From September you will be able to earn a degree in Heavy metal music, believed to be the first course of its type in the world
Metal has so many sub genres these days, they'd need to start their studies at the roots and take it from there.
I wonder if they'll be swamped with applications?
Being a longtime Metal musician I just hope that college doesn't turn out a tonnage of posers who have a degree but know nothing of the Metal life because it isn't merely some other genre for allot of us it's like our own religion.
I like metal a lot (trash and other heavier variants too). Creating a heavy metal degree sounds just awesome and cool.
At first I thought "What kind of an idiot would get a degree in the history of metal?" but then I watched the video and it explained that it was also going to teach how to play music, the business side of the music industry, ect. I still think it would be incredibly dumb to pay for a degree in this though. The amount of bands that "make it" are so small and most of the best ones usually start out as teenagers screwing around in their garage.
I did a google search for metal musicians with music degrees and nothing really came up. None of the ones I found had music degrees, they had degrees in other subjects.(biology, math, ect) As long as these guys are learning to be musicians though I guess its ok to offer this at a collegiate level. I have lots of friends who used music to pay for their degrees.(most got degrees in music but also technology, science, ect)
Who am I to judge though. I stupidly got my degree in history. (though I do love my job)
I did a google search for metal musicians with music degrees and nothing really came up.
Katherine Thomas ("The Great Kat") is the only one I know of that was classically trained at the Juilliard School.