“People don’t understand it and it scares them”: Man On Man confront metal’s homophobia problem

Back in March, Kerrang! published an op-ed titled ​‘We need to talk about metal’s online homophobia problem’ written by yours truly, in which I explained my own experiences of homophobia within heavy metal. This piece came in response to the homophobic comments strewn across social media relating to a news article about Man On Man, the new project from Faith No More​’s Roddy Bottum and his partner, Joey Holman. Given that my article provoked an equally outspoken response on social media – with commenters declaring there is no problem, despite many gay metalheads knowing that to be false – it felt important to get Roddy and Joey’s feelings on the topic and surrounding issues.  Here, we sit down with Man On Man to discuss the online backlash, their reactions and how ...

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