There’s also the fact that a fair-sized number of metal fans tend to fall into one of two fundamentally oppositional but equally repugnant demographics: (1) shitkicking separatists who like to listen to loud music while they lift, and (2) soft-ass woke bros who would nonetheless prefer to keep politics removed from a form of entertainment they see as a role-playing respite from their desk jobs. It’s often boorish, vulgar, sexist, suspicious of outsiders, possibly illiterate, and white as a sheet. There’s the big, blaring, obvious stuff, of course, the stuff we want to ignore: the fact that metal topographically bears an uncomfortable resemblance to a certain kleptocratic Manchurian Candidate president-elect of questionable integrity. And right now, where I’m at, things look kinda bleak. But I also can’t lie about how things appear from my vantage. If that’s the case, I’m jealous, I can’t lie. Maybe you live someplace where everything is going great, and maybe where you live, metal is going great, too. Maybe this is specific to my country, America, which also had a pretty bad 2016. Let’s just put this out there: Metal had a pretty bad 2016.
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