Metal Elitist 

A douchebag who insists that any band you mention that is not Black Metal, Death Metal, Folk Metal or Power Metal, sucks ass and is not metal at all. They'll often bombard said band with immature insults such as: "They make me want to eat my own cock and vomit."
Bands they prefer are almost always obscure and come from Scandinavia. They hate all bands that are popular. The only Thrash Metal band that is tolerated by Metal Elitist is Iron Maiden. The rest isn't even metal.

Random guy: Hmm, favorite metal bands? Pantera, Fear Factory, Crobar...

Metal Elitist: Oh my god, your list sucks fucking bloody rectum. Shit isn't even metal. Weird Al Yankadick can make better metal than those bands. Besides, all that shit is pop-rock, you fucking twit! I'd rather have tumors in my scrotum and my gooch than to listen to Bell's crying again.

Metal Elitist by Cheeto Dust January 6, 2017

Metal Elitist 

More formally, a 'Heavy Metal Elitists', are members of the Heavy Metal community/fan-base, usually aficionado, whose long term experiences with Metal music has often led them to develop a sense of passion that is frequently interpreted as stubbornness or arrogance.
Often times their knowledge of heavy metal not just limited to knowing lots of bands. Most are familiar with the musical characteristics (scales, theories, etc.), attitudes, history, people, and social issues relating to heavy metal.
Usually Elitists shun people new to metal because the noobs are unable to cite knowledge from those aforementioned topics to support their statements about a band.
One misconception is that they do not listen to any other music besides Heavy Metal and some will even restrict themselves to only particular metal sub-genres. While it is common practice to adhere to only a few sub-genres within their taste of Heavy Metal, however outside of Metal, many do have diverse tastes in music. Although they may detest mainstream music like pop or hip-hop, most are often fond of other music such as jazz, blues, classical, and punk, since these types of music are highly influential to Heavy Metal.
Another misconception is that they think Heavy Metal is the most superior music on earth. Most Elitists will admit that the skills and novelty in the some compositions of jazz and classical marvel that of Metal.

Do not confuse a Metal Elitist with:
1) an asshole who happens to like metal, or 2) a metalhead who happens to be an asshole. Some Elitist, by nature, will be an asshole (in turn) if you make unsupported statements about certain bands.

Metal Elitist by set-firetotheland October 21, 2009

Metal Elitist 

Authoritarian cocksuckers who hate all metal outside of Slayer, Pantera, and those shitty generic thrash metal bands from the 80s. Claim to be fighting against "corporate metal" but in reality just attack anything they deem to be shit, regardless of whether it is corporate or not. Gathering places include Metal Archives and YouTube comments on metal videos. They also claim there is such a thing as "real metal" when in reality musical taste is entirely subjective, and there is no right or wrong in terms of liking music or disliking it.

Metal Elitist: fuk this ghey corporate slam deathcore tech death sheiit all day do iz just strum dey loware strings dey hole time n shred

Me: Well last time I checked Slayer or Pantera didn't make any particular use of the higher strings except for solos.

Metal Elitist: fuk u u ghey queer u dount no sheiit about the real metls u mind iz possessed bi ten corporations u fukin slave

Metal Elitist by Driller64 March 31, 2017

Metal Elitist 

Someone who's an asshole about being a Metal head, putting down others for liking other genres or some types of Metal

Just don't be a dick about listening to Metal

Dude, Dave is such a metal Elitist. He yelled at some dude just listening to Nu Metal

Metal Elitist by THE W1TCH DOCTOR June 9, 2021

metal elitist 

a metal elitist is a person, typically an older metalhead guy or an incel teenage boy, who only listens to metal, likes to gatekeep metal, and will call you a poser if you like nu metal or popular metal bands. they are usually misogynistic and will call anything that doesnt fall under an extreme metal genre mid.

Me: “I like the bands Korn and Slipknot. I am also a fan of Metallica.”

Metal Elitist: “Theres no way you like that mallcore bullshit! All they do is sing about angst and dress like rappers! How could you possibly want to listen to a song where a man expresses his emotions? Poser!” *recommends you a black metal band that makes songs about killing jews*

metal elitist by hayden06 December 25, 2021

Metal elitist 

Someone whose brain has left them for listening to Burzum. Usually the result of bad parenting and/or asshole p.e. teacher. They believe there should not be any other bands besides the one they like and that noone can have a different opinion.

Jake is such a metal elitist, yet he is a poser.

Metal elitist by deathcore_kid September 22, 2020

Metal Elitist 

A Metal Elitist is a fan of metal music who denigrates the tastes of other metal heads and considers their own to be intellectually superior. Metal Elitists regard any band with a degree of commercial success as being “not real metal,” and consider any fans of such bands “posers.” There is a crossover between the Metal Elitist and Neckbeard personas, as both such persons regard themselves as far smarter than their peers, disparage the tastes of “normies,” and do not regard women as “real” fans of their respective subcultures. The stereotypical Metal Elitist is a single, mid-30’s male who only listens to bands with illegible, scratchy logos and, like the stereotypical Neckbeard, lives in his mother’s basement eating junk food and posting on message boards. As stated previously, Metal Elitists have strong opinions about what “real metal” is, usually considering subgenres like deathcore and metalcore to be particularly offensive, in no small part due to their commercial success, younger and female fan bases, and emphasis on looks and fashion. Their own favorite bands are almost always underground, not necessarily because of the quality of the music, but because their obscure status, which to the Metal Elitist, makes them more “trve” than bands with name recognition. At their most extreme, Metal Elitists will try to one up each other by claiming to like less and less of a band’s catalog, to the point that some claim to “only like the first album” or even “only like the demo.”

“Lol, is that a Slipknot shirt? You know that’s not even real metal, right? I bet you can’t even name five of their songs.”

“Oh sorry, I didn’t realize you were a Metal Elitist.”

Metal Elitist by ProfCDryDrunk October 25, 2020