everyone knows metalheads are lovely people
Death metal music inspires joy not violence
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Re: Death metal music inspires joy not violence
#12Great to see research coming to a conclusion I think most metalheads intuitively know. I love walls of sound, I love intensity that feels like it takes a surplus of cognitive bandwidth (ADHD) and gives it a little bit of resistance to tug against, almost like those various rubber stress toys. I think most metal fans hear lyrical gruesomeness as something between fantasy and a cause for more empathy than anything else…
We did once informal study among friends comparing heart rate in rest and taste in music. Those with low heart rate favored faster tempo and those with fastest heartbeat favored slowest tempo. (Age and cardiovascular fitness matter more, but tt the time we were all young and relatively fit).
Are you also considering an analogy: those with innate capacities for violence tend to favor an aesthetic or desire of joy or peace?
It's not 100% true, but I find that it tends to be.
Re: Death metal music inspires joy not violence
#13Great to see research coming to a conclusion I think most metalheads intuitively know. I love walls of sound, I love intensity that feels like it takes a surplus of cognitive bandwidth (ADHD) and gives it a little bit of resistance to tug against, almost like those various rubber stress toys. I think most metal fans hear lyrical gruesomeness as something between fantasy and a cause for more empathy than anything else…
> Most of the metalheads I know are absolute teddybears.
In my music hobby as a guitarist, I've been involved in heavy rock and classic blues bands, played in a classical guitar ensemble, and did some sessions in a jazz setting. More recently I've been guitar tech and roadie for my son who plays in a metal band.
By far, the nicest people I have come across have been in the metal scene. I've been invited around to try gear, and been offered the lend of more gear from heavy metal guitarists.
My former co-founder in my business is a fan of extreme Northern European metal, and she is one of the nicest people I've met.
Re: Death metal music inspires joy not violence
#14Great to see research coming to a conclusion I think most metalheads intuitively know. I love walls of sound, I love intensity that feels like it takes a surplus of cognitive bandwidth (ADHD) and gives it a little bit of resistance to tug against, almost like those various rubber stress toys. I think most metal fans hear lyrical gruesomeness as something between fantasy and a cause for more empathy than anything else…
Most of the metalheads I know are absolute teddybears. I listen to some pretty heavy stuff (see links), but the other day I cried at a dog video, and recently had to turn off the police scanner at the mention of a particularly sad crime.
There's a weird rule of opposites which can happen with music. I think people often take up art and music as a form of healing, so there's some kind of reaction vector involved. Lots of people who take up Irish Trad are tortured souls or have "thorny" sides. Also, the corpus has a lot of happy sounding songs talking about truly horrible things.
Re: Death metal music inspires joy not violence
#15That's death metal though. Other forms of extreme metal can have lyrics that, far from toying with splatter-gore themes for the shock value, express terminally anti-social politics.
I'm thinking of black. Sometimes I'm just happy that a few of the bands I listen to sing in Swedish or Norwegian etc that I don't understand, so that I can't tell what they're singing about. Although the imagery can often give a bit of a hint, rather.
To make it absolutely clear in case people don't know what I'm talking about: there is a clear trend of black bands that are downright neonazis. By no means all, or even I think a majority, but they are right there.
Re: Death metal music inspires joy not violence
#16> "We used 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams as a [comparison]," said Dr Sun.
Could it be that the listeners were simply tired of hearing an overplayed song (Happy) to the point that even death metal was refreshing?
An obscure song should be compared to another obscure song.
Re: Death metal music inspires joy not violence
#17Literally any Cannibal Corpse song would have been better for this study than literally any Bloodbath song.
Re: Death metal music inspires joy not violence
#18Great to see research coming to a conclusion I think most metalheads intuitively know. I love walls of sound, I love intensity that feels like it takes a surplus of cognitive bandwidth (ADHD) and gives it a little bit of resistance to tug against, almost like those various rubber stress toys. I think most metal fans hear lyrical gruesomeness as something between fantasy and a cause for more empathy than anything else…
I've sometimes heard a saying that goes something like: "Metalheads are like hedgehog, they put spikes on the outside but are really soft on the belly".
Re: Death metal music inspires joy not violence
#19Great to see research coming to a conclusion I think most metalheads intuitively know. I love walls of sound, I love intensity that feels like it takes a surplus of cognitive bandwidth (ADHD) and gives it a little bit of resistance to tug against, almost like those various rubber stress toys. I think most metal fans hear lyrical gruesomeness as something between fantasy and a cause for more empathy than anything else…
codeine king is very much not rooted in any metal, as a band from the sludgewave era of metalcore/hardcore its a sound rooted in hardcore, codeine king is not metal
vctms is a metalcore band
jfac is a deathcore band, esp during the doom ep era
deathcore being a combination of death metal and metalcore
actually, none of the bands you linked are metal
Re: Death metal music inspires joy not violence
#20> "We used 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams as a [comparison]," said Dr Sun. Could it be that the listeners were simply tired of hearing an overplayed song (Happy) to the point that even death metal was refreshing? An obscure song should be compared to another obscure song.
omg yo that is fuckin smart plus happy is by a trans