People here have at least one thing in common: stupidity.
I like metal for many reasons. Here's my trying-to-be-intellectual answer -
First of all I got into metal about 6-7 years ago. The roots are actually much longer in history, because my dad and my cousin used to listen rock / metal when I was just a little kid. But 6 years ago (I was 16-year-old that time) I started to realize that world wasn't just as naive and funny place anymore as I had grown and realize the social economy and all in all how the world was full of unfair things happening everywhere I looked.
That's when my musical taste changed into more aggressive form, which was metal. I became addict for metal, a metalhead. I started to like different genres (that's 1 reason btw why metal is so great, it has so much variety) like heavy metal and industrial metal and alternative metal. But most I started to like folk metal.
Here's a list I concider to contain the facts why people like metal:
1. its raw / brutal / energetic and full of force
2. it has so many different types and genres which are evolving all the time and new genres are being made up
3. it tells us about things that other music doesn't (at least not with the same power): sex, drugs, death, satanism, anti-religious, violence and aggressions, hate, but also good things like love, fantasy and mighty battles
4. it's concidered bad and evil which makes it exciting for those who are not scared
5. it's kind of music of the outsiders, those people who want to be or are naturally different than most of the others
6. It has lots of low bass sounds, very talented players, nice melodies, catchy riffs, guitar solos, drumming like hell and screaming / groaning / yelling singing, and lots of speed (unless its stoner metal or something
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7. you name it
- miekka18