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It’s Perfectly Okay to Like Heavy Metal
What would you do if you were carpooling with a dude wearing a pink polo on the way to a night of clubbing, and when you ask him to pick a song, he chooses Orphan by Slipknot?
Many emotions might be running through your head, and you might have questions like what the hell? I am not in the mood for this, and why does this guy listen to music like this?
It turns out I’mI’m the guy in the pink polo who chose Slipknot.
Before you say I should have just read the room and choose a song to match the occasion, know that I did afterward, and we had a great time.
The point I’mI’m trying to illustrate is that looks can be deceiving when it comes to guessing what type of music somebody likes.
In my experience, people have become more openly eclectic as the years have gone on, especially with the millennial and gen Z crowd.
But I will say heavy metal music is the hardest genre to introduce people who are not musicians or metalheads already.
Today, I want to highlight some of the reasons anybody and everybody can enjoy heavy metal music, with the disclaimer that there are many sub-genres of metal, some of which I enjoy and some of which I do not.
