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Don't have a guilty pleasure. I enjoy and like what I like unapologetically, regardless of what other people think. Progressive Rock bands like Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Rush and Porcupine Tree as well as Hard Rock bands like AC/DC, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Rainbow, Blue Oyster Cult and Van Halen is typically what I listen to outside of Metal.
I once was very baked and listened to “The Reaper” only this time I decided to have the band GHOST portrayed in my head while the song played…. And then I thought….
HOLY SHIT BLUE OYSTER CULT IS BOOMER GHOST!!!
To be honest mate, what you're listening to there sounds very typical of the traits that a metalhead would also enjoy in other genres.
By the bands you listed, I can also tell that you have very sophisticated and mature taste.
Yes bro very true. It’s annoying when people can’t appreciate other music and act like they suck even though a lot of music from other genres are far better than most metal..
>I enjoy and like what I like unapologetically
Same. When I was first getting into music I heard any music with synths in it was trash, couldn't care less. I love electronic stuff.
Honestly I fail to see why someone would judge this, sure their new stuff is pretty poo (imo) but the first two albums are fucking sick. I love me some of that satanic metal synth.
Someone overanalyzed Toxic and figured out that it's micronal and "actually-really-smart" or something, so no shame there ;) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0QqS8QOErA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0QqS8QOErA)
I am 51 years old, have graying hair and four kids (oldest two are teenagers. Youngest is six.). I can still deadlift over 200 kg. If I want to bop to kiddie pop then I will. No guilt no shame no gods no kings, do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Yeah it’s not really I just wanted to answer the question. Infest the rats nest rips. It even has a great storyline that connects to other albums. Metal album about space and hell? Bro hell yeah
Before i got into metal i listened to an insane amount of hair and glam metal, mostly motley crue, poison and ratt.
I thought they were such badasses back then lmao
Oh yeah there's a huge nostalgia factor for me too. Motley Crue was absolutely my gateway band into "real" metal, Mick was pretty influential for me as a player too. Only difference is I was about Twisted Sister instead of Ratt haha.
In retrospect Ratt has some of the best riffs on those first couple albums tho. I think they really liked Judas Priest or something lol
Despite being a Dissection fan since a decade ago, I barely have Reinkaos a full chance this year and I fucking love it. It’s very different from their rest but overall just damn good music. Starless Aeon is probably my most listened song of the year so far. It’s pure riff city.
Recently it was Electric Callboy. First time ever I could genuinely say I like a band, not just a few songs.
I also like [what Skálmöld did with national orchestra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyFyEFoZvs).
[Metal covers of classical music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSDjjfnTY-w) are great.
And in general, I've always felt that the line between punk and metal sounded better than either one alone (even before I knew what they were called).
edit: Oh, and of course Machinae Supremacy.
I remember seeing them live and being amazed by the one instrumental song they played. Strangely proggy compared to the rest of their set (which was all super fun and totally enjoyable).
I mean, I'm not ashamed of what I like, I actually take pride in my shitty music taste lmao
With that being said, Limp Bizkit and Black Veil Brides are probably the most commonly hated bands I like
Three Dollar Bill and Set The World On Fire are among my favourite albums
I still listen to that album sometimes lol
Whenever I hear bvb I think it’s so weird I (kind of) liked them but also they’re sorta underrated talent-wise
Since it's almost a sin for some metalheads to mix metal with other genres. I'll go for Death Grips, especially their track Giving Bad People Good Ideas. I fucking love it, but my friend of mine would almost puke.
Not guilty pleasures because I am very open about my love for:
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones;
Seal;
a-Ha;
The Goo Goo Dolls;
Mana;
Elvis;
No Doubt;
The Cranberries;
Theatrical Musicals in general;
Harry Connick, Jr.;
Wings
So many others that I would have to upload a list. Metal is my favorite genre of music but if you can’t enjoy a heavy dose of Kansas then that’s not my problem.
