Scientists Study Death Metal Fans

[www.scientificamerican.com]

Does anyone study alt-rock fans? What are we, chopped liver?

Well, maybe alt-rock fans are generally seen as geeky and bookish. Like scientists. And why would a bunch of scientists do a study on themselves??

No one thinks fans of the Gang of Four and Wire are gonna burn down a church or sacrifice a goat to Satan. Nor would they use the term "bloodthirsty bliss" to describe us.

Not sure it applies to the article but the thinking behind that article is why Slayer's Reign In Blood is such a landmark album I think. Not my thing but no other album was ever as overtly anti-everything and popular as that one..........that codified a lot of the ideas in the most extreme metal in a whole different way it seemed to me.

Rockabilly guys might be insane
But rockabilly guys, they don't eat brains
Those death-metal guys, they like to wear black
They like to draw pentagrams on their back
They like headbangin'
Those death-metal guys

Rockabilly guys like hot rod cars
They like hot women and their neighborhood bars
Death-metal guys will grow long hair
And work real hard to have an evil stare
They're kind of medieval
Those death-metal guys

Jerry Lee Lewis shot his bass player down
Down to the ground with a .38 round
But death-metal guys would've eaten his brain
And people call Jerry Lee Lewis insane

Rockabilly guys like rockabilly chicks
Death-metal guys think they're all country hicks
But death-metal guys still live with their mom
On the internet learning how to embalm
So they go kill a dog
Those death-metal guys

It's really kind of hard to live in harmony
Hot rod cars and blasphemy
Hair in your face or hair way up high
I'm a rockabilly cat, not a death-metal guy

- The Reverend Horton Heat

Wow! That's a fun Horton Heat lyric. Kind of ironic and too bad since I walked out on Rev. Horton Heat - TWICE - because to me they sounded like the SLAYER of rockabilly. Brutally hammering riffs that DID NOT SWING. At ALL.



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