© Inferno Metal Festival Metalheads: fighting the stereotypesPaperk.raaijmakers@uvt.nl Raaijmakers 19/10/201816 minutes to read Do you really need to have dirty long hair, black clothes, band T-shirts and be covered in tattoos and piercings to classify as a metalhead? This paper portrays the micro-population of metalheads and how it deals with its many stereotypes.