So a friend who was a rapper commented on SOAD
 

So he was listening to Pandora, listening to his rap music right. Then SOAD suddenly popped up and he complained how it was all fast, heavy, and the singer sounded like he was going "rawr rawr."

Oh wow, I gave a smug face and laughed inside. That stuff is way too light to warrant that kind of reaction. I wonder what would happen if he'd heard some real metal.

Show him some Suffocation.

He can't handle SOAD? Can he handle Cobain screaming his head off on "Scentless Apprentice?" If he can't handle that, you could turn him off to real metal forever by playing Suffocation lol.

Him not liking SOAD might just be case of him having good taste. He may like good metal if he's presented with it.

I prefer fake metal tbh

Don't take this the wrong way Jansz, but I think you're the only person who thinks that. SOAD is how a lot of people my age came to listen to real metal. It's not unheard of for people to discover metal in other ways, but not liking SOAD usually coincides you with you just not liking metal, particularly extreme metal.

I'm sure I'm not the only metal fan in the world who dislikes SOAD.

My comment was only talking about people my age who grew up with Chop Suey! being played 24/7 on the radio. And most of the people I know who I talk about metal with can recall listening to SOAD for at least a few years when they were a teenager. Also I'll add that many of them no longer like SOAD, but it was a gateway for them nonetheless.

A lot of SOAD's stuff is pretty obscure, I assume bands like Mudvayne and Sevendust or Atreyu and A7x (depending on how young you are) got more people into metal than SOAD.

I know they are a widely popular band and I enjoy a lot of their stuff but I always considered them to be an original act similar to mindless self indulgence. (At least in their earlier years.)

None of those bands were on guitar hero or rock band, save for Atreyu...Look, SOAD was actually really difficult to get away from. Their earlier stuff was obscure but Toxicity was certainly not. Also YouTube just came out when I was in 7th grade and that's how I first listened to B.Y.O.B. because I didn't have any money. Most of their songs had music videos, so it was easy to find and watch most of them on that site.