Any metal fans???

1. Age :

17 and under. 18 – 25. 26 – 35. 36 – 50. 50+.


2. Gender :

Male. Female.


3. How often do your listen to heavy metal music?

Frequently. Sometimes. Rarely. Never.


4. How did you first discover metal music?

Started listening to Metallica in middle school; got into more underground metal when a friend played Blind Guardian for me in high school.

5. Which genre of metal do you prefer?

My favorites are: black, doom, folk, and power, preferably with symphonic and folk elements thrown in.

6. Which era of metal is your favourite?
1970 – 1980. 1980 – 1990. 1990 – 2000. 2000+.

7. Do you attend gigs and if so, approximately how many per year?

0 – 1. 2 – 5. 6 – 10. 11 – 15. 16 – 20. 21+.


8. Do you buy merchandise such as band T-shirts?
Yes. No.

9. Who do you think was the first metal band?

Black Sabbath. Led Zeppelin. Deep Purple. Other (please specify).


10. Do you like other genres of music? (If so, please specify)

Progressive rock, folk/folk rock (all forms, i.e. dark, gothic, bluegrass, trad, martial, etc.), typical "classic" rock.

Answers in bold.
 
1. Age :
20


2. Gender :
Male


3. How often do your listen to heavy metal music?
Frequently


4. How did you first discover metal music?
I was 10 years old and in grade 5. My friend stole his older brother's metal CDs, which included:
Metallica, slipknot, testament, and a few others I can't remember
That day we rocked out to songs like
Fuel, master of puppets, ride the lightning
People = shit
D.N.R.
Been in love with many metal genres since

5. Which genre of metal do you prefer?
Black metal
Followed by Doom

6. Which era of metal is your favourite?
2000+.


7. Do you attend gigs and if so, approximately how many per year?
15-20


8. Do you buy merchandise such as band T-shirts?
Yes.


9. Who do you think was the first metal band?
Black Sabbath


10. Do you like other genres of music? (If so, please specify)
Yes
Classical, minimalist, hard rock, southern rock, some industrial, and a few obscure ones I have trouble even naming
 
1. Age:
18-25

2. Gender:
Male

3. How often do your listen to heavy metal music?
Frequently

4. How did you first discover metal music?
Radio

5. Which genre of metal do you prefer?
Doom metal

6. Which era of metal is your favourite?
1980-1990

7. Do you attend gigs and if so, approximately how many per year?
2-5

8. Do you buy merchandise such as band T-shirts?
Yes

9. Who do you think was the first metal band?
Black Sabbath

10. Do you like other genres of music? (If so, please specify)
Prog rock, hard rock, punk and hardcore, grunge, hip hop, jazz, classical
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1. 26-35
2. Male
3. Frequently.
4. my older brother left some In Flames albums lying around, which led me to Dark Tranquillity and Hypocrisy, and then I started to encounter people online who could steer me further away from the Metalcore and Rock that had been all I'd known of, to what else is out there, and I would just check out _anything_ since I didn't know what genres sounded like or what I wanted.
5. I'm not sure what your definition of 'genre' is. Folk Metal is inclusive of many of what would normally be called genres, so if I say I like 'Folk Metal' the most, I'm saying I like certain kinds of Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Power Metal, etc., over other kinds of Black/MeloDeath/Power/etc., which is not nearly so helpful as saying 'Black', which clearly puts Power/Death/etc. below.
6. '90-'00 or 2000+.
7. no
8. Yes.
9. I don't make any truth claims about that.
10. yes, but all to a lesser extent: Neofolk, Trip-Hop, Underground Hip-Hop, Classical, the occasional Euro Pop song, etc.
 
1. 18-25.

2. Male.

3. Frequently. Every day.

4. The idea of metal music had always appealed to me, even from an early age. I suppose the attraction to this kind of music revealed something about me that I hadn't fully realized yet. But getting into metal was easy because it was just a natural progression on the music that I was already listening to at the time. The first bands that had appealed to me like Marilyn Manson, Genitorturers, Rob Zombie (etc.), which I had initially thought was metal. Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar was my first album, and I realized how a single album could have such a profound effect on myself. Because of this I began to seriously look into buying more CDs and exploring what was out there. The internet was a big help with sites like amazon where you could listen to 30-second samples and such. I would do that, and then go to the local music shop to buy CDs and then it evolved from there.

5. Black Metal

6. 1990-2000

7. 0-1

8. Yes

9. Black Sabbath

10. Gothic Rock, deathrock, post-punk, coldwave, darkwave, new wave, synth-pop, industrial, electronic, classical, ambient, hard rock, alternative etc.
 
1. Age : 18 – 25.


2. Gender : Female.

3. How often do your listen to heavy metal music?

Frequently.

4. How did you first discover metal music?
My father likes traditional metal, he had a lot of casettes: Black sabbath, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest and some Romanian bands like Cargo and Iris. Afterwards started looking for more music.



5. Which genre of metal do you prefer? power metal/ melo death/ black metal

6. Which era of metal is your favourite?
1980 - 1990

7. Do you attend gigs and if so, approximately how many per year?
16 - 20... though, last year it was 21 +

8. Do you buy merchandise such as band T-shirts?
Yes.

9. Who do you think was the first metal band?
Black Sabbath.
10. Do you like other genres of music? (If so, please specify)

yes: romanian folk, hard rock, alternative, blues, some jazz, industrial, 60's rock a billy, classical, some gay 70's disco
 
Hey,
I’m a student and was hoping some of you could please help me by sparing a few minutes and answering a few questions for my dissertation survey? Even answering a few would be a big help. Thank you!

