ABSTRACT
This chapter revisits the public discourse over metal by focusing on different realms of conflict in everyday life, namely on the street, within the family, at work, in the nation, and in religion. It illustrates how metal assumes meaning in a Turkish context and, at the same time, provides a chance to investigate the biographical effects of being and doing metal. The chapter uses interview narratives along with a comic strip of Aptlika's Grup Perian in order to illustrate the various ways in which young rockers and metalheads were confronted in everyday life. For the young readers of Grup Perian, Aptlika's hyper-masculine cartoon characters must have come across as laughable stereotypes, evoking associations with traditionalism and ignorance. Family conflicts would not only erupt over long hair, especially amongst women. A major controversy over metal and nationalism was sparked by a concert of the German thrash metal band Sodom in Istanbul.