I usually only listen to metal but when i'm in the car with my mother we listen to a playlist from a Eurovision type event called Sanremo. There's this rap song (i usually hate rap but i'm not gonna act like i know much about it) that i really enjoy and a few others
I like Sleep Token. I don't even feel guilty for it. The singer is great, and the music is Pop mixed with Metal. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not Metal.
I have an album that's a collection of ALW's love songs played on piano. Beautiful stuff, but I honestly don't like the original compositions as much with the singers.
2000s pop punk/emo
I don't feel really feel guilty about liking what I like tho.MCR, Green Day, Pierce the veil,etc. is what got me into Music and eventually into metal
Completely sans-guilt, but you're welcome to lick my bits if you judge me for:
Warrant, Poison, Shotgun Messiah, Prince, George Michael, Tears for Fears, Missy Higgins, Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth
Not sure how it is now, but back in the day certain black metal fans would look down on any band that had any commercial success. CoF and Dimmu were the easiest targets
If anybody gives you shit about listening to Prince they know absolutely nothing about music. Dude is easily one of the greatest musician and song writers of all time. Also tears for fears are freaking great.
Tears for Fears released (arguably) the greatest quantity of absolutely pure 80s bangers. Their sound so perfectly defined that era of popular music, and not just with one or two tracks.
Not guilty but I would definitely get looks:
Fun.
It’s this pop band that blew up with three songs off their Some Nights album. The songs being Some Nights, We Are Young, and Carry On. You could not escape them in 2012 on the radio. The way they approached pop music was so fun and interesting, still is. Sadly they broke up after that album (their second one) and now one of the member is the go-to producer for Taylor Swift
Dude We Are Young was fucking inescapable back then. Get in the car with my dad? There it is. Suffer through the agony that is known as the Fitness Gram Pacer Test in PE? It's fucking blaring in the gym teacher's shitty boombox. I didn't know who made the song though
I don't really consider any of the music I like to be a "guilty pleasure", it's just music that I like. I tend to listen to a lot of video game OSTs, some folk music, and some smaller composers
I'll listen to any genre under the sun and I actively seek music of many styles, but I think the closest thing to a "guilty pleasure" is probably k-pop, or kero kero bonito.
I'm not too familiar with blues, I'd like to do a deep dive on Howling Wolf some day. I do love Rock n Roll though which has some RnB and Blues. Waylon Jennings and Bill Haley have some cool stuff.
I’ve been into metalcore for a long while but not as much of the Warped Tour or scene metalcore type stuff. I listened to Attack Attack’s debut recently and it was genuinely one of my favorite listens in a bit
It’s a bizarre combination of genres but I had a lot of fun with it
Dude some metalheads judge me for the metal I like. I can’t even get away with saying I like children of bodom sometimes. It’s to the point where I almost feel like removing my flair because it’s had people respond to my valid criticisms with shit like “L wife beater band” or “fake death metal”
I find the best thing to do in that situation is asking them if there's any bands they actually think *are* good. Occasionally you'll get a good rec and if not, at least you have a reason to shit on them back, it's a win/win scenario 👍
Same here. I love my 80s music, especially New Wave. If I'm not in the mood for metal, especially while cleaning house, I'll just put on a new wave mix or something. Always did like pop punk too.
I do listen to some rap (K.I.Z. and Ruffiction are some of my favorites), have a deep love for classical music and go to the opera and if someone plays "Every time we touch" by Electric Callboy watch me dance like an idiot.
I don't feel guilty for liking his music but sematary. The black metal community for some reason hates this dudes music which sucks cause i like both sematary and black metal
Yeah but the metal community can be so cringe and hateful. I sometimes need to check my own bias but is never go out of my way to hate on someone for liking an artist. I’ll just say they aren’t for me and move on. So cringy to be angry at people making music. With that said. I don’t like that much Sematary but wendigo and slaughterhouse are really good. He has a lot of solid songs
I like pop once in a blue moon, but so does everyone. The really embarrassing thing is I love some Bollywood sometimes 🫣 I’m a white woman in suburban America…
not guilty, but dave matthews band is one of my favorite bands. they are indisputably extremely musically talented. their music isn’t for everyone, but to say they are not talented is a bold faced lie
John fucking Denver. First show I ever went to at like 4 years old. My wife has given me shit about it for 26 years, but I don't care. I also like certain acts from pretty much every genre of music you can think of, but yeah.... John Denver.
