In the past year there has been a greasy tsunami of leather jacket-clad 20-something-year-old men in east London dressing like they’ve come of age in mid-80s LA and heavy metal has suddenly exploded. Read below to find out how to get the look while it’s hot.
Hair: Short, unkempt, “don’t give a fuck” look for the posers. Long hair with shaved sides for the poserettes.
Hat: Supreme baseball cap with “metal” phrases such as “MOSH” or “SATAN” or “DOOM” scribbled on the underside of the peak.
Tattoos: Has discussed getting an upside-down Crucifix on his chest in vivid detail but obviously will never go ahead with it. Most likely has a Black Flag tattoo on their arm from the days when they were into hardcore.
Jacket: Vintage broad-shouldered leather jacket littered with patches of genuinely awful metal and thrash bands.
Top: Well-known, easily recognisable metal band T-shirt with an American Apparel hoody on top (a hangover from the nu-rave days).
Trousers: Meticulously ripped-around-the knee-area stonewash skinny jeans.
Favourite phrases: “The new Slayer record is AMAZING, dude. OMG. I ride my fixie every day to that shit.”
Footwear: Retro Nike “sneakers” (as they call them) such as the horrendous Air Jordan Spizikes, or Vans (the least “metal” shoe known to man).
Accessories: Sewn-on patches and pin badges emblazoned with logos of bands like Municipal Waste, Pentagram, Slayer and Sleep. A hoop earring left over from the days when their favourite band was The Libertines.
Girlfriend: Fashion goth in a matching black outfit.
Plaid shirt? Yes.
Fixed-gear bike? Optional.
Illustration by Dan Freeman
DEATH TO POSERS!!!
ZUUL
HMMM WELL DONE
I have mixed feelings about this, but I can’t fault the accuracy of the piece and drawing
You forgot to mention that most of these idiots were into Ed Banger/Justice a couple years ago and Hardcore after that.
you have a link to american apparel, gay.
Worryingly accurate
This is so Will Westwall
Haha! Just missing a stinking Pelican or Isis tshirt. Alt-metal boringness.
Actually, I’m a headbanger (metalhead for the ignorant ones) and I DON’T FUCKIN DRESS LIKE THIS! Who’s the dickhead that has posted this shit drawing? you’re dumb, man, you like Kesha. Take a look at how real headbangers look like: http://www.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://theviewfromhere.net/cms/wp-content/uploads/old_site/headbangers2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://theviewfromhere.net/2005/06/23/israeli-police-ruin-megadeth-concert/&usg=__tZx4E-LPD9H8JUD-1MLg-iIWW6o=&h=262&w=350&sz=39&hl=it&start=0&sig2=LXSIqKiylsxunqnF9ZMZrw&zoom=1&tbnid=dmLOfiTHd-3qNM:&tbnh=160&tbnw=226&ei=eSV9TJLBNOjO4wbS7KyzBg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dheadbangers%26hl%3Dit%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D656%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10,106&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=401&vpy=166&dur=4199&hovh=194&hovw=260&tx=119&ty=157&oei=YCV9TJ3CMZHQjAfCotXSDg&esq=4&page=1&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0&biw=1024&bih=656 by the way, your website sucks and Isis rule (I don’t know Pelican)
EWWW FILTHY GREEBOS ABOVE. BEWARE.
YES! More whining about how people dress! It’s so refreshing.
Great picture! But to be annoyed at ‘posers’ and style over substance in music (especially heavy metal) as if it were anything new seems a bit ridiculous.
Motley Crue, Poison, Judas Priest anyone?
aldo i agree with posers having short hair and can’t deside weather they’re punk,metal,goth or rock,i completely desagree with the “Well-known, easily recognisable metal band T-shirt” meaning bands like the big four.i’m sorry but how is likeing metallica,megadeth,slayer and anthrax being a poser?.metallica and megadeth are my favorite bands.i listen to it because i like it,not because i whant people to think i do.nothing enoys me more then posers,they’re in evry pub or event i go to and spoil the atmosphere,but you have to get your facts right before posting an article like this one,listenning to metallica or slayer and wearing a black hoodie doesn’t make you a poser.
boring…
why waste your life pointing out things which are abundantly obvious and completely irrelevant?
FUCK YOU PUSSY ASS BITCHES U MAKE FUN OF METAL HEADS OOOH BITCHES LOOK AT YOURSELVES BITCH GAYS