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Metal Clubs and What They're Really Good For
by Alex Birch
Out of curiosity me and a friend visited a metal club last Friday. The argument went something like "we're tired of the usual places to meet girls, this place has to be interesting." We couldn't be more wrong.
The DJ was a moron who suddenly stopped playing music, then began playing again, as if he'd never mixed music in his life. And only spotty, long-haired guys everywhere, jerking around the bar and screaming. Where were the girls? The few ones that seemed to exist were far from attractive and basically every rare hottie was already occupied on the dance floor, fending off four to five ultra-horny metal heads. Hilarious.
We also spotted a guy we'd almost gotten into a fight with some time ago. We left the place, pretty disappointed. Metal clubs work like punk clubs and feminist gatherings. These are places where homogeneous groups unite under something more central than socialization, like music or ideas. This means that if you like metal, you're likely to enjoy listening to music and drinking beer at a place like this. If you want to meet a variety of interesting people--forget it.
I've been to metal clubs before, but only for concerts, not really in search of pick-up opportunities. I don't really understand why you'd want to spend a night at a place where lots of nerdy guys are listening to techno-versions of Iron Maiden themes and fighting over a handful of unattractive girls. I guess it's a cultural thing.
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"This means that if you like
"This means that if you like metal, you're likely to enjoy listening to music and drinking beer at a place like this."
Thanks tips.
Half-true
Remember you don't go to a metal club to wear your best shirt and cologne to meet girls - it's somewhere where people let their hair down (no pun intended). When the name of the game becomes pulling, there's more tension as people suddenly get self-conscious as they'd otherwise happily be this gangly guy headbanging with the rest of 'em.
It just so happens that the metal subculture, with its male-oriented aesthetics, has a 20:1 ratio (or worse) of males to females. Some ugly girls apparently feel at home in the metal subculture because they can be "one of the boys" - one even confessed to me that she stood a higher chance of getting laid due to less competition but hated that advances towards her were blatantly out of desperation. Attractive girls, well, sometimes it's coincidental that they happen to be "metalheads", for others it's blatantly for the self-esteem of having loads of guys after you, and perhaps out of a fetish for guys with long hair, knowing that they'll have the pick of the most Conan-esque guys.
Ok so that's only part true as well, but it's a general indicator of the social dynamic in the metal subculture. Of course, it's big enough nowadays that it's pretty much a microcosm of any social circle. Guys will be guys and act like dickheads, hormones play into it as much as any 'trendy'/normals. It also varies depending on where you are in the country, or what country. Through experience it varies in how good the clientele look, and how much relative sexual tension there is.