Does Metal Music Make People Violent?!
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- Ever since the 80's/90's, metal music has been associated with this social stigma of making you violent: That the people who adopt the culture and listen to it regularly--if not religiously--are more apt to be violent. Whether it be Marilyn Manson or Rob Zombie fans, or people who go out of their way to bring mass destruction to the world and happen to be lovers of metal, where does this come into play--if at all--and how can we de-construct this whole topic in a meaningful way?
Do you think metal makes people violent? Let me know down below your opinions on it!!!!!!!
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Do you personally believe that listening to metal music makes you violent? What're your opinions on this topic and what do you think of this stereotype? Is it a cultural issue, or are there other things at play? Let me know down below, can't wait to hear all of your perspectives!!!!!!! But for now, cheers, rock on, stay heavy and have yourselves a fantastic rest of your day or night, depending on when you see this!!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
if anything it calms me down when i get mad. never once have i listened to metal, and any any ounce of needing to be violent ever happen.
For sure!
Like you said, if anything when I listen to a great metalcore album, sometimes it helps me let OUT that pain.
If anything, metal has made me a nicer, happier, more understanding, less violent person. I think you're right, it's been a very healthy means for me to unwind after a hard day. It has also helped me to find my way out of the dark. It has helped me to hope again, and honestly I think constantly playing that type of music is why metalheads and metal musicians are the most wholesome people on the planet.
Helped me hope again is so true. Not even just metal, but rock and some of my favorite other genres have been what has pulled me out of the abyss. And I agree with that ending! I've met and spoken to so many dope metal band members who're the chillest people ever but play the most depraved music you'll ever hear in your life lol.
i have adhd and can get EXTREMELY hyper at times and i feel that lots of metal matches the energy i have perfectly (metallica, ffdp, and slayer have been the best fits so far) so listening to it really helps me sit down and focus on doing work for a little while rather than being all amped up and unable to sit still
Not only metal but any harsh music actually calms down. Like the album Bind, Torture, Kill by Suicide Commando is actually very cathartic. It might not be relaxing but cathartic for sure.
I'm 53, and grew up with both Ozzy and Judas Priest being sued, being blamed for suicides. Grew up with Dee Snider and the PMRC. I've been listening to metal for over forty years and have yet to be in a fight. I find the music to be an outlet, to release it in a good way
I would say that metal helps me release my frustrations into music, it makes me feel more empowered when I'm facing a situation.
I love metal , it keeps me calm and creative and it has opened my eyes to jazz fusion , and funk .
Now I can listen to After the Burial , Vulfpeck, Dirty Loops and Periphery all in the same playlist .
I agree in every point. Metal is literally my closest friend at the time, and people don't understand it, claiming the accusations you covered with this video. But I couldn't care less as I know the truth, I know MY truth, and the help metal is to me. And as you said, a lot of musicians are completely nice guys, but the few black metal guys or shockers like MM you included in the thumbnail disturb that image for the public. Don't get me wrong, I like their music and talent, and I normally strongly seperate music from musician to enjoy the music the most, it's just the public that gets a warped perception, which is sad, as it prohibits many people from entering the genre in the first place. Though they do not need to start out with the most extreme stuff, like Nu Metal or so is normally a good entrance to metal in my opinion.
I misread the title as "Does Metal Music Make People Vomit?!" lmao
i mean. depends on how weak someone is ;) (kidding)
4:09 I totally relate to this. I don’t often have trouble saying I listen to metal to people, but if they ask further I dull down my tastes to to more mainstream stuff like motionless in white or beartooth when in reality I’m a slam and bdm enjoyer but I don’t know how they’ll react. It also means that I’m often not super able to contribute to playlists and music that my friends and peers are into because I have zero clue what to say or play that won’t get me weird looks or jokes about how my taste is bad.
Metal helps me be less angry/violent. It is an outlet. Normie reactions are often hilarious. The key is to not give a fuck what they think.
real shit.
that's exactly how I am: i wouldn't be where i am without metal because it's truly helped me get out so many negative emotions and mental health issues i've had throughout my life. it's done the opposite of what most people think!
