Does anyone else like metal?

metalladdd · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:20 pm

It's pretty common for both metal fans on message boards and artists in interviews to list some bands they like that are totally not metal. Many of us listen to classical music, I've heard Depeche Mode come up in interviews with Arsis and In Flames. Most of us also have an appreciation for classic rock and some of us (myself) like rap.

Yet, the only 2 non-metal musician I've heard of listening to metal is Vinnie Paz from Jedi Mind Tricks and Ice T. When Vinnie was asked who he would like to tour with, he said Slayer and Cannical Corpse. And of course Ice T has collaborated with Six Feet Under, started Body Count (not good, but closer to metal than anything else he had done) and appeared several times in CC's "Centuries of Torment".

Say what you will about rap, but it is also tends to be an aggressive, male-dominated form of music. So my main question is, does anyone like metal besides metalheads? More specifically, does anyone who primarily listens to non-aggressive music like it? Could you name a modern classical composer or a jazz artist who's in to metal of any sort?

Goat · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:22 pm

Zorn's the obvious answer. I think there's a significant area of overlap, but it's hard to find out in many cases since these sort of people rarely get interviewed by metalheads, and who but metalheads would ask a question like that?

noodles · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:56 pm

Jon from The Mountain Goats is a pretty big metal fan.

aww yeah

traptunderice · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:23 pm

Lady Gaga!

Metastable To Chaos · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:20 pm

Sean Lennon is into Slayer.

Goat · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:26 pm

Thought of a couple more : Ryan Adams, alt-singer-songwriter & husband to Mandy Moore, is a metalhead. Thurston Moore out of Sonic Youth is totally kvlt, loves his blek metle.

The Annoying Frenchman · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:59 pm

Goat wrote:

Zorn's the obvious answer.

I love you. :wub:

Goat · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:01 pm

The Annoying Frenchman wrote:

Goat wrote:

Zorn's the obvious answer.

I love you. :wub:

I don't listen to enough Zorn. Should substitute some of my evening Jazzery for some of his stuff soon.

stevelovesmoonspell · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:39 am

Michael Savage listens to Metallica and upper tier acts like that, and I'm sure Nicholas Cage knows of black metal since his son is in a black metal band.

Whim · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:17 am

stevelovesmoonspell wrote:

Michael Savage listens to Metallica and upper tier acts like that, and I'm sure Nicholas Cage knows of black metal since his son is in a black metal band.

I heard somewhere that Jim Carrey's son is a vocalist in a Death Metal band, but I'm not 100% sure.

Goat · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:12 am

Jim Carrey himself, is an obvious pick. Isn't the Russian PM Medvedev a big metal fan, too? Saw something about him meeting Deep Purple...

traptunderice · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:05 pm

Goat wrote:

Jim Carrey himself, is an obvious pick.

Totally forgot that somehow.

Speedyjx · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:21 pm

Goat wrote:

Jim Carrey himself, is an obvious pick. Isn't the Russian PM Medvedev a big metal fan, too? Saw something about him meeting Deep Purple...

He also had Stratovarius shipped over for a private concert.

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