Even if you don’t count “Immigrant Song” as strictly heavy metal, it’s clearly one of the great hard rock songs of the 70s and inspired countless metal bands in its wake. “Paranoid ...
In fact, one could reasonably argue that music, particularly the stylings of heavy metal, is the main impetus ... with the music bolstering the show's palpable '80s atmosphere.
Just why were fans of heavy metal stereotyped ... aesthetics of the music imply that the person listening to it could be just as aggressive. Moral panics in the 80s and 90s didn’t help matters ...