Metal for a Metalhead

I am listening to the absolutely awesome and utterly ear-splitting music of the american groove metal band Lamb of God. Their latest album 'Resolution' has turned out to be even more brutal than their previous albums, which by the way were awe-freaking-some in every sense.

I don't get the fact why some people say that heavy metal music is just screaming and shouting in front of a microphone?

 I do not understand why people condemn and (not a general opinion, despite belief) dislike heavy metal music?

It is not because it is loud. Volume is not of the track but is up to you to modulate.

It is not because it is brutal. News, these days is more brutal than most heavy metal tracks.

It's also not because it is unsophisticated. Operatic and powerful vocals are the inseparable parts of certain metal bands. Iron Maiden and Judas Pries, for instance have singers with unusually powerful and beautiful voices.

It's not because it does not have variety. Metal music is perhaps the most diverse music there has ever been. Groove metal,Thrash metal,Death metal,Black metal,Industrial metal,Power metal,Djent metal,Doom metal and many more sub-genres just comprise the uppermost layer of the building metal scene in the world.

It is not because metal hurts the ears. Don't kid me guys... I mean you say that after the high pitched wailing of certain Justin Bieber (who, by the way has to use software instead of puberty for his voice),NOTHING hurts my ears more...

It is definitely not because metal lyrics are not sensible...

Check this out...

Life it seems will fade away 

Drifting further everyday 

Getting lost within myself 

Nothing matters no one else 

I have lost the will to live 

Simply nothing more to give 

There is nothing more for me 

Need the end to set me free 

Things not what they used to be 

Missing one inside of me 

Deathly lost this can't be real 

Can't stand this hell I feel 

Emptiness is filling me 

To the point of agony 

Growing darkness taking dawn 

I was me, but now he's gone 

No one but me can save myself, but it's too late 

Now I can't think, think why I should even try 

Yesterday seems as though it never existed 

Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye 

Goodbye

This was one of my favorite songs by the biggest metal band in the world, Metallica,'Fade to Black'.

Lets now see what one of the most popular pop artists of the decade has to say...

If I was your boyfriend, I’d never let you go

I can take you places you ain't never been before

Baby, take a chance or you’ll never ever know

I got money in my hands that I’d really like to blow

Swag, swag, swag, on you

Chillin' by the fire while we eatin’ fondue

I don't know about me but I know about you

So say hello to falsetto in three, two, swag

I couldn't have cared less for what it means... considering its already very 'sophisticated'!

I don't know why people don't like metal music... Let them not like it, I don't give a sham, but why condemn it...why call it unbearable? Why?

I guess I'll never understand.

But remembering the last lines of the documentary "Metal : A Headbanger's Journey", said to all the people who condemn and hate metal music...

" Ever since I was 12 years old I had to defend my love for heavy metal against those who say it's a less valid form of music. My answer now is that you either feel it or you don't. If metal doesn't give that overwhelming surge of power that make the hair stand up at the back of your neck, you might never get it, and you know what? That's okay, because judging by the 40,000 metalheads around me we're doing just fine without you."

Thanks for reading...

Abhishek.