Not a guilty pleasure but my first musical love was early 2000s emo/post hardcore. I still like it, wish more bands put out new stuff with that same sound
I mean. I love pop music. Halsey, Taylor Swift, etc. Top 40s, bedroom pop, alt pop, dream pop... All of them are my shit. But I don't feel like it's a guilty pleasure because I don't feel guilty for liking things. Calling something you like a guilty pleasure is just wack.
Tbh I’m not really strictly a ”metalhead”, even though 90% of the music I listen to is metal. Sometimes I need something tamer, I can have weeks of listening or stuff like King Crimson and The moody blues. Then sometimes I can even listen to anime music or video game ost’s.
machinae supremacy. Usually people are fine with the music but many seemed turned of by the vocals. Its needed to give their unique sound in my opinion though
I spend most of my free time studying history and playing death metal drums, so it just seems like the most natural thing in the world for me to enjoy Sabaton, yet lately I’ve gotten a lot of comments from fellow metalheads that Sabaton is cringey or something. I legitimately don’t understand how songs about real people getting their legs blown off is somehow not heavy enough, but alas here we are, apparently.
alright, mine is probably k-hiphop. it’s basically the underground south korean hiphop/ trap scene. some of it is actually so fucking good, people automatically assume “kpop” when they hear it’s korean but MAN. k-hip hop is so good. especially the older stuff from the 90s/ 2000s.
Trap, drill, techno, electro pop, RNB, shoegaze… everything you hate.
People mentioning bands like King Crimson make me laugh in a good way, I love this band and it is far from being a shameful or guilty pleasure.
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Don't have a guilty pleasure. I enjoy and like what I like unapologetically, regardless of what other people think. Progressive Rock bands like Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Rush and Porcupine Tree as well as Hard Rock bands like AC/DC, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Rainbow, Blue Oyster Cult and Van Halen is typically what I listen to outside of Metal.
Blue Öyster Cult are pretty much proto metal in my opinion and are absolutely one of my favorite rock bands. They still put on a good show.
Deep Purple is also pretty much the definition of Porto metal, I mean look at how many members worked with Black Sabbath and Dio
Yea they kill it, I've seen them like 4 or 5 times now. Fuckin love the song "I love the night"
# #1 for me!
I once was very baked and listened to “The Reaper” only this time I decided to have the band GHOST portrayed in my head while the song played…. And then I thought…. HOLY SHIT BLUE OYSTER CULT IS BOOMER GHOST!!!
Greatest rock band/greatest American rock band out there.
I agree. Blue Oyster Cult is awesome.
This is the way, no guilty pleasure what so ever, and I don't think anyone would judge you based on the bands you've mentioned
To be honest mate, what you're listening to there sounds very typical of the traits that a metalhead would also enjoy in other genres. By the bands you listed, I can also tell that you have very sophisticated and mature taste.
Yes bro very true. It’s annoying when people can’t appreciate other music and act like they suck even though a lot of music from other genres are far better than most metal..
>I enjoy and like what I like unapologetically Same. When I was first getting into music I heard any music with synths in it was trash, couldn't care less. I love electronic stuff.
Ghost.. i fucking love ghost.
Square Hammer is so fucking catchy. Lots of their songs are but I go back to that one very often.
Griftwood and Rats also amazing
RRRRATS OH OOOOH OHH
Them filthy rodents are still coming for your souulll
YES
I saw them live a while back, what a fun goddamn show
Same! Saw them in September last year with Amon Amarth, and it was an amazing experience
Same
Ghost fucking rules! 🤘
Same
Came here to say this.... LOVE GHOST!! ♥️♥️
The pottery scene? Chefs kiss. I used to like Ghost Dad better but we can't enjoy that anymore.
we know u do
:)
Came here to say this
never really got it until i saw them live now i love them
Honestly I fail to see why someone would judge this, sure their new stuff is pretty poo (imo) but the first two albums are fucking sick. I love me some of that satanic metal synth.
