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These days I rarely listen to metal unless it's one of the bands I've really loved for a long time, and even then, those are exceptions, or when I go to a concert.
The vast majority of metal just bores me now, especially if it's all-guitar stuff made for normalfag headbangers. For some reason I can still tolerate black metal and folk, maybe because of the vocals and the use of alternative instruments.
For almost five years now I've preferred post-punk and its various offshoots, especially goth, coldwave and deathrock.
I'm not that into vocals anymore either; I almost always prefer listening to classical music or synthwave/darkwave instead of subjecting myself to shitty lyrics or bad vocalists. I've been to enough concerts to know just how awful some famous singers really sound outside the studio - or simply once they start aging.
>>3366I never liked Iron Maiden; in fact, they, along with Aerosmith, always repulsed me, especially because of their fanboys.
I remember that back when I still cared about metal, during the golden age of online piracy, I could always find good bands from all over the world and tried to get my headbanger friends to listen to them. But they were only interested in mainstream metal or gay melodic metal.
And they still had the nerve to get upset when I occasionally preferred going to raves with the popular kids instead of spending yet another weekend drunk with them, listening to the Big Four crap for the umpteenth time.