I'm certainly not.  When my friends ask me what I listen to and I show them while driving in my truck, they look at me like I'm insane.  I'm a drumline/band nerd and hang out with such types mostly, but I also have "preppy" acquaintences.  I don't have long hair, or wear band shirts all the time...mainly because my high school has a dress code forbiding everything but a collared shirt and jeans (don't get me started) and I look strikingly average.  I also hunt or fish damn near every weekend.

I assume there's many more like me in here...could be interesting to see what kind of people we have in this here forum.

If I was *still* a stereotypical Metalhead at 35 years old, folks would have a different name for me - loser.

And all the science I don't understand
It's just my job 5 days a week

Borderline - I wear slightly baggy clothes and the occasional band shirt.

My school has a dress code as well, but we're limited to a specific uniform. We do have days where we can wear whatever we want and I'll break out a band shirt and baggy jeans. The only thing I can think of that makes me non-stereotypical is the fact that I listen to a wide variety of metal, from death to power, and in between. Most of the metalheads at my school stick to either Thrash or Power Metal, while I like that stuff, in combination with Prog, Death, and various other types that combine all types. 

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Borderline - I wear slightly baggy clothes and the occasional band shirt.

Same here. During the Grunge era(Or as I call it, the dark ages), I was always wearing a Black band Tshirt (Metallica, Slayer, Morbid Angel, NIN, etc...) with jeans and occasionally combat boots. That was part of the reason I went to Military school and I'm now in the military, so I can't really "Look the part" as far as long hair, facial hair and all that.
 
I can't wait to retire so I can grow the mullet that I always wanted.

Portnoy: I don't see what all the hoopla with SDV is....???
We've been playing Strange Deja Vu for years now!

Nah, no offense to you sterotypical metalheads, but all of those at my school are douche nozzles/

Definitely not a typical metalhead.  Most days I wear semi-nice jeans and a polo shirt or just a plain Gap shirt and I keep my hair buzzed most of the year.

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Yes, right down to the Lynrd Skynrd and Metallica t-shirts, black hi-top tennis shoes and crazy tight jeans.












Now really, how many of you fools believed THAT one?? I am not the typical anything.

"..Belphegor, I should note, has been credited with assuring regular bowel movements, so perhaps he might have a lasting effect on constipated mages."

ORIGINAL: Govt_Property
with jeans and occasionally combat boots.

One of my pet peeves is definitely people who wear combat boots..me being a soldier myself.

I'm an Earth Science teacher... sooo nope! 
I've got a short/clean haircut, I wear polo shirts.   I surf too... so my baggier surf clothes look kind of "skaterish"... but certainly not metal.  My dorky shirt and tie to work every day dont really fit the metalhead bill either...


If my students could only hear my rocking out to some STRAPPING YOUNG LAD or DILLENGER ESCAPE PLAN or some PANTERA....  yes they would probably question my sanity and be VERY surprised.... I love that.

On another note... do those of you who do not look like typical metal heads get the most surprised reactions from people when they find out what music you listen to?  
"Dude you look like you listen to Coldplay and Dave Matthews Band... I cant believe you listen to that kind of music"
 
So just because I listen to metal I have to wear all black, have six piercings, long hair and a full beard?   (Not that there is anything wrong with that)

Appearances can be decieving   (And I love coldplay and dmb by the way too...)

ORIGINAL: shawnson

 The only thing I can think of that makes me non-stereotypical is the fact that I listen to a wide variety of metal

 
i am a sterotypical metalhead, and damn proud of it, now excuse me while i put my \m/ in the air and headbang with my long hair to some thrash metal

I have the long hair, and I can proudly say I used to be one(ripped jeans, metallica t-shirt, shit-kickers) but now I tend to dress more casually...the long hair never lies though 

I was until I cut my hair. Now I'm just short haired white trash.

We managed to get our 64 year old substitute teacher rockin' out to DT one day. He liked it too.

Unlike the rest, I'm actually this much of a jerk in real life.

I don't know...I wear cargo shorts and metal t-shirts all the time...mostly death metal bands...

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not at all here...

www.myspace.com/rhinostike

i'm no metalhead...

ORIGINAL: yessurf

I'm an Earth Science teacher... sooo nope! 
I've got a short/clean haircut, I wear polo shirts.   I surf too... so my baggier surf clothes look kind of "skaterish"... but certainly not metal.  My dorky shirt and tie to work every day dont really fit the metalhead bill either...


If my students could only hear my rocking out to some STRAPPING YOUNG LAD or DILLENGER ESCAPE PLAN or some PANTERA....  yes they would probably question my sanity and be VERY surprised.... I love that.

On another note... do those of you who do not look like typical metal heads get the most surprised reactions from people when they find out what music you listen to?  
"Dude you look like you listen to Coldplay and Dave Matthews Band... I cant believe you listen to that kind of music"

So just because I listen to metal I have to wear all black, have six piercings, long hair and a full beard?   (Not that there is anything wrong with that)

Appearances can be decieving   (And I love coldplay and dmb by the way too...)

I've gotten many "dude, you look like a Backstreet Boy and like you listen to Reggaeton, electronica and coreographed pop!".  Until they get in the car and have their preppie eardrums blasted away by Opeth.

Nope, not stereotypical. I appreciate the luxuries of fine clothing and comfortable wears. I wear band shirts often, but I also frequent the skate and 'fine polo shirts'. Jeans or baggy pants are a constant though.

"It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it" Lucius Seneca

I have a mop-top/jewfro and a goatee, but I'm always in a plain T-shirt with jeans or Khakis, or a hoodie if it's cold.  It's an interesting compromise, actually, because people actually suspect I like Progressive Rock before Metal.

