the beatles.

Metallica fans are like Raider fans... well, they used to be. Other crazed fans, ICP, but, not really metal.

Hoestly there are a lot of new bands with anoying fans out there but some just get creepy.

Story time children,

I had just started dating this girl. She said her favorite band was My Chemical Romance. k.... I could live with that. I went to her house one day and went into her room. She Had 532 pictures and posters of the group or people from the group and she also had written three stories about the band where she and her friends were main characters in the stories..........The relationship didn't workout.

Well the number of people crying can be attributed to a high number of fans - it's not that they're particularly bad, but just that there are more of them to defend the band I guess. I can imagine the same reaction for many bands.

Having said that, it's not just Opeth fans who would defend them - it's the fans of all prog bands. I can understand why fans of prog bands might feel incensed when people deride them. Prog isn't particularly mainstream, therefore when a prog band does become mainstream, many people who hate prog are going to hear it and be incapable of being listening to it fairly and understanding it due to lack of prog understanding. This is the case with Opeth. Their popularity ensures that most metalheads are going to hear them, regardless of whether they like prog or not. Many will find them boring simply because it's prog, then there will some elitists who hate them for their record label or popularity, and then there will be some who genuinely just don't like them.

I would say that the lack of talk isn't that fans have forgotten about them because they haven't, but more the fact that it's a while since Ghost Reveries was released as well as the Grand Conjuration single.

So while fans are still there, there are fewer elitist haters bitching about them and starting up antagonising threads because they've forgotten about them.

Bullet For My Valentine.

Especially over this side of the pond, it's like some severe form of rabies, spreading like wildfire.

Having a lot of fans can mean fan boys dude. Yr arguing over semantics. I'm just stating a point. I am a huge fan of prog and I think opeth are a pretty good band but fairly boring. That's just my opinion.

Hinder - they may be slighlty new to the music scene but their fans are insane
Fall Out Boy,Hawthorne Heights,bands like that

For Me:Avenged Sevenfold...def.

Hinder fanboys can`t be that annoying because i`d never ever heard of them until this thread started.

So where are all these Hinder fanboys , I don`t see any here.

I'm not arguing, just discussing, and it's not semantics IMO.

E.g. Band A has 100,000 fans and 1 in every 1000 is a fanboy. So we have 100 fanboys. Band B has 1000 fans and 80 in every 1000 is a fanboy. So we have 80 fans. This is relevant because it might seem like Opeth is particularly fanboy ridden, but it could be attributed to the simple fact that Opeth has a large fanbase. Another band might have a much higher ratio of fanboys amongst its fanbase, but its fanbase might be small, so there won't be that many.

I don't know which part you're saying is semantics, but IMO there's quite a difference between a fan and a fanboy. A fanboy tends to be biased towards the band and flouts them all the time. A fan is just a fan.

It's hard to say whether having a lot of band merchandise makes you a fanboy - it depends on your definition. You can have a lot of merchandise and still be practically impartial and judge fairly.

My definition of a fanboy would be someone who never shuts up about the band and believe everything else is sh*t not worth listening to. Hero worship and the like.

Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Simple Plan, Linkin Park, Good Charlotte, Green Day and some other crap bands.

Hell would freeze over before you can get me to listen to these groups. And fangirls are more annoying than fanboys.

I'll say one thing: I don't think a band's annoying fanbase should really be something for anybody to get pissed off at. The attitude of holding those sorts of fans in contempt, more often than not, will get in the way of enjoying the band and its music: if you listen to the music with the hate of the fans in mind, you'll automatically "try" to find something you dislike in the music itself.

In more extreme situations, you actually get music "critics" purposely degrading, ridiculing and even insulting the music of a band simply as part of a vendetta against the fans and for the sake of flamebaiting.

How many people hate Pantera and Tool, for example, without ever even having given their music a PROPER try? Many haters should ask themselves such questions in earnest.

My two cents.

Metallica
Pantera
Nirvana
Burzum

And I would always hear that from opeth fans. Hence, my response about them having too many fanboys.

It can matter when you go to see a band at a show and their fans can totally ruin it. Main reason I stopped going to hardcore shows.

^That's what I hate. The one genre that I listen to the most (hardcore/metal) has all these fans that think is cool and entertaining to swing their arms around and spin kick the side of the pit. They practically make a point of trying to hurt the people who aren't in the pit. It's not going to stop me from seeing the bands I like....but it has definitely ruined the fun that moshing once was to me.

As for fanboy ridden bands....Every Time I Die seems to have a lot of them. As well as Job For A Cowboy, Trivium, Norma Jean and Bury Your Dead, if we're talking bands that fit somwhere under "metal". There are plenty of mainstream crap bands (Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Silverstein) that have a huge fanbase of annoying 13 year olds who think they are the best band ever (thats pretty much my defiinition of fanboy), but not all of them fit into the metal genre anywhere.

I almost hate admiting I like EITD sometimes. Besides thier last cd, they're such a great band but goddamn they have some of the most irritating fans ever.

I came across the All American Rejects site a few years ago. They had special fan contests, where the fans had to show who was the biggest fan. It was awfull, all the contributions, and the tempels people had built in their rooms for them.

It made me want to cry.

I did.

I've been to two Tool shows this year and the first one was ruined by three idiots sitting next to me and my girl. All they could talk about was great this song is and how much better of a band Tool is compared to anything else, yada yada yada. The second show was better as I took some acid and enjoyed a great light show! Tool faboys are the worst I've encountered.

I'm sorry but that is just not true. Almost all Tool fanboys spend most their time criticizing the band and saying that they're not as good as Limp Bizkit.

Why the hell would they criticize the band they're supposably a "fanboy" for?

i have to agree with this. i have some friends and theyre really nice people, god love um, but jeeeeesus christ they become the biggest apes when they start talking about Tool. i like Tool and all but i dont go home every night and worship them at a shrine... :crazy:

Some of the Pearl Jammers are pretty bad with their bootlegs but I think Dave Matthews Band and Phish may take the cake

^I haven't run into any of those....ever....

And as for Tool....A Perfect Circle has the same type of fans. Same with Chevelle.

chevelles sucks ass, but there is a thread on ehre entitled is chevelle emo?

haha you are absolutely right!!


Some I think:


Slipknot
Metallica
Maiden
NIrvana
Zeppelin
TOOL
NIN
and so on....



And like you said, I dont think these are bad abnds...they just have phony "Fanboys" as you call them.