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Posted by: sigma7 Aug 12 2008, 01:43 AM

Hey GMC metal heads! I was verbally attacked today while driving to Stop and Shop for listening to one of my Favorite Bands, Sonata Arctica. But it was not the only time for i have been critisized for listen to disturbed, dethklok, and even Iron Maiden. All same type of genre...metal. Of course when you are listening to it with a group of people, they will not approach u. Luckilly for me, I am not into the gothic style so the attacks were a lot less harsh then would have been with a person with that particuliar style and taste. But an idea has struck me. If they hesitate to approach u while in a group, y not always be in a group. Or maybe a Union of headbangers haha.....

If there is ne1 sick of people mocking and putting down metal and/or is interested in a FRIENDLY world wide club to bring forth a greater popularity of metal, respond please and maybe we can get the wheels rolling haha that would be sweet

Posted by: Disturbed21 Aug 12 2008, 02:04 AM

I'm always made fun of for listening to metal. I hate it ! This is a good idea.

Posted by: Guitarman700 Aug 12 2008, 02:49 AM

some girls made fun of me at fye for buying a Morbid Angel CD. they both had Jonas brothers handbags, so that made it really funny, and i just laughed, realizing i actually had taste in music. unlike them.


Keep the metal faith alive! \m/(~_~)\m/

Posted by: TreyDeschamp Aug 12 2008, 02:54 AM

I'm with you man!
People at my school call me goth because i love metal. the thing is im not goth at all.
I dont call them black when there white for listening to rap.(sorry if that offends anyone i didnt mean for it to)

Posted by: bladzerok Aug 12 2008, 03:01 AM

ha this happen to me to! sometime when i walk on the street, some people( mostly "rappers") yell at me things like" go cut your hair" "get a life" or sometime they just try to emit a growling or screaming sound this kinda sucks, but im getting used to it and i make fun out of those unpolite persons

Posted by: fatb0t Aug 12 2008, 03:03 AM

Start working out, believe me - they'll leave you be =)

Posted by: bladzerok Aug 12 2008, 03:04 AM

yeah ive been called emo at shcool for the same thing lol and some of my friends too...

Posted by: sigma7 Aug 12 2008, 03:05 AM

haha my girlfriend makes me but they are in groups

ne1 care to make a universal club

Posted by: fatb0t Aug 12 2008, 03:37 AM

How old are you? These things will fade as time goes on I find. People will find you to be an individual and will respect you as time progresses. That's what happened to me anyways.

Posted by: sigma7 Aug 12 2008, 03:39 AM

i dont want it to fade... i want to make it bigger haha EXCELSIOR! lets make a world wide group...almost a secret society but not so secret

Posted by: VinceG Aug 12 2008, 04:23 AM

I dont think I've ever been confronted verbally by anyone before. I usually dress pretty casual, black metal shirt, blue jeans, and shoes. Sometimes when I feel like dressing up, I put on my camo pants, towing chains, boots, and metal shirts on public.

I think people are actually scared by my appearance since I look like I might go on a killing spree while listening to Decrepit Birth

Posted by: Lian Gerbino Aug 12 2008, 04:24 AM

I´m in ofcourse!!!

Posted by: Smikey2006 Aug 12 2008, 04:48 AM

I find if you don't try and deny your metal and you actually do things other than "be metal" people tend to leave you alone, my hair is getting pritty long now but i swim every couple of days and i try and hit the gym 3 times a week and most people who see me wearing baggy cargo pants and a variety of band t-shirts tend to leave me alone haha. Ive been harrassed a few times for listening to metal but all of my friends are metal heads and we are a pritty intimidating group. I think as long as people see you as a person and not just a scary looking metal head they wont really say anything to you. I remember getting into a fight with some kid because he wouldn't stop following me around and saying Metallica rules.. METALLICA RULES... funny story i'm not a huge metallica fan so i turned around and told him to stop and said i didn't even like metallica and he started growling at me so i did a terrible thing and sat him on his butt (in the friendliest way possible, i don't condone violence unless the person wont learn otherwise). as for a brotherhood of metal i know in London Ontario there is actually a metal club, which is a bunch of guys that just kinda get together and watch metal music videos (aka- walk with me in hell the dvd by Lamb of God) and go to metal shows and stuff together, its a really good group of guys. Im sure ill get more harrassment once my hair is fully grown, but i do workout and im pritty big so im sure no one will say too much

Posted by: sigma7 Aug 12 2008, 05:24 AM

lets make a group then that is out of London

Posted by: Fsgdjv Aug 12 2008, 06:17 AM

Geez you people are taking this a bit too seriously.

