I laugh, looking over my rather plain appearance of a Black Label Society t-shirt and jeans, wondering how many laughs I would get wearing leather and give a clearly sarcastic "yeah" answer.

She looks clearly offended by my nature and explains that she thought that's what us "metal people" wore. How we should have rings piercing every available piece of flesh on our heads and that we all wear black, even in summer. She goes on further explaining that we're all Satanic, that the music is "too loud," and that we are crazy.

I listen, somewhat interested in her assessment of the heavy metal community and think about the people I see around at the concerts I've been to. Soccer moms, computer geeks, hippie types, and others who don't seem to "fit the mold," they're there right beside the goth chick and the leather clad anarchist, loving the music all the same. I wonder to myself if I should explain to her the community of heavy metal, how many people that

The doors open for the concert, and I give one final look around, to the goth chicks, and the tattooed bikers, the gray haired woman with her two children, Jake, the drummer of Mudvayne who has made his way towards the back of the line. "Yeah, I'm one of these people."

"Oh yeah they are," Jake says, his eyes widening as he explains their sound. "Oh they have a great sound, their singer is really good, but their guitarist if ****ing amazing."

I jump in, "Yeah, I saw them at Tattoo the Earth, short set, but they killed."

I step into line at 7:30, only to find out that it's being held back till 8:30. No one's particularly mad or upset though, because the guitarist of Ultraspank and the vocalist for Mudvayne are walking up and down the line chatting with fans and signing autographs. The guy in front of me is about 6'6" 280 pounds at least, he's wearing a Megadeth t-shirt and black jeans, his hair a dyed blonde and a perfect length for the headbanging to come.

A third party interrupts, short, almost shaved, hair, a short goatee, and a Cannibal Corpse t-shirt. "Union Underground? I heard they were awesome."

"Oh, they're ****ing awesome, the bassist looks just like ****ing Satan," he exclaims, "I saw them with Union Underground a few weeks back."

I sit back, mainly listening, as I usually do, only throwing in my two cents when bands like Biohazard, Black Label Society, Pantera, and Nashville Pussy are debated. I make mental notes of some of the bands that everyone seems to like, the Deadlights, Boile

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