What are some of your "warning sign" bands? - When you hear someone says they like X band then it's time to ask for the check.

[Art Corvalay]

I think people who only listen to just thrash/death/black metal and no other musical genre are a bunch of schizos

Exclusive Thrash and Death Metal fans are obnoxious elitists and poorly-adjusted autists, and there are some actual loons in the mix, dont get me wrong. But like I said, exclusive/near-exclusive Black Metal fans are a different breed entirely, having all of the worst traits of the Thrash/Death metal fans, plus even more fedposty edginess and with some form of fringe political lunacy being more or less the norm in (from my experience) most of their communities. I wouldnt equate them

 

[Calandrino]

I think people who only listen to just thrash/death/black metal and no other musical genre are a bunch of schizos

 

[Larry Potterfield]

I find that a bigger warning sign than liking a band is when people pretend they're into a some niche and then describe a mainstream band. There's so many influencers that are like "hehe I'm a hardcore metalhead" and then play slipknot.

 

[TVB]

Wesley Willis is based

 

[LikeRivenIRL]

also fans of big thief are insufferable and the music itself is, too.

Why tho? Their musicianship is quite good imo.


Anyone really into K-Pop boy bands likely has fujo tendencies and will troon out and break your heart. Red flag.

 

[TheSaltySpitoon]

No one has mentioned my two favorite bands: Reel Big Fish and Cattle Decapitation. I truly have masterful taste.

 

[Optimum Cockfag]

Not a band, but anyone who's overly hung up on lyrics. Like, here's the same song in Swahili... is it still "your jam?"

 

[TV's Adam West]

As a nigga who loves folk punk, folk punk.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

I have flags for both genres and some specific artists as well

• Black metal: probably a Nazi edgelord, or at least some form of edgelord. Definitely plays near-incomprehensible gibberish at full blast to shake nearby cars
• Modern rap, especially drill and soundcloud: same problem with incomprehensible bullshit that shakes cars, this time with niggers
• Modern pop rock: "quirky" girl with all sorts of baggage and questionable decision-making skills
• Punk: probably a commie SJW, complains if you suggest that they aren't brave rebels fighting against The Man
• KPop: obsessed with their Asian twinks, probably acts like they have personal connections to these guys. BTS is the worst offender, and they also push their fans to obnoxious activism
• Swifties: actual cult obsessed with this teenage Girl Power shit by a woman that is nearly 40.
• "Folk Music:" Commies or Nazis listening to propaganda songs, no in between
• People complaining about country: probably hates rural people, leeway given if they specifically say they aren't fond of modern pop country, mercy may be taken away if they start talking about commie folk singers.

There are probably more, but I can't think of them right now.

 

[Some_guy01]

Black Metal: Either lean into Communism or Nazism, claims to be a misanthrope but really is autistic with bad social anxiety. Hates all religions, but when asked about Islam or Judaism, goes all mega faggot and spouts "muh racism/anti-semitic".

Black Metal (Tiktok edition): KILL YOURSELF

Modern Rap: Nigger music, it is all that it is. If White, just a methed up retard that cannot string a few words together to form a sentence (I wonder if that is how mumble rap started).

Vaporwave/Synthwave: either a softboy/girl or Tranny. Weeb is also expected. Possibly on SSRIs.

Goth rock: Hot Topic gutted the style and now it is filled with softboy/girls, Trannies, and other degenerates that crawled out of their basement. Claims to be "dark" but is just a weak-willed bitch. Has abandonment issues and is on some form of SSRIs.

Punk: a corpo commie bootlicker that never mentally or emotionally matured passed 14.

Core music (Metalcore,Deathcore, etc.): Claim to be a metalhead, but when asked about semi/well known bands either call it "dad rock" or never heard of them. Views any/most metal bands that are not core as "problematic" because they played with a "sketchy" band or have wrongthink.

 

[CoolFool]

This is just my experience:

Kid Rock - Always male, never met a female Kid Rock fan. These men are ALWAYS alcoholics.

Taylor Swift - Depends. If they're just casual fans then they might just be kind of "basic" but harmless. If say they're a Swiftie then RUN, they're legit nuts.

Lizzo - I haven't met an actual Lizzo fan. I'm convinced they don't exist. I see a lot of women say how inclusive and awesome she is but they don't actually listen to her.

Falling in Reverse - I actually like some of their music, but any man I've known that says Falling In Reverse is their favorite band always ends up being a junkie deadbeat dad with kids from several different women.

Melanie Martinez - It's always women who love this broad. If under the age of 18, then very likely a self harmer, pro-ana mess. Definitely posts on pro-ana forums and posts body checks on Instagram. Over the age of 20, a BPD nightmare that trauma dumps to anyone who will listen.

Billie Eillish - She's been mentioned here already, but mostly for female fans. I want to talk about male fans. I've only met 3, but all 3 of them were pretentious dicks that love reddit and trash talk anyone who isn't a big Leftist. They all 3 said the same thing, that she's wildly talented and that if you don't agree then you just "don't understand music". All 3 of them showed me the same video on YouTube where some guy with a lot of subscribers ""educates"" the viewer on why she's actually for real talented and that everyone should respect her even if they don't like her music. Look man, I don't care if people like her, but I just don't think her music is anything special. Some of it's catchy, but I don't find the lyrics that deep or the music groundbreaking as people claim. And lots of people seem to ignore the fact that she only made it in the industry due to her parents, not due to her being some talented underdog that rose to fame organically.

Otep - Always 30+ women. Always mentally unstable, had a really fucked up childhood that they never recovered from. Can't hold a job and always in abusive relationships with men, or chronically single due to hating men with a passion.

