 Similarly, the band Lullacry features lyrics on the subjects of "love, hate, passion and pain" because a person "can easily connect to a song" with lyrics "about human relationships".Heavy metal music is perceived by many members of the goth subculture as the "crass, crude macho antithesis of everything that their music represents".In contrast to the "softer" and "more feminine" character of gothic music, the heavy metal genre is typically associated with aggression and masculinity.