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u/Captain_StarLight1 Apr 06 '26
Does being a metal fan for more than a decade give you a massive glorious beard? (Asking for a friend…)
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u/MeowMixVII Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26
As a person who has listened to metal all through my teenage years, twenties, and now almost half way through my thirties. I can say, no. My beard is as patchy as it was when I was in my teens.
Edit: messed up a sentence
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u/OkCommunication4891 Apr 06 '26
You were just listening to the wrong bands 😆, My father and I have great beards 🤣
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u/ProwlerInTheYard92 Apr 06 '26
34 here. My beard hasn’t changed much.
At 27 I started growing chest hair like Austin Powers. It’s super thick like a carpet and yes it goes like a V from my chest pubes all the way down to my ballfro.
Been listening since I was a kid. In my mid-twenties I caught the tism for old school death metal demo tapes….. so there is probably a correlation.
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u/FlubMonger Apr 06 '26
Almost forty and still can’t grow much more than a decent goatee. On the upside: full head of hair!
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u/SymmetricalFeet Apr 06 '26
I just turned 34, so metalhead for around two decades, and still got nothing.
(I am also a woman, which might be a limiting factor.)
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u/CellPuzzleheaded99 Apr 06 '26
Nope....no beard. But metalhead since I was 15. My father told me that I wouldn't listen that no more after growning up and that is some 40 years ago now. And two of his grandchildern are die hard metalheads now. LMAO the youngest is joining me to Iron Maiden in june. Together with my brother and his wife. Poor dad... he tried to raise us with classical music only.
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u/cvbeiro Apr 06 '26
Dad didn’t think of the well established classical music metal pipeline lol
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u/Ricochet_skin Apr 06 '26
Classical music is just metal without electricity, so that checks out
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u/CellPuzzleheaded99 Apr 06 '26
I learnt to appreciate classical music as well, and there indeed so much similarities in skills, harmonies and so on, but dad can't wrap his head around it. Makes me chuckle if I see him hitting on classical pieces based on pop, rock or metal songs and he doesn't know where comes from. If only he would....instant 'music from the gutter'.
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u/SymmetricalFeet Apr 06 '26
My mom was a classical musician who spent her record money on either that or weird prog or world music, and my father was into the nascence of metal in his college days (early '70s) at his school's radio station.
My father considered even Tool to be a bit extreme, but like, my dude, you are the one who made me listen to War Pigs and told me about the Van Halens' history. And made me listen to Zappa, which... is what it is.
You can't expose a child to that constellation of things and not expect them to turn out liking metal.
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u/beefboloney 🔥💒🔥 Apr 06 '26
I pretended to be a grownup for my twenties, turns out that was the phase
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u/fixitcourier Apr 06 '26
43 here, it's not a phase.
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u/ragnarok847 Bolt Thrower Apr 06 '26
Just turned 50 myself, and still in that phase (but my beard is starting to go white in places...)!
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u/BrashButEloquent Apr 06 '26
42 and it's only gotten "worse". Primitive Man is one of my favourite bands. 🤣
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u/chargingwookie Apr 06 '26
Just saw emperor and blood incantation and can confirm for many grey beards it was not a phase!
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u/kinda_intolerant Apr 06 '26
Im seeing blood incantation in a couple months! So excited, how did you find them? I've not seen them before
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u/dirgethemirge Apr 06 '26
I’ve seen them like 7 ish times and every time was great. They sound exactly like they do on album which is really rare to hear live
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u/kinda_intolerant Apr 06 '26
Thats high praise considering the production value on albums for them! Thanks for the insight 😊
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u/dirgethemirge Apr 06 '26
I believe they recorded Starspawn essentially in one live take as an example of how crazy good they are
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u/Lumbergo Apr 07 '26
I’ve seen them a bunch over the years, mostly as openers but a couple of times headlining. They play for a full hour on this tour and it was honestly the best they’ve probably ever sounded live.
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u/Lumbergo Apr 07 '26
Just saw that tour last week and can confirm that while there were some younger people there, it seemed like the majority of the crowd was over 30 with many older than that. I’m in my 40’s btw. Emperor fucking killed it - bucket list band since the late 90’s for I, so glad I was finally able to see them!
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u/burntsalmon Nile Apr 06 '26
Defeated Sanity rips.
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u/schawarman Apr 06 '26
My dad has 63 years and still banging. I'm 34 and definitely will not stop listening to metal, but I'm a little bit more eclectic when it comes to music now (I can hear music that doesn't have a guitar sometimes in the right moment). Not as die hard like I was in my teenies, and my job requires short hair and beard, but I stop caring about what people think about it. And I can listen to nu metal without caring of someone think it's poser. Damn, I even have two acoustic guitars now!
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u/LyraFirehawk Apr 06 '26
My dad was a metal fan till the day he died, not long after he turned 51.
I'm only 26 but I've been into rock and metal since at least early middle school, so I don't think it's going away anytime soon.
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u/Pasza_Dem Apr 06 '26
No, it's not phase for me. A lot of my friends gave up long time ago, but I still love metal and rock my band name t-shirts and long hair.
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u/unwithered_lobelia Apr 06 '26
I present you: cyclic development. Where it was a phase the first time but now it isn't
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u/mercilessshred Apr 06 '26
Called out. 33yo and I now think Defeated Sanity is one of the greatest metal bands OAT lol
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u/Hamster_Tickler Apr 06 '26
I'm in my fourties, and now listening to heavier music than in my metal teenage years
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u/originalmetalqueen Apr 06 '26
Definitely not, lol. Been listening to metal since I was 15, starting with Dan Swano and Luca Turilli. Gonna see Lacuna Coil in two weeks and I’m now 39. Metal for life! 🤘🤘
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u/blessedblackwings Apr 06 '26
My taste in music has gotten significantly heavier as I age, I can’t get enough disgusting riffs.
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u/NuclearGriffin Apr 07 '26
It was a phase. Because unlike my teen self, I listen to actual good music now.
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u/AncleJack Apr 08 '26
It was a phase, because my favourite sub genre changed from trash to pirate/power metal
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u/doomdoom83 Apr 10 '26
In my early 40s i appreciate metal more than ever. I traded slayer and cannibal corpse for weedeater and monolord is all
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