Metal Reviews

right. you know, when you're walking down the street or are in the subway or whatever, you see another metalhead (that you don't know), do you salute them or something?

i see them all the time but i never say anything because they'll probably think i'm making fun of them (note: i don't look metal at all).

just wondering if you do that.

Well I sorta do, but I know all of the real Metalheads around here. So I have a reason to say "Hello". If it's Hot Topic kids I just tell them to die and move along.

i'm more likely to nod at someone wearing a Yes t-shirt or something psychedelic looking than someone bedecked in studs and denim. the noticeably obvious metalheads tend to be of the mallgoth or bay-thrash-and-power persuasions and I don't really have much to say to them..

I don't salute someone I don't know but I do look if someone has long hair like me and is wearing a band t-shirt or something like that, sort of like acknowledging their presence.

No. It reminds me of some horrible series of adverts Kerrang! TV were running a few years ago where these two awful posers were 'talking music' with an old-school guy.

One of the ads had this utterly gormless, hacket, shaven headed girl saying "You ever notice, right, trendies don't acknowledge each other, but if you see a mosher you can be like ``alright!``"

(For the British members it sounded like: "You ever naowtice, roight, trendies don't ack-now-ledge each uvvah, but if you see a moshah you can be laak ``awright!``")

I don't like thinking someone is automatically my friend because we like similar music. Lots of arsehats listen to Metal.

But then there's no harm in complimenting a particualr t-shirt or something. You can't be in a rock pub/club in glasgow without getting saluted for your Manowar t-shirt.

I don't think I've ever seen a metalhead.

The one time I've ever run into another metalhead here, I complimented her shirt, and we proceeded to get into a half-hour discussion of all the things we had in common and became friends. This is after three years of never seeing another metalhead, ever.

I always give my salutes to fellow true metal brethrens .

If i feel like it i'd just chat up with them. I enjoy chatting about music, still it doesnt mean i'd accept them as friends on the go.

I may compliment someone's band T-shirt occasionally. And i shoot the shit with fellow metalheads at gigs and bars.

i don't mean befriend them, i mean, you know, "acknowledging" them.

i don't mean befriend them, i mean, you know, "acknowledging" them.

I only know two other people who like metal.

uhh, if i see someone wearing the shirt of a band i like i tell them i like their shirt

I do while browsing the music store. Occassionaly, someone in the metal section will comment on the cd that I have in my hands or vice versa. The music store that I go to has a listening booth, and I've had a couple instances were a metalhead gave me his headphones to have a llsten.

I never say anything either, it's weird. I mean, occasionally someone may say to me, "Nice shirt, dude!" obviously referring to the band, but I just go "Thanks." and keep walking. Hahaha. What the hell am I supposed to say? That's why I never say anything, shit is just weird.

I saw Charlotte Martin last week, she's like Tori Amos in style. I wore my The Haunted shirt. Hahaha. I'm sitting there with my ex-girlfriend and up walks this dude in a fucking Immolation shirt! Hahaha. We both looked at each other, but said nothing. Likely he was thinking what I was thinking, "Fuck...I just caught at a chick show!" Hahahaha.

wait, people actually like the haunted? :shock:

Unlike you, yeah.

In my case, there's no one else to acknowledge. I live in a place populated by hippies, dykes, preps and frat boys.

HAHA yea I guess after seeing something like that it would ruin the whole "acknowledging" experience. I've gotten complimented a few times while wearing an Iron Maiden T-shirt, and a few times I have struck up conversations with people who were listening to metal or who wore certain clothes. Yes there are plenty of wierdos out there but I have made friends and met other musicians just by mentioning something trivial.

Same. However, I am quite lucky to still be in contact with 3 people from high school into metal. Sure 2 of them got more into metal with my help, but I don't try to forcibly convert people, just show them the path.