"Hey there rub a dub subs" yep, that's a pretty kvlt quote right there

I remember that news story. I went to a christian high school and we had a special assembly so they could preach at us about how evil heavy metal was. The funny thing is they used Limp Bizkit as an example.

I would fully embrace the metal stereotype in high school, just to freak people out. I remember showing up to school on Halloween wearing corpse paint, and spikes. Still hilarious to this day.

I always thought the best fictitious portrayal of metalheads will always be Deathgasm

Dude, my nickname right now in my high school is Satan because I'm a metalhead. My friends will also sometimes call me a school shooter because of my long hair. I don't mind it, it's funny and just for shits and gigs... That's my experience with the metal stereotype

I'm in high school like some other commenters here. My school is filled with snobby rich white kids who have nothing better to do than spend their parents' money getting high and drunk at raves. Usually I'll just get weird looks for my band shirts, but sometimes someone will ask to hear what I'm listening to, see my Spotify open, or hear it unintentionally from headphone noise bleed, and will make a comment like "Wow I didn't know you listened to screamo".

I've never been called a satanist in High School has nor my best friend, we were pretty sociable and were described as "very chill and comical". The only thing that has happened was when i brought my guitar with me to school(along with an amp). I was walking to my Theatre Arts class with my guitar and amp then a cop had stopped me and asked what was in it and i replied "Not a gun", then he said that he didn't believe me so i had opened the case and.....kazam a guitar. That was the only thing that had happened (it was my Senior Year).

high school is a bitch to heavy metal

I never really had a problem with stereotypes. But the way metalheads are represented on tv here in Greece is not the best. I'm always arguing about metal with a guy who is religious and he just can't accept that I'm a christian and like metal at the same time. Like why can't people be more open minded and stop letting the media brainwashing them?

so far one of the better representations in fictional media i saw was in criminal minds, in one episode a body of a girl appears in the woods mutilated and with candles and stuff. in the town everybody acussed the group of metalheads that used to meet in an abandoned warehouse...well, turned out the metalheads were just a group of friends that met to talk, drink, listen to music and ocassionaly paint a grafiti to pretend they are hardcore, they were framed by the son of the police chief, who was a religious fanatic i think...the thinq is the police chief´s son killed a young girl, left the corpse in the woods, lit up candles and wrote hail satan to make the agents arrest the metalheads...i was glad they didnt go with the easy stereotipical way

Reminds me of that one episode of the anime Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid where there was a stereotypical metalhead portrayed. There was even the stereotypical death growling you mentioned. I found it pretty funny.

If I type metalhead on my phone, autocorrect makes it say meathead 😐

I agree with you. I think you should also talk about the public's opinion of us. I know christian metalheads that have been stopped and asked if they know jesus. Some of people's ideas of what metalheads are like is somewhat advantageous. Violent brutal people especially when wearing a cannibal corpse shirt with the battle vest, so people tend to leave you alone. I get some crazy looks when I smile or hold a door for someone or even be sociable and make small talk with someone. Today it happened. An elderly woman dropped some money on the ground and when I picked it up for her people thought I was going to steal it.

I hate that when i tell people i listen to metal they call me emo

"corpsegrinders's neck" XD

My nickname in high school was "Korpse" because of my last name Korff. Needless to say I really liked it. Especially that a teacher gave it to me. Great video, by the way, as usual! Keep up the good work, man!

you're vids are great man. you always hit the nail on the head and I hope you keep making more videos\m/

I'm a devout Christian and metalhead. I just don't listen to Gorgoroth because they sound bad. The stereotypes don't bother me.

There’s this one ad in the Uk and it’s hilarious as a metalhead. It’s a train ad and there’s this woman, when she’s on the train it’s playing some easy listening music, and when she’s driving and stuck in traffic and it’s raining and shit it plays a fake stereotypical metal song. While the guy doing the voiceover says “would you rather classical... or Thrash metal..?” It’s so stereotypical and shut but it’s so easy to poke fun at

I've just come to embrace this kind of thing. Anyone whose gonna judge me like that isn't worth my time.

As a Satanist /and/ a metal head, I completely agree. I find it comical how people portray us in movies and shows. The only show I've seen that got it even relatively right was Criminal Minds when Aaron Paul played a Satanist character.

