The best way to describe Metal

[blackopen]

Metal is depression, hate, fear, anticipation, regret, enjoyment, (place adjective here), and sex all rolled into a ball of evil and released through the thrashing of a hand on something such as a guitar, bass, or drum or escaping through an unhuman squeal or scream into a microphone.

[Anish D]

*Masochists

Starving: 1
Ethan: 0

[Dave W]

Not necessarily. Not all metal banRAB scream or have long hair.

[SimFan125]

metal - long hair and big concerts

[Capt Artoro Li]

mortal korabat in music form.

[Gooofer]

something to keep your **** hard until you can find the cheese grater.

[lesa]

haha. nice.

It's not metal until all the knobs on our amp are turned up all the way.

[faiqa c]

Metal is the soundtrack to war in Middle-Earth.

[Mathilda Rose K]

IT'S THE DEVIL, BILLY!




(Actually, I quite liked how riseagainstrocks put it)
For the record, I think that the show "Metalocalypse" is very true to what metal is supposed to be, even though it's ridiculous.
Dethklok is tight, loud, hard, didactic, slightly Satanic, and just plain awesome.