Is Metal Suitable For Kids?
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- In my new video I discuss whether or not metal is suitable for kids
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Lots of old school bands hardly curse if at all. Power metal and heavy metal tends to be clean.
Viscount Alex of the Horse People from Mars I couldn't agree more! My favorite subgenre is power metal. In fact many of the fantasy themes that they sing about are things that kids really love and enjoy.
Viscount Alex of the Horse People from Mars I listened almost all songs from Sabaton.I haven't found one curse.
Just don't show them Pantera or Megadeth, because they are very profane. Haha!
Mate Pavić I only found one in Metal Machine but most of that song is refrences.
IKR
Modern pop and rap is way more unsuitable its too hyper sexual and superficial
GrayWoIf u right
ikr
also much more cursewords in those songs
GrayWoIf Thank you
And that is the stuff being played on the radio
today's kids listen to trap songs about hardcore drugs and sex wrote by people who actually look like criminals, to a parent, it probably makes metal look like a much better route
Majority of them listen to love songs man. Metal is way more abrasive than that
I agree with you man but dont say they look like criminals. Never judge someone based on their looks and its not that they look like criminals its that criminals look like them. They arent trying to look like criminals with face tats and stuff but people who commit crimes tend to be of this type
Today's kids... Every decade it's always today's kids.
They were saying the same thing in the 80's and 90's and how the rappers "look like criminals". They just look like normal people to me. We know many of them are black and that is the only thing people see which is why racial profiling is a thing.
What does a criminal look like? A guy in a suit is more likely to be a criminal.
People love throwing one genre under the bus, drugs and sex aren't exclusive to one genre. They've been in music before any rap was around. Video games also have them and they're much more influential as you get to interact. There's games that have you taking drugs and selling them. Lots of games are sexual. Then we have TV shows. Breaking Bad is all about the drugs and people are rooting for a guy who gets rich off making drugs for people to get hooked on. Nobody is complaining about that though.
People who "actually look like criminals"?
Hell yea metal is suitable for kids. I started listening to metal when I was around 12-13, and my parents hated it! They still hate it lol.
I was 8
And how old are you now?
Nevermore 17
LOL, im in my 50's. Weaned on alice cooper,acdc, and so on. In last year have taken my 13 year old granddaughter to see kiss, alice cooper, and motionless in white, we are planing on going to the warped tour . Her dad has taken her to some very heavy shows to. She is polite, kind, caring,,helpful, little goth/hm kinda girl, so proud of her
David Ayubi I was 8 too my dude
Well, just start kids of whit some Maiden, Sabath or AC/DC and let them develop their preferens in metal from that like the rest of us!
Or don't start them out with anything so they can listen to what they want
I listen to metal most days, my daughter just formed her own taste within metal and likes most of it. From Maiden to Iced Earth...I mean, I could go on.
Glimrande Sir I'd not consider ACDC as a band that should be first shown to a kid, especially considering their lyrical themes and album covers, there are a lot of bands out there that would be better, Dragonforce, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Judas Priest, Deep Purple and Metallica would be better bands to start off with IMO
Garybaldo Like kids listen to the lyrics, it's fucking AC/DC the kids bop of rock and roll
Glimrande Sir Yup that’s me
I’m 14 and love death and black metal, this had led to me being told that the music will destroy my “young, impressionable” mind by a random woman who saw me in the street wearing a cannibal corpse t shirt. I don’t think age dictates who should and shouldn’t listen to metal, it depends on maturity and who can appreciate the music.
Shay B you are me:)
I'm 19 now, I've been listening to metal since I was 10 man....no one ever gave me shit about it....maybe it's because they thought I was a Satanist due to listening the music I love....yeah it started with Nickelback at around 8, it escalated so quickly hahaha
A couple weeks ago I was also was wearing a cannibal corpse shirt and this guy said he is too young to listen to cannibal corpse and I'm 15
Dax Bradshaw nice profile picture. Chuck is my hero dude
that was about how old i got into metal i am 21 now
Nursery rhymes are darker than metal.
