Your Parents and Metal

nothing really,they just complain about why i dont take care of my hair and why i cut my band shirts and put them on other things like my sweater. im guessing there just glad i didnt turn out to be a gangster lol

My dad was a big metalhead and my mom is into hair metal and that sort of stuff. So I never had any troubles getting into metal from them. If anything I think my parents were happy I got into good metal instead of the crap that's popular.

My parents told me it was a fade and a phase that I would outgrow. I'm 43 now and still haven't outgrown it! \m/

My mom used to not like my music, but I think she understands my connection to metal now. I'm like,"Bye mom, I'm going on a road trip to see a show", mom says,"Ok, be safe!" Of course, I'm also a very safe driver, lol.

my parents dont care, my mom got pretty anal though when she found out i beleived in paganism and aspects of satanism...but she got over it..my dad on the other hand freaks out and gets all ass hurt when he goes to shows with me and sees something anti christian

my mom don't care but my dad hates it, he thinks that i'm possesd and stuff like that:p
but my uncle (died in a motor accident) was a metalhead too, i go to graspop with him when i was only 10 years old

My family is fine with it, my dad couldn't care less, my mum knows about it and she doesn't mind it either.

my mum only says "dont buy that many cds"
once she asked me if i wanna open my own cd store cuz im buying always cds and stuff lol
well my father seems to enjoy metal im listening to at home he always says "sounds good BUT the vocals are too grunting"
and well he listens to alice cooper and led zeppelin and classical music and jazz and that kinda stuff^^

My mom hates Metal, but I don't care a shit, I am a Metalhead and I'm proud, now I guess that learned to live with it.

My moms a Christian freak, my dad however, well he WAS until i showed him some quality bands!

My mom hated it at first, but i would always win her arguements. Now shes just glad im not a loser. She said it would be better for me to be a metalhead than a little emo FREAK who wears girl clothes like all the guys she would see everywhere.

My Father listens to all the classic hardrock bands, and also metal. So he is fine with it. My mother doesn't care.

well what should i say....my parents got me into it LOL

the only thing my mom hates is grunts in metal lol and black metal[except venom and bathory]becouse she thinks black metal is just some noise which is true at some cases
for the rest well...she loves glam rock,heavy and thrash

and my dad...well he's the one who gets me patches,shirts,show tickets and his old stuff,i still got a dark angel tour shirt of 1991 and he said he still got one of metallica and nuclear assault for me...he also stil goes with me to festivals,i even went with him to wacken in 2008 and fucking sonisphere in poland just to see the big 4 :D too bad he is kinda bussy alot becouse of his job and stuff... but im going next year as he promised me to keep it true!!
and maybe also this year to killfest and D.R.I!!

My mom introduced me to metal. Only it was because she made us watch these christian propaganda videos to try and scare us away from it. It worked for my sisters at first but after hearing song samples of Venom, Slayer, Possessed, and Anvil along with their album covers and video clips of Cronos smashing his bass around and King Diamond walking onto the stage all decked out I was hooked.

My dad was always secretly supportive because he is a drummer and he liked that it inspired me to pick up a bass and guitar.

My dad is a big music fan and love some metal bands i've shown him like Opeth or Slough Feg. My mom don't care, she loves metal without screams like she says, i made burns of cds of Symphony X and other stuff, she loves it.
I guess i'm born in a pretty open family. My mom helped me to make my kutte, so she's supportive!

My dad took me to my 1st show in 1980 - Ted Nugent, Scorpions, Def Leppard. Been hooked ever since. I'm 47 now and still cranking the metal and buying cd's, building kutte #2 and finishing kutte #1 (that I started last year)

My mom didn't really care when I was still back in my classic rock/Slipknot obsession days, but one day when I came home with a Cannibal Corpse album to give metal a try, she took one look at the cover, and went FUCKING APESHIT. The sad part, was it was thje album "KILL." THe cover fucking sucks but the album name set her off. Then she took the lyric booklet out and she actually yelled her fucking head off. After about 5 hours of arguing, I finally convinced her that these lyrics are not going to motivate me to slaughter the whole family or some other wacked out shit like that and she gave me the CD and I started jamming it, and that would be how I got into true metal. It's been nearly 4 years since then.

It never was a problem. My parents are tolerant of my stuff, specially since my dad listened to Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple back in the days.
Sometimes my mom tells me why I don't listen to something "happier" but, well, you know how moms are.

My mom first asked me if I was goth because almost all my tshirts are black. When i said, "No, i'm metal" she seemed more at ease.

My parents have no problem with it.. My dad is actually quite a big fan of metal. The last couple of days we spent on a festival with artists like Slayer, Anthrax, Saxon, Soulfly, Gojira and Immortal, whom we both enjoyed.

update: I recently got my dad to start listening to Cannibal Corpse, i got him Torture and Eaten back to Life for fathers day!!!!

