"Metal is a world of its own, and even listeners who grew up hearing Led Zeppelin or Quiet Riot on AOR radio rarely combine an appetite for difficult ideas with a continuing passion for such music. Rock intellectuals prefer "alternative," even rap, and their disdain rankles the metal faithful. As one of those rock intellectuals, however, I remain unconverted. The intensity of its phallic narcissism has few parallels outside X-rated movies, toilet art, and (oh yes) rap."
"For many of us, metal's classical affinities are the very thing that renders it unlistenable--that as far as we're concerned, the instrumentally dexterous, rhetoric-drenched, and often melodramatic approach to meaning the two musics share is what rock and roll was put on earth to save us from."
He was bullied by metalheads when he was teenager. Of course he hates metal.
Adrian Gray
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Andrew Mitchell
>metal >existing in the 1950s Come on, dude.
Daniel Lewis
Mealfags btfo
Colton Flores
God he is so based.
Nolan Gomez
This guy looks a lot like my English teacher.
Adam Butler
meanwhile scaruffi, the true intellectual's critic, loves metal. really makes you think.
Isaac Brown
Scaruffi is European, he probably likes those classical affinities that Christgau snubs.
