“Bands that suck nigger dick.” “True and false metal.” “The Rev / Paul Gray / Dimebag Darrell deserved to die.” “U mad bro?” These are all things you’d hear being spewed from the mouths of a sad majority of the fans of heavy metal music that I have encountered, and you’d probably agree with them. Music is what should bring people together. Music is a labor of love, regardless of the intention and context behind it. Hell, a song entitled “Entrails Ripped From a Virgin’s Cunt” is good to me, because it’s aggressive and it screams for me when I can’t scream myself. But there are other bands (whether they’re within the genre of heavy metal or not is solely a matter of opinion) such as Slipknot, Pantera, KoЯn, Linkin Park, Bullet For My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold, Evanescence and others that these metal elitists seem to despise simply because they’ve attained commercial recognition and they have enthusiastic fanbases. They’ve developed this militant code of what is “real metal” and what “sucks nigger dick”. (Not only is this stand elitist and egomaniacal, it is also racist and homophobic.) First of all, let me just say this: there is no such thing as suckiness in music, save for maybe extreme cases such as brokeNCYDE or Bring Me the Horizon. Only opinion. And these people shove their garbage opinions down people’s throats and constantly harass them just for having a wide range of musical tastes. They call them “posers” just for being who they are. And that’s just wrong. And then there’s another aspect: trolling. Trolls are people who deliberately talk shit on the internet just to piss people off. Some are successful. Some are easy to spot and thus, are called out on sight. Some, you really can’t tell whether they’re legit or just trolling. They also use a convoluted form of English usually reserved for genital mutilation fetish forums called “l33tspeak”. The most common phrase in l33tspeak is “u mad bro?” This phrase is the only retort that a troll can come up with when a person voices their strong disapproval of something, and behind this is the intention of only enraging the person even more. Another common phrase they use is “butthurt”. People get “butthurt” if they see something they don’t like. They mock the legitimate, justified anger of their victims. Schadenfreude is defined as taking pleasure in your fellow man’s pain. If there’s any word to describe the trolls’ and elitists’ intentions, it would be Schadenfreude. There is no better example of this than their relentless insulting of fallen heroes of music. These include Dimebag Darrell (guitarist for Pantera and Damageplan), Paul Gray (bass guitarist for Slipknot) and perhaps the biggest target, James Sullivan, AKA “The Rev” (drummer for Avenged Sevenfold). Seriously, how heartless can you get? Have you no regard for the feelings of the fans? Oh, that’s right. You want them to feel bad, because the music they listen to sucks, right? Like I said before, there is only opinion. I listen to bands that can be considered both “real” (Slayer, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Death, Anthrax, Testament, Iron Maiden, etc.) and “fake” (BFMV, Linkin Park, KoЯn, Slipknot, etc.) metal, and I am constantly made out to be the worst person in the world. It seems as if narrow-mindedness is the right-hand path. By resisting, I am apparently made out to be Satan. And guess what?
I’m damn proud of it.
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