Steven Davis Nursery Cryme.😆
you're correct about that ,Steven.. London bridge is burning down ( the great london fire) & mulberry bush ( the plague)...
Andreia Reminiec I mean they're are metal bands that talk about fucking babies
Unknown 72826 what bands?
Devourment, they're really the only ones I can think of right now, and I meant killing my bad lol It gets pretty fucked. The song's called Baby Killer
Well, I think that as long as kids understand how to interpret it and that a fraction of metal is fictional, it shouldn't be a problem. My argument over the years has always been to look at hip-hop. It is FULL of profanities, sexuality, and English that isn't even English, yet they have kids doing hip hop in gym class. I find that hypocritical, personally. When I was growing up as a teenager several years ago, metal helped me improve my vocabulary. The language used in metal is really good. But in pop songs and rap songs, it is all slang. And, metal challenges certain things at an intellectual level which gets people thinking, which is good I say. I think it is a double standard all together. Metal needs to be appreciated more in society. It's been around for almost fifty years.
Adem Can Vaner i was thinking about behemoth the entire time reading this and I don’t know why
besides it isnt for WHO the bell tolls its for WHOM the bell tolls
To be honest, this hatred for rap and hip hop pisses me off (I distinguish between rap and hip hop because hip hop is the style of music, rap is the style of vocals). And not all hip hop is the same drug and crime glorifying gangsta rap just like not all metal contains graphic depictions of slaughter just because that happens to be the case with some bands, especially in death and potentially black metal. And I'd say that a lot of rap uses really complex language with a focus on complicated rhyme schemes largely not consisting of slang. For an example, I'd recommend Stan by Eminem. Beautifully dark with beautiful storytelling.
Well said! When I was in 5th grade, I got in trouble for bringing a Rob Zombie CD into to school and listening to it on the school bus. Yet some of my classmates brought in rap CD’s and that was overlooked. I mentioned that hypocrisy to the principal.
I am a mother. My daughter is 4 years old. I listen to Metal ALL the time. Always. She hears more curse words from me and my family, than she does Metal. (Yes we make sure she doesn't go around cursing at people tho) I think kids can handle Metal for sure. Mine can. She throws up the horns whenever it's on. Even headbangs but she also listens to shitty pop, and I'm okay with that. It's whatever she's feeling. I'd rather she listen to Metal than be exposed to porn. I personally feel like most of hip hop and rap talks too much about drugs and sex. I think that would affect them more than Metal would. So as a "Metal Mom" I think Metal is completely okay. 🤘 Stay brutal!
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There’s more to hip hop than sex and drugs not that it’s not a theme it can be and a lot of popular music in the genre goes that way but hip hop can be a hell of a lot more as can metal
@@camwad1238 baso all i hear is "yeah yeah n word fucking bitchs drugs on that weed shit yeah yeah n word n word look at me im so cringe"
In terms of lyrical content, most modern pop music is way more inappropriate for kids than metal (not counting extreme metal subgenres).
No no no, when a Pop singer says fuck it's okay but when a person that listens to Metal say those words it's the satanic end of the world ;)
@@nonamerenegade7395 yeah I never understood that like the song could have the singer asking for gods help and people will still call it satanic I’m not religious so it doesn’t bother me but some verses in the bible are darker than metal at times
My son is almost 2 months and loves Sabaton 😁
Cute.
Epic
Nice
Show him candlemass
Show him Kraanium
Jk
I’m 16 and I became a metal head when I was 3 when my dad showed me Iron Maiden in my 16 years I have seen many bands live and I don’t think that there is any band that my parents don’t like me listening to, Cos after all they were the ones that showed me them in the first place
Jordan Strang same man, and i am 15
Same! I’m 17 now
Same but I think I was 4 or 5 and it was lamb of god my dad showed me
Before watching I have an answer - yes
HELL NAH IT SOUNDS GOOD
I say it depends on the band. Obviously, vands like Vulvodynia or Cannibal Corpse are not child friendly by any means. But others, like Iron Maiden, I think are perfectly fine. The genre as a whole isn’t necessarily inappropriate.