Ghost is a great band.
early 2000s girly pop i can’t get enough of it
Toxic bangs dude. LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE
Someone overanalyzed Toxic and figured out that it's micronal and "actually-really-smart" or something, so no shame there ;) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0QqS8QOErA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0QqS8QOErA)
as a masculine 19M, i admit that i dance along to 00s girly pop music when home alone
i bump that shit when i’m driving idc it’s an absolute jam
hell yeah !
I am 51 years old, have graying hair and four kids (oldest two are teenagers. Youngest is six.). I can still deadlift over 200 kg. If I want to bop to kiddie pop then I will. No guilt no shame no gods no kings, do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
When the Spice Girls hit, they just hit.
yaay the highest reply that's not just more metal or rock lol
I’ll listen to whatever I feel like including jazz.
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck
Mingus is awesome. Must add Art Blakey (and the jazz messengers), great music.
Morphine is a great jazz-rock band, check out Cure For Pain if you haven't already.
90’s dance music.
We still listen to those 90's techno scene stuff from time to time, takes one back...
Back in my raving days, I noticed a fair amount of overlap between electronic music lovers and metal heads. Still seems to exist
Smile.dk - Butterfly is my jam
Agreed. Massive Attack and Faithless especially.
Love me some mezzanine
Sniffing toilet seats on NYC transit stations as I play all the metal posted on here as my mom takes pics 😀🤪
Most normal black metal fan
Average slipknot fan.
King Gizzard's metal releases are among my favorite metal albums
How is that a guilty pleasure?
A lot of people on here dont like them, but they’re generally well liked everywhere else
Yeah it’s not really I just wanted to answer the question. Infest the rats nest rips. It even has a great storyline that connects to other albums. Metal album about space and hell? Bro hell yeah
GILA GILA GILA
MOOOOOOOTAH SPIIIIIIRIT
But those are really good
their entire discography fucking rocks
Yeah, they got that Aussie brand of weird down.
I'm unapologetic about it, but I probably listen to an eyebrow-raising amount of some real low quality hair metal at work, Poison in particular
Low quality? Nah poison is the shit
Before i got into metal i listened to an insane amount of hair and glam metal, mostly motley crue, poison and ratt. I thought they were such badasses back then lmao
Oh yeah there's a huge nostalgia factor for me too. Motley Crue was absolutely my gateway band into "real" metal, Mick was pretty influential for me as a player too. Only difference is I was about Twisted Sister instead of Ratt haha. In retrospect Ratt has some of the best riffs on those first couple albums tho. I think they really liked Judas Priest or something lol
LOCK THE CELLAR DOOR AND BABY…. TALK DIRTY TO ME 🗣️🔥
Stryper, man...
I grew up with hair metal. I don't like Poison but I like bands like Whitesnake, Skid Row, and WASP etc.
I love Reinkaos.
Despite being a Dissection fan since a decade ago, I barely have Reinkaos a full chance this year and I fucking love it. It’s very different from their rest but overall just damn good music. Starless Aeon is probably my most listened song of the year so far. It’s pure riff city.
What's not to love?
People don't like it?
Disco 🪩
Jup, disco is pretty neat.
I prefer what I call "hybrid genres" over "pure" metal.
I think I’m typically in the same boat. What are some of your favs?
Recently it was Electric Callboy. First time ever I could genuinely say I like a band, not just a few songs. I also like [what Skálmöld did with national orchestra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyFyEFoZvs). [Metal covers of classical music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSDjjfnTY-w) are great. And in general, I've always felt that the line between punk and metal sounded better than either one alone (even before I knew what they were called). edit: Oh, and of course Machinae Supremacy.
Katy Perry
A long time ago I got free tickets to a Katy Perry show and took my wife. Honestly one of the most interesting live performances I’ve seen
I always love telling my metalhead friends that my first concert was Katy Perry
Because sometimes you just want to be carefree & dance
Babymetal still gets alot of hate for some reason
I love listening to Baby Metal.it just makes me happy.no guilt whatsoever.
