I was a total metalhead in high school. I looked like a walking deathtrap too with all the spikes, and chains and stuff I was hauling everywhere with me.
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Were you a metalhead in high school?
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'82 - '86 were my high school years. I spent them as a freak/anti-preppy/band/orchestra dude who felt that occasionally attendance was optional in lieu of a nice day-trip to a local park for some therapeutic frisbee, cigarettes and other things mom and dad warned me never to do.
I was a metal head by proxy. I personally listened to Rush, Zep, Yes, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Cure, The Femmes, Steely Dan as well as Weather Report and Stanley Clarke's many recordings - and more - A rather non-metal list. I never owned a single metal album and when I had control over the set list or the radio dial, it was always rock, fusion or alt.
But all my musician friends were metal heads and since I wanted to be in bands with them, I ended up getting a full-on education in triplets from Mr. Harris as well as a dose of "hang on for your life" riffs from the likes of Queensryche, Anthrax and Megadeath - even Flotsam and Jetsam. While it was not my cup of tea, I wouldn't have traded that intense immersion in pure stamina-based music for all the tea in China. Talk about a great way to build finger strength and learn scales and arpeggios!
Loved playing it - wasn't much of a fan of listening to it.
I was a metal head by proxy. I personally listened to Rush, Zep, Yes, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Cure, The Femmes, Steely Dan as well as Weather Report and Stanley Clarke's many recordings - and more - A rather non-metal list. I never owned a single metal album and when I had control over the set list or the radio dial, it was always rock, fusion or alt.
But all my musician friends were metal heads and since I wanted to be in bands with them, I ended up getting a full-on education in triplets from Mr. Harris as well as a dose of "hang on for your life" riffs from the likes of Queensryche, Anthrax and Megadeath - even Flotsam and Jetsam. While it was not my cup of tea, I wouldn't have traded that intense immersion in pure stamina-based music for all the tea in China. Talk about a great way to build finger strength and learn scales and arpeggios!
Loved playing it - wasn't much of a fan of listening to it.
I was a metal/punk kid in HS. I had long hair and liked metal and a lot of punker bands. After high school I got into the whole grunge thing. Sometime after that I got more and more into punk. But in the past few years I've discovered a lot of new metal that I love and I've re-discovered a lot of old metal that I used to love. Bands like Lamb of god, COB, Otep, Hatebreed, etc. who weren't around when I was in HS. But then I'm re-digging a lot of the old bands I grew up with such as Death Angel, Agnostic Front, Slayer, etc. As a matter of fact, I saw Agnostic Front a few months ago and those guys are still just as amazing as they were back in '82. And I'm seeing Death Angel next week.
I'm also still really into punk and hardcore music.
As for the style, naah. In HS I was a jeans and t-shirt kid. I had a biker jacket that I wore a lot though.
Currently, I wear shorts as long as I can get away with it. Other than that, t-shirts and sneakers.
I'm also still really into punk and hardcore music.
As for the style, naah. In HS I was a jeans and t-shirt kid. I had a biker jacket that I wore a lot though.
Currently, I wear shorts as long as I can get away with it. Other than that, t-shirts and sneakers.
I kinda am, I used to have long hair but I cut it. I still have my jean jacket with patches and pins on it and I still wear band t-shirts but not so much anymore.
Depeche Mode, The Cure, and The Smiths in the first few years of High School gave way to Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax in '86. I never was one for dressing the part.
I was a complete and total metalhead all through high school. I had to have a leather jacket as well as a jean jacket, and I didn't cut my hair, ever. Strangely, I was the only one of my metal friends who was also into sports so when I got my varsity sport jacket I had the name "Black Sabbath" put on it instead of my own name. 
I also wore one of these shirts:
I also wore one of these shirts:
I was one of only a handful of people at my high school that listened to metal. I didn't even listen to a great variety of metal back then since I knew nobody to turn me onto different bands and Myspace had yet to take off. Nowadays (all 5 years later 
) it seems like every high school student I see is wearing a Maiden or Megadeth shirt.
) it seems like every high school student I see is wearing a Maiden or Megadeth shirt.
Sure, but not until the late 70's in the UK.
It came into its own look when Jusas Priest released "Hell Bent for Leather" 78' and Rob Halford and the gang started dressing in leather and studs. However it wasn't until the 80's... helped by the release of Iron Maiden's self titled album... that it really came to be how we know it.
*turns down obnoxiously loud stereo to reply*
Wha? I'm in my last year of secondary (read: high) school. And yes I am a metalhead. But i'm a many headed beast!
Wha? I'm in my last year of secondary (read: high) school. And yes I am a metalhead. But i'm a many headed beast!
I'm in high school right now.
I used to be a HUGE metal head in 9th grade: Slayer, Megadeth, Morbid Angel, Children of Bodom, Testament.
then 10th grade came, and *pop* instant reversal. I suddenly ditched all my metal albums and started listening to jazz fusion, progressive rock, and the like. 11th grade, more of the same.
oh, and techno. I dunno where that came from...
I still like Children of Bodom though...
I used to be a HUGE metal head in 9th grade: Slayer, Megadeth, Morbid Angel, Children of Bodom, Testament.
then 10th grade came, and *pop* instant reversal. I suddenly ditched all my metal albums and started listening to jazz fusion, progressive rock, and the like. 11th grade, more of the same.
oh, and techno. I dunno where that came from...
I still like Children of Bodom though...
I was in high school toward the end of the metal period (88-91). I was totally into Slayer, Metallica, DRI, Suicidal Tendencies, Exodus, Testament. Good times.
Nope, still don't really like metal even though i've played in a metal band for 9 years.
I was a punk rock/ska kid, bad religion is still my favorite band till this day.
Still miss my Orange hair, served me well for 5 years.... damn you real life.
I was also an oddity i think i was the only kid in school who blared George Clinton from the torn speakers in my 86 Buick century.
Good times
More or less i hanged around the metal kids (rap metal period) it was either that or the dave mathews fan club...
I was a punk rock/ska kid, bad religion is still my favorite band till this day.
Still miss my Orange hair, served me well for 5 years.... damn you real life.
I was also an oddity i think i was the only kid in school who blared George Clinton from the torn speakers in my 86 Buick century.
Good times
More or less i hanged around the metal kids (rap metal period) it was either that or the dave mathews fan club...
still in high school, metalhead though... i don't know if i dress the part all the time but i don't wear much besides jeans and band shirts. and my hoodie with a sewn on misfits logo.
I was a huge Metalhead in HS. I graduated back in 1991. Leather biker jacket or jean jacket (depending on the season), patches, pins, loosely laced hightop sneakers, tight jeans with rips and writing all over them...
Way into Metallica, Ozzy, Megadeth, Anthrax...
Yup. That was me.
Joe
Way into Metallica, Ozzy, Megadeth, Anthrax...
Yup. That was me.
Joe