Weird because would be expecting Vulvodynia to be death metal Zelda, though it's probably because it reminds me of Volvalgia from Ocarina of Time.
Lol, I'm not sure I get it, though I'm also not a Zelda fan. And the name of the band is a medical term for chronic pain in the vulva.
Honestly cannibal corpse is so absurd in a way to children you could tell them it’s fiction so not that-I am a child and thought “this is stupid” when I found cannibal corpse anyways
I agree
whats wrong with Vulvodynia?
My sister is 10 years old and she loves Iron Maiden , I started listening to metal since I was 7 .Now when I growed up people think that I am a monster couse I like metal since I was child......
*grew
I'm a metalhead who's planning to have children quite soon with a girl not into metal. We together agree that our children will have a mind of their own, and they can listen to whatever music they like. We're not the ones to decide that, as music is of no harm to anyone with no tendency of thinking fictional stuff is real. I obviously am going to play metal since that's my music of choice, so our children will be hearing that from a very early age. They will soon realize that even with the aggressiveness it's just music.
Just don’t let them listen to Limp Bizkit TBH
Depends on the kid. I was 10 and found out about metal. 13 years later still strong into it. The harder stuff you might keep away some kids wanna be edgy and wanna do what the black metal acts did early on. Burn churches etc without much context why. Or kids who take shit too far and wanna human sacrifice etc.
As long as you're not Scandanavian...
lol yeah
megaman exe I actually discovered metal through black metal lol. At that time my brothers friend showed me Transylvanian Hunger and I loved it. I must’ve been around 14, but we didn’t have internet in the 90s so idk what I would’ve done knowing similar musicians burned down churches lol.
They burnt churches because they were built on sacred Pagan ground. They rebelled in favor of pre-Christian European cultures. So they did have reason, just so you know.
I discovered metal because of Slipknot, but didn't became edgy and dark. I was like 10.
Well, if u show extreme metal to a kid who has never been exposed to that kind of music it should shock or scare atleast. But, for example, if a kid grows up with parents who listen extreme music all the time, thats when young kids could actualy like it cause they are used to hear it
i strongly agree to this...my son is 8 and loves nu metal band slipknot and power metal band like dragonforce...im so proud to be his mom! LOL!
lol i remember when I first saw Slipknot I was like "what the fuck" *that was back when the horror tag was enough to scare me, oh those days I do not want to recall*. Now I have their entire self titled album and half of Vol. 3 and Iowa on my playlist.
My parents showed me hair metal when I was 4. 10 years later my favorite genres are Death and Thrash Metal. My mom hates it, and has tried to stop me. My dad likes it, and takes me to concerts all the time.
I’m 13
Metal is great
What else can I say
I've listened to metal my whole life bands like prong, slipknot, korn , megadeth, Metallica, ect. And I'm 12 as we speak
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Wolf_Metal Here! 😊
Hell yeah!
No.
Im 13 and i listen to amon amarth, slayer, watain, megadeth, metallica, cannibal corpse, death and anthrax and i have great grades and tbh im doing really gd and i owe it to metal
I got into metal when I was around 11. I told my mom I wanted to listen to metal bands, so she bought me a few CDs of bands that she knew were considered metal when she was in college (Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, etc.) She was not into metal at all, so it meant a lot that she went out of her way to do that. If a parent can be cool with modern pop music, I don't see why metal should be an issue. Both can contain lyrical content that is questionable. Hell, I saw a 6 year old at an Amon Amarth show who was having the best time!
Exactly
Just like horror movies or scary movies or whatever - some of it is a bit more widely accessible, but some of it, children probably shouldn't be privy to!
Hevysaurus from Finland !!!!
Is this seriously a question? I was a metalhead in utero!
