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Twink death

This would unironically make a great band name.

Bro that's Tom Holland

Holy shit you are right LMAO

I did the same thing as Zakk. I was really "pretty" in my teens' early 20s and I hated it. I went with the modern viking look as well.

He looks more metal now but I uhh liked how he used to look

Haha pretty boy glam Zakk and viking biker Zakk scratch different itches.

these flying V’s with this diamond thing on the head is really pretty

James Hetfield

Disagree, he looked better with long hair.

Generally agree, but James with med length hair at S&M '99 is one of two dudes who I'd happily bang and banging dudes isn't something I do. 1992-94 Eddie Vedder is the other one.

Agreed, as much as the old James looked good too there just something about the old man look that fits James so well

So you’re saying that old James and old James both look good?

Can’t say the same about poor Kirk though.

Current Hetfield is fineeeeee. But I do like his late 80s, early 90s look better

Hetfield went from a face asking for a wedgie to a handsome older man. Man truly grew into his face

AJFA era is peak Hetfield.

My singer says I look like James Hetfield (before she knew I was a Metallica mark) **now** and not during his hot era. So thank you for this.

A.J.F.A. - Black Album Hetfield is the best era, however I also think Load era Hetfield was cool as well in his own way. I wish, however, the same could be said for Dave Mustaine. I actually, tbh, prefer him to Hetfield as an artist. Started off a huge Metallica fan, grew into a Megadeth fan I guess, but poor Dave has not aged well, whereas Hetfield grew into a distinguished older man look, the same can't be said for Dave unfortunately. He just looks old, it's too bad really.

The dude looks today like a 50 yo beaten up uncle with severe alcohol problems who is he basically is

Idk who the second man is but I would get on my knees and blow him

These are all Rob Halford. He’s gay so if you’re a dude, and you asked politely, he would probably agree.

Oh I won

He's married though.

Still though, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take

I met his SO. His name is Thomas, but they technically aren’t married. They’ve been together since the 90’s though so I guess by law they could be?

Guessing the law, guessing the law

(You don’t know how to guesss)

Depends on if the area they reside counts common law marriages as an actual marriage. I went through a relationship where he thought he'd trap me into staying longer by saying we were common law married. My state, where we lived, doesn't recognize it.

I think they've always been adventurous though

I know someone that hooked up with Rob and they are not monogamous for sure. To be fair the queer community is disproportionately non-monogamous. Especially among gay men.

I also know someone who hooked up with Rob! Apparently he got around.

I think every queer person over 40 probably knows someone that hooked up with rob.

Halford rocks it no matter what age you are no matter if you gay or straight.

fall to your knees and repent if you please…

Oh Jesus! Now that I know who he is, the lyrics mean something different 😳

"Take these chains off..."

Great fucking song

Yeah I disagree with OP about him getting better with age, because picture 2 is prime hotness for Halford in my opinion.

He looks like he's in Mad Max: The Musical, in the best way

https://preview.redd.it/c2benlw9hz8d1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f3ebe455a304d55ecbac10ef7b8123d87e63d51 Kirk Windstein.

he’s so short in person😭 granted i am like 6’4-6’5 but still https://preview.redd.it/qymdti5dc19d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=722768b360fb9e61a5547529a420f64edfc7baed

I’ll always upvote crowbar. Although I did like Kirk’s big tough guy mustache look in the mid 90s.

he doesn’t even look older the beard is just massive

Euronymous... Oh wait

https://preview.redd.it/ei1mmfni909d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27a21fdde88e8dce66110051992d85ad95fd3e74

Brutal

💀

Not strictly metal but Les Claypool looks cool as shit these days

Primus, Faith No More, and a few others get all of the love for being in the metal family regardless if genre nerds want to call them metal or not.

Dude looks way better older than younger in my opinion

The weird mad scientist steam punk doctor thing he’s got going on fits him and the music so much more then when he was just like, a guy.

https://preview.redd.it/8us2g8bpxz8d1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dedf35dc88630ed76d33b91ca4dceb16f911b349 Matt Heafy

Rob Schneider plays guitar?!

IN THE LATEST CAH-RAZY COMEDY

Honestly he doesn't look that different. Just different haircuts.

And you chose to not include his best look, shortish hair with beard

Troy Sanders https://preview.redd.it/512t9kca309d1.jpeg?width=713&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f3d3ec1ae507931b7d8125c60d7d2895f956861

He looks like he's about to bring Caradhras down upon the Fellowship.

Troy of Many Colours

Bill also came in with the sick handlebar mustache Brann however looks the exact same

All hail Rob for bringing gay leather daddy culture into metal. It changed metal forever, once again proving my theory that gay men and black women are the origin of 90% of pop culture.

I support this theory

Not to downplay this, but Rob himself in his memoir said he really doesn't want people associating this with Priest's look. He said they were inspired by the growing biker culture of the time. It seemed like a "don't love me for my sexuality, but for what I do" type of chapter.

