The Evil Dead wrote:
Do you guys ever run into this? I don't have the typical long hair and grubby attire of the typical metalhead. I keep my hair short and wear video game and horror movie t shirts most of the time and wear slim fit jeans. I have vans shoes and glasses also. I'm a pretty nerdy looking guy.
I don't have any tats because I'd rather just wear a t shirt or something that has something I like on it. Piercings I think look gay on guys so I have none of those either.
So in short, some guys will try to tell me that I'm not metal because of the way I look, or because I mention a metal band that's not Pantera. This attitude annoys me and I run into it sort of off and on either hanging out with friends at a bar or at shows.
My favorite part though is that most of these folks can't keep up with me and about as metal as they get is " Slayer " anyway, so I just laugh it off and don't bother to engage because it's a waste of time.
Anyone else deal with this? Or your thoughts on dressing " metal "?
You dress kinda of like how I dress. I wear band shirts, blue jeans or plaid shorts, vans, and I got short hair. I like to spike it up. No tats or piercings. If it's cold outside, I wear a leather jacket and I also got shades too for the sun. I like the rob halford mixed with street punk Metallica look. Cool and Simple.
I have the same problem with people too. My music is either too heavy or not brutal or metal enough. Most people think metal is either death metal, screaming vocals, metallica, pantera, or slayer. Most people refer to the "heavy stuff" as "hardcore shit". The people that I run into that say my music is not brutal enough listen to deathcore.
