to wonder where all the metalheads have gone?

[morbidangel]

I never see any metallers anymore (long hair, metal shirts, leather/denim jackets, patches etc). When I was younger there were loads of us. Now you don't see any, they have completely disappeared as have all the great venues. I am still one (albeit old) but I miss seeing young metalheads in all their gear. Where have they all gone?

I moved to the next village and now listen to Download in my garden. I used to get the Keith Prowse coach up from Kent back in the day. Never thought I would live so close.

To really see the metalhead in their natural setting, go to the co-op in Donington on download weekend. They stack walls of beer from the moment you walk in, like Marshall stacks made of beer cans...crates and crates of them - and then watch as the metalheads help little old ladies getting their shopping because they can't reach it due to the aforementioned crates of beer. Cute.

Waving fellow metal head! I stick with the grungey look these days, tbh I wouldn't feel that safe in my new rocks and studded belts where I live now! But I also feel a bit strange in that stuff now I'm a Mum, unless I'm at a gig of course lol I've kept all my iron fist, new rocks and DMartens for my girls to see when they're older though. Hoping they might want to rock them themselves one day!

My husband plays in a recently re-formed NWOBHM that verged on rock stardom back in the day. Apparently Lars Ulrich was heavily influenced by them and they supported the like of Motorhead and Saxon. They also played with Angelwitch and Little Angels.
They got back together to play Brofest at at Newcastle 2015 where they went down a storm (TBH I thought they were going to be crap but they weren't). On the back of that they have released a new album, played Greece, Spain, Gemany, Belgium and California. On the Continent, metal is very much alive. Only thing is, he hasn't made any money out of it, so I am married to a poor Rock God
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Oh forgot to add. Mythra are playing ThinkTank in Newcastle 28th April. Dig out the denim and leather ladies.

We got old and fat and our luscious hair went grey

I have a friend in Devon who is always posting pictures at different venues of metal bands. He is in his 50s and everyone else looks 40-60, still wearing their hair long and band t-shirts rocking out!

There's a few young metalheads where I live and a few grimy punk kids mostly lads though, I haven't seen and hard rockin' young ladies around in a while, probably not since my crew got old

Has anyone visited the Oasis market in Birmingham?
I remember practically living in there when i was younger and havent been in for a good few years now
It was thee place for gauntlets and band shirts

Hate to be the one to tell you major but oasis has gone. Redeveloped.

That is so sad, it was an absolutely amazing place i remember costas? The brilliant pub
I havent been to Birmingham for a very long time

Another dedicated metalhead here!! Do any of you check out the That's Not Metal Podcast? Its free on a thursday on the podcast app (there is paid subscriber content for diehard fans). There's a bit of swearing but it is very funny and I can highly recommend for your commute/car journey/housework time. I've got into so many new bands from the show and I'm back into attending gigs etc.

Yeah, regularly went to Brum for metal adventures. Bootleg shirts, goth dresses, boots and gauntlets from Oasis, lunchtime drinks at Costermongers, pre-nightclub/gig drinks at Xposure Rock Cafe or Scruffy Murphy's, then XLs or Eddie's.

FailingMotherhood that takes me back! I remember eddies very well wow

Still here. Heading up a marketing team now like a sensible middle-ager and impressing the young'uns with a knowledge of Lamb of God and SYL; had a moment the other day when a colleague looked at my earrings and said, are those SKULLS? As if he couldn't believe that sensible gwenneh from Marketing might really be a heavily tattooed metal fan!

Also, cheers to the poster married to another poor Rock God! This is the life. :D

Mine mostly wears a suit nowadays, although at weekends can be seen vacuuming and pootling around suburbia in his Korn hoody.

@MissWilmottsGhost, my 5yo walks into the kitchen and asks Alexa to play Ghost. And also the Mamma Mia soundtrack because she's receiving a well rounded musical education.

They're all over the place. You just need to go to the right pubs, or to festivals, there are hundreds of big metal festivals in the UK and Europe every year. The only people I know are metal heads.

Download isn't very Metal to be honest.
You want to go to Bloodstock if in the UK, but preferably Metaldays in Slovenia. Give me a proper European festival any day (camping in the forest for a week, swimming in the river, showering in the nude!).
The rest of the year, you'll find us in Electowerkz.

Count our family in! Saw Metallica with our teens last year for the umpteenth time. Currently listening to their protests that we are doing Download without them this year...

Not strictly metal, but DH and I are some sort of goth/punk hybrid in Sheffield! Don't go out to the club much but we're here. In our thirties.

Still here too

Sensible middle-aged book-keeper by day, occasional photographer/reviewer for online metal mag PlanetMosh by night!

I think you see less younguns on the street since the demise of record shops, they all seem to stay at home and stream stuff now sadly. Plenty at gigs though although definitely less of a "uniform" than we used to have.

Oooh YoooHooo millipede I once went toe to toe with BD of the Little Angels cos the band I roadied/did PR for (in that I worked with the drummer and was at college with the roadie) were besties with them, but when the LA "made it" they dropped their mates like hot shit) and gave him a right going over :D
I still love metal and now when I go to a gig I take whichever of my DCs I think will like it most/not complain/be bribed
No1 son still wears my old band T-shirts, some of which date to before he was born! (he is 28 this year!) and my most recent outings were Fall Out Boy with DD, no1 son and DiL, and Stone Sour with no4 son.
All my (5) DCs are fans of metal bands, I have trained them well

Im here as well!

Miss the days of gigs in scruffy pub/clubs watching a new metal band, permed hair, impossible tight jeans and stiletto boots.

I miss the Tube as well on channel 4, watched a few bands then off to metal night somewhere or other.

If any of you are on Facebook and fancy checking out some of the current crop of up and coming bands you might want to join this group:

www.facebook.com/groups/2015465582005602/

(Not my group btw but I do lurk in there quite a bit)

Off to see the Dead Daisies tonight - Corabi and Doug Aldrich - phwoar!

waves at OP I think part of the problem is (at least where I live) all bars and clubs that play metal are being closed down. We used to have a good choice of venues for metal fans here in Leeds and now they've all gone. Not sure why.

Still here! I have a collection of Metallica shirts so large I could wear one a day for about 6 weeks 😂
I haven't changed much since about 1989 haha