Pop Rules & Metal Sucks
If you think there is only a "Handful" of metal fans you obviously haven't moved away from from your computer! Maybe if you went outside and had a look around you'd notice there are many more metalheads around! We just don't make as big a profile as many pop fans out there.
Metal is a talent. Pop isn't. It takes ages for someone to learn to play an instrument associated with metal. It takes a day to learn to lipsync.
All pop is the same, everyone rivals against other pop "bands/groups". In metal the bands tour together and build a fanbase by touring.
Pop musicians gather a fan base by having 1000's of cds distributed and advertised online, the tele and in every magazine. You rarely see a metal cd being advertised. Take Deicide, Shadows Fall and Children of Bodom for example - each of these bands have released 5-9 albums and not one has been advertised. So how do these bands build up a massive fan base?
They do it by not being ignor...