Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey

“Even since I was twelve years old, I’ve had to defend my love for heavy metal against those who say it’s a less valid form of music. My answer now is that you either feel it or you don’t. If metal doesn’t give you that overwhelming surge of power, and make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck, you might never get it. And you know what? That’s okay. Because, judging from the forty thousand metalheads around me, we’re doing just fine without you.”