Saturday, May 18, 2013

Opinion - Image in Heavy Metal (part 1)

I wanted to share my thoughts on this As I Lay Dying story. I've heard of these guys but haven't "heard" them. Anyway, I was reading about this murder for hire thing with their singer (I think). His lawyer says the dude wasn't in his right mind because he was on steroids. I've heard lots of stories of how steroids are used by lots of people, not just body builders and football players. But heavy metal frontmen? So I started to wonder, which do I prefer? Bands who look fit, or bands that look like, well, me? I'm not really sure. On the one hand the fact that nowadays there are fat guys in bands is kinda cool. What that says to me is that the music industry (at least the heavy metal music industry) isn't as much of a slave to image as it used to be. The flip side to that is if you're in a band, shouldn't you look like a bad-ass? At least a little bit? And not like, well, me?