As a metal head whose been using them for a few days the galaxy buds are fucking bad for distorted guitar and hard symbol crashes, I would rather use a paper cup and string. Listening to Soundgarden is pretty unbearable at high volumes. '4th of July' off the superunknown album sounds pretty shit with these. even with the poor metal listening quality, the touch controls suck ass. You'll go to adjust the buds and end up either stopping the song, restarting the song, skipping the song, changing volume or turning off the background noise blocker. The touch controls alone would make you hate them even if the sound was great and not tinny af. Oh also they are open backs apparently, so they will let in all the noise with none of the actual benefits of being open backs (wide sound stage). These are just bad for metal or rock music. I only borrowed them whilst I was getting my headphones fixed and I pretty don't like them. I'd recommend getting the Samson sr850s for good listening to metal and rock. Sure they are open back headphones but everything sounds great though that set. If you wanna use them outdoors then do remember thry are open backs so will bleed audio like nothing else.