New research reveals that guitar skills in extreme metal music are more linked to male competition and status than to attracting mates. The study, focusing on heterosexual male guitarists, suggests that technical proficiency in guitar playing serves more as a display of dominance among peers.
I mean yeah extreme metal shows are sausage fests, if you want to attract mates you need to be a singer in some other genre
my wife was likely a catch in that crowd but she married a progressive rock boy.
What, you don’t get all the chicks by playing “Shards of Scorched Earth” really well?
Bassists self-select across genres.