What qualifies you as being a music 'metal head'?

Answer 1

AnswerMetalhead is a popular term for a devoted fan of heavy metal music and is often used interchangeably with the term "headbanger". Since the early 1990s however, the use of the term has declined in favour of the more fashionable "metalhead" tag. The term "headbanger" maintains popular usage in Continental Europe, where the more traditional forms of metal music remain very much in style and where American terminology is often incorporated into the local vernacular at a slower rate than elsewhere.

There is one school of thought among the heavy metal subculture that the "metalhead" and "headbanger" labels represent distinctive groups within it, with metalhead being a generic term for metal fans as a whole and headbangers representing older fans or fans of older metal styles. This idea does have some merit as older heavy metal fans often dress in a distinctively 'retro' fashion from younger fans, favour different or more traditional bands and eschew some aspects of the culture that have developed in recent years. Nevertheless, both groups share common interests that go beyond a preferred musical style and together comprise a distinctive counterculture

You can say you are one if most of your music listening is metal (not goth metal, nu-metal or metalcore; those genres 'metalness' is disputed and you're liable to be called a poser if you claim to be a metalhead and then reveal your favourite band is Limp Bizkit or even HIM) and you feel metal. That sounds odd, but it's the only way I can describe it.