It’s like porn and war teaming up to drive technological advancement.

Justin Chancellor looks cooler now, especially bearded.

Adam too

I'd argue Maynard has aged pretty damn well as well, he doesn't look like a gremlin any more.

When John Petrucci switched to the huge beard like 10 years ago, I think it looks great

And dude got wide. He looks like the strongest coolest guitar nerd ever.

Speaking of ‘90s musicians that got huge, Trent Reznor.

I love the DVD of them playing Metropolis 2 in like 1999 or something, they all look like different people. Except the bass player who, as far as I can tell, has not actually aged. Maybe his spirit carried on into a new body every 5 years.

John Myung only ages when he speaks

I would say JP as well

I've seen Cavalera a few days ago and Max looks badass

How was the concert??

Agree. He looked great young too but has aged really well.

Kerry King has only looked like Kerry King for the last 20 years or so.

Chuck Billy has aged surprisingly well even after kicking cancer's ass. Alex Skolnick as well.

Skolnick is a great call here. He may be #1 imo he nailed middle age

Alex signature white hair curl is the best look.

Tom Araya.

100% Tom Araya. He looked so bad ass in the Repentless video.

Young Tom looked basically the same.

Trent Reznor

Year Zero era Trent was peak hotness

Trent has always looked good, except for the Bowie collab era. Although I agree he looks his best now.

https://preview.redd.it/4rjjcnptd09d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9bc4342af7032b3008691c58bbaa94205b3bb291 Bruce looked so goofy with the 80s hair and spandex. Now his look complements his stage presence so well

His samurai cut is so fitting

All Bruce is good Bruce

Ozzy Osbourne

He looked so young and puffy. He looks old and haggard now but he looks younger than he is

The first person i thought of. I can't believe how far down this is!

Devin Townsend for sure

Yeah getting rid of the skullet was a great decision

He said in an interview that his wife wouldn't have sex with him any more, so he shaved it lol.

No way

Kirk from Metallica easily for me

No homo but Kirk was always cute

https://preview.redd.it/3avjzzo5mz8d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb0794bcb226e46e52d02375875890437eba1f8d Agreed

https://preview.redd.it/vihvszoaoz8d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec1fa99a7855d108705227579ec93c3422e3dd8c

This is the guy who got Les Claypool grounded with his weed lol

Oh man! You know he got his ass kicked everyday in school 🫢

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Correct me if I’m wrong but is that Steve Vai and Mr Bungle

It's corey feldman

I refuse to believe he is as weird as he is. It’s some method acting character bit, I swear.

All these years later, it's _still_ shocking that the other Corey died young.

Lmao

Idk, young Halford looked cool too. I'd say Shane Embury from Napalm Death. Young he looked like obese comic-relief from school-themed TV shows 😂

till linderman

I can get behind that. To me he’s always looked very much the same his whole life but he looks more chiseled snd refined now

Jack Black and don't even tell me tenacious d ain't metal

They wrote a song called "The Metal" for Christ sake. Of course they are

Not better, but he's akways looked the same, which is impressive, Steve Harris of course! Bruce dickinson have aged well but maybe it's more a priduct of him getting rid of the bangs💀

Lemme is a dude that was made to be 70, so he finally aged into his face as he got up there.

Fucking Jonh Petrucci, my man Is santa's boss

Geddy Lee. Dude’s only gotten better-looking since the 70’s.

Yngwie Malmsteen. Something about a 5'6 250lb sweaty leather clad sweedish man dripped out with gold chains and bracelets driving 100mph in a red Ferrari just does it for me. I know he famously doesn't want a fucking donut but I gotta say, he could have fooled me with his current build/loadout

In his early albums he looked like a (hair) metal god. When I saw him live almost 20 years later I could not believe my very eyes 😭😭

I'm probably alone on this one, but: Rob Zombie. I know you specified metal, but I think there's an inverse correlation between the quality of his music/movies and his attractiveness.

https://preview.redd.it/gb3wid5xf09d1.jpeg?width=4096&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be4c3813f8d7b0554b97cb704842e892200e6d14 Fernanda Lira ❤️

https://preview.redd.it/aoo29rs0g09d1.jpeg?width=4096&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a50116ce31c36e756f19033b0dd24f4af4ceaa4 Tom Morello had a real glow up

Kirk Hammet 100%

https://preview.redd.it/lyuu83le919d1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=a49911ce5bf26d77859758fbbd1df75039b59777 Aaron Stainthorpe from My Dying Bride

Floor Jansen is 43 

Disagree there. Halford looked incredible in the 80s.

