In an interview in the 2005 Sam Dunn documentary Metal: A Headbangers Journey (which you can request through WorldCat), music and film maker Rob Zombie had this to say about the metal music genre: "It’s outsider music for outsiders. No one wants to be the weird kid; you just somehow end up being the weird kid. It’s kind of like that, but with metal, you have all the weird kids in one place." I say he hit the nail on the head!