Posted by: Ian Bushell Aug 12 2008, 07:54 AM

Keep on rocking people... that's all that matters:)
\m/

Posted by: JeroenKole Aug 12 2008, 10:28 AM

I've been harrased many times in the past. but ever since I quite highschool I've never been harrassed again (funny though, because I'm going back to high school). During the last few months of high school I usually gave them a psycotic grin and asked them if they wanted to say that in my face. Especially funny when you know that you wouldn't hurt anything except for flies and other creepy crawly's.

But as Sam Dunn said, Metal is a culture all on it's own.

I'm here with you man. Keep the metal alive ^^

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Aug 12 2008, 11:33 AM

Yes, it's quite sad that people put down people who listen to metal. I mean, even if you don't like metal you don't have to put down a person who listens it, it's just pathetic, those people have problems and difficulties to accept different world around them.

Posted by: MickeM Aug 12 2008, 12:27 PM

I had no idea they come down on people who listen to metal. You should have been around in the 80's cos noone messed with us hardrockers then That would have meant trouble

For a buch to harass a single person, that's just low and cowardly. If you have a large group of people who harass others, if you face them one on one they will not say anything - since it doesn't serve a purpose when the group's not around. One guy, tops two, from this gathering would harass others while on their own. These are the guys (mostly guys) that you'll see behind bars or destroyed by drugs a few years from now and there's usualy some disorder behind their behaviour.

So there's no reason to be bothered really, just brush it off. The majority wouldn't say squat to you one on one, I think just knowing that is a victory at your end. And the guy who still whould will soon enough be in misery by his own actions, or harass the wrong guy. Which they usually don't since they are quite aware of who will mess them up if they do. (Read cowards)
Anyway, a small victory too, right?

A group of people who put down a single person does that to strengthen the group (the 10 of us showed him, yeah: isn't that pathetich huh?) but by no means does it strengthen the single individual within the group. It does the opposite really since you as an individual become more depending of the group and weaker as an individual. For example, lose the group and you'll have individuals who are now exposed to the enemies they made over time.


Summoning a bunch of people to feel strong isn't the way imho. Weightlifting, knowing how to defend yourself etc, building your body to strenghten your selfesteem (if that's what's lacking) is a good way. If you're strong and if you can fight you'll be struck by -"I can defend myself, I know I can if it gets to that, so there's no reason for me to proove anything to anyone else."

Being able to walk passed this group, who will harass you, without even bothering, that's strong!
Walkin by them together with 100 other metal heads, you'd just be fooling yourself.

Posted by: blindwillie Aug 12 2008, 07:22 PM

Haha, I was going to say that. "What's wrong with this picture?"

About grouping up like that; chimps (real chimps, in nature) group up like that and beat the living daylights out of another chimp if they see him as an intruder. It looks very devious and evil when they track him and corner him and finally, most likely, kills him.

Posted by: MickeM Aug 12 2008, 07:41 PM

you're in trouble now

Posted by: Iron King Aug 13 2008, 05:59 AM

I don't have any tolerance for people seriously making fun of me
NONE
but at 6'6 and 230 pounds, it doesn't happen often

the worst I get is when people consider my taste in music to be stupid and bad.
That's just pure ignorance, and it usually comes from people that listen to top 40 stuff like Hannah Montana.
I actually feel bad that they are so closed minded when it comes to music. While they stick to what is popular I can enjoy some Evile, some SRV, and even some Bach.

The metal genre is really interesting in that it has a large following of die hard fans, but is likely the most hated genre in the world. It's not hated because of the music, it's hated because the media and society drills it into people's heads that metal is bad, it's full of drug addicts and violent people. All fans of metal are delinquents and criminals...blah blah blah

tell me, when you ask someone what kind of music they like, how often do you hear: "Anything but metal"?

Posted by: Smikey2006 Aug 13 2008, 11:36 PM

i agree with alot of this, except for the bottem statement, i hear anything but rap, or anything but contry alot more, since the whole emo/screamo scene started going more mainstream i see alot of people listening to "metal" Songs where there is the occasional scream people have started considering metal so i know lots of people who listen to Alexisonfire and call it metal but as soon as i put on some suffocation they look like they want to puke. more examples of "metal" would be

Linken park(rap metal.. went mainstream became crapmetal)
AfI-started screaming, ruined it by going emo, their first albums were awsome
Alexisonfire-they just got popular i have no beef
Atreyu-
A7X-

im not good at knowing these bands but the rock scene started going heavier and its making "metal" more listen to able, but when u really like the Br()()tol stuff and real metal like oldschool stuff you realise metal is a very generalized term now

Im all for a brotherhood of metal a Secret Society of metalheads, we all need the same pendant or something, something that every metalhead carries to show that they are part of the society!

