Name your favorite sub-genres of metal and name a few bands from each sub-genre you mention as well. My favorites are thrash metal, metalcore, death metal, deathcore, technical death metal, melodic thrash metal, and melodic metalcore. I don't mind symphonic black metal either, although I have only heard one band (Abigail Williams) that I like so far.
I don't personally like 80's metal, but that does not mean it is bad. Whatever you like, listen to it
NO! If anything, metal back then is better than metal now. People love stereotyping metal, saying oh its just satanic screaming and stuff and stupid accusations like that. Most people who hate metal, hear it everyday and just don't know it. Old school metal, especially, is what made rock and metal today, and even spawned off and inspired alot of other artists. Now then *waits for loads of agreements, or loads of pop and rap kids to start stating retarded crap, followed by some poseurs bringing up metalcore and nu-metal
Japan is just strange. It's their specialty. In my home country the metal heads (the musicians, especially) were burning churches back in the day. So no, metal isn't bad, some of the people in it can be bad if we want to be though. Don't blame the music, blame us. We're the ones who did it, after all.
Heavy metal is not a bad enemy anyway. I play for an all-girls-in-bikinis rock band called Charlotte Murphy as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist.
Metal is my one outlet of aggression in an otherwise placid demeanor. metal=good
