Top 10 Worst Kinds of Metal Fans

People who say these kinds of things are usually pretentious metal fans. Usually, no one gets into metal by chance. People get into metal through many steps, and some songs can't be ignored at any cost.

You don't need to solely listen to metal to be classified as a metalhead. I listen to a lot of rock and metal, but I also enjoy listening to ballads and EDM. I don't listen to EDM as much, but that doesn't mean I don't like it.

All genres of music have their share of good and bad. It's okay if you don't like a particular genre, but don't be close-minded about it.

I have respect for both bands because they are pretty good starter bands for beginner metalheads, and their music isn't that bad. However, perhaps we shouldn't be too big on them either. Linkin Park is clearly not metal, and Avenged Sevenfold lies a bit more with hard rock/metalcore with some heavy metal influences than actual pure metal itself. The Stage album is definitely metal in my opinion.

I cannot get this one. Avenged Sevenfold is a heavy metal/metalcore band while Linkin Park is mainly an alternative rock band with a great metal influence. Even if Linkin Park isn't totally metal, I cannot understand why metalheads who admit LP is their favorite band are thought to be bad metal fans.

More new wave bands get influence from Deep Purple, but Black Sabbath is still an important contributor.

Is this a joke? Please tell me no one actually thinks this.

Obviously they are rap. (Joking)

Without rock, there wouldn't be metal. Keep listening to those old rock songs. They put a lot of effort into them.

I love both rock and metal, though I listen to rock way more than metal. Disturbed all the way!

If rock didn't exist, metal wouldn't exist. I love both rock and metal.

That was the best period for Metallica. The Black Album was good but dropped towards the end. Load/Reload have standout songs, but boring ones at the same time. St. Anger sucks, Lulu sucks, Death Magnetic was alright.

Metallica's first four albums are the greatest. The three albums succeeding them were good. Death Magnetic was also a good comeback album. The band had really great songs in the '80s, so we can forgive them for making St. Anger and Lulu.

I could vote for most of these. Metalheads are way too pretentious. They live in their tiny metal ecosystem and cannot even compute anything outside it.

Power metal and prog metal are among the greatest metal genres of all time. Personally, I think these two genres are better and more unique than thrash, death, or black metal.

Most people seem to hate power metal because of how cheesy some bands can be, but not all of them are like that. Trust me.

Prog, like any other subgenre of metal, has its own sound. People need to stop acting like their preference is final.

Examples, but not limited to:

1. That kid who claims to be a metalhead, yet only heard Linkin Park.
2. That kid who only blasts brutal slam death, blackened funeral doom, or goregrind (which isn't really metal) just to boast how "br00tal" they are. They don't even like the music itself.

A poser is someone who wears a shirt of a band but can't name a song, or pretends to like metal.

Don't care about poser metal. I just listen to whatever I like.

Guys, it's all opinion. For example, thrash is my favorite genre. It's a hyperbole.

These fans sound like the absolute worst. Hating someone just for not listening to a band is absolutely absurd. No one should hate anybody for such a small, silly reason.

Just because I haven't heard of a band doesn't mean I'm automatically terrible. I bet some of my friends here have never heard bands like Bon Jovi or The Police, but I never got mad at them for not having heard such bands.

If I were that kind of fan, I would hate everyone, including my family, because they don't know Opeth. But thankfully, I'm not that kind of fan.

Okay, I love listening to Linkin Park, but even I know they aren't exactly flawless. They are a talented band, sure, but just because a band or artist is talented doesn't automatically mean they're flawless.

Let's be real: Nobody's perfect, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Linkin Park is probably not flawless, but it's by far the most versatile band of all time.

Every band has a flaw, but this is an opinion.

True, but in all honesty, it's created one of the more hilarious stereotypes in metal. The people within this group that are truly annoying are the black metal purists. In fact, most of them just troll for the laughs.

Some of them are, umm, rather creepy?

There are plenty of metal bands that don't use growling or screaming in their songs but are still pretty intense. Electric Wizard would be an example, mainly just Dopethrone though. Saying that you're not metal if you don't scream is like saying that bands like Metallica, Megadeth, and Iron Maiden aren't metal.

Have you heard of symphonic metal bands that only have operatic vocals? Those are awesome combinations of classical and metal music!

So instrumental metal songs aren't metal? The vocals aren't the only important part. Other instruments are also important.

I wouldn't say that they are the best band ever. They are one of the best metal bands, but hey, that's still subjective.

For me, they're the best metal band, but there are lots of other bands I like.

For the love of Lemmy, stop! You are criticizing others' opinions.

I'm sorry for disliking your inspiration. Conflicting opinions are divisive. We should all respect Lars, regardless of what our opinions are.

I'm not a huge fan of Lars either, but he still contributed to Metallica, which in turn contributed to metal in general.

Shut up. That's all I gotta say.

Oh hell... There's the "take me back to 1982" fans, the "take me back to 1986" fans, the "take me back to 2001" fans, the "take me back to 2004" fans, the "take me back to 2010" fans, and the "take me back to 2015" fans. That's just the first few categories that came to my mind.

The problem is, while most great metal musicians are alive and kicking, some of the very greatest aren't. Many fans cannot get over that. I mean, Friedman is alive, Ozzy is (somehow) alive, and there are some musicians who are alive, kicking, and under 7,000 years old. We'd all want a time machine, but there isn't one, so we gotta make do with the greats we still have. And hope that God doesn't need yet another music teacher anytime soon.

I can see where people are coming from saying that they're overrated, but I don't really get why some people hate them as if they're the worst band ever. At worst, I just find them boring, but nothing that would warrant labeling them one of the worst bands.

Haha, I feel like some of this stuff is aimed at me. A7X aren't the worst metal band. Black Veil Brides have that honor. But I still think A7X are very overrated and nothing special.

I like Avenged Sevenfold, but I like other bands too, you know.

To those types of metal fans, did you forget that around 50 years ago, metal bands were also "modern" because they were new at the time? Also, you can't expect metal to keep the same sound it did 50 years ago.

Rock has changed a lot, so why can't metal?

Some modern metal is bad, but some is really good. Modern simply refers to metal that's new. Jinjer, I think, would be considered "modern metal," but they're not bad in my opinion.

Those people who say "true" metal died with the Black Album.

Lemmy himself says that Motorhead aren't metal, but they obviously have metal in some of their songs.

They have some metal in their songs, but I wouldn't consider them a pure metal band.

My gosh, YES... elitists are the absolute worst. Music is supposed to bring people together, but elitism divides people.

Elitists are just incredibly rude to others for liking something that they don't. And from what I've seen, elitists also seem to get offended really easily.

I'm a metalhead, but I think it's absolutely okay if someone dislikes metal. You don't have to like the same stuff that we metalheads like.

Metallica is also just as awesome.

Oh, don't even get me started. I like both bands, but in my opinion, Metallica is better.