Are you a stereotypical metalhead?

ORIGINAL: paranoid70

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

Yeah now you're just ignorant.

Yeap at 33 you can bet your fucking ass Im a Metalhead. Tight jeans, Concert T-Shirts, and loud music almost 24-7!

The only thing is because I shave my head I am sometimes mistakin for a biker dude. I never dress preppy , you will never see me wear shoes ties, baggy pants etc (unless a rare family function) .


 
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Most metalheads I know don't have longhair anymore. They're just a bunch of perpetually drunk and arrogant fratboys, sporting tribal tattoos and overpriced Hot Topic clothes, spouting an endless stream of racism, homophobia, and illiterate ramblings.

Of course, that's half of suburbia in the Mid-west.

not be any means. i do listen to a whole range of metal of course, have semi long hair, but i also constantly am playing football and other sports, wearing soccer shirts, and just normal sporty clothing. then u look whats playin on my ipod and its SYL! most of my friends are like this, with the exception of maybe 2!
its grand though!

ORIGINAL: kevin_cfh

ORIGINAL: drumline

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

Check out this sexy stud:

 
Now you drag that up????

I was about 10 years ago. I had the long hair, the faded blue jeans, and the vast array of faded metal concert tee shirts.  I still have the shirts, and the jeans are now a little more fashionable. But I have short hair and dress a little better.  

ORIGINAL: DrumRman

ORIGINAL: paranoid70

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

Yeah now you're just ignorant.

Yeap at 33 you can bet your fucking ass Im a Metalhead. Tight jeans, Concert T-Shirts, and loud music almost 24-7!

The only thing is because I shave my head I am sometimes mistakin for a biker dude. I never dress preppy , you will never see me wear shoes ties, baggy pants etc (unless a rare family function) .

Ignorant?  What the...  Alright, I know what you mean.  I really haven't changed much either, I still mostly wear jeans and t-shirts.  Often times concert shirts and even *gasp* tye dyes.    I could care less about fashion that's for damn sure.

I meant the whole "stereotypical" thing - i.e. leather jacket, studs or spikes (well not too many guys wear those any more do they?), boots, tats, piercings, etc... I think I would just feel ridiculous.

No, maybe when I was 16/17 but then I saw straight throught it all. For that I'm extremely thankfull.

at work, no way, everyone thinks I am this tiny girl into like top 40 stuff LOL until they talk to me LOL

Nope, most are shocked when they find out.

totally not... i dress pretty conservatively if not preppy and have never had long hair.

I would guess not because everyone is shocked when they learn I listen to metal.  The overwhelming response is "I thought you listen to Phish and stuff like that!"  To which I reply, "I do!"  But I'm sure some days I look like a metalhead.  I dont really have a set style; one day I'll wear nice jeans with a button-down shirt, the next day I'll wear ragged jeans with a Slayer shirt, and then the next day I'll wear shorts and a road race t-shirt, so I imagine it's pretty hard to pin me down on any one category.  But even though my hair is pretty shaggy right now, everyone says I'm too happy and nice and outgoing to be a metalhead.

ORIGINAL: thorbahn

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.

Why? Theres just.... no logic behing that. I wear combat boots because they are comfy and I can wear them at work! I love my Polish Riot Police boots! Amazing in a gig too! Protects the toes like nothing else

I wouldn't consider myself a stereotypical metalhead, but defo a metal head. My hair is long, but usually tied back in a bun, I wear baggy black jeans/green or black cargo pants and the obligitory "obscure" (read: Opeth/DT/PoS) band t-shirt.

ORIGINAL: SpacemanSpiff

ORIGINAL: kevin_cfh

ORIGINAL: drumline

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

Check out this sexy stud:

Now you drag that up????

Okay Keb and Kev you two be quiet I LOVE the new haircut. That fro was really getting to be annoying and just really big. I like the new look, that's all that matters  so thpppppttttt!

my typical image. long hair, goatee, big nose, PRS Polo shirt, khaki pants, and these shoes http://www.3ride.com/images/products/shoes/orc_van_blk.jpg .. not really a metalhead image... people usually think i listen to all the popular punky stuff... thrice, thursday, my chemical buttsex, fall out boy, yellowcard. and whatever else the emo kdis around here listen to.

well sort of. Long hair, beard, ALWAYS wear band t-shirts, wear camo trousers only thing i don't wear is boots, i wear trainers cause they are more comfy hhehe

EDIT: Actually just look at my avatar lol, pretty much a typical metal head haha

I used to sport the early 90s/ late 80s metalhead look... i had me some black cowboy boots with chains and metal toes and yes, a considerably long mullet. Along with jeans that now look like they were a bit too tight and long sleeve untucked shirts over a black tshirt (think the Take The Time video)...
 
Sadly, that look was embraced by tex-mex type bands during the grunge era, during wich I went with the baggier jeans, untucked plaid shirt and combat boots...
 
These days, I'm letting my hair grow out, and because of work I'm required to dress semi/formal, yet I'll always be wearing some sort of black shirt/sweater/polo shirt/tshirt, jeans  (torn ones on the weekends usually) and blue-suede hiking boots.
 
