This is how it is with every metalhead and Sikh I’ve ever met.

Ah, that timeless classic, "resting Sith face".

Y'all might be pleased to find that "studies reject that music is a causal factor and suggest that music preference is more indicative of emotional vulnerability" and that many in related scientific fields see heavy metal, not as the stereotypical cause of disorder, strife, and/or psycho-emotional deviance(pp.2,6,13), but as a "nontheistic sacred" in a secular context, providing a therapeutic, positive, and often cathartic environment for its fans of all backgrounds(pp.2,5,15). 🤘🏼🥰

Bonus: here's a short talk by Dr. Mark Deeks with a lovely message from a parallel angle.
(mofo's got a PhD in Heavy Metal and lost his young daughter, FFS)

As a metalhead, this is 100% the truth. We’re mostly just a bunch of horror, Tolkien, and Warhammer nerds that enjoy loud noises. You want to get a game of Catan or a DnD group together? Talk to folks at a death metal show.

Also, listen to Conan.

We look like that because this crappy world has forced us to in order to protect ourselves.

When I was much younger (before I'd discovered metal or D&D, even), I knew that look as "bus face", the surest way to get from points A & B w/ minimal public interaction. 😝

So... seek the lamentations of grieving family left behind after you sunder your enemies' souls from their mortal husks —or geek TFO with them? (I don't feel both is a likely option.) 😅

They are cool af 🤘

If you’re not doing both simultaneously then you’re doing it wrong. The only rule is to have fun.

Hol'up. By ridding the world of my enemies, I inherit responsibility for their surviving family? Just for geeky pursuits (above), or utterly? Fiscally speaking, if the latter is true, then vengeance just got orders of magnitude more expensive. 😶‍🌫️

Yes, the responsibility of ending them. Bathe in their agony, revel in their fear, let their blood be the grease that spins your wheels to glory as you are lead by the chorus of their screams! Vengeance is your art, and death is your method!

Figuratively, of course.

Nah, I'm much more focused in my ire than to "end" an enemy's extended family. Not to mention, that's lifetimes of labor, even if you don't acquire any more enemies while doing so— which is staggeringly unlikely with every successive step.

Like I said, the only rule is to have fun. We all do it our own way.