Thus far, every argument in here has been essentially:
Metal rulz! You pussies/homos/faggots need to get some balwls!
or
Metal sucks... it's all screaming and stupid and.. stuff.
Well I have news for damn near everyone in this thread. You all fail at musical taste. Metal isn't inherently bad or good. Every genre has it's bad seeds and good ones. Except for crappy subgenres that are based on being watered down versions of passed bands. IE: Metal/Grindcore, Pop Punk, Emo, Modern Country. But if you're really all so closed minded that you have a single genre that you worship and that you believe that metal is THE genre with technical skill, then you need to go do some research. Crawl out of your prewritten, cliched, stereotypical worlds and look around for a moment.