My mom likes a few bands I listen, but she hates anything heavier then Slayer.

I actualy started to listen metal because my father was always listenig motorhead,sepultura and stuff and my mom dont care she says"uhh,you like slayer?"

My entire family hates my music, haha. It was tough when I was in my early adolescence (like years 13 to 15), everybody thought that it was going to lead me down the wrong path and crap like that.

Later though my mom (who raised me by herself) just kind of got used to it. Now, whenever I have people over they are subject to my vengeance via torturous thrash, death, and black metal!!!

SUFFER FOR YOUR CRIMES!!!!!!! Muaaahuhhahahahaha!

My parents are fine with it, my mum doesn't mind ( whenever i go to gigs she tells me to be safe and don't do anything stupid). My dad hates it and if i have the music too loud in my room to turn it down, my dad also thinks that one day i'll grow out of it (yeah right) AND he thinks that one day i will get sick of my long hair and cut it off ( which i can tell you is definately NOT going to happen). I absolutely love my hair and will never cut it. ATM it's about the same length as Doctor Deaths ( maybe a fraction longer) So yeah my parents don't mind as long as i don't end up taking it to the extreme and go and kill someone LOL.

My parents dont care it at all :P Aslong im not a Alcoholica or into drugs ;) As i was younger, my Mom was hoping this 'Metal-thing' will be just a part of my life...
Well...now with 30+ she give up the hope ..and take it as it is..
Im a Metalhead for Life!

my mum's largely ok with it so long as i behave responsibly about it. like she always tells me to not get drunk or into fights when i go to gigs.
one thing she hates though, is that my entire wardrobe is full of black t shirts.
she always says they look exactly the same.

My parents are totally ok with it. They don't mind me going to gigs as long as I'm safe and it doesn't impact my grades. My mum doesn't like the 'all black wardrobe' too. As for the music, my mum loves the album artwork. She will often ask me to play her a bit of my music. She loves rock anyway (went with her to see Deep Purple!), but I found that she loved Anthrax and Vio-lence and liked Slayer and Kreator! As for my dad, he will very keenly listen to my music. He said he actually prefers stuff like Autopsy, Bolt Thrower or Darkthrone! Overall, they're really cool with what I listen too and try their best to accept and understand it :) To think of it, I'm kind of lucky.

its weird for me. my moms side thinks im some crazy angel dust smoking demon. they hate my music and my clothing , grandma and grandpa think im some stoner cause i have dreads . my mom dosnt realy care and her boyfriend suports my metal(hes a oldschool metalhead). my dads side is the religious side of the family. its weird cause they dont mind. im alowed to play my music loud and wear whatever i want when im around them.

My parents are very supportive.
They know that music is my life, I would never dream of putting something like Autopsy or Pestilence in the CD player in our car, Last time we went shopping I put in "Among the Living" and she said "Hey, I can understand what they're saying!!!"

As for my Dad, Well we're seeing Maiden together for the second time this summer.So that's just a hint of how awesome he is!! :D

my parents, after so many years of me being the person i am, they got used to it, but some of my cousins (on my dads side) see me as and i quote "emo" -.-"

My mom doesn't really care. Her tastes are pretty varied, though nothing really heavy. She told me once that for the nine months she was pregnant with me she listened to nothing but Metallica.

my mom hates death metal and most shit that sings of the devil and she says death is more satanic than slayer lol

My dad brought me to metal, so he likes it too, but my mother hates it. ;D

my parents didn't understand the music, but always have been supportive because of the creative side of it: my dad drove me around quite a lot to rehearsal places with my equipment and guitars.. they also liked it when we were doing a fanzine in the early 90's and a radio-program later on. About the anti- establishment attitude: they thought it was naif, but seemed to understand i was shaping my ideas about the world around me.....which is better as a braindead disco-popper without any clue or attention

My parents raised me on classic rock and early metal, so I think says a lot about their attitude towards it. They don't really like the real screamed/rough vocals, but they like some of it that I've played around them. They were just a tiny bit concerned at first, but they're not bothered by it. They support me in it.

My parents raised me on classic rock and early metal. They don't really like the real screamed/rough vocals, but they like some of it that I've played around them. They were just a tiny bit concerned at first, but they're not bothered by it. They support me in it.

They don't have a problem, even though they don't like the music. My mom ask me often when i'm going to cut my hair and she doesn't like my kutte at all.
I play drums, guitar and listen to metal pretty loud every day, so i can't complain at all.
They support me when i play gigs with my band as well!