Some of us are just born this way. My father died when I was five, so death in music was obviously only a literary device. I dress like a preacher's wife, most of the time, simply because it's practical. "Even then, I was suffering for my art" Rob Halford admits sporting "the look" can be quite uncomfortable. For those who assume Metal is a distilled version of Rock music, and therefore ultra-misogynistic, it is always my pleasure to inform them that I've experienced waaay more assault at country and rock shows that I ever have at metal gigs. I will happily and confidently walk into a Metallica, or Pantera show alone, but I wouldn't dare let a friend go to a Zac Brown Band or Florida/Georgia Line show by herself (that's how I ended up going).
TheFilthyApostate well you can't walk into a Pantera show anymore :'(
Sad, but true
Sure, if they start with the soft bands like Maiden, Judas Priest or Metallica. (Ghost could be a great starting band) Lyrics doesn't really matter, because when you're a kid you don't care about the text (at least I didn't) they just sing along to what they like. For example I loved Bounce by System of a Down lol and I didn't have a clue what it meant.
Ardek omg my parents blew their lid when they heard me listening to ghost but god forbid my younger siblings are listening to shits like lil pump and 69 lmao the irony
Ailene Perez if they don't like the satanic stuff, listen to the newest album! I think there is only one song (Pro memoria) that uses Lucifer in the lyrics, the album is about the plague.
Ailene Perez I forgot to mention the song faith, its about the devil but it is the most heavy song, the rest is pretty much hard rock and not metal (to me, but ghost is a difficult band to give one genre to)
Sabbath
I loved S.O.A.D at a super young age too!!
I got in trouble for playing Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath in front of my little cousins I was trying to save them from the christian pop their mom plays
I am 12 and love death black and thrash metal
metal zombie665 rock on brother🤘
Same, totally get you!
metal zombie665 same, im 16 now i started listening to metal around that age
That's awesome, man.
Hell yeah dude
I started to listen to metal at 9 years old lol
My dad used to play me slipknot and black sabbath when I was still in the womb😂
I’m 13 now and I have loved this music since I was born. When I was 4 I knew the lyrics to most of the Metallica discography. Yes, at school I get picked on because of my love of metal. Most narrow minded people at my school say that it’s all based on gore and death, and to some extent it is, but that’s only a minority. Metal has so many layers and so many different meanings. Music like pop is so superficial and there is nothing beneath the surface of it.
Pop music is like scissors, it always gets beaten by rock😜🤘
I think when you're a kid all that bad stuff in lyrics just goes over your head, and you don't really notice what it meant until your older. For example when I was younger I watched alot of the Simpsons and I liked it quite alot but I didn't get some jokes because they were adult and I just didn't understand what they meant. It didn't affect me in a bad way because I had no idea. So I think with most bands it fine for kids to listen to them, maybe not something like cannibal corpse I mean something like I cum blood it's like jesus dude but megadeth Metallica iron maiden whatever is fine.at the end of the day it's just music. Btw I'm fifteen but I'm saying all this cuz I'm assuming youre talking about kids like 8-12 or something because past 13 of course it's fine to listen to heavy metal.
i'm a kid and that suitable for me,i'm a 13 years old kid and i always bullied in my school(not just with verbal,they even bullied me with physical bullying)i was so lonely and does'nt have any friend,but when i found out Exodus and Slayer,i think they are pretty good,so every single day when i come back from school i always searching and listening to metal song(except nu metal and hardcore,they sucks)i use metal to be my Painkiller,im inspired from this channel and some other channel(like killbot and gor gor attack,and thulean perspective)thank you black metal werewolf
I got into SOAD when I was first 8. I like their most popular songs and I went expanding. I'd say that it makes kids more mature because things in metal are things that exist. Maybe monsters might not be real but the symbolic things cannot go overlooked. It's better to know and understand darkness and suffering than believing you will not live thorough them
I grew up with metal. My dad is a metalhead and he showed me all the great bands. One of my First bands was slayer and after that came rammstein. At the age of 4 or 5 i was always singing metal songs in my kindergarten. Good old times. Now i'm 15 and i'm still a metalhead. I own some battlevests and i have a huge CD collection. Also the lyrics never scared me or did something to me. I'm pretty "normal" i guess. Haha
PS nice vid
im 13, favorite bands are Death, Iron Maiden.Havok,Metallica,Anthrax,Slayer,Megadeth, Ozzy,BLS, and Sonata Arctica, still gets straight A's at school!
