Metal means alot to me, because it helped me find out who I really am...
When I was in my second year of junior high school, I started realizing that I was different from most of the other people in my class...
I was never into wearing clothes that were four sizes to big for me, or dancing all night while on some south american drug...
And when I first started listening to Metal (the first band I started listening to was Maiden by the way), I was at once captivated by the atosphere and aggression of the music...I quickly got into the heavier stuff like Black Metal, and I really find that Metal is the genre that defines me as a person.
As spaffe said before me, I can really relate to alot of the lyrics...and as time passed on, I got into Folk/Viking Metal, which is the "branch" of the Metal genre that I enjoy the most, because of my interest in history.
Another important thing that helped me get into Metal, was the fact that I discovered that most of the people were just like me...
And there is something special about being a Metalhead...when I pass people on the street I usually dont even bother to give them a second look, but if I pass a Metalhead, I usually greet him/her in some way
