This is the gayest statement ever made about metal.
It overlooks who created metal, pretends its whiny protest music, and imagines it was made for gays and minorities.
It’s an entire genre about violence and masculinity, not the marginalized.
As a metalhead since I was 8, metal is about speaking to the marginalized, speaking truth to power, liberation. Metal heals. This is corporate PR garbage. Metallica was always overrated. Listen to Gojira, RATM and Sepultura instead.