Metal is less political and more escapist than punk which means it attracts more nerds who would rather play video games than keep up with politics and those types are much easier to radicalize into the far right.
Progressive rock is not immune to this either, most prog fans are aging hippies so a lot of them tend to be libs but I've seen some that are conservative, ironic given the name of the genre.
Since punk is a much more actively political genre the political views of musicians and their fans are more relevant. It's easy to not give a sh*t about the political views of a band whose songs are mostly about wizards and dragons and whatever.
Last edited by Queen Boo; 08-12-2022 at 02:10 PM.
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