05 Sep 2017, 5:27 pm
05 Sep 2017, 6:47 pm
Ganondox wrote:
Marknis wrote:
Ganondox wrote:
I had the opposite experience, if it wasn't for metal I would have had no friends in my last two years in highschool as I could make friends with the metalheads.
I went to both a private religious school and later on a redneck school so metalheads were in the extreme minority. I was also discouraged from making friends with "weirdos" or people who were "different". My father was especially bad for this and wanted me to hang out with his fellow rednecks despite how they treated me like crap. Even he joined in on it and I started to hate him when these repressed memories came back to me.
There was one guy who would wear Children of Bodom, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, and Nile shirts who I talked to sometimes but he cared more about his girlfriend as well as pushing himself onto other girls. His break up with that girlfriend nearly had him committing suicide IIRC. We really couldn't be true friends because I just didn't know how to initiate friendships and I actually thought in time God would bring me everything so I just had to wait; I am glad I no longer suffer from that delusion. There's more to it but it was such a long time ago it's difficult trying to remember every single thing. That guy hung out with my older brother who actually for a time liked bands like the aforementioned ones.
Sounds like your father really sucked, sorry to hear that.
He really did and still does. He actually used one of my birthdays as an excuse to go see a crappy country band, not thinking if a band I liked was playing in Austin. At the time, I didn't object because I was used to my father's interests but when I look back on it, it makes my anger surge up in me. He himself played the guitar but discouraged me from doing so unless it was redneck music which I refused to do so.
My father also says he is a Christian but has an insatiable appetite for women and has multiple mistresses, even when he's married. And society likes to claim metal heads are deviant?
I don't romanticize metal culture but metal heads atleast don't claim a moral high ground like redneck country music fans claim.