 

[RussianParasite]

I find that a bigger warning sign than liking a band is when people pretend they're into a some niche and then describe a mainstream band. There's so many influencers that are like "hehe I'm a hardcore metalhead" and then play slipknot.

Any adult that makes their taste in music part of their personality is absolutely cringe. It’s fine to be a dumb teenager and have KMFDM be the source of your political opinions, but that type of thing is something everyone should grow out of.

 

[TVB]

No one has mentioned my two favorite bands: Reel Big Fish and Cattle Decapitation. I truly have masterful taste.

I've always loved Reel Big Fish, so you're a-ok in my book.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

Billie Eillish - She's been mentioned here already, but mostly for female fans. I want to talk about male fans. I've only met 3, but all 3 of them were pretentious dicks that love reddit and trash talk anyone who isn't a big Leftist. They all 3 said the same thing, that she's wildly talented and that if you don't agree then you just "don't understand music". All 3 of them showed me the same video on YouTube where some guy with a lot of subscribers ""educates"" the viewer on why she's actually for real talented and that everyone should respect her even if they don't like her music. Look man, I don't care if people like her, but I just don't think her music is anything special. Some of it's catchy, but I don't find the lyrics that deep or the music groundbreaking as people claim. And lots of people seem to ignore the fact that she only made it in the industry due to her parents, not due to her being some talented underdog that rose to fame organically.

And don't you dare suggest that the girl whose brother is an Industry executive might be a plant!

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

Lizzo - I haven't met an actual Lizzo fan. I'm convinced they don't exist. I see a lot of women say how inclusive and awesome she is but they don't actually listen to her.

I definitely agree here. She is definitely astroturfed and it felt like in 2021 or so that she was going away because her singles and performances around that time were flops. But much to my chagrin, they went fucking hard in the paint for her 2022 record. Like it felt like every favor got called in to make it a massive breakout hit and the sales didn’t come close. It felt like huge amounts of money was spent for promotion and only ended up at a few hundred thousand sales overall. That would be a big failure and a dismissal from her record label but instead we have to pretend that she’s a major pop star instead. She’s in her mid 30s and has been fat all her life. If she isn’t suffering from type 2 beetus and hypertension I’d be really surprised. It’s only going to get much harder for her from here. But yeah, I’ve yet to know anyone who can point out any songs they like.

 

[Art Corvalay]

Black Metal: Either lean into Communism or Nazism, claims to be a misanthrope but really is autistic with bad social anxiety. Hates all religions, but when asked about Islam or Judaism, goes all mega faggot and spouts "muh racism/anti-semitic".

The communist ones will respond that way. The wignat/nazi ones will go on a 20 minute sperg rant about either "shitskins" invading white countries and possibly pin it back on the Jews (if asked about Islam), or about how Jews are the root of all evil and the Holocaust is fake (if asked directly about Judaism)

 

[Jerry1337]

It's kind of sad how there is a resentment against TOOL among kiwis. I think the band deserves the recognition it gets.
If isn't obvious to you, I love the band. It's great.
I will agree that people who are really into that band are really obnoxious and really like shoving that band down everybody's throat, like it's the best thing that graced the metal genre, which it really didn't.
Oh, and most of the people I know that listen to that band are huge stoners that really sperg and coom all over any prog metal band. Like Primus.

Spoiler: Truth

Primus sucks lol, lmao even.

I also saw some people talking about hardcore "punk", and yeah, people antifa members who listen to that are annoying as fuck, but the music is great.
Post-Hardcore is such a bop tho:

 

[Uncle Holter]

The communist ones will respond that way. The wignat/nazi ones will go on a 20 minute sperg rant about either "shitskins" invading white countries and possibly pin it back on the Jews (if asked about Islam), or about how Jews are the root of all evil and the Holocaust is fake (if asked directly about Judaism)

Yeah, then you have the "just edgy" camp that's not political and will just say whatever is the most socially controversial. Be it writing a love poem to Joseph Mengele or celebrating the rape of Nanking. Impiety is a good example of this.

This is probably the most true form of black metal since it always was about pretending to be the most evil and anti-social band imaginable.

PS. Here is a "edgy" black metal band dissing leftist hipster black metal.

 

[Ged!]

Falling in Reverse - I actually like some of their music, but any man I've known that says Falling In Reverse is their favorite band always ends up being a junkie deadbeat dad with kids from several different women.

The main guy from that band was previously in a band called Escape the Fate and sung on probably my #1 guilty pleasure album of all time. He ended up killing a guy or whatever and that's why he split off and formed Falling in Reverse. It's kind of interesting that Falling in Reverse has stuck around as much as they have cause pretty much every other band like that (I call it Hot Topic music) has disappeared entirely, with very few exceptions. But as far as I can tell the fanbase is exactly as you described, which isn't really surprising.

Anyone who listens primarily to Black Metal is very likely to be autistic and a total political sperg who is a member of at least one fed honeypot discord server. They're probably either a wignat, communist, an anarchist, or some super-autistic combination of two of those (like Nazbol). If you encounter a "Second wave" black metal (Gorgoroth, Burzum, Mayhem, etc) fan specifically, he's probably going to be middle-aged (or rapidly approaching it), a neopagan larper or deep into occult shit, and obsessed with an ethnic group he's not part of (since most are going to be an Amerimutt larping as a "pure Nordic Aryan viking").

All of this describes me.

 

[CoolFool]

. He ended up killing a guy or whatever

Just a FYI, he didn't kill anyone. I don't remember what the exact charge was but it was weapon's charge and he then spent like a year in prison for violating probation terms. Another person killed that kid you're thinking of.