I'm from the old school of Metal era where Motorhead "Lemmy is GOD!", Ozzy, Preist, Maiden, MANOWAR, Early Motley Crue, Early Def Leppard and of course Sabbath were the only things on the menu. Everbody was cool with each other and you had common ground with allot of new Metalheads you met anywhere in the world.
Then the mid to late 80's came out and the lines were clearly drawn... Death, G.L.A.M., Speed and Black Metal were the sides you had to choose. This really pissed me off because my parents couldn't tell me what to listen too, but a bunch of assholes thought they could? I lost allot of friends at that time because they were sheep and felt they had to listen to one kind to be "Truly Metal". It was bad enough having to fight Preps, Jocks and Club Guidos on a daily basis for wearing a Metal Band's shirt when we were all just Metalheads, But then I had to add fucktard eliete metal jackasses to the list of people I had to punch in the throat.
It got to the point where I walked away from music all together, and concentrated on just horror movies for years. Then VH1 started playing all of the old Metal Videos and Behind the musics and I started to pay attention to what was out there again. But it just pissed me off that the whole bullshit "You can't listen to that if if you listen to this" game is still going on!
As in, since I like some Slipknot songs I'm not allowed to like songs from the band HIM. Well fuckt that running! I will continue to listen to what I feel like till I get my room at the Dirt Hotel. Oh and here's another one that'll probably revoke my "True Metal Pass", I like allot of different styles of music I've heard over the years!
So if I'm not in favor with the fucktard eliete of Metal I really don't give a shit because their all gimps anyway.
Good fuckin' topic!