http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Metal%20Elitist


We all know them, opinions please..

Metal elitists aren't really any worse than any other type of elitist and the world is full of them. Whether it's regarding films, music and it's various genres, or art there's always going to be elitist snobs out there. That's fine, but they're probably missing out on quite a bit.

I have known dozens of metal elitists, I would estimate one in three metal heads are metal elitists to some degree. It happens in all music scenes but heavy metal in general seems to have more of them. I wrote a huge article years I got some shit for about scene-splitters. These are people who go out of their way to make sure their little metal world has no part in your metal world and have the my metal is better than your metal attitude instead of accepting other people have different tastes and just living with it. In doom metal there is not as much of it but it still exists. This leads to a split in the scene where if there was a doom metal festival for example, some doom fans would only go if there was "their type" of doom metal bands playing instead of all coming together for the one common cause. Many years ago there was a black vs doom mini festival where there was doom and black metal bands playing on the same show. The doom fans left after the doom bands finished playing and the corpse painted BM fans walked out when the doom bands were onstage. It screwed up the whole day for everyone. I can appreciate all kinds of doom metal and I can see and hear good things about all sub-genres of doom metal but I know I am in the minority.

This elitist attitude has been going on way before sub-genres were even invented. I remember getting laughed at once for going to a metal gig in a suit, I had just came from a wedding. The fact I wasn't wearing the metal uniform freaked people out. This all ties into the elitist attitude that there is only one way to be and step outside of that and you are in trouble. "Metal Elitists" are basically rude people and should be ignored. They are the type of people that think they know everything about a style, genre or scene, when in reality don't know anything more than anyone else. You find a lot of these people in bands too, they think because they can hit a few chords on a guitar that they are suddenly experts on everything. I meet them all the time.

This is a topic that really gets under my skin. Frickin know it all's!!!! You met them all in the time in the metal scene. What makes them think they are any better than anyone else is a mystery to me. Ed mentioned band members and that is 100% on the money. I knew a guy whose entire attitude changed once he got himself into a band, I don't know why that happens but it does.

It is cool to have a favorite genre and supporting it but putting down other genres is kind of lame. The Internet has made it a favorite past-time for a lot of bored people. Blabbermouth is one of the best examples of a breeding ground for this kind of behavior.

This is something you see a lot of around here. If you go to a show, you will see groups of people huddled in their corners and they will won't talk to anyone else. It is kind of weird that everyone is there to hear the same thing but there is no unity at all. The elitist attitude is well and truly alive around here, one of the reasons I don't get too inspire to go to shows.

Elitists Are Killing The Heavy Metal Genre?



http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=70440

The video here is chock full of contradictions and I doubt if you will get through more than 2 minutes of it but it is good for a laugh at least.