It's not about the violence. It's about what is considered socially acceptable. I mean, violent lyrics, seriously? Have they ever listened to blues, or folk mus

It's not about the violence. It's about what is considered socially acceptable. I mean, violent lyrics, seriously? Have they ever listened to blues, or folk music? My staff has murdered giants, my bag a long knife carries / For to cut mince pies from children's thighs, with which to feed the fairies. - Mad Tom of Bedlam (traditional folk song) And of course, there are movies, and even tv, which often have imagery more violent than any metal song (and visual, not lyrical). So what's going on here? Why is metal "violent", and the rest of this stuff is "normal"? My answer is mutual contempt. The stylistic cues of metal - both the music and the clothing - is to say "I reject social norms". Society of norms responds in kind, saying metal is worse than, say, the latest Avengers movie or the plot of a Shakespeare tragedy - that metal is "violent", and this other stuff is "normal".