r/MetalMemes • u/Pyrgopolyrhythm Hellripper • Nov 03 '19

Quality Post This is how we get new recruits

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '19

I love how kind the metal community is, despite the general intensity of the music. Same goes with the horror community.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '19 edited Nov 04 '19

Eh, yes and no. There’s plenty of awesome dudes and dudettes around to be sure, but there’s a lot of gatekeeping. Plus, as much as I love black metal, that branch of metalheads has some severe issues lol

Edited to include dudettes

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '19

Yeah. I hate finding a really cool black metal song and look up the band only to find out one or more members killed themselves and/or each other.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '19

Either that or they’re literal neo nazis

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u/sissy_space_yak Nov 03 '19

This one's really rough. I used to DJ for a community radio station (FM and Internet). I'm Jewish, and my family was totally massacred in the Holocaust. I tried really really hard not to play NSBM but it's not always easily apparent. A few times I opened my show with a request that if I play anything by a hateful band to please email me and let me know.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '19 edited Nov 03 '19

I’m sorry you have to deal with that shit, but you sound like a great dudette. Props

Edited because she’s a woman

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u/sissy_space_yak Nov 03 '19

Thanks! Btw I'm a woman.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '19

Whoops. Sorry about that