Category Archives: Discrimination

Assaulting A Metalhead In Manchester Is Now A Hate Crime

Posted by on April 4, 2013

In one of the best news articles we’ve read this year, police in the British city of Manchester have announced that attacks on “Goths, emos, punks and metallers” will be treated as hate crimes. “People who wish to express their alternative sub-culture identity freely should not have to tolerate hate crime,” Assistant Chief Constable Barry Shewan said. The article goes on […]

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Ivy Leaguers Are Metalheads Too

Posted by on October 16, 2009

Blabbermouth pointed out a precious little story from Princeton University’s newspaper The Daily Princetonian. It seems that there are actually 20 students out of the 7,400 enrolled at the school that, get this – like heavy metal! Four students have started “Headbangers Inc.,” the first student group at any of the eight Ivy League schools dedicated to […]

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