> fucking groupthinking, insular scene. Insular, sure - everything is an island if you zoom out far enough though. I don't know about groupthinking though - t

> fucking groupthinking, insular scene. Insular, sure - everything is an island if you zoom out far enough though. I don't know about groupthinking though - there's plenty of subgenres within metal. Old school heavy metal (e.g. Iron Maiden) is very different from black metal for example, and the fanbases are far from completely overlapping.