Why metal is bad

Playing wicked fast guitar, wicked fast drums, all of that is super fun. I imagine that playing metal music is like getting that feeling all night long! Most people complain about the vocals first. From screams and roars to pig squeals, the vocals in death metal music are hard to understand and are abrasive. Most people do not understand this way of singing and vocalizing.

Again, the way to think about death metal vocals, is as innovation. Some metal is melodic, but it does not have to be. Sometimes screaming is exactly what you need to do.

Also, the death metal scream is not easy to do well — try it, you may end up with a newfound respect for those vocalists! Second, people complain about the loud, heavy, and confusing music. Death metal song structure does not usually adhere to a traditional A-B-A-B structure. It is often in odd time signatures, and it is always heavy. As you listen more, hopefully you will begin to hear the music for the technically demanding and musically complex genre that it is! Finally, the lyrical themes turn a lot of listeners off, and this I can understand.

Common themes include death, gore, horror, murder, anatomy, Satanism, anti-religion, anti-societal norms, etc. If you do not like the lyrics, there is a ton of high-quality instrumental death metal and other metal music.

Some of the lyrics are misogynistic and they are often violent. That is a tough pill to swallow, but keep in mind that a lot of music is misogynistic and violent. Country, rock, hip-hop — all have problems with misogyny. Many fans find that the lyrical content is partly responsible for giving them the visceral feeling they like out of the music.

The lyrics quickly cross the bounds of polite conversation and internal censorship as well. Generally, the lyrics are there to shock, make people mad, and to make points about the society we live in. The musicians themselves are not serial killers.

As with any genre, you must separate the art from the artist to some extent. The fact is, music is an incredibly subjective experience. The music you like depends on the music you grew up with, which is totally out of your control. In fact, your taste in music is affected by everything. The language you speak, the area you grew up in, who you went to high school with, when you were born — etc. I believe that much of our musical taste is out of our control.

Therefore, you should give all genres the benefit of doubt before making a judgement. Indeed, studies have shown long-terms fans were happier in their youth and better adjusted in middle age compared to their non-fan counterparts.

Another finding that fans who were made angry and then listened to heavy metal music did not increase their anger but increased their positive emotions suggests that listening to extreme music represents a healthy and functional way of processing anger.

Other investigations have made rather unusual findings on the effects of heavy metal. Finally, heavy metal can promote scientific thinking but alas not just by listening to it. Educators can promote scientific thinking by posing claims such as listening to certain genres of music is associated with violent thinking. By examining the aforementioned accusations of violence and offence — which involved world-famous artists like Cradle of Filth, Ozzy Osbourne, and Marilyn Manson — students can engage in scientific thinking, exploring logical fallacies, research design issues, and thinking biases.

Metal can make you feel like nothing else matters. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. This effect appears to extend to vulnerable listeners, and in particular adolescents. A study in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence found that, when taking outside factors into account, heavy metal did not influence suicide risk among adolescents.

Further to this, teenage girls who used the music as an emotional release were actually at lesser risk. One common feature of many of these studies is that the uninitiated find listening to heavy metal music to be an extremely unpleasant experience. However, for fans, the opposite is true. One professor discovered that heavy metal inspires joy rather than anger in its fans , while another simply tried to determine why people like death metal at all. Anyway: the next time someone tells you heavy metal is bad for you, show them this study.

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