You wear your metal in your soul man. The outside is secondary.
 
I have spoken.
 

ORIGINAL: meegwell


You wear your metal in your soul man. The outside is secondary.

+666

I think the main problem with this argument is that a lot of people have different ideas of what a metalhead dresses like, from the biker influenced-Judas Priest-leather and metal look to the more 1980's thrash denim jackets and faded jeans style to the 1990's Pantera combat boots and camo style.

i spose "typical" follows a certain trend no matter what decade... Long hair (wether mullet or all one length), band tops and attitude hehe

beards are more 90's where as leather and chains is more 80's along with tight jeans which is 70's to 80's

I am a stereotypical me.


lol I guess if you saw me on the streets I'd be pretty nondescript.  Usually wearing a (good) t-shirt and jeans, sometimes I bust out the polo, or in summer i'll sport the khaki/denim cargo shorts.....I guess I almost dress like a stereotypical prep/jock.  I like American Eagle/Aeropostale/Old Navy, and I rarely, if ever, look like a "Metalhead."  That being said, it never seems to surprise people when they ride with me and I crank the Pain of Salvation or DT or Opeth or Tool or Porcupine Tree (ok, maybe not so metal there) or whatever it is that tickles my fancy for the day.  As a matter of fact, my friends have a running joke about me listening to Spock's Beard....Oh well.  Occasionally I'll bust out the Incubus or A7X or Coldplay, and I've even developed a tolerance for rap in small doses.  I guess I try to be diverse in my musical tastes, but sometimes I find it hard.  Ok I'm rambling now...I feel like I'm in one of those Radio Shack commercials with the red chair.  Next!

is wearing nice formal clothes with clean short hair and a daily shave a metal head??? well i love metal but i dont dress like one...cos i work !

I think I am once again. I stopped being one for like two years, then Opeth came to town... I bought every single t-shirt (excpet the gilry one) And I started wearing them a lot. Theb I started buying more and more... Now my main wardrobe consists of Opeth and DT shirts. I guess I will be for a few years, I really like my band shirts, no matter how improper they are . I do dress casually very often, but I can't deny I mostly look like a metal d00d.

I never could grow my hair long, and these days I wear a very short buzz cut year round. I call it the wash-n-wear haircut. I haven't worn a concert shirt in over a decade (anyone else remember when that's the ONLY place you could get the shirts and you wore them like a badge of honor after the show?). Just not really my style anymore, I guess. Plus it would be hard to explain the Cannibal Corpse shirt to my 5 year old, and it would make the 2 year old have nightmares. 

No way!  Ballet (pointe) for 14 years, band geek(marching band) in highschool (flute and pic), competitive dancing (jazz, tap, modern) nationally and internationally (US Dance team).  A nerd: as in I love to stock up on notecards and highlighters they make me smile   Just going to Staples for back to school supplies makes me happy and all those new books ahhh!!  Weird I know but hey what can I say?  Besides being introduced to many different music styles from dance and band classes my dad was always playing classical to disco and my mom...she likes the rock.  So I got Classic rock likes from her...Led Zep, Styxs, Boston (which is where my name came from), Journey, Pink Floyd "The Wall" , and Rush was her favorite and on the way to be dropped off to dance classes all those years I guess it seeped in.   Then about 3 years ago my "ex" introduced me to DT and I went to a concert with him in Boston on April fools day 04...I was completely hooked.  He is gone but my love for DT lives on!  I have since gone to 2 other DT concerts and even took my mom to Gigantor...we had a blast.  She and I saw Rush last year too.  I also like and have seen AvengeSeven Fold, GodSmack (Boston locals), Def lep, Nickleback, Three door down and others.  I like to support local artists too.  I don't have the "look" as I am 5 2" 120lbs blonde and blue eyed.  I can't find concert shirts to fit for reg wear so I just use them as night shirts.  I typically dress up for concerts but you will find me in the pitt rocking out.  I just don't like how big guys think it is funny to lift me up and move me around like a rag doll....but it has landed  on stage once and right in front of a body guard.  He reached up took me from this huge guy and said hey little lady why don't you stand right here in front of me worked for me, front and center.  So from now on I get one  of my biggest guy friends to tag along.  Most people think I am a top 40 girl...yeah some of it I will listen to from time to time but my love is rock and that is what I listen to daily......some good music and some notecards = happy girl

Amanda

Stopped being a metalhead in 1996.

Long ass hair? Check
"Rugged" Facial hair? Check
Not afraid to wear torn jeans? Check(Nearly every pair!)
Wear a band shirt every day? Check, a Tool shirt for every day of the week course I do have a handful of other shirts including my 8v world tour shirt :)
 
Call me old fashion but It's comfortable to not give a shit about what I look like as long as it's comfy it's wearable for me.
 

I think I look more like an indie kid than I do a metalhead.

I don't think I ever was a stereotypical metalhead. I never had really long hair and I was never one for wearing bands T-shirts, torn clothes or dressing all in black. The closest I came to the "metalhead" image, probably, was by having my left ear pierced...

