It's all that headbanging to those deaf leopard noise tracks init.

That's a bit judgmental isn't it? Abandoning yo' buddies just because there was something missing in the mental acumen......

That is actually kinda true. One of my friends went to a school for talented youth (basically for brainiacs who found normal school too boring) and most of the people there were into metal.

I know a PhD mathematician who tutors in maths, and the only thing he listens to is Dream Theatre...... sigh