(Woodsman Music Group, digital) Being a metalhead in the 80s seemed so romantic. To be fair, I was a little kid. But the Satanic Panic was on, pentagrams were all over the backs of denim jackets, the Parents Music Resource Center folks were out there wagging their fingers, my mom let me have a mullet for a hot minute . It was
wild. In contrast, I always thought metalheads in the 90s were so . I don t know, morose? Pre-emo? Particularly the death-metal kids. There was such a woe-is-me vibe to all the people wearing Cannibal Corpse and Entombed shirts. We d all get our shitty high school weed from the same people and, whenever the crossover would happen, I just couldn t get over how seriously they seemed to take everything.