I started listening to metal when i was about 10 ( im 13 ) and i started with iron maiden, black Sabbath
Then i started listening to metallica, slipknot, KoRn, cannibal corpse, megadeth, etc.
Was raised with Metal. Cannibal Corpse,Grave,Six Feet Under,Metallica,Slayer,Killswitch Engage,Sepultura,Mudvayne etc. METAL FOR LIFE.
Always start your kids up w maiden
+Jose Lemus I personally started with Red Fang and Metallica. I have to agree though, Maiden is an awesome starter band for children
Jose Lemus amen
Damn... I started with behemoth
Or sabbath
My dad showed me the black album and ac/dc when i was 3-4 years old. If a kid starts with this or even something more speedy (like metallica's first albums) it's a great thing!
Because specially in my country (bulgaria), the most trending stuff right now are *opens trending section* a song called "photoshop", "anaconda" and some pieces of shit, who sing for cocaine (literally there's a song called that way). Everything here has something to do with curse words, sexually explicit content, singing for innappropriate things and other..
In my opinion metal is -much- billions times better than pop and chalga in Bulgaria, for everyone, not only kids.
Yes it should be suitable for kids if they know who the hell the Paul brothers are
Im a kid and listen all kinds of metal. But rap "singers" (are not singers at all) are much worse sing about how they have the best car, drugs , sex. And dark themes well world is not just about everybody growing flowers out of their ass. Metal is the only genre singing about real world and wars.
My parents don't care about me listening to heavy metal music and I always bore them like asking them if they will listen to it, and they will reply a big NO!😢 Not everyone likes heavy metal music unless you're open minded to it. I enjoy it everyday and all the time!
Modern pop and rap is degenerative sexually explicit and very racist. Metal is godly. And tells a story, is layered, complex, intelligent, heartfelt in some cases, uplifting and in general alot more positive then anything else. It's the best.
I started listening to Metal when I was around 8 so...
I started listening to metal at about 11 or 12. I started with manson, white zombie, and ozzy. I encourage my child to listen to metal instead of rap and pop. i agree that pornographic material is not appropriate, but that is not really prevalent in metal. It is much more prevalent in rap and pop. My child hears, me, my, wife, and nearly everyone in his life use profanity. He has repeated them, and i will applaud him, if his uses them properly. However, i will follow that up with that these are "adult words", and he is not to use them, and he listens to that. I feel a lot of the mainstream music is far more harmful than metal. For instance, Pop and hip hop often glorify or normalize promiscuity, criminality, and drug use. These are topics i cannot explain in a child friendly way, and teach him a very skewed sense of morality. My child is 5, and loves dark funeral and behemoth; and very heavy music in general. topics like death and religion(satan), are not topics i need to shelter him from, and can be explained in child friendly ways. I think its important for him to know early, that art can take you to very real places. That art can be a outlet to discus the many facets of existence. That it is ok to explore the darker side of life through art. I think it's important for him to know he does not need to think and act like everyone else. That even at a young age, he can have a sense of individualism that differs from his peers, or the norm. However, If the lyrics are overtly obscene, profane, or gory, i will not allow him to listen to it.
I'em 12 years old and I listen metal
I'm 11 my mom doesn't give a shit what I listen to hell I listen to morbid angel death cannibal corpse king diamond ozzy slipknot ramestien slayer megadeth Metallica I can go on and on
Way too long of a story of how I discovered and how I got into metal, but I was 10. I had just moved to St. Catharines from Brantford and Metal was brought to my attention. I loved it, my parents didn't mind that I was listening to metal. I started with 80's Hair Bands and gradually got into heavier and heavier bands. So, metal started for me when I was 10 in 1984. In my years I did meet and know some kids who weren't allowed to listen to metal because of their religious parents and that made no sense to me, so I started asking questions about religion and it just pissed me off. I'm 44 now and have been listening to metal since I was 10. Besides my ADHD (which gives me hyperfocus with music) my Severe Anxiety and Mild Depression, metal didn't affect me in a negative way, it actually acted as a therapeutic tool for me. The themes in metal can actually help kids feel that they aren't alone and others can relate to them.
