Blah blah blah. And the lyrics in metal albums cannot, by default, be similar to what you hear in "emo" music? Au contraire.

Chester could kick my ass? Does that make him NOT a whiny little b*tch? All he does is gripe about how someone is holding him down or holding him back. I get so sick of it.

So many "metal" or "hard-core" bands are just screaming out about how they hate society and they want revenge, etc. Enter Dylan Klebold. But I guess that's the whole point of metal and hard-core, to begin with. If they had nothing to gripe about, they wouldn't make music.

That's not creativity. That's just crap.

If any of those bands DO NOT fit the profile I've listed, I'll concede and believe that they do have messages which are positive or uplifting or messages which don't convey their personal distaste for their childhood and how their mother weened them off the boobie too quickly.

It's also not hard to tell what a band stands for by their title, especially when they are as gay as the ones listed. It's like having a picture of a whale on the cover of Moby Dick. Own a music store? Is that the best you can do??

For reference, I'm not referring to "emo" as a style of music. I'm using it to describe any singer of any band who does nothing but complain about himself and indulge in his own selfish nature. That being the case, I still don't believe I'm that far off with respect to the bands listed.

If you like them, I'm not knocking you. I'm sure you really do have a wide and varied musical taste and I'm sure you're a nice person.