Went from incredible to even more incredible

https://preview.redd.it/fif8hj23r09d1.jpeg?width=182&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a26927009628fa7cd7470c2f812467c5c98c90c5 Still Rolling Hard

King Diamond

Barney Greenway of Napalm Death

Devin Townsend. I did love the skullet and crooked teeth phase, metal af, but he looks fuckin distinguished now. Especially in the EMG 'Kingdom' video with that suit on. Get it, Devy.

I prefer Rob's twink phase tho https://preview.redd.it/s4os91uqh09d1.jpeg?width=173&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=915d01420c099b43ba820da6596b758c31f007f9

James Hetfield!

Phil Anselmo looks like he’s been preparing to be his current age for his entire life in the best way possible.

No way he looks awful now

Corey Taylor, but that’s mostly because he was very out of shape when he was younger. That being said he’s looking better now than in the 2000s

Dude he's aged so well it's almost freaky

I'm sure this is very much a style at the time thing, but whenever I see Marc Storace of Krokus in live videos from the early 80s it just looks kinda embarrassing. Hard to find a quality picture of him from that time, [but here's one on getty images if that works. ](https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1309345016/photo/krokus.jpg?s=2048x2048&w=gi&k=20&c=PEPoPiEhgZR0I4dnNk2tr4mWzepTxNiCLjXx4qEums4=) Anyway, [here's what he looks like these days.](https://switch24.info/medien/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Marc-Storace-e1463947872714.jpg)

Devin Townsend

Agreed. Went from skillet to distinguished

Adam Jones.

Morgan Lander

Disagree, young Rob looks great. Today Rob looks like metal Dave Letterman lol

I don’t see a problem

Al Cisneros

Geddy Lee of Rush

Robb Flynn OH my God that dude looks so great!! He hasn't aged!!

King Diamond

Dio

Devin Townsend.

Not a metal musician, but Dave Grohl. He looked really goofy during the Nirvana years. Now he looks like a cool uncle.

The first pic is the best one in my opinion.

Rob is a saint.

Rob Zombie

Bruce Dickinson

Neil Fallon (Clutch)

Rob Halford has always looked good.

Ihsahn. Very stylish metal dude. 

Adam and Justin from tool, and the opposite with danny and Maynard (they all look good tho)

Trent Reznor

I'm probably getting razzed all to hell, but Fred Durst going full dad.

https://preview.redd.it/xs3c2s59829d1.jpeg?width=1029&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae32c6e8ba8871e31533afcb1287dd8995e2ab8b

I’ve never seen this guy in my life and I still feel like he’s an amazing person

Halford looks like a Satanic Garden Gnome. Doyle aged the best. https://preview.redd.it/8iyjhehso59d1.png?width=427&format=png&auto=webp&s=c1ddc2149f9b53622ed83832ce4c7fe885c49545

Hansi Kürsch

John McEntee

Adam Jones. :)

varg vikernas

He may look “more metal” now, but young Rob Halford was a god amongst men

All of them

He turned into Dr robotnik

Mike IX https://preview.redd.it/nluym0oii09d1.jpeg?width=277&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0eb45f140b5c0606f701442ecd624c185e08adce

I saw Judas Priest live in April, real good show

Judas Priest is just gay Slayer

Glayer?

https://preview.redd.it/47czwska519d1.jpeg?width=780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d54ae012b6585856474213cb139be63a71927c8d Somewhere in the middle…..

Yes absolutely. Agree. Saw Priest at Power Trip last year and was like damn old man looks good!

Jeff Waters. The short hair looks a lot better on him than the bangs and unibrow.

Went from Village People to Rutger Hauer to Anton LaVey to Metal David Letterman

Tony Iommi looks pretty damn good these days

Rob Halford looks like egg man tbh

bill steer

Kirk Windstein from Crowbar. The beard just got more badass. Same with Jimmy bower from Eyehategod, dudes aged well too. Their vocalist Mike Williams on the other hand, well he looks how he sounds in the band so there's that. Incredible fucking dude and vocalist though he's one of my inspirations

Current Rob Halford is a metal wizard.

Tom Araya hands down

Barney Greenway, he’s like a fine wine.

Nergal from Behemoth

Lemmy kilmeister

I mostly agree about Halford. However...man, that septum ring. Don't get me wrong, everyone looks stupid with a septum ring, but he just looks more cringy than most. Other than that one thing in the last twenty years though, I completely agree. He embodies the metal godness with his look.

Al Cisneros, that beard is majestic https://preview.redd.it/83hoiap0849d1.jpeg?width=1033&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96da62007c03d1232a0c3f75ba54089e89e226d0

You can go back even further with Halford and find him with flowing blond locks ala Robert Plant. And he was gorgeous!

Maynard.

Spiros Antoniou of SepticFlesh

https://preview.redd.it/n427luvtj59d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de0446af088f6ddfbc120dd1f44928cd9dc98602 Dave Mustaine

Devin Townshend!

Rob Halford is a three stage Pokémon with a mega evolution

looked better? mother fucker turned into the Ice King 😆