My parents listen to Heavy Metal. Whether the want or not! The same with my neighbours! ^^

At first, my mom didn't care about me listening to metal. That is until I brought home a Venom Black Metal shirt. Woooooo how crazy my mom got. My dad didn't give 2 fucks. He just agreed to my mom so she won't get mad at him xD but damn. She took it away and threw it to the trash and told me she was gonna start taking me to church. Luckily, I got her to hear me out. Told her it's just a band shirt. I'm not worshiping the devil. I'm not doing bad shit. So, she calmed down and said alright and I retrieved my shirt from the trash can. Since then, it's all good. They now say that this is better than being a cholito running around tagging up buildings and doing drugs. Though, she still thinks it's a faze.

my mom washes my hellhammer satanic t-shirts, i love her :3

my parents dont care, they are into all different tpes of music themselves so theyre not really worried about satan or crap like that, plus mum grew up on sabbath and zeppelin so there is that too

I've always been into a wide genre of music and still am, hence I refuse to label myself a 'metal head'. Initially my mom was ok with my heavier rock/metal interests....but after a while, she had become aware of some of my other more intense tastes.

I've made moves and come forward about some of my views on the world and some of the things I learn from certain genres, such as black metal. However, I've never allowed music to dictate how I view the world completely...and I ascend in this life by learning from real experiences.

She's not particularily fond of my metal tastes, but knows I also have other interesting music tastes....
my Uncle and Auntie don't like my tastes, so I try to not bring up those things as topics when I visit them. My step sister refuses to talk with me, as we've had some debates that also relate to my views on the world....which she, like some others in my family, blame on my music tastes.

My birth family( I'm adopted) are very much against many of my music tastes, metal, or otherwise....they are extremely religious and use the cancer of theism to try and guilt trip me. I can only say I still have support from my birth mother and brothers and 1 of my birth sisters....some people in my bloodline have cut off communication for me, despite the fact I carry myself in a respectful and caring manner....

I blame religion for warping their minds, but it's difficult.

Other than that, most people in my extended family don't give a fuck about what I listen to, whether it's rap, metal, electronic, house, etc....they'd rather know I'm interested in music than being a loser in life.....I work, pay bills....going to move out again, etc...so they could give a flying fuck about my music tastes....

I will say though, black metal, extreme metal, views on the world that aren't all 'kumbaya' all the time...these things can really fuck over family relations, which sucks....it's not possible to please everyone though, so I think we as music fans just have to stay true to ourselves and do the best for our own good....never compromising.

Both of my parents listen to the classic metal and hard rock bands, so they got no problem with it.

I don't have any problems. My dad used to listen to Saxon and Priest. My mom was into pop metal back in the 80's and even now she listens to Priest. I introduced her to Dio and she loves his music!

My mother is into the old stuff like Scorpions, CCR, Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Alice Cooper, Sabbath, Maiden and so on.. She's never forced her tastes on me, but showed me some essential bands when I first got into the music.

Only thing she thinks is negative that I keep spending too much of my money on metal-related stuff.

my mom allways gives me shit cause she associates it all with the devil, but i usually shrug and say "whatever" it is what it is, im not going to sugar coat it ahaha. but my parents are pretty cool with supporting me with it.

Dad was some kind of metalhead, WAS because now he listens mostly to oldschool rock and Metallica and Sabbath is the most metal what he listens to for now.

Mum - old poppy-rocky songs, mainly don't give a fuck about my music, MAINLY...

My mom keeps asking if she can wash my patchjacket, I can always laugh about it :P

My dad is into hardrock so he doesn't mind it at all, he also travels along every time to see our band perform, he loves it!

After raiding my parents' record collections at a VERY early age and finding music from the 50's to the 60's all-encompassing, it was a natural progression for me by the mid-70's and a wee lad. My parents have never gotten my music, but they never censored anything I listened to. A good amount of the savvy and intellect I enjoy today is a direct result of the music I grew up on, as it forced a cathartic opening of new things that I was able to follow. To this day my mom can identify certain bands, especially Sabbath or Ozzy, that she's heard a million times in 35-years of music. I was extremely fortunate in that regard.

My mom pretty much hates what I wear and what I listen to (giving me the 'Why cant you be more like this? *points to guy looking like he just came out of abercrombie and fitch*) but she doesnt ban anything or anything like that, she just doesnt like it, but she supports me being more into music than something like drugs or whatever. But shes thankful I'm not one of those faggots wearing snapbacks. My dad supports it. He thinks it's great im into it and hes basically like "oh okay. whatever makes you happy".

My mom often gets moody when my music is 'too loud' and is convinced that it's a phase that will end within a few years. But apart from that,she doesn't REALLY disrespect my taste,but still she thinks I spend too much money on metal-related stuff. She dislikes most music I listen to,but there are exceptions,like (surprisingly) Toxic Holocaust!

