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Heavy metal fashion is the style of dress, body modification, make-up, hairstyle, and so on, taken on by some fans of heavy metal, or, as they are often called, metalheads. more...

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To those with a trained eye, normally others within the metal subculture, relatively subtle differences in clothing can speak volumes about a person's tastes and, more critically, show whether or not they are a poser, a judgement that is almost universally dreaded by the metalheads who chose to dress this way.

Origins

The clothing associated with heavy metal has its roots in the biker, S&M and rocker subcultures. Heavy metal fashion includes elements such as leather jackets; hi-top basketball shoes (more common with old school thrash metallers); motorcycle boots (Harness boots, Engineer boots), work boots or combat boots; blue or black jeans, and denim jackets or kutte vests, often adorned with badges, pins and patches. As with the bikers, there is a peculiar fascination with Germanic imagery, such as the Iron Cross.

Certain aspects of the image can be credited to any one band, but the band that has received the most credit for revolutionizing the look was Judas Priest, primarily with its singer, Rob Halford. He incorporated a biker look to his stage persona as early as 1978, to coincide with the promotion for the Hell Bent for Leather album, released in that same year; he then started appearing onstage on a roaring motor bike. Soon, the rest of the band followed with that look. It was not much longer when other bands began donning the look; Iron Maiden's original singer Paul Di'anno began wearing leather jackets and studded bracelets, Motörhead frequently wore bullet belts, and Saxon wore spandex. The original hippie look with satin shirts and bellbottom pants was out; some believed Halford's contribution was the true manifestation of the music, and became tradition to metalheads around the world. This look was popular primarily with followers of the NWOBHM movement in the early 80's, and sparked a revival for metal in this era. In recent years, this look became common with concert goers, whether it be someone with combat boots, stud belts and bracelets, bullet belts, spiked gauntlets, etc.

Other influences

The style and clothing of metal has absorbed elements from influences as diverse as the musical influences from which the genre has borrowed: modern metal fashion is a hodge-podge of punk, goth (particularly for female metalheads), military fashion and even various historical fashions. It is from this linking of different sub-styles of clothing and music influences that one can sometimes determine a person's specific taste in music simply from overall appearance. However, such signs are not, in the majority of cases (we will discuss the peculiar and extreme fashions associated with black metal below) hard and fast rulings. This uncertainty is what makes the first key aspect of the metalheads' identity below so important.

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