I had a total snob metalhead moment today in school. We did this statistics lab where we had to test our times in completing a maze in silence, listening to Mozart, and then listening to some deathcore song. (actually, my fastest time by far was while listening to the deathcore song)
But anyway, as soon as the teacher put on the deathcore, everyone seriously flipped a shit as if it was the absolute most shocking combination of sounds ever. Listen, the song was absolutely terrible and I get that extreme metally music like that isn't everyone's thing. I'm not one of those guys that's all like "ZOMG METUHL IS GREATER THAN ALL!" and I get that people like different music and even when getting into metal, need time to 'get used' to stuff like growls (even I took awhile to get into stuff like black metal).
Basically, I totally raged on the inside while hearing people laugh and be all like "OMG SCARIEST MUSIC EVER" "WHY WOULD ANYONE LISTEN TO THAT" "WHATS THE POINT IF YOU CANT EVEN UNDERSTAND THE LYRICS" as if making or liking that type of music is so unfathomable. At this point in the post, I don't really know what point I'm trying to make (maybe that people need to grow a pair and respect other genres?) but anyway today was just the first time in awhile that I've actually been pissed off by someone being all shocked by metal (in this case it was deathcore, but its the same thing really for most people). I didn't say anything about it, but still....