You just put everything I am in the poll

The Headbanger - When I'm getting quite drunk and in a good mood.
The Quiet Listener - When I'm seeying a band I like for the first time, so I just like to enjoy the music and watch the band play.
The "I go there just to drink beer" dude - Well, not just to drink beer, but also I wouldn't go there if there wasn't no beer.
The "I'm evil and you know it" dude - Usually on festivals, in the mornings, when I feel like crap and some good band is playing quite early in the morning.
The Badmouth Spectator - When some band just pisses me off. Example: Finnish bands presuming that all Estonians must speak finnish. So they begin talking in finnish between songs and I can't understand it, so I begin yelling random finnish curse-words at them, even though the band is good .

Written by Metalmorphosis on 04.01.2010 at 19:55

The Badmouth Spectator - When some band just pisses me off. Example: Finnish bands presuming that all Estonians must speak finnish. So they begin talking in finnish between songs and I can't understand it, so I begin yelling random finnish curse-words at them, even though the band is good .

lol i thought they only say "perkele", what other swear words would there be?

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no, i haven't ever seen a club that sells ear plugs... honestly lol. i know a shop nearby though that sells stuff like those that help hearing for old people, could they have stuff like that too?

Why lol at the idea of a club selling earplugs?
Good chance such a shop as you mentioned sells them or else a shop that caters to people that work on assembly lines in noisy factories. Or else a music store that sells instruments (drums, guitars etc.)

i lol'd because i've never seen any club sells this stuff yet you consider that every club HAS to sell ear plugs, didn't even cross my mind once that the places with live music over in western europe have them on sale

You should at least always be able to find disposable ear-plugs in drugstores. They ought to gave the foam and silicon variety. Otherwise, if you really cant find ANYTHING, noise canceling canalphones can do the job, although they decrease noise levels only by roughly 20 dB (making a 100dB gig barely bearable at 80dB and the usual 110+dB metal gig still too loud.)

hmm.. weird. i now have foam earplugs, and if you shove them all the way in, you can still hear the band pretty clearly(yeah, bass and guitars are pretty balanced, the only thing i don't actually hear pretty clearly is the crash cymbal from the drumkit, that's all)...

the catch is, i did a test on the program called guitar rig, playing something and then playing with the volume controls to see when i can't hear anything without earplugs and when i can't hear anything with earplugs, and found out my earplugs only cancel 10 decibels, which is weird considering i have worn them to pretty much any band at various distances from the speakers and i've never experienced ear ringing after i used them.

I have short hair, and headbanging feels awkward and hurts more with short hair so i dont do much...

so usually if i'm not moshing, then i'm the quiet listener.

I'm too old to mosh now! It fuckin hurts!!!!!
I'm off to the side of the circle pit with the elbow up to take out strays from the swirling mass!
Or I will be up at the front until I hear my vertebra snapping!

I am both a quiet listener and headbanger.

I usually enjoy watching and singing melodic bands and headbanging to extreme.

Depends on the band and the crowd really...

If it's a favourite, where I know most songs, I often sing along and have a blast. But I'm to old to bother with getting close to the stage in most occasions - to much of a hassle and not worth the pain in most occasions.

If it is a band I don't know all that well, I am more of the quiet listening type. But most often with a beer at hand

(Last time I was moshing was when I was at the Anthrax reunion concert, it was not that well attended = plenty of space even close to the stage and as most of the moshers was skinny little boys, they sort of just bounced off me )

Depends who I go with and what's playing. If I'm on my own I usually just stand out and watch from a far but if I'm with a few mates I get a bit more into and smash the mosh pit up.

Not that I've attended a lot of live gigs, but when I did, I headbanged so hard my neck was in pain the entire next day...
Good ol' times....

If there is a bar, that is where I'll be. Not necessarily to drink a whole lot though, that can get expensive.

At the right kind of show, the bar is the least crowded place and the best place to meet and greet the band members.

I would mosh... But i have the muscle mass of a syphilitic llama and can't. So I quietly listen.

Headbanger, but I usually dive in the moshpit only for my favorite bands, cause I'm too intense to last for a whole show without loosing my head lol And I rarely drink, because I live 2 hours away from Montreal, the closest city big enough for bands to play there... And driving for two hours in the middle of the night while being drunk is probably the most stupid thing you can do.

I've headbanged so much and so hard that the vertebrae in my neck are curved backwards! I like to alternate between watching and listening and then headbanging. I'm too old for the pit these days. (Too bad. I used to love the pit!)

I headbang, mosh, and act like a general douche. Metal concerts are the most enjoyable parts of my life.

Can't believe you put the Headbanger without putting the Violent Mosher !$# lol
cause thats just me

And seriously, the morning following a show is always A PAIN !!!!... ask my back, neck and shoulders, they'll tell you

P.S. btw, am I the only one here losing at least 1 or 2 beers each show, I mean you get rammed and you just feel it slip outta your hand

Listener for sure.

I'm the quiet listener on the 1st row who jumps and headbangs a little.

I've yet to go to any concerts other than the country ones at the county fair, but I'd probably be the listener.

The Stoner and/or quiet listener.

I'm something between headbanger + quiet listener...mmm well not that quiet, it depends of the band and the song...sometimes I like to sing along, not screaming though

'Headbanger'. I've always had short hair, so me headbanging is ridiculous and painful sight, so I prefer to constantly jump up/down while screaming the lyrics as much as I can.

A mix of a listener and a headbanger.

More like a nodder/foot tapper/teeth chomper whilst holding a pint kinda person, rather than a headbanger.

Written by Guest on 27.08.2011 at 14:55

teeth chomper

What?

Written by X-Ray Rod on 27.08.2011 at 15:17

Written by Guest on 27.08.2011 at 14:55

teeth chomper

What?

Do you never click your teeth to the time of drum beats?

Written by Guest on 27.08.2011 at 15:18

Do you never click your teeth to the time of drum beats?

I have an afro-like hair, That takes more than enough of my concert-activity. If you've seen the Bewitched video where Messiah starts to headbang, it looks a bit like that.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 27.08.2011 at 15:21


I have an afro-like hair, That takes more than enough of my concert-activity. If you've seen the Bewitched video where Messiah starts to headbang, it looks a bit like that.

Haha do you mean the doom dance? I'd like to see that.

Written by Guest on 27.08.2011 at 15:23

Haha do you mean the doom dance? I'd like to see that.

I don't do the dancing, but yeah.. It's like that when it comes to the hair.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 27.08.2011 at 15:35


I don't do the dancing, but yeah.. It's like that when it comes to the hair.

Dancing is awesome, you should try it EBM style

Written by Guest on 27.08.2011 at 15:37

Dancing is awesome, you should try it EBM style

I would mind dancing to some Mind.in.a.box
Now that I think of it... I'm kind of pissed that Candlemass didn't play Bewitched back in Roadburn. I would have done the doomdance right there.

I like to just trail off into my own word and move as the music moves me. It could be headbanging, it could be some kind of discreet mimicking of air guitar, or just strange convlusions to the beat which might be interpreted as dancing. I tend to have my eyes closed like half of the time (which kinda defeats the purpose of going out to see a band play, I guess!), and I like to sing along quietly, to myself. Unless it's a power metal band or something, in which case I'll sing as loud as I can (to the extent that I can still hit the right notes, anyway).

I'm usually not much of a cheering guy. Under some conditions, with the right kind of music, I may give into mob mentality. Usually it's a very personal experience for me, though, and I don't really feel like sharing it with the guy standing next to me.