Should I go to Riot Fest even though Slayer is playing?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

So basically so much of this looks awesome. Blink 182 playing Enema of the State! Taking Back Sunday playing Tell All Your Friends! The Get Up Kids! And oh my God JAWBREAKER!

But Slayer is also playing. If I go I'll see Slayer. I'll see a very influential METAL BAND. F[INKS]ING METAL.

That's harem to me. It'd feel unpure.

Should I go for the rest or retain purity?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think it would be pretty cool to see this live, but if you don't, you could always leave when Slayer performs:

On the other hand, any festival that would invite Gwar may be worth skipping.

You think it'd be cool to see that? Didn't you hate Dude Fest music and say it was just like noise?

How the hell is this on late night TV? They'd never show anything like this!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Slayer is awesome, I don't get your hatred for metal.

TL;DR summary is that some metalheads were rude to me in high school and made fun of the "socially conscious" proto-SJW politics of the bands I like and bands that cried on stage.

No metal bands would do something like this:

In 2007, a Different Kind of Dude Fest (DKDF) came together for a two-day punk festival in Washington, DC. The event was meant as a chance to challenge ideas of dominant masculinity, both within the punk community and in society at large. The Dude Fest was about guys dealing with, instead of blaming, each other for problems such as harassment in the pit and on the street.
"As guys, the festival web site statement comments, "we have a lot of limits on how we behave, what we feel and who we connect with. What if we came together to talk honestly about these gender expectations and punk?"
To explore this question, DKDF featured a lineup of more than ten bands aswell as workshops on masculinity, community, and how to be responsible feminist allies. Proceeds from the show went to support HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive), a group that helps female, male, and transgender sex workers in DC lead healthy lives.

And of course no metal band would hand out this poster at their shows:

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Slayer is awesome, I don't get your hatred for metal.

TL;DR summary is that some metalheads were rude to me in high school and made fun of the "socially conscious" proto-SJW politics of the bands I like and bands that cried on stage.

This is incredibly petty and bizarre. if a black kid was mean to you in high school would you be a white supremacist today?

I don't like metal music either though.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Slayer is awesome, I don't get your hatred for metal.

TL;DR summary is that some metalheads were rude to me in high school and made fun of the "socially conscious" proto-SJW politics of the bands I like and bands that cried on stage.

This is incredibly petty and bizarre. if a black kid was mean to you in high school would you be a white supremacist today?

I don't like metal music either though.

That doesn't answer the question.

No, but race isn't comparable to music taste.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You think it'd be cool to see that? Didn't you hate Dude Fest music and say it was just like noise?

How the hell is this on late night TV? They'd never show anything like this!

1. No, I don't think I've ever heard any "Dude Fest" music before.

2. Slayer is one of the "Big 4" thrash metal bands, so I guess Fallon booked them for ratings. I agree it does seem odd that they'd be on late night TV though. They did play one of their signature songs.

TL;DR summary is that some metalheads were rude to me in high school and made fun of the "socially conscious" proto-SJW politics of the bands I like and bands that cried on stage.

No metal bands would do something like this:

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And of course no metal band would hand out this poster at their shows:

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Lots of metal bands, especially the famous ones, are left-wing. Those losers who were rude to you in high school are not representative of metal bands or metal fans. The idea that "no metal band" would support trans equality is not even close to being correct, and I don't mean just one random exception. Judas Priest in particular comes to mind as being liberal and LGBTQ+ accepting.

Uh that poster has nothing to do with transgenderism. In fact I bet some very stupid hyper-woke Tumblr types would call it transphobic.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You think it'd be cool to see that? Didn't you hate Dude Fest music and say it was just like noise?

How the hell is this on late night TV? They'd never show anything like this!

1. No, I don't think I've ever heard any "Dude Fest" music before.

2. Slayer is one of the "Big 4" thrash metal bands, so I guess Fallon booked them for ratings. I agree it does seem odd that they'd be on late night TV though. They did play one of their signature songs.

TL;DR summary is that some metalheads were rude to me in high school and made fun of the "socially conscious" proto-SJW politics of the bands I like and bands that cried on stage.

No metal bands would do something like this:

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And of course no metal band would hand out this poster at their shows:

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Lots of metal bands, especially the famous ones, are left-wing. Those losers who were rude to you in high school are not representative of metal bands or metal fans. The idea that "no metal band" would support trans equality is not even close to being correct, and I don't mean just one random exception. Judas Priest in particular comes to mind as being liberal and LGBTQ+ accepting.

2,868,691 is right (Harry from Alaska).

Hell BRTD--- , even if you aren't a fan of Slayer, let alone Anthrax (My wife would leave me in a heartbeat to hang out with Scott Ian if she could hang out and have a few drinks on the tour bus---- non-sexual but still I would be bummed out), there are so many awesome artists on the list....

You are a Punk Rock fan, and you wouldn't want to watch the Descandents and Anti-Flag, among many other artists because of some grudge against "Heavy Metal Fans in Hish School?".....

Descendants---- "Milo Goes to College" was an extremely influential album from back in '82 from a SoCal Harcore Punk Band, which I still have a cassette tape of floating around somewhere....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Goes_to_College

Anti-Flag---- Basically started in the Mid '90s in Pittsburgh PA as a "Peace Punk" band at a time where the Punk movement as we knew it was starting to turn into a bunch of sell-outs.

Good chance there will be a "Peace Punk" Mosh Pit, but w/o stage-diving and the types of culture you described at various metal gigs growing up over the years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Flag

Go BRTD go..... swallow your musical purity, go to the gig and maybe just maybe at least watch the Thrax as part of your musical rehabilitation therapy....   

We all support you as part of your conversion treatment.....

Those two I wouldnt mind seeing but aren't even close to the main ones I'd like to.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It's happening again! Just 5 years later! GRRRRRR

(Also I did not attend that year, but the main reason was that my ex broke up with me and thus I did not have an easy place to stay there which was one draw, and thus I also didn't feel like going to Chicago at all that year.)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You should go because Slayer is playing.

Are you going this year?