I don't think I have ever been so early that it's not even in HD yet.

really cool to hear you mention someone i follow, love that guy.

This metalhead never gets offended. Taking offence is non-metal.

Hey I was wandering if you could do a video on all the subgenre history. Been a sub for quite a while now, keep up the good work man

Hey, what's up? Cool video, as always. On this one I find particularly interesting and I must agree with you on some stuff but I do have a different opinion on the potrayal of Metal Heads on "fake" media. I'm 29 so I'm past the highschool crap, yeah people were scared of me in highschool. In college nobody cared. I'm a guitar and vocal instructor. I lead a "School of Rock" type of project, and we do have a lot of kids. However, I stumble upon some difficulties when I talk to them about heavy music in general. I must always talk to them about Rock and not Metal, because most of them don't even understand the difference (my older students do understand and many of them are metal heads in metal bands). After inquiring most of the kids about what they thought what a person who liked and played Rock is like, they pretty much described to me a punk rocker. A guy with mohawk, many tattoos, piercings, wearing lots of chains and agressive accessories, with "crazy clothing" and "crazy attitude" (I have no idea where they are getting this from). A little girl of 8 years old justified that it was what she had seen on the Regular Show. This made us need to promote an "open day" to get the parents in and to explain to them that although our speciality of teaching Rock and Metal to their children, didn't imply that we would turn them into murdering devil worshiping drug addicts. We had to explain some stuff, the origins of certain genres and that peoples' personal choices and beliefs sometimes are linked to entire movements and may give all of them a bad rep.

The only thing about fictional media is that it gets a little cringey sometimes, you can just tell they didn't do proper research but it's no big deal. When it comes to real life stuff, you're right, the dumb comments dissappear after high school

Lol under 301 club?!? Oh right, we don't do that anymore

I fucking love your Alice Cooper shirt!

At school I personally don't get persecuted for being a metalhead, even though at my school we have to wear uniforms I have mentioned that I'm a fan of metal and on the rare occasions that we get to wear whatever we want I often wear a band shirt. One time a girl actually complimented my Metallica Master Of Puppets shirt and when I sung Army Of The Night by Powerwolf for the talent show people complimented my singing ability, so I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.

A suggestion would be to put a semi colon between the band and the album in the warning/reccomendation section of the description :)

I discovered your channel a few months ago and I'm loving it. Greetings from Spain

Yay you finally have a much louder mic!

I actually made a super short tumblr post about this a little while ago!! It was something along the lines of, "Hey media, stop portraying metal as just screaming." or some shit.

Great video! I never had a bad experience with me being into metal, apart from the typical sexist things that sometimes happen but I don't really mind them. I usually only get a lot of hate when I say I'm a satanist, because I actually live by the "rules" of the Church of Satan (call it stupid, I don't care), and most people think I sacrifice goats and children and that I'm crazy or suicidal and into group sex and all of that. I remember there was a case in Russia a few years ago where some teenagers killed someone "in the name of Satan", and everyone stopped talking to me because they were "afraid of me", although I wouldn't even hurt a freaking bug lol

Hey man ik this is kinda off topic for the video but I had a couple questions. 1. how long did it take you to grow your hair and goatee after you cut if for work? and 2. do you play any instruments? me and my fiancee love your videos we watch them all the time lol not trying to leave a big ass rant or seem like I'm just trying to get attention. I'm just saying keep doing what your doing man and it's nice to see someone else from Canada who truly understands metal and is so polite and open and dosnt push his opinion onto the viewer. again I apologize if I came off rude or like I need to be in the spot light that's not how I ment it at all. keep doing what your doing man and rock on.

cool video man as always I have one thing like a little advice if u can get a better Webcam if u have 70 bucks u can get a really good webcam that is it keep on rocking brother

amazing video, like always.

One thing that I have noticed is that in children's shows there is usually a main character who is being bullied by either a punk person or a metalhead..

What did you think of the representation In the movie Airheads

I'm going to be doing my dissertation on this :D

i love your channel you're awesome

The show Bones had an episode based around a black metal band. It was kind of amusing.

