Why is heavy metal music so relatable?

Because lyrics tend to be about real world concepts or fantastic stories rather than stupid love stories and dramatic breakups that dominate pop, and the gangsta culture that fills hip-hop/rap. read more

Metal Music tends to have lyrics about the real world. Most metal artists tend to take inspiration from then-current events to which they felt connected in one way or another. Most other genres tend to focus too much on the artist’s own life, in a vastly more blatant way than Metal tends to. read more

If you listen to Randy Rhodes (Crazy Train w/ Ozzy fame), you'll realize that he started to bring ideas from classical music to the then nascent genre of heavy metal. He actually used to take classical music lessons in whatever town he happened to be in when touring. read more

I find metal music so much more relatable to me, even if they sing about suicide, to someone going through the same thing can realize they're not alone, and that these people know about it. Metal songs deal with real issues in the world, whereas pop music never gets deeper or more realistic than crappy teenage melodramatics. read more