this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2025
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Metal Memes

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Memes. For metal music.

Don't be an ass and try to keep the gatekeeping and whatnot to a minimum. Memes from all sorts of metal genres and bands are welcome here.

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[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago
[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

The cool Manson.

[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

we the delegates of the metalhead nation, would like to trade glam metal back to whomever for nothing in return.

thank you.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

I'll take it!

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, a lot of metalcore is garbage. Maybe that's what uptight suit guy was listening to?

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Turn that shit off

[–] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Wrong sub! How dare you!

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Love this meme.

It really steps on the toes of the metal elitists who think 'only metal is real music'.

There is nothing as subjective as music. Every song has someone who likes it, because otherwise that song wouldn't exist.

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 2 points 2 months ago

I would venture to say that there are definitely objective aspects of music too, like pitch accuracy. I feel like pitch correction and Auto-tune may have some merit, but in most cases cheapen music, especially when applied to classics.

Also, metal is garbage.

Metal dividing is almost alike making up political views. If it slaps I bang

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Where blackened crossover deaththrash-grind surf rock?

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hair metal is literally the exact same thing as glam metal, which is on the list.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's be honest there's extreme overlap on most of these labels. You can take out half of them and it wouldn't change the number of bands represented.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I don't disagree, but in this case they are actually the exact same thing. "Hair metal" was a derogatory term someone came up with to describe glam metal bands of the late 80s who they felt were more obsessed with their extravagant hairstyles than with actually making music.

They are literally two different terms for the same genre.

Some fans who either didn't get the joke or just didn't care I guess eventually started using the term endearingly

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Otherwise known as the best kind

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

https://youtu.be/bzUPG8olnO0

Was my exe's favorite, gotta love those ballads

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

it's pop, so it's not listed.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Godric@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean crist rock isn't rock, so

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I meant crust. But also, I suppose I can get behind crust punk being garbage tho. It's literally the whole asthetic

[–] WUPHF@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Metalhead has severe Metal Illness

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Listen to what you want, but do you really need to label and classify everything?