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CYNIC HERO ON BEG GAY A METAL BAND
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Sce the human sexualy analysis generally ns along the l of “that band is fuck’ gay,” ’s no surprise that metal micians who self-intify as gay are difficult to e by. So difficult to e by, fact, that our list isn’t so much the Top Five Gay Metal Ins as The Five Gay Metal Ins. Why Gay Is Metal: Pnick has sce spl om Christiany, and now choos to intify as “agnostic.” Maybe he jumped ship bee beg gay isn’t Christian; maybe he did bee Christian isn’t metal.
But if gay isn’t Christian, and Christian isn’t metal, isn’t gay kda metal?—-[youtube:v=eJfvwMweUPA]4. Like, you know, ts and ass.”Why Metal Is Gay: Shamay’s mic is so aggrsive, has at tim rced male metal fans to whg over sexism. His name is Roddy Bottum, and you’ve got to rpect that.How He Came Out: Bottum me out 1993.Why Metal Is Gay: Bottum wrote”Be Aggrsive”, a song about performg oral sex on a man.
What do that say about metal?How He Came Out: In a1998 terview wh MTV.Why Gay Is Metal: “There are still stereotyp that all gay men are effemate and weak and queeny,” Halford has said. In 2006, Gaahl spent 9 months prison for “torturg a man for six hours while llectg his blood to a cup and threateng to make him drk .” Gaahl matas that the blood-drag was performed self-fense.How He Came Out: Gaahl nfirmed his homosexualy metal magaze Rock Hard‘s November 2008 issue, after some tractors threatened to offer “rmatn” that would make Gaahl appear a “whole new light.” “It seems like I’ve pre-empted a few people.
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Why Gay Is Metal: Gaahl is “strongly opposed to Christiany,” and purports to follow a personal philosophy he terms “Gaahlism.” Aga: there’s nothg Christiany hat more than gay. As the volist and bass player for the semal proggy metal-tged hard rock band Kg’s X, Doug Pnick me out 1998, durg an terview wh the Christian magaze, an irony due to the spirual and upliftg nature of the mic and lyrics which attracted many Christian fans who were agast homosexualy. But spe this vlent past, he has been an open homosexual wh no reluctance or remorse, and 2010 even won Gay Person of the Year Bergen, Norway.
Before Cynic both Reert and Masvidal played as members of the legendary band Death, wh the one and only Chuck Schulder, and durg this time, and their time wh Cynic, they most likely led double liv as secretly homosexual mal a predomantly macho male extreme metal aggrsive ttosterone filled mil scene. Led by openly gay ontman, volist Gary Floyd, the band broke up 1986 but was revived aga 2004. At, Texas-based hardre punk band MDC might be known by different nam cludg Millns of Dead Cops, Multi-Death Corporatn, Millns Of Dead Children, and Millns Of Damn Christians, but sce the begng of the band, 1979, the one nstant has been the antic, charismatic ontman Dave Dictor, who has ed the fury of punk to sg agast racism war, rporate ntrol, and favor of animal and human rights, equaly for gays, mori, and women.