Holy stuff I forgot how passionate metal heads are about their stuff. Unless you want to make your way up the ladder by playing small gigs at biker bars, get into a music genre lots of people can like, and can be played for at any venue.
Unless you have no interest in progressing your drumming career then you can crack on 
Metal has low sense of rhythm, and is just really fast beats. The drum tracks sound and look hard but are much simpler than they actually are. There's no need to be calling me names, that isn't going to win you an argument. Also, I never said it
doesn't take talent to play metal music. Of course it does, it takes talent to play most forms of music. I'm just saying that there are plenty of other genres of music that are more appealing to the general populace that are just as hard if not more than metal.
Also not to mention that metal is also one of the hardest genres to gain publicity in.
People play music to play music, not gain publicity. If you treat music like some cash cow, you're going to get no where other than pop. Or pop metal if you wanna be
that guy
ahem Black Veil Brides. Metal is about passion and aggression. It doesn't need to be fast. At all. It just needs to carry a kind of aggression, which is usually via the guitar tone.
Matt Halpern, founder of Bandhappy, a website where you can get live video lessons, especially those from people in bands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKlSU6aABRcArguably one of the most talented drummers today. Alongside Jay Postones, Matt Gartska, Travis Orbin, and Alex Rudinger.
He is the drummer for Periphery, a progressive metal outfit who is a conglomerate of incredibly talented musicians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zytAj1N--YThese guys make music because they want to. They have a label that gives them 99% musical creative freedom. They couldn't give a forget whether or not their sales did well because of their music. They approach it as "Well if people like out music, fantastic! If they don't, oh well."
TesseracT, their latest album doesn't even use unclean vocals, and most of it isn't even fast. Considered one of the best albums in progressive metal.
Intervals, who started out as an instrumental band, then added a vocalist who also does all clean singing. Incredibly talented musicians with immense creativity.
Animals as Leaders, who is a three man instrumental band with, probably, the best musicians on the planet. Tosin Abasi is probably the modern day Jimi Hendrix, sans drugs. He has literally made guitar techniques. This is one of their many slower songs.
Mean's End, a band who literally took a latin choir piece, got help from the composer himself, and made it metal. Robert Luciani has one of the most powerful voices in metal, alongside Ashe O'Hara (TesseracT), Spencer Sotelo (Periphery), and Mike Semesky (Intervals). This music isn't even fast either.
The Contortionist, who has changed immensely over the past three albums, the most recent one being an incredibly important album to metal. Fusing elements of jazz and metal together in a way not commonly seen since Cynic. People are in a love hate relationship with them because they changed so much. A lot of people who have been a die-hard fan of their first album hate the recent one because it isn't "heavy" enough or some stuff. Because they changed. They changed their sound because they wanted to explore uncharted territory and please their own tastes. This music isn't fast.
All these guys make music because they want to, not for the fans. Not for the notoriety. For themselves. Fans are a warmly welcomed byproduct of their hard work. They push the boundaries of their instruments to do something new and amazing. And its all metal.