I could go on forever about metal, but I don't want to bore you.
I see that your mailing address is Brantford, I was born in Brantford, most of my family lives in Brantford, like I mentioned in my long ass paragraph I lived in Brantford till I was 10 years old and I visit family a few times a year.
Your PO Box is listed as West Brant, I lived in West Brant, down the street from RIverview Elementary School. Brantford still holds a special place in my heart.
There are a lot of happy and not dark metal songs. First metal song I ever heard was Iron Man when I was like 4 along with Paranoid. Then Enter Sandman. There is tons of stuff that is perfectly fine. I’m not going to hide the world from my kids, I’m so glad my parents didn’t do that to me, Dyers Eve captures that point perfectly.
I started listening to maiden and all the 80s when I was like 10 now I’m 14 and like harder metal. Just got my battle jacket and I’m still waiting for my first first patch. It’s the trooper back patch.
I got my son listening to Iron Maiden at the age 13....he wants to learn history and play guitar....so yes it is good
This video was in my notification next to my little brothers email saying have you heard of infant anhilator they’re awesome 😂 he shouldn’t be listening to them it’s just ironic
I started out growing up with GnR, then in 8th grade a girl got me into skillet, foo fighters, bring me the horizon, etc. Then from there I went on my own. I later discovered Death, Lamb Of God, Gojira, Warbringer, Slayer, Metallica, Ice Nine Kills, Slipknot, Tool, Municipal Waste, etc.
Are drugs suitable for kids 🤔🤔
Jose Lemus What a stupid and pathetic question. You are seriously what’s wrong with this world. Ofc they are suitable for kids what a dumb question
Gonzalo Funes
I started drugs when i was 3 and now im ded. So of course it is.
I killed myself. Yes
What does that have to do with music? Grow up.
I shied away from metal when I was around 10 because I thought bands like Bon Jovi and Poison were misogynistic....I went thru a 90s pop phase then an 80s phase. I liked Dio's Holy Diver though it didn't cross my mind that it was metal. Then my cousins and friends started to get into it....White Zombie,Pantera,Megadeth,Metallica,Ministry...man the early to mid 90's was my metal awakening.
im 13 and my dad told me the day I was born and got out of the hospital he put in a Megadeth concert and I've been listing to metal ever since
lol dude i discovered metal when i was 10 (u know metallica,iron maiden...) and i like it now i am 13 and i love thrash metal,folk,norwegian black metal,death metal some nu-metal (NOT slipknot) and grunge (dont judge me pls...)
first
You beat me!
Adrian Tolentino thanks
but you can beat me
Slipknot sucks.
Fukken' brutal bruh! X-D
Hello! I raised my daughter with metal. Queen when she was a baby and now she's 12 years old and she love Iron maiden, SOD, 80's Metallica and a little of Slayer. She doesn't understand the lyrics because we live in France. A shity country when you are a metal head by the way....... 🤮 No metal heads where I live (or they are well hidden), everybody listen to French rap and hip-hop. I try to stay open minded and tolerant, but I can't anymore .....auto tuned voices, illiteracy, misogyny...... this music is so awful..... Maybe there are some good stuffs somewhere in this genre, but I don't want to know... I m fed up.....
Bisous ! 😚
My parents would let me listen to Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica ect. from a very early age(a couple of months old). Surprisingly enough I didn't grow up to be a killer, satanist or a drug addict.
I was a kid 5 months ago, but then, things don’t go right... but then... the worst thing happens...on February....I TURN INTO A TEEN🤮🤮. Man, being a kid sure is funner.
