Metal-Hard Rock Train Survey

A lot of people get off the metal/hard rock train between 20 and 30 years of age and start listening to more mellow music.

    It's difficult. There was a point where I could have gone more to metal, but I got into Genesis. It goes in and out with me. My late 20s, and early 30s were mellower times. I have started listening to heavier stuff more in recent years. There's nothing like cranking it up, and riding my bicycle hard.

I still listen to a lot of progressive metal, although its really the only sort I enjoy... I couldn't put on any Ac/Dc these days, although loved them when I was 16.

what I do is get on and off every available train with a handful of essential bands from each. Most heavy music sounded fairly comical to my ears in the first place, but so far I still greatly enjoy the slower doom and traditional heavy metal bands. I can't predict if this will always be the case so I simply didn't vote.

I'm sure that one day my interest in prog will diminish and I'll decide instead to explore funk or electronica or whatever else takes my fancy - but I doubt I'd cast the whole genre aside, for all its faults.

I still listen to Megadeth, Judas Priest etc. and I like Prog Metal. But I also like a lot of other stuff too.


Even "quiet" stuff.

Well I'm only 28 but I don't see any "getting off the train" anytime soon... It's true that now I enjoy a lot of more mellow music (even some poppy here band there) but I've been listening tomclassical music since I was 6, and what can be more melodic and musical than that? So I think prog-rock and prog-metal are just another part of my musical taste, and I think I'll always need some violence and high-decibel-energy in my life.

Hard for me to say... When in my early 20s I used to listen to lots of hard rock and heavy metal - even the really heavy stuff like Slayer and other thrash/speed metal. Then, after a few years in which I had to take a break from serious music listening due to changes in my lifestyle, I drifted off from the harder stuff and got into mellower kinds of music. Nowadays, I still listen to quite a lot of hard rock and classic heavy metal, but the newer metal bands I've listened to don't do very much for me.

Good thread, WS!

I voted 25/30, although it's not quite so clear cut as that; in the late 1970's I was already (partially) into prog (Heep/Purple), but when punk came along, I discovered the aggression in 'hard' guitars I liked, but there was something missing... then I started hearing bands like Priest, Sabbath, AC/DC, UFO, Lizzy etc etc etc, grew my hair, bought a leather jacket & started virtually living at Hammersmith Odeon in London.

Since age 25, I've got more into (out of?) more sophisticated (for want of a far better word) music, started listening to jazz, electronica (old and new), classical, world & folk music, but every now and again...

...on go the metal albums, up goes the volume (not to mention, at my age, my blood pressure) & very occasionally (if no-one is looking), out comes the air guitar... or air drum-kit...

The Miracle wrote: I never got on. My dad used to be a music fan in the 70's and he instantly got me into prog like Floyd, Tull, Yes and sophisticated hard rock like Zeppelin and Purple, I'm still a fan of them and will always be. I had a short metalhead period before seriously getting into prog, but it passed quickly. I made some stupid purchases then(Kiss, Accept, etc...) but it wasn't for long. I still appreciate metal but usually the more complex and extreme forms of it, like Black and melodic Death. I remember I totally couldn't get into that stuff back then. Prog helps get into extreme genres. Now I'm getting into Black metal and extreme avant/noise and it's all miles more challenging and rewarding than the music my peers listen to

Pretty much the same thing with me...except I did not buy Kiss albums...

Tony R wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: I will be 41 in Feb and still listen to it every day.     Yeah but Jody you're the only one here who is literally a metal head..... The Progtologist could play The Terminator in T4 with very little make up....