I feel the same way about Lordi's albums. They haven't really had a good one for me since Deadache. I'm holding out for Monstereophonic but my hopes aren't high.

keep up the great work

I too saw that episode of Criminal Minds

2:18 I take ofence to this. Setting things on fire is for everybody, regardless of religion. :P

Guys, I need your help. I have been listening to black metal only for a little while and been loving bands like Horna, Ajattara and Impaled nazarene. Any bands or just albums to listen to?

what do u think about slipknot ever since I started watching I've wanted to know.

You make an interesting point on both sides. I got short hair and were band shirts all the time. It's what I like and I don't care what people say about it. I got a suggestion how about contestants on a singing competition television series who are metal heads. I do like Lordi but Scare Force One was the most disappointed album I've heard. But I do hope Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy) is better.

Lol I always liked lordi. havnt really kept up with their albums though like a lot of bands. I'm going to check that out. always makes me curious when someone says somethings really bad

So that is where fishers neck went

do you have a source for this dog strangling child news?

Most of the time, in the UK at least, when they talk about people (usually teenagers or young adults) that have committed a crime on the news, they never mention what sort of music they listen to unless it's metal, as if to say that's the reason why they did whatever it was that they did. There has never been a news story of that nature that I've seen when they mentioned the sort of music and it not be metal

I agree with the representation in actual media and it can be really messed up but I love seeing the stereotypes in fictional media

love the channel and I play drums. I'm a new metal head of one year and my favorite bands are slipknot and avenged sevenfold. Keep up the great work man!!!!!!!

BMW, I know of TV Cop show that didn't have any Characters thatw ere metal heads on it..Law& Order.. this was a straight up cop/legal show which was very good

I'm surprised there's not a lot of conversation about black metalheads. I've been into rock for a long time now. Started with Dio (R.I.P.) and I went from there. If I put on some Lamb of God at work and someone overheard it, I get looks like I'm about to strangle them. It's kinda funny to me because I don't fit the "look" but it helps keep energy up It would be cool if there was any other opinions about this ✌👽

I'm a christian and a metalhead, and I've got shit from both sides. I've been aproached by religious people trying to convert me, and is always funny when I show them my rosary, their faces xD. I've also attended a christian school my whole life and there were only a couple of metalheads, we were like 5 or so in the whole school. Never was a problem, except once when they asked a girl if she could please not wear a Manson shirt with a 666 blood print. Which, yeah, I kinda get it. But besides that, I've never got any negativity from the christians around me (which I'm gratefull for, PROGRESS YASS). Jesus christ, my aunt is my guide whenever I go to a concert in her city, just so I don't get lost. She waited in line with me at an Iron Maiden concert. And she is a nun. And the metalheads... most are chill, almost all my friends are atheist/agnostics and they don't give a fuck. I live my life and they live theirs. But I've met quite a few ones that are just... assholes. Literally some have tried to put me down once they discovered that I am a christian. Like not just jokes (gezz I can take that, I might even say some myself) but like hurtfull vile comments. One guu discovered that my uncle is a priest and he told me "Oh, so he is a profesional pedophile?". I didn't even respond, my atheist bff back me down on that one. But well, let's break some stereotypes while we can \_/

Todd & the Book of Pure Evil was the greatest TV show since MST3K.

aw, that's a shame, I'm friends with one of the production mangers for Lordi, he also is the production manger for WWE wrestling as well, Lordi is a great band, they just happen to be getting massively produced now. Please stick with them, they really do love their fans.

My School class and I had a political trip to Nuremburg and one of the guys I had to share a room with said just before going to bed: "Pls don't summon the devil or worship any other demon tonight", and it didn't seem that he was joking

Doesn't bother me much but that part about crime shows where metal bands end up being in some negative turn is so true, especially when they try to name the band in some dark, direct obvious way like "satan children", "lost souls" "murdering psychos", etc. But it does suck how the West Memphis Three were portrayed during their trails.

You could talk about the fluff on metal sites like metalinjection or brave words, anything Lars ulrich or Dave mustaine says takes up the entire page

metalocalypse is so hilarious

\m/ metal rules!

Out of curiosity I tried to find something online about that kid and have found nothing. Did anybody else find anything?

I legit made a spoof a current affair on metal being evil for my media project 2 days ago LMAO

If you have seen or read a lot about the west memphis three case you will find (believed or not if they are guilty) that a big part of the case against this three boy was based on their appearance it was all about "they have to practice Satanism because that heavy metal music the listen to and look how they dress" all that stuff and it was even worse because all this case happens in a small really religious town and there its when you see this stereotypes are so dangerous because most of the time if there its a murder that involved a "satanic ritual" the firs group of people that police will haunt will be the ones that fix in the "metalhead stereotype" and that's actually really really sad.

