METALHEAD !!!!!!

Metalhead (or headbanger) is a popular term for a devoted fan of heavy metal music and is often used interchangeably with the term "hesher." Heavy metal fans exist in many countries beyond the United Kingdom and United States, where it first developed, especially in Japan and Brazil. Heavy metal fans have created a strongly masculine “exclusionary youth community” whose core audience in the U.S. and the U.K. is “white, male, lower/middle class youth.” However, the metal culture expands across the globe and is not limited to this. Metalheads affirm their membership in the subculture or scene by attending metal concerts, buying albums, and most recently, by contributing to metal websites.

The long hair, leather jackets, and band patches of heavy metal fashion help to encourage a sense of identification within the subculture. Like the music at its cultural core, these fashions have changed over the decades, from tight blue jeans, motorcycle boots and black t-shirts in the late 1970s and early 1980s to black jeans and army fatigue pants, military-style coats, and shaven or short-clipped hairstyles in the 1990s and 2000s. However, not all metal fans are “visible members” of the heavy metal subculture; some enthusiasts enjoy the music without adopting the metal "look".