Good Metal bands w/ Short Hair

[Against Will]

This is sort of is a spin off of the Sell out thread. I got thinking about good metal bands that had short hair and I was kind of at a loss.

At first I thought about Pig Destroyer, 2/3rds (or half if you count that synth guys that tours with them) have pretty short hair, but they're grindcore which I know some metalheads won't touch and has been plenty cross-pollinated with hardcore. So I don't think they really counted in this question.

Then I thought of Mastodon, who are also 1/2 short-haired. But I wondered if maybe it's hair-per-capita that makes a band metal. Like, do the long billowly locks and braided facial hair of one half of the band make up for the faux-Morrissey hair cuts of the other half?

Isis and Pelican both have one foot in the indie-doms of post-rock and shoegazing such ilk, so I wouldn't consider them serious contenders (though I do really enjoy Pelican).

Any other ideas?

edit: So I was checking out Southern Lord's website and I think Lair of the Minotaur might be one band. But I can't accurately say if they are metal enough, as I've only heard a couple of their songs.

[d8g3jdh]

anyone else notice that at the same time metallica began theyre suckitude that james cut his hair (or at least according to comparing load videos to cliff em all)? interesting...

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Lair of the Minotaur are pretty metal.

[fenderx55]

What about like prog metal? If you don't count Myung, DT has pretty short hair these days (Jordan Rudess has NO hair).

I'm at a loss for any other examples...

[Against Will]

Originally Posted by fenderx55@yahoo

What about like prog metal? If you don't count Myung, DT has pretty short hair these days (Jordan Rudess has NO hair).

I'm at a loss for any other examples...

True, but they did have long hair for a long period of time, i.e., when they were building their fan base. Now they are pretty well established, and their musical output at this point, I would guess, is not the kind that will light people's hair on fire (not passing judgement, just an observation of when bands get old.)

[McHaven]

System of a Down didn't have long hair for awhile. One member is even bald, the other balding. Now, the singer's hair is the longest I've ever seen in the band.

[Adam Barkley]

[Broken record] Sleepytime Gorilla Museum all have short hair. Except for Carla Kildstedt's medium length hair. Granted they don't fit metal all that well.

Botch all had almost straight-edge haircuts at one point.

[whitedk57]

Originally Posted by Grug

anyone else notice that at the same time metallica began theyre suckitude that james cut his hair (or at least according to comparing load videos to cliff em all)? interesting...

Maybe he burned it off in that pyro accident and decided to leave it short...

[Matt Till]

I was joking about the "cutting your hair" thing... but this is very strange.

Stranger yet... I'm growing my hair out! It's a matter of "it's easier to look cool on stage." If a bald/shorthair headbangs, it's nothing. They have to thrash to look "into it." A long hair guy can bob his head and it looks like he's thrashing.

It's all stupid anyway.

I'm stupid.

[Adam Barkley]

Originally Posted by Matt Till

I was joking about the "cutting your hair" thing... but this is very strange.

Stranger yet... I'm growing my hair out! It's a matter of "it's easier to look cool on stage." If a bald/shorthair headbangs, it's nothing. They have to thrash to look "into it." A long hair guy can bob his head and it looks like he's thrashing.

It's all stupid anyway.

I'm stupid.

Ladies and gentlemen... the artist formerly known as Stupid Matt.

[Kronos]

Some guys can pull it off and still be cool. My drummer and lead singer both have short hair. I'm working on growing mine back out.

In regards to heavy bands having short hair, I think it's all a grooming thing. Some of the bands here have guys with short hair, but how many of those bands have guys with short hair who wear it in a style that looks like it took them 3 hours to get it right? Mastodon looks like bums off the street. Metallica on the other hand-GQ. Then there are guys who are parts of metal history-scott ian of Anthrax and Kerry King of Slayer who both shaved their heads (for obvious reasons), but they're no less metal than they used to be. They still carry the image.

[Adam Barkley]

Originally Posted by Kronos

Some guys can pull it off and still be cool. My drummer and lead singer both have short hair. I'm working on growing mine back out.

In regards to heavy bands having short hair, I think it's all a grooming thing. Some of the bands here have guys with short hair, but how many of those bands have guys with short hair who wear it in a style that looks like it took them 3 hours to get it right? Mastodon looks like bums off the street. Metallica on the other hand-GQ. Then there are guys who are parts of metal history-scott ian of Anthrax and Kerry King of Slayer who both shaved their heads (for obvious reasons), but they're no less metal than they used to be. They still carry the image.

A foot and a half long billy goat beard will that. Ditto for a tribal tattoo going halfway up your skull.

[sotua]

Originally Posted by Against Will

This is sort of is a spin off of the Sell out thread. I got thinking about good metal bands that had short hair and I was kind of at a loss.

Mmmm, Limp Bizkit... although they don't qualify as either metal or good

[MikeyFingers]

Originally Posted by Against Will

...good metal bands that had short hair .

There's no such thing man!!

[MAJOR METAL]

I think Metallica continued to rock with Short Hair.

[43% burnt]

Originally Posted by MAJOR METAL

I think Metallica continued to rock with Short Hair.

I think you'll find this website proves this statement to be false
http://hetfield.tarsierjungle.net/chart.html

[WalterBush]

Personally, I think bands with longer hair are better because their hair acts as a counterweight--they can put the energy they would normally use to hold their chin off their chest into writing better metal

[baba]

Dillinger Escape Plan. All but one anyway.

[superbassman2000]

what about rammstein?

They have short hair

[43% burnt]

I can think of a couple...Burnt By the Sun, Into the Moat, Between the Buried and Me, Coalesce and Today is the Day. Just off the top...there's a bunch more.