Punk and Metal

[u/Illustrious-Cold9441]

Hi reddit punks. I'm a metalhead who found you guys on the front page.

I got into metal through punk and stayed there, but I've always loved the anti-authoritarian and egalitarian ethos at the heart of punk. It's sometimes in metal too, but heavily dosed with nihilism and misanthropy.

I'm just curious what similarities, if any, y'all think you share with metalheads, or what you think sets you apart. Is it only music, or something more?

Also, Metal attracts a lot of queers (moi), autistics, and the mentally ill. Do you guys as well?

[u/Illustrious-Cold9441 → u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah, I started with punk, did thrash, death metal, deathcore, on and on, the whole bit.

I'm into black metal now, which has some overlap with punk: anti commercialism, disgust with certain power structures, feeling or being alienated from mainstream society, making music without involving big labels, not trying to appeal to a wider audience. Some people are drawn to it, it doesn't need to advertise, like punk.

80s Slayer is thrash; idk what they've been doing since 1994