Metal will always be underground because it's so hard to listen to. Most people can't just put on a Deicide record, put their feet up and listen. To each his or her own, and maybe those people are into that music because they like it, but I really get the feeling that they think it makes them smarter to like it and talk about it with their music major cronies. That sounds a lot more bitter than I really feel. Lots and lots and lots of people genuinely like jazz.
Jazz is the root of all American music, and is WAY too diverse to make a generalization about.
I would never disrespect. And experimental music is interesting, but that's really it. But one cannot deny that Wesleyan students, and people in general, have ignorant and condescending attitudes toward metal. They don't think it's smart. They think the people that play it and listen to it are by nature a horde of mongoloidish freaks.