TEN REASONS WHY BEING A DEATH METAL FAN CAN SUCK

by Jason Sorens

10. As you walk down the street softly growling along to the tune of "Corporeal Jigsore Quandary" dancing in your head, the people in front of you turn around and give you odd looks.

9. Your parents accuse you of giving your little sisters nightmares.

8. You occasionally break out into a cold sweat when the image of the cover art on Hypocrisy's latest album leaps into your mind unbidden.

7. You can get arrested for wearing your favorite t-shirts.

6. Two words: brain aneurysm.

5. Intimate knowledge of complex medical jargon does little good when you're studying for law-school midterms.

4. You frighten your girlfriends.

3. Your throat is always hoarse.

2. Your milque-faced roommates think you are Satan incarnate.

1. Your favorite bands are always selling out.

TEN RELATED REASONS WHY BEING A DEATH METAL FAN CAN SUCK

by Neil St.Lareunt

10. When somebody coughs or mumbles on the street you immediately assume they are singing their favorite death metal song and thus walk up to them and ask them what song it is, and then get strange looks.

9. Now that you'd probably enjoy them, nothing gives you nightmares anymore.

8. Hypocrisy's chicken shaped CD doesn't make you hungry, yet Cannibal Corpse's lyrics do.

7. You never get good comments about your T-Shirt because most people are too afraid to look at it closely.

6. Many words: Fat guy in mosh pith.

5. As a layer you cite death metal lyrics to defend your murdering, cannibalistic client.

4. Would you sleep with somebody who thinks mutilation is cool?

3. Since it's still a young genre you're unsure of the long term affects on your throat.

2. Satan wishes to recruit you.

1. You own a book entitled "101 Ways to Pretend You Never Liked A Band"


Tracks Of Creation Issue #9 (February / March 1997)
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