Lol, Learn to read Razors, thats not a genre, although Metallica might be so great that they are in fact their own genre, if thats what your saying. Of course, that makes a fan boi too, and thusly, you hate yourself.
Well if we`re talking fans of one band i`ll nominate Tool fans.
Your average Tool fan strikes me as being a metal kid who is desperatly trying to prove themselves and uses the banRAB name to prove that they listen to sophisticated music too.
And your access to music, and how an artist could get noticed was massivly differnt than today.
If im a unique artist who labels don't think is worth the risk, I can "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" my album and get it to the masses. Good luck with that in the 70's.
I mainly have a problem with metalheaRAB who get all ****ed up over the shreder of the week... Always going on about how Marty Friedman can play some indian scales which makes him the most versatile musician in the universe, how Paul Gilbert is a better musician than Neil Young because he's more skilled, how Children Of Bodom are better than Metallica because they solo better, how having technical skill is more important than knowing how to use it, etc.
And everytime someone makes a slight criticism of one of their idols, they always respond with "you need to hear more of his work".