Posted by: sigma7 Aug 14 2008, 06:49 PM

Maybe GMC *wink wink* could help us start 1 haha that would be sweet

Posted by: Spleeny Aug 17 2008, 04:30 PM

Long live the Metal!

Posted by: VinceG Aug 17 2008, 06:40 PM

Something like this?

Posted by: Young Guitarist Aug 17 2008, 08:07 PM

I dont get bugged for listening to metal, my friends listen to metal, evry1 at school thinks im pretty ok So they dont mind Metal at all, in fact the whole school went on Iron Maiden consert... in Oslo

Posted by: Enucleation Aug 17 2008, 10:48 PM

Um doesn't it seem a bit odd that considering people are called satanists for liking metal we'd have a pendant like that...

Posted by: VinceG Aug 18 2008, 12:59 AM

Haha, just a form of intimidation mate . Half the people in Black Metal uses it, and there not technically Satanist in both forms of the matter.

Posted by: Enucleation Aug 18 2008, 01:09 AM

Yeah but it doesn't make much sense if you get tired of being called a satanist but wear a satanist pendant to show your a member of a society.

Posted by: VinceG Aug 18 2008, 01:23 AM

Well, this is a universal thought.

Where you attracted to some sort of evil before you started listening to metal? Metal, no matter what genre it is, has an evil aura in it. Seriously, if any cannot take criticism from one of the most looked down genre in the history of music, then why even bother to listen to metal. Pentagram could relate to anything in Metal in general. Its not just satanism, or any of that stuff. Its a way for everyone to tell that you are part of this culture and being proud of it. I'm not a Satanist, but I see a Pentagram as being that pendant that tells everyone that I am a Metalhead.

Posted by: sigma7 Aug 18 2008, 01:26 AM

well, metal is only thought of as evil because people labeled it as so when it first started. But metal bands were attracted to metal not for the evil but for the rebellion...and rebellion is not evil...just take a look at starwars and such. METAL IS NOT EVIL UNLESS IF U MAKE IT SO!

Posted by: VinceG Aug 18 2008, 01:35 AM

Oh yea Black Sabbath wasn't evil in a way.

Iron Maiden?
Grim Reaper?
Venom?
Bathory?
Mercyful Fate?

Seriously, those bands where the first to sing about Evilness in Metal. Sure, it could also be rebellion, but really... its not evil?

Posted by: sigma7 Aug 18 2008, 01:39 AM

im not saying they dont n have evil lyrics and such but thats because they chose to be evil. Metal doesnt have to be about evil stuff, its just a stereotype.

Posted by: VinceG Aug 18 2008, 01:44 AM

I know man

Posted by: g-forcelover Aug 18 2008, 01:49 AM

Im in! how bout carrying a pick of some sort, all matching

everyone think I listen to all the new crap, but im prepared for this year with slipknot shirts, all types of metalish clothing, and long hair. People will know that metal can't be destroyed!

Posted by: sigma7 Aug 18 2008, 01:53 AM

i cant grow long hair my hair kind of poofs out more than straight jhair because its so thick...its not even curly haha a pick isnt a bad idea

Posted by: g-forcelover Aug 18 2008, 01:54 AM

We just need to find out what kind of pick

Posted by: sigma7 Aug 18 2008, 02:11 AM

ya maybe ne commentts or help?

Posted by: Disturbed21 Aug 18 2008, 03:45 AM

While we're deciding which pick we should use we should think about what else we would need for this group.

Posted by: Enucleation Aug 18 2008, 04:59 AM

I think a pick would be better, the pentagram just seems to destroy the purpose.

Posted by: Outlaw2112 Aug 18 2008, 05:32 AM

Im 39 and still a metalhead, and catch all kinds of stuff from people, but im also 6'3" 235lbs so they dont say too much... Most of the stuff i get is "when are you gonna grow up", and i usually reply that im bigger than you so looks like im already grown up..

Be yourself and like what you like, and not care about what other people think... in the end they will like you cause you are real and not some poser...

Posted by: sigma7 Aug 18 2008, 05:36 AM

Im 17... u no 5'11'' 178 pounds but I do have muscles and no how to fight since i took martial arts my entire life haha

but wouldnt be cool if we did have a secret club, almost like a biker gang

ne ideas for a pick and how to start this officially?

Posted by: g-forcelover Aug 18 2008, 04:23 PM

Does anyone know what kind of pick Chuck Schuldiner used?

Posted by: Enucleation Aug 18 2008, 09:49 PM

I think it was a .88 Dunlop Tortex.