Metal is...

...Rob Halford with a Harley on stage, while Glenn and KK tear it up!
...Geoff Tate opening scream on "Take Hold of the Flame"!
...a fifteen foot tall Eddie chasing Bruce Dickinson around the stage!
...Bon Scott's vox!
...being surrounded by 10-15,000 of your closest "friends"!
...playing air guitar to Warren's lead break in "Round and Round"!
...seeing the "Nuge swing across the stage on a vine wearing a loincloth!
...hot girls in tight jeans and even tighter VH tee shirts!
...the music that saved my life!
...Ian "Lemmy" Kilminster!
...the intro to "Smoke on the Water"!
...Blackie Lawless hurling bloody meat into the crowd!
...the Demon spittin' fire 12 feet in the air!
...the reason we are all here at this place in time!
...the Painkiller!
...The Toxic Twins!
..."Mr. Scary"!
...Ozzy singing "Crazy Train" and Zakk doin' the solo!
...Riding the Lightning!
...what separates the men from the boys!
...the reason why Dr. Stein builds funny creatures!
...The Spectre Within and his brother The Gaurdian
...the best form of music. EVER!!!!

METAL is never having to say you're sorry....

...Ozzy singing "Crazy Train" and RHOADS doin' the solo!
...KISS putin' make-up on!
...Three idiot taking beer in their Cadillac.
...A smurfing GREAT GUITARE SOLO!
...Metallica with Mustaine
...Cliff Burton doin' a solo.
...Me listening to music.
...In our heart.
...What we need.
...everywhere
...Metal
...Nothing other than Metal
...Poison that make us going better
...This
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....a viable reason for divorce
....a refuge in times of trouble
....Morgana Lefay
....my source of strength
....my sanity
....Eddie from Iron Maiden
....Hell Awaits
....my life's breath

To me Metal is putting the music before the money. Though some bands, at some times, haven't always agreed.

...LIFE!

How about simply:

METAL IS!

Metal is the most powerful form of music in the history of mankind!

That's freakin' metal!

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metal is...

The greatest music known to man!

...what makes me happy.

...something that the majority of the public will never understand or be able to quantify in anyway, shape or form. Yet, in the same instance metal is an art form that will always have a very endearing and loyal fanbase which will keep the music relevant.

...when the dude from MC5 says "Kick out the jams, mothaf*cker!!"

...something most people on the outside will never understand.

Metal is Metal

Metal is able to rip your fuckin ass tube plain in half when your buddy jabs a hunk of it in ya on a bet....

SpectreFate wrote:

Metal is able to rip your fuckin ass tube plain in half when your buddy jabs a hunk of it in ya on a bet....

no....not really.