1. Age :

17 and under. 18 – 25. 26 – 35. 36 – 50. 50+.


2. Gender :

Male. Female.


3. How often do your listen to heavy metal music?

Frequently. Sometimes. Rarely. Never.


4. How did you first discover metal music?
Metallica


5. Which genre of metal do you prefer?

Progressive Death or OSDM

6. Which era of metal is your favourite?
1970 – 1980. 1980 – 1990. 1990 – 2000. 2000+.


7. Do you attend gigs and if so, approximately how many per year?

0 – 1. 2 – 5. 6 – 10. 11 – 15. 16 – 20. 21+.


8. Do you buy merchandise such as band T-shirts?
Yes. No.


9. Who do you think was the first metal band?

Black Sabbath. Led Zeppelin. Deep Purple. Other (please specify).


10. Do you like other genres of music? (If so, please specify)
I also like rock.

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Age: 17 and under
Male
Frequently
Heard Iron Man on Guitar Hero, found Metallica, went deeper from there.
All death metal
1980s
0-1 unfortunately
Buy much merchandise
Black Sabbath was first
Classic rock, instrumental guitar pieces
 
1. Age :

18 – 25.


2. Gender :

Male.


3. How often do your listen to heavy metal music?

Frequently.


4. How did you first discover metal music?
Through friends. I was into other forms of extreme music before metal. I enjoyed harsh noise and ambient. Metal slowly came to form after hanging out with friends that were into it.


5. Which genre of metal do you prefer?
I like all the genres for the most part, probably either Death, Black, or Doom metal.

6. Which era of metal is your favourite?
1990 – 2000


7. Do you attend gigs and if so, approximately how many per year?

2 – 5.

8. Do you buy merchandise such as band T-shirts?
Yes.


9. Who do you think was the first metal band?

Black Sabbath.


10. Do you like other genres of music? (If so, please specify)
Ambient, Whatever you classify Dead Can Dance as, Medieval, Darkwave, Classical, Krautrock, Early electronica (Kraftwerk)
 
You're listening to the wrong classical music then.

I didn't say classical sucks. I like classical, I just feel that many of the reported "great pieces" aren't anything special. As always with art, this statement may not be true in regards to you, but it definitely is to me. Take for example the aria Der Hölle... in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. At parts I feel the music is absolutely brilliant, but most of the instrumentation for the majority of that aria I find very uninteresting. Likewise, the female lead of that aria (in all incarnations) usually sound emotionless in their delivery. Yes, they are superbly technical in most regards (hell, youtube it and see Diana Damrau own the fuck out of her chords), but in the end it doesn't do anything for me. Likewise, there exist composers who really come off as exquisitely technical, but does nothing for me (ex: the majority of the works of Webern that I've heard).
I prefer the likes of Chopin, Rachmaninov, Bartok, Messiaen, F.J. Berg, Bach, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

Mussorgsky's Gopak of the Merry Lads is great for yard work (totally fucking serious too).

woah, I haven't even heard most of it. maybe you can save me some time and name some of that minority of good shit?

See above. Also, shove a rake up your ass.
 
Hey,
I’m a student and was hoping some of you could please help me by sparing a few minutes and answering a few questions for my dissertation survey? Even answering a few would be a big help. Thank you!

1. Age : 36

17 and under. 18 – 25. 26 – 35. 36 – 50. 50+.


2. Gender :

Male. Female.


3. How often do your listen to heavy metal music?

Frequently. Sometimes. Rarely. Never.


4. How did you first discover metal music?
I have a much older brother. When he joined the Marines and left home in 1987, I commandeered his records. Maiden, Priest, Ozzy, etc. About a year later, he gave me the Master of Puppets tape. And that was it.


5. Which genre of metal do you prefer?
Thrash, Death, etc.

6. Which era of metal is your favourite?
1970 – 1980. 1980 – 1990. 1990 – 2000. 2000+.


7. Do you attend gigs and if so, approximately how many per year?

0 – 1. 2 – 5. 6 – 10. 11 – 15. 16 – 20. 21+.
I'm done with school now, so I can get to more. :)

8. Do you buy merchandise such as band T-shirts?
Yes. No.


9. Who do you think was the first metal band?

Black Sabbath. Led Zeppelin. Deep Purple. Other (please specify).


10. Do you like other genres of music? (If so, please specify)

Yes. Anything but country and rap, really.
 
1. Age :
26 – 35

2. Gender :
Male

3. How often do your listen to heavy metal music?
Frequently.

4. How did you first discover metal music?
Was listening to Guns n Roses and some guy recommended i try Metallica (Ride the Lightning). After that i moved on to the Roadrunner bands (Sepultura, Machine Head & Fear Factory) - never looked back.

5. Which genre of metal do you prefer?
Death Metal

6. Which era of metal is your favourite?
1980 – 1990

7. Do you attend gigs and if so, approximately how many per year?
Nope.

8. Do you buy merchandise such as band T-shirts?
Yes. Lots of t-shirts and hoodies.

9. Who do you think was the first metal band?
Black Sabbath

10. Do you like other genres of music? (If so, please specify)
Rock, Techno, Hard trance, Psy-trance & Goa trance