Are metal bands more image centric than artists of any other genre? Seems like they're constantly posturing as tough alpha males in their press photos and in their lyrics but that couldn't be further from reality. Compared to pop stars where image is important but they're much more honest about who they are, no fake macho posturing.
Are metal bands more image centric than artists of any other genre...
Mason Brown
Christopher James
Metal isn't for you. When I was in high school you faggots just stuck with your black eyed peas and shit like all the other prep homos instead of pretending you were cool with metal. You made fun of Korn, SOAD, Slipknot, Metallica, Dragonforce, Linkin Park. I remember vividly. All these same complaints years later verbatim. DUDE NERDS DUDE SCREAMING DUDE EDGY LMAOOOOO BUT NO I LOVE SOME METAL THOUGH WHAT THE HIPSTER CRITICS APPROVE OF SO I LOOK COOL TO SOM EBITCH
Back then people like you shat on the real metalheads, called us greasy nerds because we wore all black and they wore gay ass Ralph Lauren. Fuck you, don't even pretend you get metal. It's for the outcasts who don't give a fuck about what other people think, not the drones.
Anthony Diaz
This.
Anthony Stewart
i like The Drones
Camden Lewis
cringe
Owen Turner
i hope that’s a copypasta
Colton Allen
Based pasta
Jayden Martin
pasta closes the thread
Joshua Williams
do you really believe that shit? watch any documentary such as centuries of torment and you will see they just like the imagery and aggression etc, of course they dont believe in actually torturing people and shit. Which i know you are kinda saying at the same time, but you mention 'macho', it's definitely not macho. I would argue that mumble rappers and shit are trying to be macho when they talk about guns and gangs etc. Unless you mean black metal bands that burn down churches and shit, yeah they are edgelords.
Ryan Watson
You only see it as "macho" because you're a pussy who's intimidated by NORMAL guys
You also hate anyone who plays sports, think pro wrestlers suck, and complain about people who drink beer and insists ITS GROSS, STOP PRETENDING TO LIKE IT, because you suffer from autism
Austin Carter
The guy on the left looks like he would play a biker extra in a Jackie Chan movie where he attacks Jackie Chan with a crowbar and Jackie Chan kicks his ass and exposes him for the fat retard that he is.
Hunter Flores
That's Vinnie Paul user, educate yourself before you go back to listening to grimes.
Colton Green
My point still stands.
Hunter Cook
and dimebag looks like a drunken maniac, it's true, he was, but he is still awesome
sorry they dont look like grimes
Nathan Phillips
dime was a fat poser that got btfo by a 92, rest in piss nigger
Alexander Long
you would actually have to be under 18 to post this
Justin Ramirez
>muhhh confederatecore
>muhhh chugs
Carter Phillips
only death metal and black metal are elitist and image centered. death metal being the slobby losers who used to be twinks when metalcore was trendy and moved on to something else, and black metal for the normie posers who watched a vice documentary andd think DUDE BURZUM DUDE MAYHEM image is cool and trendy for their e boy bullshit.
true metal warriors, i.e; power/trad metal fans, dont conform to an image because we ARE the image.
Julian Jackson
This is a completely different topic, these are just dorky people.
Cameron Jackson
The primary aesthetic of metal bands these days is just "I'm a fan of metal, here's a t-shirt of one of my favorite bands."
Gabriel Watson
>all bands should just be limp wristed faggots playing synthpop
god this board is so lame lol
Christian Johnson
dorky because authenticity>image, if thats too hard for you to understandd wimp
Bentley King
>The guy on the left looks like he would play a biker extra in a Jackie Chan movie where he attacks Jackie Chan with a crowbar and Jackie Chan kicks his ass and exposes him for the fat retard that he is.
What's your point? That proves nothing I said wrong.
Normal guys don't care if they have fat friends, might poke fun at them but not care. You caring about the image of other men is proving that you're a fussy little wuss-o.
Ian Martinez
Yeah that's pretty sad lmao, why aren't they like every single one of the based indie rock, pop, hip hop and edm singers that have the aesthetic of "I do drugs and have the sex a lot and I'm sad"
Daniel Gray
Okay, triggered dork :)
William Brown
Yes I bet your crew of you and your five fat friends look really cool when you show up anywhere within 10 feet of other females. Do you also pretend to be tough macho bikers that could get their asses kicked by Jackie Chan?
Alexander Stewart
god I fucking hate women.
Ryan Gray
Pleb.
Ayden Torres
you would actually have to be under 18 to enjoy Pantera's dogshit music
Ryder Scott
Pasta or not pasta this is based.
Jack Nguyen
It’s just a persona
Leo Bennett
Fuck off, I've seen metalfags fight over who is real metal and who is a lie.
No seriously.
I was fucking losing my sides when I saw it. It was so rediculous.
Apparently Death Metalheads do not like Extreme Metalheads.
Jack Smith
>no fake macho posturing
???????????
Dude that definitely exists, maybe not macho in the traditional sense, but more a false sense of danger, which could be seen as a reinterpretation of masculinity for edgy teenagers,
Jason Carter
It's so bad in the scene actually.