ORIGINAL: JRundquist

but I don't get drunk and listen to hair bands on VH1 Classic
 

 
Who would do that.....
 
i guess im not metal - i straighten my hair, i use moisturiser....totally UNmetal!

go watch the canadian movie:

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

a must for every metal fan!

there you will see the history of metal and all its cultural and antroposophical aspects.

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...)

 
Well, I am a lawyer so EVERYDAY I wear a suit an tie.  So no.  But I get weird looks at record stores when I'm browsing the metal section.  Also, when people get into my car and get a full blast of Pantera, they always look very surprised.
 
I like to secretly put INTO THE PIT (live, played by Halford) and blast it at full volume whenever there's a newbie at my car.

 Nope. I'm a clean cut black guy with a shaved head who normally wears a tucked in polo shirt and khaki pants... no one would guess that I own and still enjoy all the early Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Maiden and Carcass albums...and much more.

Looks can be VERY decieving.
 
When I was in my early teens, I DID sport a 1990 Doug Pinnick style 'straightened hair' mohawk. I always dressed in black and wore a Slayer, Megadeth or Metallica T-shirt.

Short hair, beard, and lots of band shirts, so...yeah, I guess so.  The hair is holding me back though.

Well, I'm a 37 year old opera singer/voice teacher.....so, no.

yes and no, I dress somewhere in between Metal and young Jazz musician....because thats exactly who I am, today good jean shorts, black RL polo (with orange horse \m/) backwards black Kangol drivers cap and mono black Converse CTs, ohh and short hair now with a 4 inch long goatee.

ORIGINAL: Lord_of_Mediocrity

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...)

Well, I am a lawyer so EVERYDAY I wear a suit an tie.  So no.  But I get weird looks at record stores when I'm browsing the metal section.  Also, when people get into my car and get a full blast of Pantera, they always look very surprised.

I like to secretly put INTO THE PIT (live, played by Halford) and blast it at full volume whenever there's a newbie at my car.

Halford covered Testament's Into The Pit?!?! BLASPHEMY!

ORIGINAL: Adriano

I don't think I ever was a stereotypical metalhead. I never had really long hair and I was never one for wearing bands T-shirts, torn clothes or dressing all in black. The closest I came to the "metalhead" image, probably, was by having my left ear pierced...

hey d00d

welcome back! where have you been?

ORIGINAL: thebrickwall

ORIGINAL: Lord_of_Mediocrity

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...)

Well, I am a lawyer so EVERYDAY I wear a suit an tie.  So no.  But I get weird looks at record stores when I'm browsing the metal section.  Also, when people get into my car and get a full blast of Pantera, they always look very surprised.

I like to secretly put INTO THE PIT (live, played by Halford) and blast it at full volume whenever there's a newbie at my car.

Halford covered Testament's Into The Pit?!?! BLASPHEMY!

Lamb of God using "Into The Pit" and calling it Laid to Rest is blasphemy.
Halford covering anything is metal, even Dancing Queen.. God, I hope it happens and Paul Gilbert joins him to handle lead geetar.

ORIGINAL: Superterrorizer

ORIGINAL: thebrickwall

ORIGINAL: Lord_of_Mediocrity

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...)

Well, I am a lawyer so EVERYDAY I wear a suit an tie.  So no.  But I get weird looks at record stores when I'm browsing the metal section.  Also, when people get into my car and get a full blast of Pantera, they always look very surprised.

I like to secretly put INTO THE PIT (live, played by Halford) and blast it at full volume whenever there's a newbie at my car.

Halford covered Testament's Into The Pit?!?! BLASPHEMY!

Lamb of God using "Into The Pit" and calling it Laid to Rest is blasphemy.
Halford covering anything is metal, even Dancing Queen.. God, I hope it happens and Paul Gilbert joins him to handle lead geetar.

HAHAHA no way i never realised how LTR sound sooooooo like ITP until now, thanx man, i'll never listen to that track again in the same way lol. Anyway i was just suprised that Halford would cover testament a mean no offense but Halford aint got the ballsy growl like Chuck Billy, but i'd still like to hear it hehe.

To add a story in the theme of "Wait, you listen to WHAT kind of music?" this happened to me the other day in my apartment complex.

I get a slip from UPS that I have a package waiting for me at the leasing office. I go in there and tell the girl I have a package. She goes back to the room and starts digging for it.

Leasing Agent: "What is it?"
Me: "A CD."
LA: "What is it?"
Me: "Um...A CD."
LA: "No, I mean what kind of CD?"
Me: "Music."
LA gives me a blank stare.
Me (shocked I'm being investigated for my damn package): "It's by a band called King's X. I doubt you're familiar with them."
LA: "What kind of music is THAT?"
Me: "It's hard rock."
LA: "Oh...(pause)...And you can listen to that? Like...regularly?"
Me (totally dumbfounded at her blondness despite having dark hair): "Uh-huh."
LA: "Oh...ok....well, here you go."

I don't really know what I look like I listen to, but apparently it's not metal.