What does Heavy Metal mean to you?(or extreme music)

[Metalfreak]

@Moloc- good deal! Yeah I don't want to be like that either (when I have kids). My dad gives me shit sometimes but it's all in good fun. He's not one of those assholes who will throw my CDs away or anything. My mom likes some of it but she's never been big into concerts or collecting CDs though.

This reminds me, there's a chick who used to go to shows here all the time and about 4 or 5 years ago, she enlisted in the Air Force. Anyways, she actually did grow up on Bathory and Venom and the like. I thought that was pretty cool.

[Strange]

I'm not explicitly trying to expose my kids to metal, but if it's on I don't turn it off. I just hope some of my tastes rub off on them. I fear what will be popular ten years from now and that they'll be into some lame commercial shit. I want to instill in them a belief that just because something is popular you don't have to like it. it's OK to be different and listen to your own music. My 4-year-old has heard Skeletonwitch and said he liked it. And my 2-year-old dances to KMFDM.

But whatever they get into, I will respect it as long as they like it on its own merit and not because all their friends are into it. I don't want to be one of those parents that just knocks their kids' music like my father did. Twenty years from now i don't want to be saying something like, "What's that garbage you're listening to? You wanna hear real music? Bathory and Venom, now that's music for ya!"

As far as my kids go it's always interesting to see what they dig.

My 7 year old is all about Clutch and Mastodon.

My 5 year old is all over the map. Maiden, Hendrix, Amon Amarth, Mumford & Sons... I never know what he's going to ask for out of the blue.

As long as I can keep them clear of justin bieber or keisha or whatever then I feel like I'm doing my job.

[Knucklehead]

I still am at a loss for words, but thought I'd share this: this morning, I was listening to Storm of the Light's Bane while driving into work. When "Where Dead Angels Lie" came on, I got goosebumps. Literally -- fucking goosebumps.

That's why I listen to metal.

[badcarburetor]

Funny. I was listening to that same album on the way to work this morning.

[Metalfreak]

Fuck yeah! I get goosebumps sometimes too lol

[MenstrualBubbles]

Metal is good when your neighbors want to piss you off playing their shitty bass hip hop shaking your walls, so you get the idea to turn up the loudest, meanest metal you can find and blast it to high volume to see which one of us gets the cops called on first from the other neighbor...

[Diana]

As long as I can keep them clear of justin bieber or keisha or whatever then I feel like I'm doing my job.

The trick is to act like you LOVE Kesha and Bieber. "Hey kids, this music is AWWWWWWsome!!! Totally radical!" Then they'll be all "Fuck that mess, where's the Sabbath?"

[stewvee]

I still am at a loss for words, but thought I'd share this: this morning, I was listening to Storm of the Light's Bane while driving into work. When "Where Dead Angels Lie" came on, I got goosebumps. Literally -- fucking goosebumps.

That's why I listen to metal.

This is really the acid test. Shit happens all the time to me. It's kind of embarassing, right?

I'm just waiting for my son to get in that why phase and when he asks me why goosebumps, i'm going to say, because of Dissection, kid. Because of fuckin Dissection.

[Odinson666]

have a 14th month old who walks up to the computer and growls when she hears metal, she head bangs and like to talk to kiss as she walks around carrying the dvd box

[Ryan]

have a 14th month old who walks up to the computer and growls when she hears metal, she head bangs and like to talk to kiss as she walks around carrying the dvd box

that. is. incredible.

well done.

[Generubin]

Metal is good when your neighbors want to piss you off playing their shitty bass hip hop shaking your walls, so you get the idea to turn up the loudest, meanest metal you can find and blast it to high volume to see which one of us gets the cops called on first from the other neighbor...

It's good for drowning out the sounds of my neighbors fucking

[Metalfreak]

Metal is good when your neighbors want to piss you off playing their shitty bass hip hop shaking your walls, so you get the idea to turn up the loudest, meanest metal you can find and blast it to high volume to see which one of us gets the cops called on first from the other neighbor...

It's good for drowning out the sounds of my neighbors fucking

it's good for drowning out the sounds of my roommate's fucking.

When I used to live in Little 5, we had a tiny apartment and the walls were paperthin. We heard our neighbors all the time...they were funny though cause both of them would yell "woooohooooo" at the top of their lungs all the time. I would just beat the wall and yell shut up! They usually quieted down.

[Strange]

have a 14th month old who walks up to the computer and growls when she hears metal, she head bangs and like to talk to kiss as she walks around carrying the dvd box

Nice. My friend's kid used to call anything with growl-type vocals "Monster Music." She loved it.

My youngest son occasionally talks with a kinda creepy black metal type growl. It's cute and a tad disturbing at the same time.

[Strange]

As long as I can keep them clear of justin bieber or keisha or whatever then I feel like I'm doing my job.

The trick is to act like you LOVE Kesha and Bieber. "Hey kids, this music is AWWWWWWsome!!! Totally radical!" Then they'll be all "Fuck that mess, where's the Sabbath?"

I've considered that. I think that might be one of those "Cure (or perhaps in this case immunization) is worse than the disease" kinda things.