"Underground" Metal Day

       On Wednesday, April 25th of this year, the students that are involved in the Underground Metal Club put together a celebration in honor of the Metal subgenre of Rock music, called "Metal Day". This celebration was held all throughout campus, as everyone was welcome to come celebrate at the Cogar Lounge located at the end of the hall of the RMCC building.
       A very good friend of mine, Mr. Scott Thayer was putting on the whole gathering. He informed me over FaceBook about all of the events occurring at "Metal Day", such as raffle tickets with neat prizes, free cd samplers, refreshments, etc. I do not blame my friend Scott for the events that transpired at "Metal Day", because he has no control of what music the other group members like.
       Scott had also stated in the aforementioned FaceBook message that "none of the guys involved with underground metal club really like underground metal. They replaced some of my Cattle Decapitation songs with Five Finger Death Punch songs. I was like huh?!?... So yeah, don't expect it to be as underground as you or myself would be familiar with."
       Let me break down the last paragraph for you. My friend Scott is the lead singer of the band Cymatics, who plays music on the caliber with The Faceless, Decrepit Birth and Necrophagist, all of which are underground, extreme metal bands. On the other hand, Five Finger Death Punch can be heard anytime on KROCK radio station, and tour and play music with sell-out bands that need to much money.
       Being a fan of Metal music, I was surely enough to attend Underground Metal Club's "Metal Day". I am a fan of Metal, and mainly the subgenres of metal such as "Technical Death Metal", "Brutal Death Metal" and "Progressive Death Metal", all of which are pretty underground in terms of popularity in the Metal community. What I came to find out was that this Underground Metal Day was about as 'underground' as the Empire State Building and about as 'Metal' as a day old bowl of oatmeal.
     Upon entering the lounge, everything seemed to be 'honky-dory', if you will. There were guys with woman's length hair, piercings in places most people don't even know you can have pierced and rugged clothing, definitely suits that 'Metal image'. My mother always told me to never judge a book by it's cover, and I should have listened to her and Scott instead of wasting my time at "Metal Day".
       I had walked up to my first person I was going to use as a survey of everyone's top 5 metal bands. The first person's name was Ralph, I did not ask for a last name. Ralph seemed like a nice guy, but then he started off as his favorite band being Disturbed, and right then and there I had apologized to Ralph, and told him "I'm sorry, I cannot take you seriously if you enjoy Disturbed and consider yourself 'underground metal'. That thought alone is "Disturbed" in it's very own way." and then I walked out and left school.
     The moral of this story is, never go into a situation and expect the world. I had walked into "Metal Day" expecting to make some new friends to discuss my favorite kind of music, and walked out wishing I never went at all. At least then I would still think the Underground Metal Club was cool.