Lars and Miguel brought a list of their favorite newer metal bands from Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the U.S. Just to clarify, this wasn't a "classics of Latin metal show," although we will be doing that soon. I invited two experts: Lars Gotrich, NPR Music's stellar producer and metal blogger (check out his Viking's Choice series on the All Songs Considered blog) and Miguel Palafox, from the Mexico City-based blog Search & Destroy. This week, while taping our Latin heavy metal special, I discovered I like it. Now that I've gotten that secret out of the way, I'll make a second confession. And as I've rejected it, I've become increasingly convinced I'm not going to like it. Everyone told me I'd like it, but I stayed away, more for fear of not getting it than anything else. It is not my forte, even though Latin metal has always surrounded me through headbanging boyfriends and obsessed cousins (if you ever hop in a Buenos Aires taxi driven by a long-haired dude blasting Judas Priest, say hi to my cousin Martin). I have to confess this happened to me with heavy metal. With music, as with so many other things in this life, when you go to great lengths to avoid something for fear of not understanding it, your apprehension can snowball.
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