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I never engaged in the tape-trading network of the 1980s, or the same network in the 1990s. I did not write for an underground metal fanzine. In the 1980s, I was a teenage heavy metal fan in the old-school, mainstream way. I raised the horns to Iron Maiden and thought the big American thrash bands like Metallica and Slayer were just the best head-banging dudes coming up on the scene. Metal was a big part of my early teenage years because of the huge success of Iron Maiden: half of the lads I hung out with at school were big Maiden fans. We would watch videos of Maiden playing live, drink cheap lager and air-guitar along with whatever everyday household tool we could find serving as the totem of our pubescent dreams. One day, we all thought, we would be Steve Harris, Maiden’s leader, with a big house, a pile of drugs and a swimming-pool’s worth of naked groupies. Of course, we were aware that teachers, parents, priests, and politicians complained about heavy metal: not only was it music for idiots, it was dangerously Satanic. Iron Maiden wrote songs with titles like ‘Number of the Beast’, Venom posed with skulls and spoke about worshipping the Devil, and we all knew about the spooky stories associated with earlier rock and metal bands such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Every so often there would be a story in the tabloids, on the news, often from America, often from some fundamentalist Christian lobbying group, warning parents about the evil forces in heavy metal. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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