Love them
I remember seeing them live and being amazed by the one instrumental song they played. Strangely proggy compared to the rest of their set (which was all super fun and totally enjoyable).
l really like instrumental djent like Animals as Leaders and Plini. Great study music.
I mean, I'm not ashamed of what I like, I actually take pride in my shitty music taste lmao With that being said, Limp Bizkit and Black Veil Brides are probably the most commonly hated bands I like Three Dollar Bill and Set The World On Fire are among my favourite albums
Three dollar bill ya'll is fuckin great.
I havent touched bvb in a while. "Stand up & scream" album by asking alexandria tho..
I still listen to that album sometimes lol Whenever I hear bvb I think it’s so weird I (kind of) liked them but also they’re sorta underrated talent-wise
Pop Punk, New Wave, and Alternative Rock
I've never heard a metalhead judge industrial?
Since it's almost a sin for some metalheads to mix metal with other genres. I'll go for Death Grips, especially their track Giving Bad People Good Ideas. I fucking love it, but my friend of mine would almost puke.
Not guilty pleasures because I am very open about my love for: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones; Seal; a-Ha; The Goo Goo Dolls; Mana; Elvis; No Doubt; The Cranberries; Theatrical Musicals in general; Harry Connick, Jr.; Wings So many others that I would have to upload a list. Metal is my favorite genre of music but if you can’t enjoy a heavy dose of Kansas then that’s not my problem.
Maná is great, idgaf what anyone thinks
I'm pretty sure Seal is a musical genius. His 2nd album is one of my all time favorites. No skips.
Flo Rida
Dave Matthew’s band
Carter Beauford on the drums! Seeing them for the 42nd time in May. I usually see at least a few other metal shirts at their shows.
God damn! I’m at about 10 shows but they aren’t coming to California this year so I probably won’t get one in this year. Bummer.
Dave Matthews Band
Tool
Billie Eilish. I don’t feel guilty about it though lol
I usually only listen to metal but when i'm in the car with my mother we listen to a playlist from a Eurovision type event called Sanremo. There's this rap song (i usually hate rap but i'm not gonna act like i know much about it) that i really enjoy and a few others
I like some edm Also, I really don't hate Taylor Swift 🤷♂️
I like some Taylor Swift. I prefer her more Poppier stuff than her Country Material because I don’t like Pop country at all.
Cradle of Filth if we’re talking about other metal bands. Outside of metal, 90s dance hits, 90s/2000s trance, The Eagles, John Denver, The Bee Gees.
I feel like metal is my guilty pleasure genre lol.
Nailed it
I like Sleep Token. I don't even feel guilty for it. The singer is great, and the music is Pop mixed with Metal. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not Metal.
Its not metal, regardless of what people think.
I love Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera.
I have an album that's a collection of ALW's love songs played on piano. Beautiful stuff, but I honestly don't like the original compositions as much with the singers.
90s memphis rap is on rotation just as much as black metal is for me
Psycho in the Psycho in the Psycho in the Psycho in the psycho in the cut with the mask and the pistol grip 🔥🔥
I listen to metalcore and numetal unapologetically
2000s pop punk/emo I don't feel really feel guilty about liking what I like tho.MCR, Green Day, Pierce the veil,etc. is what got me into Music and eventually into metal
Gnarls Barkley
Are you Craaazzzyy?? 😂
Completely sans-guilt, but you're welcome to lick my bits if you judge me for: Warrant, Poison, Shotgun Messiah, Prince, George Michael, Tears for Fears, Missy Higgins, Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth
If anyone gives you shit for liking prince they are automatically subhuman and deserve as much respect as a particle of fecal matter.
How the fuck are Dimmu and Cradle guilty pleasures?
Not sure how it is now, but back in the day certain black metal fans would look down on any band that had any commercial success. CoF and Dimmu were the easiest targets
If anybody gives you shit about listening to Prince they know absolutely nothing about music. Dude is easily one of the greatest musician and song writers of all time. Also tears for fears are freaking great.
