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The reason new(proper) metal has NEVER made it back to the charts short of 'established' bands like Metallica, they saw something they couldn't control and a mentality they couldn't rein in.....
Most(not all, are some stupid shit in there that has given metal the reputation it has, fairly good chance that was intentional in the way they(Kazahrians) do with many things...) of the lyrics are fight songs and about all the things that allow people to stand alone and retain their strength and integrity.
Not for nothing that people that have never been to metal show universally report it as the best concert experience they have ever had with the friendliest people they have ever met at any concert, now combine that with the kind of lyrics and mentality metal-heads want/value/promote and you have some rather 'problematic' people...
Interesting, I’m mega conservative and a metal head for 35 years now.
Don't really like defining myself as conservative as I'm not, I'm liberal in the old-school anarchist(politically libertarian is the closest) sense of the term, 'liberal' and 'conservative' is a distinction they created for reasons that are rather obvious when you start looking at the associations these terms create...
That said, the majority of metal heads are somewhere on the sensible freedom-loving right side of the political spectrum...
Was this guy(Norwegian I think, is mentioned in a metal documentary) 1-2 decades ago that did a doctorate study on music and social position/psychology, a bit into the study he completely stopped listening to certain bands...
Music preferences are tied into most peoples core personality, not their apparent one but their actual core, aggressive personalities(not emotions..) tend to prefer aggressive music, intelligent people tend to prefer complex music, metal defines both to a point where much of it surpasses classical music both in complexity as well as range and depth....
That defines my musical tastes even more as my very favorite music is instrumental metal with no vocals. I have about 600 songs on my instrumental metal favorites list on Spotify.
My somewhat eclectic soundcloud likes list, actually some EDM at the top (but even that fits the psychology...), the rest is pretty much all metal
https://soundcloud.com/thomas-maker-568605324/likes
Don't have a preference for no vocals as much as a preference for female vocals(as a dude it is more enjoyable to hear a female voice) when there are vocals..