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Definitely not.

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Yes, right down to the Lynrd Skynrd and Metallica t-shirts, black hi-top tennis shoes and crazy tight jeans.












Now really, how many of you fools believed THAT one?? I am not the typical anything.

You lost credibilty with the Lynrd Skynrd.

Back on topic, I'm actually dressing more like a *gasp* EMO these days, with the tight jeans and stripy long sleeve shirts, black Chuck Taylors or black and white checked slip on shoes, the only thing giving me away is the ubiquitous Opeth shirts and long hair.

Well, I do listen to some metal and prog metal,
but im definitely not a metalhead in the first place.
I generally dont like bands with no variety as i find so many of the metal bands play basically same sounding songs over and over again.
 
I wear my DT shirts quite a lot,
and have a lot of pride in the bands i like though..

No, people at work are often VERY suprised when they find what I listen to.
 
"You LISTEN to that stuff!?"
 
*makes face*
 

I somewhat am
 
I always wear band shirts and I'm considered an outsider because I'm not well liked at my school. I'm known as the "music/drummer" guy at school
 
but I don't get drunk and listen to hair bands on VH1 Classic and I don't go orslaughter sheep then f*** them then burn down all the churches in the surrounding area
 
I'm more along the lines of the listen to kickass metal and learn how to play it metalhead

For latest videos from my Metal band, Shattered:
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"Real men don't dance. They sit, sweat, and curse." Bill Hicks  (R.I.P.)

Yes.  I got a metal plate in my brain in the 'Nam 

I am Canadian

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I have a mop-top/jewfro and a goatee, but I'm always in a plain T-shirt with jeans or Khakis, or a hoodie if it's cold.  It's an interesting compromise, actually, because people actually suspect I like Progressive Rock before Metal.

 
I used to rock the jew-fro, until sunday.    Jeans and a T-shirt for me. I'll throw in a band shirt every once in a while, but I look like I shouldn't be working in the metal section at the music store.

No.  I'm black.

ORIGINAL: JayBeefC

No.  I'm black.

 
for the win!

Not really.  I wear lots of band shirts and stuff, but it's usually with khaki pants/shorts.  Don't really have the metalhead hair either...

ORIGINAL: SpacemanSpiff

I used to rock the jew-fro, until sunday.

You cut it!

Man that fro was so cool spiff

Probably.

Now on Twitter! Why? I don't know yet...

With the exception of wearing band Ts from time-to-time, not at all. I got called preppy all through high school and undergrad.

I'm just one of those kids with short hair who wears random t-shirts and other clothing which don't co-relate at all and are pretty random in nature. In the end, I'm horribly unfashionable, but not really a stereotypical anything, except maybe dirty greaseball.

Let's work without theorizing, it's the only way to make life bearable.

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Not really.  I wear lots of band shirts and stuff, but it's usually with khaki pants/shorts.  Don't really have the metalhead hair either...

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I used to rock the jew-fro, until sunday.

You cut it!

Man that fro was so cool spiff

Check out this sexy stud:

People most likely think I am, lol. I always wear black band shirts, ocassionally a movie shirt, my hair is to my upper/mid back, and I have a goatee an inch or 2 long.

"Excuse me sir...are you a henchman?"

ORIGINAL: yessurf

If my students could only hear my rocking out to some STRAPPING YOUNG LAD or DILLENGER ESCAPE PLAN or some PANTERA....  yes they would probably question my sanity and be VERY surprised.... I love that.

On another note... do those of you who do not look like typical metal heads get the most surprised reactions from people when they find out what music you listen to?  
"Dude you look like you listen to Coldplay and Dave Matthews Band... I cant believe you listen to that kind of music"

haha, yeah.  i was getting to know this girl at work (just as friends), and she asked what kind of music i listen to.  now, i'll listen to prog (mostly DT), metal, easy listening, acoustic stuff, punk (the real stuff, not green day or blink 182), or hip hop/rap (very rarely, usually only the instrumental stuff).  however, i mostly listen to hardcore (you can all say what you want).  so, i replied with hardcore, and she said, "you listen to hardcore?  like...nickleback?"  i couldn't help but laugh in her face.

"Death metal vocals are like sex. At first you don't really like it, but once you get used to it you'll love it." - shawnson

ORIGINAL: JRundquist


but I don't get drunk and listen to hair bands on VH1 Classic and I don't go orslaughter sheep then f*** them then burn down all the churches in the surrounding area

 
 
...but all the cool kids are doing it...

I have long hair. I wear band name T-shirts only occasionally on those days I'm mostly at home and not showing myself among too many people. I have no spikes, chains or other metallic gadgets. I like black colour, but I often were white, grey and light brown. I don't like shiny colours. I like to go to metal pubs with my friends and band members - even those dark holes full of nastyness, people with everything black with those spikes and shit, where really extreme music is being played on really crappy speakers. We just like to go there from time to time, probably just to remember our young and wild times when we were REAL metalheads.
So, that's me. I think I still am a bit of a metalhead and I like it. I don't think I'm very stereotypical though.

NO

Not really, I used to be when I was in high school, thats where I was struck by the heavy metal music, so I was pretty fan of it. But now 22, I just dont feel like getting long hair and wearing all black clothes. I just have a casual style per say, loose jeans, a band t-shirt once in a while you know....but I do love metal to the end, but I dig other kinds of music too, so in terms of music Im pretty open minded.

Nope, not at all.
 
How can I be a metalhead when I listen to Shakira and Phil Collins???
 
I don't really fit the image either...