Dress Heavy Metal Style

Into metal music but don't know how to dress? Here is the guide for you.

Steps

Wear a suitable pair of pants. A good choice is to try Black/Blue Jeans/ Ripped Pants, Camo pants. Always avoid shaggy pants. Baggy for Nu Metal normal for most other styles.Must wear black, brown or any dark color pants.
Wear metal band shirts baggier for a nu metal style. Denim and leather coats for Thrash Metal and most other forms of metal ripped sleeves are good. Flannel shirts are good. Also radium T-Shirts are very popular.
Wear a studded belt with a big and handy buckle, always. Numerous belt buckles are popular like metal skulls etc.
Wear studded wrist bands and leather jacket. These are the iconic sign that you are a true metalhead. Also cool looking belts
Collect different types of chain and wear them with your belt and pants.
Style your hair appropriately. Almost every heavy metal star has long hair, so if you're comfortable with growing yours out, do it. If not, boys can also shave their hair (think Phil Labonte, Phil Anselmo, Bruce Dickinson, Kerry King, among others.)
- Some places prefer you to tie your hair back, so tie it back, but be inventive, use a bandana without a bobble for a Guns 'n' Roses look, or a bandanna with a bobble for a biker look.
Try growing a beard or goatee.
Wear Army Boots or white high-tops for an old-school look. For punk look, wear sneakers.
BONUS: Drink beer!

Don't be metal to be cool, be metal 'cause you like the music.
If you are feeling really Heavy Metal when you get out of the shower do the wet hair headbanging thing it can get you really energetic,worked up, and you'll have a lot of fun doing it (medium to long hair is recommended for guys)
Metal fashion can be restrictive or comfortable, extreme or laid-back. Sync up your feelings and your style and you'll find that it ebbs and flows. This is good! Metal it up or chill out depending on how you feel.
Value yourself, value your judgement: wear what works for you, and even more importantly, what you like. It doesn't matter if you're taking inspiration from Tony Kakko from Sonata Arctica or Dead from Mayhem: take the style and make it your own.
Don't care about what others think of you.
Thrift stores, army/navy surplus stores, and flea markets are your friends; you'll find used clothing for relatively cheap prices.
It helps to know what they are saying (if you are fairly new to metal music or just don't get it just look up the lyrics it will make it much easier to sing and you will look like less of an idiot)
Don't push things, just go with the flow. Take years to do this, and create your own style.
Never buy pre-ripped stuff.
Use a cheese grater to make jeans look faded.
On Denim jackets place patches of your favorite bands.
Being Nu Metal isn't liked among most of the metal community.

Be ready to defend your music.
Heavy Metal is an unusual genre of music. Thankfully, Heavy Metal is about the music, not the fashion or the scene. Remember this!
Depending on your crowd, be careful of being considered an 'image metalhead': one who values the fashion aspect of the metal scene too much compared to the music.
Your parents may have something to say about your new found musical tastes. If this occurs, remind them that you are your own person, and that Heavy Metal can be beautiful as well as savage. (See, Iced Earth, Candlemass, Blind Guardian)
Be careful in the moshes.
Lyrics in Metal song may be profane so if you are easily offended don't listen.
Look out for metal elitist, there are always some metalheads who think they're better and 'more metal' than you, who consider you a poser. But most of the time they're just a bunch of posers who don't understand metal.
You will be made fun of by many people.