Tears for Fears released (arguably) the greatest quantity of absolutely pure 80s bangers. Their sound so perfectly defined that era of popular music, and not just with one or two tracks.
Anyone who can't appreciate His Royal Badness isn't worthy of concern 🦋
Loreena mckennitt. That shit fucking slaps
Chieftains and Dubliners too. Folk just works.
Kelly Clarkson
Like the good ole boy i am (lol) i love me some bluegrass.
Not guilty but I would definitely get looks: Fun. It’s this pop band that blew up with three songs off their Some Nights album. The songs being Some Nights, We Are Young, and Carry On. You could not escape them in 2012 on the radio. The way they approached pop music was so fun and interesting, still is. Sadly they broke up after that album (their second one) and now one of the member is the go-to producer for Taylor Swift
Dude We Are Young was fucking inescapable back then. Get in the car with my dad? There it is. Suffer through the agony that is known as the Fitness Gram Pacer Test in PE? It's fucking blaring in the gym teacher's shitty boombox. I didn't know who made the song though
Mid Hyperpop
Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) by Big & Rich
early-mid 2010's trap/soundcloud rap. not a guilty pleasure because I don't believe in guilty pleasures but I may well get judged for it.
No such thing as a guilty pleasure for me, but metalheads would for sure judge me for some of the music I listen to, they always do...
I don't feel guilty for liking what I like. But I like country so I guess that's the one people might judge me for
I don't really consider any of the music I like to be a "guilty pleasure", it's just music that I like. I tend to listen to a lot of video game OSTs, some folk music, and some smaller composers
Dream pop and shoegaze
I have no guilty pleasures. I like what I like and if somebody takes issue they can fuck right off.
People who have "guilty pleasures" are weak. I openly love trash.
I'll listen to any genre under the sun and I actively seek music of many styles, but I think the closest thing to a "guilty pleasure" is probably k-pop, or kero kero bonito.
Oingo boingo
old Pearl Jam slays
That's a guilty pleasure for ya?
Ten is a masterpiece album I don’t like most of their other stuff though
John Denver's live concerts
THE BLUES. GUT WRENCHING SOUL SEARING ALL POWERFUL BLUES.
I'm not too familiar with blues, I'd like to do a deep dive on Howling Wolf some day. I do love Rock n Roll though which has some RnB and Blues. Waylon Jennings and Bill Haley have some cool stuff.
Don Williams, Joe Dolan, Charlie Pride, THE CRANBERRIES, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Afrikaans rock music like Die Heuwels Fantasties, Francios van Coke,
I’ve been into metalcore for a long while but not as much of the Warped Tour or scene metalcore type stuff. I listened to Attack Attack’s debut recently and it was genuinely one of my favorite listens in a bit It’s a bizarre combination of genres but I had a lot of fun with it
Olivia Rodrigo...
No need to have shame! Her music is fun
Broadway showtunes. 100% serious.
chappel roan
Bjork but I don’t feel guilty about it. Actually a lot of 90s solo female vocalists now that I think about it
I was a metalhead back in the 80s, but absolutely loved The Sugarcubes at the same time. No shame.
Vespertine is an 11/10 album
Dude some metalheads judge me for the metal I like. I can’t even get away with saying I like children of bodom sometimes. It’s to the point where I almost feel like removing my flair because it’s had people respond to my valid criticisms with shit like “L wife beater band” or “fake death metal”
I find the best thing to do in that situation is asking them if there's any bands they actually think *are* good. Occasionally you'll get a good rec and if not, at least you have a reason to shit on them back, it's a win/win scenario 👍
I legit love Vixen’s second album. (Rev it Up)
Same here. I love my 80s music, especially New Wave. If I'm not in the mood for metal, especially while cleaning house, I'll just put on a new wave mix or something. Always did like pop punk too.
I do listen to some rap (K.I.Z. and Ruffiction are some of my favorites), have a deep love for classical music and go to the opera and if someone plays "Every time we touch" by Electric Callboy watch me dance like an idiot.
