Album Rating: 4.5

Black Album was overplayed when it got out and suddenly your nonmetal friends were dancing to Enter Sandman at the nightclub. It was hard to accept.

Album Rating: 5.0

at least your non-metal friends were hangin in a metal nightclub

Album Rating: 5.0

It doesn't work like that nowadays.

Album Rating: 5.0

im not THAT old dude lol

Album Rating: 5.0

"yes sir, each record has it's own identity depending on the mood that you're in"



Exactly. Fucking hate it when people are like "Master of Puppets is just RTL2"

Album Rating: 4.5

RTL, MOP, this and Death Magnetic are all structured in very similar ways, which is why some would say they're all reiterations of the same album. However, I totally agree that they all have distinct personalities and that they're all great in their own ways.

Album Rating: 5.0

oh man if i can only find that manosg post......perfectly articulated

Album Rating: 4.5

"at least your non-metal friends were hangin in a metal nightclub"

No no this was your general middle-class drinking hole for students. Next song they played would be Barbie Girl or something.

Album Rating: 5.0

All of my non-metal friends don't listen to Metallica. Their perception of metal relies solely in the likes of Def Leppard.

better that than when they say "all it is is screaming" or "it's not even music"

Album Rating: 5.0

All my non metal friends (basically all of them but maybe 3) have heard and dig Enter Sandman to a certain extent.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

"better that than when they say "all it is is screaming" or "it's not even music""



That's the worst, especially from the older crowds who believed Black Sabbath were devil worshippers

Album Rating: 5.0

All of my non-metal friends think all metal sounds like Ulcerate (they don't actually say Ulcerate but you know what I mean)

i'd say slayer perfectly represents what non-metallers think all metal is

Album Rating: 4.5

Tempest comment is pretty accurate

Album Rating: 4.5

I think I'd give that title more to Cannibal Corpse but yeah, true.

Album Rating: 2.0

Slayer are good at least. I think the modern perception of metal is closer to the screaming/noise argument, which is much more frustrating. The shitty, modern metalcore sound, essentially.

Album Rating: 5.0

I don't think the average non-metal fan views/would view bands like Iron Maiden or Sabbath or Priest as metal bands (just based on their sound and nothing else), which I think also contributes to that problem in someway

Album Rating: 4.7

To be fair, I've tended to consider Iron Maiden more of a hard rock/metal hybrid than full-on metal anyway

Album Rating: 2.0

Yes, that's also an issue. I'm pretty sure my wife thought metal always had screamed vocals, like if they weren't present it wasn't even metal. Non-metal fans don't realise how diverse a genre it is.