I read this today and it sums up metal perfectly
So to whom exactly does Thrash Metal concern? Ill-mannered, lowbrow street punks with no aspirations and futures? Senseless, uncouth savages that throw themselves in self-inflicted seizures when told to “bang at command?” Disturbed individuals who get off at the horse boner imagery of a thousand penetrated orifices?
No, not quite…
Some listen to Thrash as a way of escape. Escape from the tediously, routine-infested predictability of their own uneventful existences, escape from a life of certainty, security, and authority and to a world of total anarchy, where decisions are made on basis of reason rather than sentiments of restraint. Others listen to Thrash for inspiration. They are inspired to “fight for what [they] believe to be right” through means of political protest similar to that of the Punk movement in the 1970s. Still, listeners of Thrash may even include athletes whose professions in competitive sports demand that extra injection of aural hemoglobin as a source of performance enhancement and motivation. In general, the audience of Thrash Metal is of a young, rebellious demographic looking to change the world through sheer force of the fist.