Metal was a dominant force in mainstream music for a long time, so those who became metalheads during that time tend to reflect other hegemonic norms of the time, which includes conservatism. We're seeing metal lose its relevance, so there's also the nostalgic losers pining for the status quo of the past taking up a big part of the metalhead demographic, and that mindset is integral to conservatism. With the younger crowd, metal's tendency toward hypermasculinity coincides with neofascist strongman rhetoric so you see a great deal of conservative listeners there as well.
Punk's largely being in the underground after its first wave explosion combined with its general philosophy of acceptance and freedom would attract less publicly accepted views like leftism.
With all that said, they're both so diverse now that those trends aren't so distinct. Metal's got hella leftists and punk's got its own brand of blind reactionaries.
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Originally Posted by Carpe Mortem
anarchist[s...] necessitate dependence on the state eventually, or a yearning to have someone else pay for and take care of them.
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Yeah that's literally the opposite of anarchism. Those benefiting from the status quo are dependent on the working class to pay for it and government protection of that dynamic, so you might be confusing anarchists with liberal centrists attempting half-measure reforms because they're more concerned with performative activism than actual change.