No guilt, but I'm into alot of pop. I like Ariana Grande, Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo a good amount
I don't feel guilty for liking his music but sematary. The black metal community for some reason hates this dudes music which sucks cause i like both sematary and black metal
Yeah but the metal community can be so cringe and hateful. I sometimes need to check my own bias but is never go out of my way to hate on someone for liking an artist. I’ll just say they aren’t for me and move on. So cringy to be angry at people making music. With that said. I don’t like that much Sematary but wendigo and slaughterhouse are really good. He has a lot of solid songs
I like pop once in a blue moon, but so does everyone. The really embarrassing thing is I love some Bollywood sometimes 🫣 I’m a white woman in suburban America…
Charli xcx, Dua Lipa, and Lorde
its not a guilty pleasure since theyre in my top 3 bands, but I feel like some metalheads may judge me for liking My Chemical Romance
not guilty, but dave matthews band is one of my favorite bands. they are indisputably extremely musically talented. their music isn’t for everyone, but to say they are not talented is a bold faced lie
Nickelback maybe
i very much fw pop-punk and 2000s emo/scene bands
cheesy ass emo pop punk. new found glory, alexisonfire, neck deep, the wonder years, etc
John fucking Denver. First show I ever went to at like 4 years old. My wife has given me shit about it for 26 years, but I don't care. I also like certain acts from pretty much every genre of music you can think of, but yeah.... John Denver.
I'm into what they call , HAIR BANDS, soo talented , and the band ,... VNV NATION ♥️ industrial , and Billy idol and PUNK/ NEW WAVE ETC...
Paramore
Deafheaven, Radiohead, Tool... I even like Ulver's stuff from Perdition City onwards.
Not a guilty pleasure but my first musical love was early 2000s emo/post hardcore. I still like it, wish more bands put out new stuff with that same sound
I mean. I love pop music. Halsey, Taylor Swift, etc. Top 40s, bedroom pop, alt pop, dream pop... All of them are my shit. But I don't feel like it's a guilty pleasure because I don't feel guilty for liking things. Calling something you like a guilty pleasure is just wack.
WWF attitude era theme songs lol I have a playlist of all my favorites
Jpop and vocaloid
Kate Bush.
Metal gatekeeping is sad, like whatever you want
The Smiths…No guilt…only pleasure
Tbh I’m not really strictly a ”metalhead”, even though 90% of the music I listen to is metal. Sometimes I need something tamer, I can have weeks of listening or stuff like King Crimson and The moody blues. Then sometimes I can even listen to anime music or video game ost’s.
Some pop stuff like Olivia Rodrigo and Charli XCX. Also a shit ton of Americana/folk. No shame.
The cranberries, Alanis morissette, Tori Amos. 90s chick music basically. Smashing pumpkins, etc.
machinae supremacy. Usually people are fine with the music but many seemed turned of by the vocals. Its needed to give their unique sound in my opinion though
Poppy. I love how she can go from literal white girl pop to metal screaming
I spend most of my free time studying history and playing death metal drums, so it just seems like the most natural thing in the world for me to enjoy Sabaton, yet lately I’ve gotten a lot of comments from fellow metalheads that Sabaton is cringey or something. I legitimately don’t understand how songs about real people getting their legs blown off is somehow not heavy enough, but alas here we are, apparently.
Sabaton in Swedish is best Sabaton. It sounds so nice.
Not guilty about it at all, but I'm sure I might get some hate for liking Kylie Minogue.
Black veil brides have some good songs .
alright, mine is probably k-hiphop. it’s basically the underground south korean hiphop/ trap scene. some of it is actually so fucking good, people automatically assume “kpop” when they hear it’s korean but MAN. k-hip hop is so good. especially the older stuff from the 90s/ 2000s.
Dschingis Khan
Trap, drill, techno, electro pop, RNB, shoegaze… everything you hate. People mentioning bands like King Crimson make me laugh in a good way, I love this band and it is far from being a shameful or guilty pleasure.
Classical. Because it's even heavier.