So ik im like 4 years l8 to this but id like to share my opinion to. As a 12 year old metal head (before anyone attacks me tho for this and says it a phase ive been listing to metal for 3 years thank you.) i feel like metal is honestly alot better then what were being exposed to today. Like most kids in my school listen to rap or pop which is like all about drugs and sex. I feel like that would be bad for kids cuz say a kid who dosent know what sex is hears that, looks it up, then goes down this loop hole of just. You know what. But with metal i feel like yea there may be a but of drugs and sex and other stuff but most of it isnt. And sure a good portion of it is death and stuff but thats just normal. Like were not all gunna live forever if we like it or not lol. And as u said kids are being exposed to war and stuff. I feel like most kids learn what that is in like 4th grade like. Its not that bad. And with the swearing portion like only 1/5th of it has swears in it. Like sure if ur listing to something like slipknot or korn theres prolly gunna be a few but if u listen to like aborted or life lover theres like none. Plus swears are just words. Like its not gunna affect a kid to hear the word fuck like its just a word lol. I also feel like kids these days are discovering gore and stuff like that on the internet so album covers might not scare them. Like ive been exposed to cannibal corpse covers my whole life like its not that bad. I will say idk about the death metal portion and whats in it cuz i only like a few bands from that genre cuz i went straight from nu metal to thrash to dsbm so i kinda skipped the death part lol. But i feel like its good for kids to listen to metal!
As a parent, I'll say that it depends. I've always had my son around metal (he could do a pretty great death metal growl of twinkle twinkle little star when he was 2 or 3). Most music, I've never had any real issues. There's some black metal that i didn't play around him until he was a teenager, but, it was kind of like there's some movies you don't watch around children depending on their maturity at the time. Have to say though, family road trip from Calgary to Vancouver during the middle of the school year to go see Sabaton, Nightwish, and Delain when he was 9 or 10 was pretty great. Even his teachers were really excited about him going. Big part of being a parent is helping and encouraging your child to grow, explore, and follow their own paths. At a younger age, just have to hold the reigns a little more. As for myself, I was raised with musically opposite parents, much like my son is. I grew up on a solid foundation of Metallica, Megadeth, Kenny Rogers, and Johnny Cash, and really, can't remember my parents ever ever yelling at me with the exception of a little bit of Offspring and Guttermouth.
Honestly I think alot of the metal music is better than being exposed to hip-hop R&B or rap that talks about "making your bed rock" or how you want to "hit that let me hit that booty girl" hense all the dumb pregnant 16 year olds alot of the reason why parents don't agree with metal is mainly because of religion since we (the United States, Canada, the UK) are exposed to alot of religion where the normal is being "peaceful" and since metal music is dark and agressive they don't agree with metal
I haven't watched you in so long. I see you're still rocking the sick goatee! Glad to see you're still making great content.
I Have been listening to slipknot since I was 11.......Now im 24.....
I loved heavy metal since I was a kid,, the first heavy metal song I heard was when I was 6, and I loved it so much, and i still do!
I grew up in the early 80s listening to Iron Maiden, sabbath, Metallica, then going into bands like pantera and slayer. I say it depends on the child.
My son is 2 years old and I play metal when we are driving in the car all the time and he enjoys it. One of the moments I am very much looking forward to is taking him to his first metal show when he is older. If he grows up not being a metalhead that is fine too, but I know both his mother and I being metalheads will be playing metal around him throughout his life 🤘🏻
As much as I love metal there is some metal inappropriate for them. But there is also some inappropriate songs in Pop and Rap too, and there are usually more songs in those genres that aren't suitable for them.
I was at a fleshgod apocalypse show last month and there was an 8 year old kid with his father. He was wearing a slayer shirt and a battlevest full of extreme metal patches with a little behemoth backpatch. The dad was wearing a behemoth shirt too so it was awesome to see the two long-haired metalheads headbang together haha \m/
I'm 14. I started listening to metal in probably 2017. I started with Slipknot, because my friend recommended it. I started out with Slipknot and Five Finger Death Punch. Now I listen to literally any subgenre of metal. Heavy metal, thrash metal, progressive metal, black metal, death metal, etc.
