I think some parts of society, like Christians, for instance that think metal music is Satanic...I am a Christian, but, I myself do not participate with the satanic part of metal music at all, I just really like the music itself..I hope that made a little bit of sense..I am not great at explaining things sometimes..

Well from my perspective being into the genre from its inception, in the 70's they just called us heads. I remember losing friends because their parents told them to stay away from the heads because they deemed us as stoners and violent biker types for the way we looked and dressed heads worked out to distinguish us from the hippies we despised that is the Sabbath, Deep Purple, Heap days. By the onset on the early 80's it was considered a mens club by mainsteamers as it was rare to see a female at a show, you could count them on your hand, I remember seeing Metallica, Mercyful Fate, Slayer and Venom etc.. all in small clubs with less than a hundred people sometimesby around 75-76 they started to refer to us as metalheads and still looked upon as pariahs, it was a small underground community and at most shows you would know most people by name as it would be the same faces at every show and at the record stores lining up for the new metal releases. By the mid 80's bands were trying to be more extreme and used the occult trope as a means to seperate from the pack and out extreme the next band and Satanic panic began then metalheads began to be repulsive to the mainstream until hair metal arrived and females could be seen in abundance at shows their was still underground metal genres but it started to divide the metal crowd but it seemed like swaths of people were wearing denim and leather by this time and metalheads became to be seen as normal to the masses. A lot of the early metal heads I knew got into Grunge and Hardcore and metal started it slow decline back into a more underground scene like it was in the beginning . Metal was always better underground in my opinion but to each their own, it is encouraging to see a lot of women not only going to show en masse but now performing in bands. Punks hated metal heads, new wavers really hated metal heads etc.. with the exception of Motorhead, it was the only band where punks and heads could get together without someone getting stomped. I might add in the late 80's early 90's metal and hip/hop/rap fans got along somewhat rather than the usual hate and vitriol between genres like punk and metal in the 70's.