Older people are unlikely to describe metallers in pleasant terms. Representatives of this very popular subculture and parents whose children are fond of heavy music see about the same way. However, all the labels hung on metalheads have nothing to do with the average metalhead.
Metalworkers or metalheads are people who are fond of metal. Metal is the general name for heavy music. There are about thirty types of metal at the moment and their list is constantly updated. The main ones are black, death, thrash, power, doom and heavy. Each view is distinguished by the sound of the melody, speed and manner of performance, the content of the texts. Metalists are rarely omnivorous, they can listen to different directions, but most often they are attracted to one thing.
Their appearance often depends not so much on their favorite direction, but on a combination of several factors: age, team, position in society, worldview, etc. In most cases, a typical young metalhead wears long hair (man), is dressed in black or dark clothes, t-shirts, hoodies; from above you can often see a leather jacket “black jacket”, it is a business card of a metal head; leather pants or black jeans. Metalworkers prefer to wear heavy shoes, it can be ordinary boots with chains, army boots, “berets”, “camelot” and the like. An integral attribute of metal style are chains, wristbands, collars, earrings. All this, of course, sets the metalhead out of the crowd: the look is stern, thoughtful and sometimes frightening. However, this style is only a superficial plaque, which eventually disappears. Many old-school metallers scorn teenagers hung with metal tinsel.
About the religiosity of metalworkers we can only say that all people are different and you should not row everyone under one comb. Both among young and mature metalheads there are people professing different faiths. This may be Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, to a lesser extent Islam. Satanists also come across, but in most cases this is a posturing that does not pose any danger to society, and is limited only by the defiant style of clothing and makeup. The most common can be considered paganism, which depends on the country of residence, and atheism.
Aggressiveness of metal adherents, from the layman's point of view, is based on a few cases in Northern Europe, where metalworkers participated in pogroms and arson of Protestant churches. The bulk of the metalworkers are quite quiet, calm, even phlegmatic, they pour out all their emotions, all the accumulated energy at concerts of their favorite bands. In fact, for many young people, their favorite heavy music is a kind of psychotherapy. The behavior of young people on the dance floor in people far from informal life can cause horror, and among metalheads of mature age - laughter. Headbanging and slam are considered frequent at concerts and festivals.
The intellectual level of metalworkers is quite high, most receive or already have completed higher education, they read a lot. And although science fiction, horror and fantasy are often the favorite metalhead literature, nowadays, when a significant part of young people don’t know which way to approach the book, this can be considered an achievement.