Hey man, love your videos. I was just wondering, since you like funny representations of metalheads in cartoons, if you've ever seen 'Detroit Metal City'? If you haven't, try checking it out, I think you'll like it. Anyway, keep up the great work dude!

Where did you find the Alice Cooper tshirt

I recommend watching a documentary called (West of Memphis). It's about 3 teenagers accused of being satanists and killing 3 little boys. One of them was wearing a Metallica tshirt in the movie.

elaaa

The highschool thing was never really an issue for me, with liking metal. A good portion of the "popular" crowd even liked metal. Our school was literally surrounded by corn, and full of farm kids... and they still liked metal. lol

what is the necklace that he wears?

Corpsegrinders_neck xD awesome name

i thought you were going to say that the last stand is bad........ :)

Well look no further than the west memphis 3 case. They convicted three innocent dudes because one wore black all the time, the other was a metallica fan. They got released after 18 years in freakin prison. I mean, it could have been any of us. That sends shivers don my spine.

I want Todd and the Book of Pure Evil to come back

👍🏻

Well because I'm polite and respectful to most people at my school apparently I'm "too nice" to like people and I can freak them out when I sing Slipknot. I think it's hilarious in all honesty

It slowed down for me after high school too but every once in a while I will get asked if I worship satan, at this point it's kinda funny but I'm still facepalming in my head, it happens the most when I wear any Slayer shirt... go figure haha

I'm starting a band called 37 blizzard funeral

A long time ago i bought a game cartridge, it was called "f u", i thought it stood for fun unaltered l then thought that it was a houses for rent

down here in louisiana usa its pretty bad sometimes. i have even had people just straight up start spitting bible verses at me if they so happen to hear my music playing in my car (mind you i dont blare it either). it does depend but i so not let it get to me. also by the way if you were 6 in the late 90's...you 24? just wondering bc i am haha.

Have you heard the New Sabaton Album?

Juvenile is a good descriptor

corpsegrinder is actually one of my friends on instagram, I have an idea. call jesus.

Makes me think of Murder by Numbers. Great movie, but I hate how one of the killers was a metalhead.

I don't listen to Eagles Of Death Metal, but their name suggests that they play metal music. In my country, the news referred to an Eagles Of Death Metal concert as a "rock" concert. Which I guess is kind of fine. They probably had no idea what metal is and said "screw it, they have guitars and they play fast, they're rock."

Hey man! Do you know Skálmöld? And if so what do you think of them? Stay brutal \m/

when I was in high school the majority of the people I went to school with assumed I was a satanist because i didn't stand for the pledge and I always meditated in first hour. other than that I found it funny when someone tried mocking me. when I watched South Park I would laugh at how much I connected with the goth kids and I loved the episode with them and the emos."THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THING!!!! "

When it comes to fictional media, I don't really care how they visually show metalheads. When going out, I fit the stereotype pretty good and at concerts, I see quite a lot of metalheads with band shirts, long hair, cargo paints etc... So I won't act like there is no "truth in television" if they choose to dress a metalhead character in this way, I'm perfectly fine with it. When it comes to villain roles, I don't really care either, everyone can be a villain, though a bit of originality wouldn't be bad. I think there are others who suffer far worse from stereotypes presented on television than metalheads... When it comes to news media, it would be nice if we were portrayed like regular people with a passion for a specific genre of music, who are part of a subculture, than some sort of freaks but again, I often find it more funny than irritating and in my country (Belgium), when metalheads get in the news, it is more often in a positive light than a negative (like the opening of a meeting place for metalheads or a last year, a corona-proof metal concert in open air).

"Corpsgrinders Neck" oh gods I'm done lol btw neck fight between Corpse Grinder and Corey Taylor? Anyone?

Watch the anime "Detroit Metal City", its hell lot of funny! but the Metalhead stereotype as a murderer its at its top ( But if you dont care you will piss your pants laughing)

Do you like Arch Enemy?

Wow, never been this early here.

3:03 my life

That's a really fucked up story of the boy and his dog.

currently in highschool called a satanist and got preached to