Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

Metalheads have a prototypical taste in metal which encompasses nothing but the worst derivative crap in the history of metal. Every time I talk to a metalhead about their favorite bands, it's always some generic technical metal band, and nothing but generic technical metal bands. It's never about anything except a) who can play the fastest and 2) how bad they sound doing it. And any band that breaks barriers and challenges this mantra is nearly always shat upon by the metal community at large. It's what makes me distance myself from "true" metalheads.