Is This Band 'REAL METAL'??

[joulskafilms]

starting to listen to metal and seeing people gatekeep what is and isn’t metal feels like watching my parents argue at the dinner table over the bills

[FlareDarkStormGem]

It literally always comes back to "this band does cleans so it can't be metal" and I never understood that, it's so fucking fun to switch between cleans and screams in the middle of a song I love doing that

[WeAreNotExperts]

People will literally say every metal band isn't true metal.

[daniel-onyp]

If the drums go and the guitar goes it's metel

3.5k likes. bow chicka wow wow

[Possiblyclinicallyinsane]

People who think this are just people who have heard 2 total Metallica songs.

[IngrownToenail]

"alright let's see this"
"System of a dow-"
"YES THEY ARE"

[crypticlol]

Korn not only created nu metal, but were the literal pioneers of metalstep music

[LittleC]

Most of those "it's not metal" whiners actually mean
"It's not my kind of metal." But too many words confuse them...

[TheFallen]

I used to gate keep and say ____ band isn’t metal. And then I grew tf up.

[remoiredevilch.]

Happy to see Bullet get some love. My favorite band, and one of the bands that got me into metal when I was young along with Korn, Slipknot, and a few others. 20 years later, and it's lead me down the rabbit hole of even heavier bands. 🤘

[burrit]

Distirbed and SOAD were some of my first introductions to metal and now i'm obsessed

[rifrmthend]

I fuckinf hate it when people say Babymetal isn't metal. HAVE YOU EVER LISTENED TO THEM??? THEY'RE LITERALLY ALL ABOUT THIS GENRE

[ravenouscadaver]

*Aggressively headbanging to Beethoven's fifth*
🤘ITS ABSOLUTELY METAL🤘

[junnolaufeysdottir]

I was influenced by my brother on my "metal" journey, back when I was like— 9 year old. He let me to listen to Avenged Sevenfold, then BMTH, than other other other bands. My music now was basically korean pop, but I still am remembering all the lyrics of the metal songs I've heard since I was 9. I'm now 25. My favorite metal songs is still going to be listened to, especially when an assignment is reaching the deadline.

[theartsymoose]

Hall of the mountain king has a pretty nice and heavy.
Metal before metal.
Also I've heard Ghost described as the ABBA of metal and I 100% agree with that statement .

[UnicornzRreal]

Disturbed back in middle school 16yr ago was absolutely the shiiit

[Pennywise_]

Avenged Sevenfold has to be the most unfairly hated metal band

[LucaPariah]

Starset is getting pretty metal these days…I am so here for it, too 🤘

[Roddy-gd]

When my big bro had cancer he got to meet serj! He is still with us and has some signed memorabilia.

[rikkifknrobin]

Obviously he’s not playing the genre, but I think we can agree that Johnny Cash and Leadbelly* was metal as fuck