But it's almost as bad as the effeminate faggotry in the indie/punk scene.
What the actual fuck is happening to these scenes? I just want good music dammit.
Caleb Butler
Sounds a lot like when two rappers beef over who’s harder despite neither of them doing the shit they put in their songs. It’s a persona.
Isaiah Wilson
I think it's this idea that if we look a certain way, it adds to the music, but the opposite tends to happen. A go to example I use is black veil brides. Now...they look like massive faggots yes. But the lead singer is good and some of their songs are really good. But the image gets in the way imo.
Brody Miller
It's retarded is what it is.
Nathaniel Morris
>But the lead singer is good and some of their songs are really good.
They're awful.
Now Bring Me the Horizon had some interesting early music.
Dominic Cooper
indeed
Jonathan Reyes
>They're awful.
I disagree
>Now Bring Me the Horizon had some interesting early music.
Honestly didnt listen to them as a kid.
Nathan Barnes
They were pretty interesting for metalcore, then they just gave up on it and became pop trash.
Cooper Thomas
This record was ok. Listened to several tracks on it a fucking lot as a teen.
But then they went weird pop after that and they've been a joke since.
Henry Russell
You better take that back before they punch a drywall and get grounded.
Jason Morales
pasta or not pasta this is cringe
Christopher Bailey
Art is escapism you fucking spastic. Do you take literally every lyric you read?
Alexander Hernandez
The album after it wasn't all that pop (wasn't all that great either).
Sempiternal is when they brought in Fish and truly started being influenced by him.
Landon Hughes
I didn't like that record, but their early stuff was fucking great.
Tyler Green
>Art is escapism
so is masturbating to furry porn, doesn't make neither any more acceptable
Josiah Davis
Also that period of metalcore is fucking strange.
Like it almost reminds me of Goth music for some reason. It's angry, but really it's mainly sad and in despair.
Most metal avoids that because it's "effeminate" or some shit.
Now I look back, that period of metalcore really was strange. I don't think it will ever reemerge too. People are too afraid of being in that zone now. It's either too effem or macho for people. You're a fag now if you feel things. Your a jock if you hate things. I do both and that period of music resembles that feel.
How weird is that?
Eli Walker
I agree.
CYB and SS are both their best work, and their EP is also nice.
But I've grown to accept their later stuff, TTS and Amo are both fine albums own their own right.
Luis Carter
But why do outcasts have to adhere to one kind of terrible music? How do you make your ears like it?
Jonathan Stewart
Metal = good
Non metal = shit
Eli Morgan
Punk Metal hybrids are better because they don't care about image.
Jaxson Lee
Unironically based.
Jace Harris
>When I was in high school you faggots just stuck with your black eyed peas and shit like all the other prep homos instead of pretending you were cool with metal.
I went to a catholic school that literally had student metalcore bands on the steps at lunch.
What a weird school.. Couldn't do that shit in the bible belt I guess.
They weren't even close to Christian metal either, it was very controversial in retrospect.
Ian Russell
Rap is even funnier when it comes to posturing as alpha and stuff and being very far from the truth.
Christian Rodriguez
But when it get's it right it's pretty gud.
Mason Ross
So you reject art entirely because it's not "acceptable"?
your loss I guess
Ian Harris
god I hope this is a pasta
Joseph Perry
Once upon a time we lost the ability to distinguish art from our lives.
It's pretty hard though I must admit. But art's purpose is to push boundaries.
That's why the velvet underground and nico had a Jew, Nazi and talked about fucking hookers and shooting heroin. It makes a outpour of emotion.
Adrian Williams
I'm assuming that actually happens in some places, but in my town everyone respected metal as much as hip hop, etc. If anything, jocks respected nerds when they let their anger out.
Dominic Anderson
>Punk Metal hybrids are better because they don't care about image.
They care far more about image, they are all obsessed with looks and trendy fashion.
Literally the only reason metalcore fans pretend those bands are better than pure metal bands is because they find the band members more fashionable, you've got to be kidding with that bullshit
Mason Wright
RATS
oo hoo oohh
Matthew Perez
no i reject cringy metal "art" from my life because its retarded onions music you fucking smooth brain
Jason Foster
>posts scene kids
eh, it did get bad by 2010/11, then disappeared real quickly.
Most people into that stuff dress plainly mainly because they don't care about the way they look.
But that's not to say some didn't dress provocatively. If it was creative, people liked it.
I do find scene chicks cute though 2bh..
Asher Morales
Are you trying to say Jackie Chan mustn't be strong because he looks like a dork?
Every post you made in this thread is a shallow generalisation.
Easton Johnson
even if this was a copy pasta who ever made it is a fucking poser if he considers Nu-Metal actual metal
Austin Martin
There were many Christian metalcore bands now that I think about it.
Pretty strange when you think about it.
Tyler Brooks
It's not strange at all, people are made of rubber, and if you pull in one direction they'll shoot out the opposite way.