My dad doesn't really mind my musical taste,as long as I'm happy with it. But recently I discovered that he actually likes some stoner/doom and drone,at least I heard some positive opinions when I was listening. Yeah,my mom also doesn't really mind stoner,but they've both been smokers back in the day..

I have never had any problems with my parents and my musical tastes because my dad and mom are huge Scorpions fans, and they also listen pre-metal bands like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. Though my dad doesn't like Death Metal at all but my mom doesn't care. Actually they have never said that my interest in metal is a phase which evetually stops when I get older. I guess it's like that because they still like the music they used to listen when they were younger...

My parents go with me and brother to Wacken next year! Kinda says enough.

My mother never had a problem with long hairs and rock/metal - actually I listened to it already as a child and no problems with it.

She loves with her 54 years Black Metal is unable to undestand why this is called extrem metal 'cause 'it sounds so nice and you can relax to it'. She rather keeps some of my CDs when showing them her then getting mad. XD

My dad has no grasp of what metal is. He always curses me for what's on metal shirts, whats on my vest and how I like to have my hair down rather then in a pony tail. Last night he told me I need to burn my vest and for the past year or so he's called me Charlie Manson (In public too) because I have long hair and sometimes I grow beards. Tells me people are going to end up killing me because of metal.

Neither of them actually know what I listen to, if their recommending me bands like Avenged Sevenfold is any indication!
After a long while of getting worried when I enjoyed any film with the slightest bit of violence in it, I think my mum has either given up or reasoned that I'm old enough to not get negatively influenced by it. If she were to actually look through my CD collection, however, she would probably send me to a therapist. XDD My dad never really seemed to care.
I don't really have any particularly shocking shirts (I think the most violent is my Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain one, and my mum was amused by some of the reactions it got when we were out together). I got asked once if I was a Satanist, but they seem otherwise to have no problem with inverted crosses, 666es and shirts reading 'De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas'.
Over the years, I think my parents have come to accept that this is very unlikely to be a 'phase'. My mum's told me that she's actually pleased that I'm doing my own thing and sticking to it, and she's even said that I look nice in my kutte+leather jacket.
The best thing, though, happened about a month ago:
"That denim vest really makes you happy, doesn't it?"

Yes. Yes, Mum: as an expression of myself, it does.

(I still dread the day she decides to dust my CDs or something, though.)

My father liked Priest, Queen, Scorpions, Metallica, that's all I have going for me. He doesn't dig the death metal as much. Rest of the family doesn't give a shit.

Well, My dad listen's 80's Metal and Mom listen's New Wave. Sometimes my parents complains to me that i play music too loud or playing a guitar too loud. They don't actually care about my long hair.

I don't think mine have a problem, they just tell me I look extremely 80's all the time haha Also got my dad back into the traditional heavy metal stuff which is cool :)

My parents don't mind it. Sometimes my mom just gets scared or shocked when she sees/ hears what I listen to :P. I would have to hide certain things from her though. As long as I'm living with my parents, things like Dying Fetus, Zyklon B and stuff she finds offensive won't be added to my collection. I thank my parents for my taste in music! They allowed me to listen to it, tons of parents don't allow kids to freely develop their own taste and opinion. And I can't put the radio TOO loud when they're around, hehe

dad says nothing, he understands, but mom is like: "why do you spend so much money on cd's, t-shirts and concerts?" - but I love her anyway haha :D

Well, not exactly parents, but I remember I once arrived home and saw my 3 year old nephew wearing a vest of mine (of course he looked like he was struggling inside an enormous drape hahaha).

My christian mother hates it but doesn't say anything about it and washes my clothes with inverted pentagrams/crosses and whatelse for me without complains, and my dad took me too my first Maiden gig though he doesn't like metal at all though has an strange love for Paradise lost. He says it reminds him of the Cure. He only listnens to that band and to Lamb Of God for the reason he find theyre playing style nice and they play exactly the same amp as him, though he admits he hates the singing and drums. Other family like an aunt For example really really hates it and has asked my dad: Why do you allow this? It's dangerous! And he always is like: Let him do what the fuck he wants and when he has fun he has fun. My long hair has made me my grandma's favourite granddaughter though.... That's how my Metal effects my family!!!

Hum...I spent my teenage days in Lourdes, and even saw Jean-Paul II, hahaha! My parents are atheist, so they did'nt care about me listenig to metal. Now it's been 8 years I left this town, but how fun it was, driving fast among the pilgrims, playing Grave loud in the car!!!

Got in Rock/Metal through my dad in 1st place listening to Motorheads 'Iron Fist'at first at age of 5 or 6,can't remember.And same thing with Maiden,at same period.

My parents were deadheads/hard rockers when I was really young, so they pretty much set me up with the basics and I got into metal from there, but my dad's into some heavier stuff now and my mom still likes stuff like zeppelin and sabbath