Power and Symphonic Metal are what I would use with children. It always appeals to them because of the magical themes and fantasy it entails. I think it's best to start them on such genres (even old school). Around 13, when they begin to deal with heavier problems like bullying, peer pressure: Just generalizing the high school issues, then I'd introduce them to genres that treat with darker and heavier topics.
Metal is definitely suitable for BAD ASS kids. And, on a side note, I watched 13 year olds cover "Freezing Moon" at a school talen show
Most kids listen to rap that swears multiple times during sentences talks about killing people and sex so what the hell is peoples deal with metal
Is Metal suitable for kids?
My 4 yrs old cousin loves Satyricon, should i go ahead😂😂?
Well it doesn't really matter for me if I grew up with or without metal. I still ended up swearing out of context, because of my tourettes lmao.
I'm 11 my favorite bands are gwar misfits and venom soooooo
I’m 14 and I’m already headbanging to cannibal corpse, napalm death, morbid saint, demolition hammer, and all that stuff
Metal is for all ages, young and old, it doesn’t really matter
Swearing and other themes that is deemed inappropriate is in every genre of music, it’s just normal to hear
I was listening to metal with 3 years old, i always loved eddie from Maiden, he looked cool, i went on my first concert with 11 year old
My kids are gonna absolutely love fantasy-themed power metal.
I started to listen to metal when I was 12 and this year I'm 17. 🖤 🤘🏻
I started with gothic metal... Now I still like gothic metal but I'm more into black, folk, doom...
Yes, I'm a kid and I fucking love metal
Short answer yes long answer fuck yes
I'm a kid watching this whilst sewing my battle jacket, and I'm waiting for my arm guantles to come in the mail. I started with maiden and shit and now I listen to all metal and just went to a priest concert and am going to the slipknot + metallica concert soon :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
i mean im a TeEn but i look like a 9 year old but ive been listening to metal since i was born
I first started listening to soad at 10, then in middle school I got really into post hardcore or screamo or whatever with bands like Bring me the Horizon, Asking Alexandria, Escape the Fate etc.
Then towards that end of middle school at 8th grade I got into deathcore with bands like Chelsea grin and rose funeral.
I remember sometime in that grade I listened to cannibal corpse and really liked it. The rest is history pretty much. Nowadays I'm into heavy, thrash and black metal.
I mean, I wouldn’t show a kid Cannibal Corpse or Suicide Silence without really thinking about it, but if they liked it, let them listen to it. I still would gladly show a kid a band like Black Sabbath or Metallica, if they were interested, because it’s still appropriate and could get them into some good music they may not have otherwise.
Alexis Harper exactly. If a kid likes cannibal corpse, it’s just music! Most of the time they won’t care much about lyrics anyways.
I am 17. I started to listen to Metal with Maiden when i was 7-8 i believe. Maiden is still my favorite band but my favorite genre is black metal. I also like a lot of death metal and other metal bands. My mom like some metal but she didn't understand why i listened to extreme metal, but now she dont care that i do. Dad didn't like metal at all and thought my IM - Final Fronter poster should been burned. But now he dont care and like a little metal sometimes.
The problem is that almost all metal concerts, at least here in Norway, is 18+ so i miss a lot of stuff.
Sveino1000 I’m so sorry for your loss (yes not seeing bands live is a loss) dude when I saw Slipknot last week I went alone and 16 years old and I’ll do it again for Slayer at Hershey in November
I heard my first heavy metal song when I was a year old
It really depends on what the type of metal
I'm 13 and i live metal and death metal especially tho I'm not sure a lot of people in my age like it too... The closest thing I've got to a metalheads in my school is some emos...
im also 13 and have listened to metal since i was 7
Yes, i was a kid during the early 90's when Metal discovered me through the radio.
I'm 13 and i love Black metal.
Start with ambient burzum, my non metal friends love it.
I loved god of war when i was 7
Lol i played gow 1,2 with my dad when i was 10,11 yo😂
I was almost ten when I started listening to early metal..
To those who say that Metal is unsuitable for kids... My answer is : think back to when they said the same thing about Rock & roll ( death craze songs were linked with suicide)... Metal may help your child deal with their feelings & accept him/herself !