Where would you be without metal?

I think , I would be six feet under or maybe in some mental institution.
Metal helped in a lot of dark times.

Well, the military wouldn't have worked out due to many issues (I wanted to be a fighter pilot really bad for many years when I was little. I had an obsession with the F-15 Eagle). I would probably be in a hospital bed infected with A.I.D.S. or something. I'm dead serious on that one. I remember a friend saying to me "dude, you the only guy I know that's not entrapped in a life of needles". I feel the reason why so many in the gay community turn to the swinging life style is because they have no other culture or group to fall back on. That's why I'm all for ones that have something else going on whether that be church, music, or a book club. Just something. That's all some people really need. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. This shit plagues my mind like no tomorrow. I'm not religious but it feels like sort of a blessing to be apart of this culture. With the A.I.D.S. rates sky rocketing again, I'm glad I'm here. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I've been single my whole life so I guess metal is my life partner (corny I know but hey).

Since I got into metal shortly after my father's arrest, my anger problems probably would have gotten out of hand if metal wasn't there. I was a quiet nice boy before his crap with the family. After his arrest, years of repressed anger was unleashed. Heck, I ended up in Juvenal Detention twice around that time. Metal has been a very good mood stabilizer for me. More so than any other damn pill ever has.

into hip hop. srs. i used to breakdance and shit. then i just got burnt out on life in general. stopped talking people and started listening to metal. then i started enjoying it. long story actually.

Unfortunately where I live it's usually one thing or the other. If I would have never discovered or fallen in love with metal, I would have most likely ended up fallen in with the "ganstafication" crowd. Yeah, rap and hip/hop people. But I don't know, many different scenarios could have occurred, that is just the most likely one.

But yes, metal helped me through some really fucked up moments. Moments I still have dreams about (had one this morning, fuck). Yet, I take a deep breath and listen to some metal and my stress is magically relieved.

i would be miserable. i cant even think what it would be like with no metal. i would probably be a serial killer and live in the middle of the woods or something. and most people think metal causes that, for me it would be the opposite. id end up listening to CCR or ska music

I'm going to be a bit of a detractor here. Metal has done nothing but ruin my life.

If it wasn't for metal I would be one of the many content white people that works for Google, Apple, or some law office.

Metal turned me into an individual. It turned me into someone that isn't satisfied with the normal way of living. It ruined my relationship with my family at one point. It was one of the reasons my wife left me.

I have metal to thank for all of the trouble I've encountered. However, if it wasn't for metal I would have never gotten through those times.

I'm not sure I would be dead, that's probably a bit extreme. If anything, I'd probably be some generic asshole with a convertible Audi A4 and a Lacoste sweater around his neck.

I'd prob be into punk if not metal.

i'd probably be some nerdy geeky kid and even more anti-social than i already am, fuck if it wasn't for metal i wouldn't have any friends because its usually difficult for me to talk to people but metal at least gives me something to have conversations with people and to build friendships on, i don't know this is a great topic i think

I'd probably be really big into punk.
or I'd be a legit jazz musician.
one of the two.

Death.

yup, dead.

I would also be a major punk, and i would probally be listening to alot more classical music.

Honestly, if it wasn't for metal, I wouldn't be alive. In fact it's one of the few things in life that keeps me alive. It keeps me from harming other people and it keeps me from harming myself.

in a coffin

I bet I just would listen some Hard Rock/Traditional Rock n' Roll and probably some 80's music haha!!

I'd probably be the same as Thrash is my business and Bludrayne and be listening to hip hop/ rap because that's what i listened to before i found metal. But on another note i'd also probably be like alot of the people have said and gone crazy and killed someone or killed myself. Metal has helped me though alot and i can't ever see myself not listening to anything alse but metal.

The grave. Metal's saved my life more times then I can count.

listen to UNreal metal and all kinds of mainstream music if i im not into TRUE metal!

SERIAL KILLER,....definitely......

More than likely dead.

I would have no idea, I have plenty of other hobbies.. but i got sucked into thrash and hardcore also a lot of punk at a very young age! 7 years old now nearly 20! no other sort of music has ever got me interested..

Sanatorium

Probably still listening to nu-metal, alternative rock and punk rock, I still listen to some of that now but if I wasn't into metal that would be all I'm listening to. I'd definitely be less inspired in life I guess, I have other enjoyable hobbies but I would be missing that extra kick in my life that only metal can give me.

Porn star. For sure! if not.... possibly a male prostitute

i'm with 'perkele'.
Metal helped out in a lot of dark dark times.

if not metal? hm..hard to imagine..maybe into Punk, german hiphop or ...dead.. no idea :P
My life is full of metal..in nearly every situation...
can imagine my life without.. :)

I'd probably be into punk. If not that I'd focus a lot more on visual arts or film.

i would invent it in search for new musik... just like those kids back in the days

I'd have a lot more friends, and a lot more people would like me.

Probably dead.

jacking off

pornstar

I would be derelict

actually come to think of it... i left hip hop because i was searching for greater meaning than i really had in life. more meaning than i got with hip hop. i found it in metal, but i guess i could have become a crustie instead. at that point i was huge into early punk. i found real meaning in the nihilistic rebellion in early bands like the voidoids and the sex pistols and such. or perhaps i would have gone to oi instead. i still love oi, especially when i'm down. i dont know. chances are i'd be no happier than i am now though.

Wasted? Dunno

the same really, a stoner, a hard worker, a really poor drinker, just not a metalhead