm the speaking of the instrument more than speaking of the voice of the person I think a lot of times that ruins the song
The songs that you have chosen I do like the music part of it the rest I could do without just because I want to understand I want to feel the music but I think it's cool that you like what you like it says a lot about you in a lot of different ways and that's cool we all have our own style and our own reasons for liking the music that we like it I think that's cool

[ohshee]

https://youtu.be/HMOwjUlof5Q

[klingelton2202]

These are interesting and fascinating. They are great for me

[klingelton2202]

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[lrina]

i'm a metal head as well!

[zeitgeist057]

I'm a fan of metal, but I'm also a fan of many other genres as well for some of the same, and some different reasons. I totally get the aggression factor, it's real, it can be very emotional in both an exciting and adrenaline pumping way as well as a deep sorrowful way.

One of my favorites is Arch Enemy. Like you, I DL'd the music, and I was listening to it for years before I even found out the lead singer was a female:

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Another genre is Gabber, which is a type of hardcore EDM. One of my favorite artists in this genre is Angerfist:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/x5pR0lC589Y

I think probably the one I listened to the most though was NIN, which was kind of a happy accident. I bought this old beater truck from a tow yard, it had been impounded and a lien on it and the owner abandoned it, so I got it for $600 and it had "Pretty Hate Machine" in the tape deck. I just listened to it over and over. The lyrics were exceptionally meaningful and pertinent to me. I was going through a lot of the same issues/topics covered by the artists such as a feeling of betrayal from religion, manic-depressive tendencies, and romantic heartships.


Even though it's extreme, and downright scary to some people, I find a song like "We're in This Together Now" very romantic, and I always thought how sweet it would be to play it at my wedding if I ever got married.

I also find other genres to be very powerful and moving, here are some other examples:

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I am always seeking out more music that feels powerful, moves and inspires me.

[erandal]

We are all slightly different and music is very important in defining who you are. You found yourself in a point in your life where you were looking for direction. When you were introduced to Slipknot you saw something that clicked inside you, it may have been the music, the lyrics or a combination of both but it related to how you felt and how you were developing.

I was not too dissimilar to you until one day I listed to Metallica's "... And Justice For All" and with that single moment something clicked and the rest as they say is history.

But never think that you are not normal. You'd be surprised how many 'normal' people like just the same music as you for exactly the same reasons. ;-)

[KevVickinz]

Yeah there is really no reason we like the music we do. It's jus the personality we are born with that will make us understand and gravitate to a certain genre more.. like for me I'm a laid-back calmn sort of person so funky 90s hip-hop really fits my vibe

[KevVickinz]

Also because I'm a bit of a bad ass and rebellious lol

[Wester1967]

Rock On

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pt71nNm0w4khttps://www.youtube.com/embed/7T4LnsuB9Mshttps://www.youtube.com/embed/dGR8C4AXLDhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/L397TWLwrUU

[Valso]

LOL, Cradle, I hadn't heard these posers for ages!
Apart from Mayhem, there's nothing extreme in the rest you've posted - they're what I call "bratty metal". Extreme are Satyricon, Thyrfing, even some songs of Finntroll.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LuBswygtF0w

[jshm2]

In other words:

"How to tell people you may not have coronavirus, but you've never had taste anyway, so don't know," but with Youtube videos?

[20yearsolder]

Nice choices, I think it's badass that you're in a metal head. Nothing wrong with that sister, hold your head high

[Anno2]

If you like In Flames try Dark Tranquility, they're also big in swedish melodic death metal.

[FýrdracaDócincel]

You're a metalhead because you laughably think you're an individual.

[Creampiekarl420]

I love metal but people who look like me don’t really enjoy it so I either enjoy it alone or not at all

[Anonymous]

Up your game and give Black Metal a try. It’ll put some hair on your chest.

[Anonymous]

i like heavy metal and rock music too nothing wrong with that. listen to what you enjoy and what makes you feel good

[ShadezMcgee]

Metal will always be life. Good take.

[Andres77]

Arkona is my flavor of metal.

[Nikki1989]

I love all those bands.

[Jouth]

Now tell us why you're a methhead.

[EffaMan]

I love metal \m/