I have to admit that metal kinda worsens my roadrage but as with any other medium listening to metal can be a symptom that a violent person might show, but its utterly impossible to be "turned violent" by just listening to music or watching a TV show or playing a videogame. I also think that metal moshpits having a lower rate of injuries than moshpits in other genres is a good indicator of how most metalheads really behave.
nah, if anything, metal calms the hell out of my ass, also, the guy from the thumbnail just announced he's in nuclear blast
Ooo hell yeah!
yeah Metal is absolutely a source for me to imaginatively let out some of the frustrations I have. Especially in the recent times I have developed a lot more of an affection to extreme metal (especially Black Metal) and my music spectrum goes as far as Infernal Coil or Kuroi Jukai. Tbh thinking about it and thinking about all of the frustration I have built up due to all the stress (and probably misstreatment aswell) would have probably been worse if I had never found extreme metal. Even thinking about all that trauma makes me want to cry...
gosh I fucking hope society will attempt to understand autistic people like me at some point in the future
Hell yeah.
Black metal has done so much for me. I especially love the atmospheric black metal and blackened folk metal subgenres. Those two have been some of my only forms of respite in some bad times in my life and I appreciate them both tremendously
Just know that I'm here for you and will always love and support you. You are not your trauma and you will never be deserving of being defined by that. You're strong; and I'm happy you're still here. Whatever happened to you, whoever hurt you or whatever demons you are fighting in your mind, keep fighting them. You're going to keep making it through to the other side because you're worth that. And there IS no weakness in crying.
Neurodivergent people are notoriously slept on or pushed aside and it's disgusting. I have so many friends and closed ones who are on the spectrum and for quite a few years now there's been a lot of suspicions from both myself and my partner that I myself am on the spectrum because a lot of my lifelong symptoms and behavioral patterns. It shouldn't be a war to be understood.
Love ya.
@@TheMetalTempestYT I can relate to that so much...I am going through a difficult phase like that right now and Black Metal, Death Metal and to some extend Deathcore aswell are really helping me live through it
I personally love the majority of black metal sound directions to where it's hard for me to even decide, what band my favourite is...
I feel like a lot of it comes from the fact that metal often sounds angry and lyrically is often angry or violent, and most mainstream genres the singer sings about their own personal thoughts and feelings so people looking in assume the same is with metal. In reality a lot of bands lyrics are from the perspective of a fictional character, like Cradle of Filth often have lyrics from the point of view of someone in the medieval period or Victorian era. Amon Amarth have lyrics from the perspective of a Viking.
No. It calms me down and I find it relaxing.
Unlike most people, it doesn't make me calm but it also doesn't necessarily make me worse, just containing the anger in a metaphorical jar it seems. Also unlike what one commenter said about p*rn, neither metal music, video games, or p*rn itself is the problem, YOU are the problem if you can't handle these things, I'm sorry to say, there's tons of people who like metal music, video games, and p*rn who DON'T become addicted to it, or are angry, or whatever other negative thing there is out there, so no, I wouldn't say it's the music ITSELF that makes me angry, I was probably already angry before listening to the music and like I said, it contains that anger, same with video games, but p*rn actually calms me down, lol and not addicted to it, I've been looking at it all my life and it hasn't affected me negatively or anything but I look at it about once a week, don't even necessarily need it to get "excited", but meh. I'm spiritual but not religious so I don't have issues with any of this stuff.
I'm a later-in-life metalhead, and I've found recently that I forget what I'm angry about when I'm listening to metal. All the intrusive thoughts disappear, and I feel empowered instead of paranoid of humanity.
Did you see Manson’s new debut? I want to see him on tour. (Keep in mind I am a religious metalheads)
When I got out of a behavioral hospital, I told my mom how much metal helped me feel better... it helped me not take out my rage on myself.
She told me to stop listening to metal in the most concerned voice ever. I asked my father what his opinion was on metal, and he said, "Metalheads are druggies".
I still listened to it, fell asleep to it, did homework to it, ect...
They eventually came around realizing I was safe from joining some weird satanic cult💀😊
No, Rock and Metal music doesn’t make you violent. Video games also don’t make you violent either.
What can make you violent however, is an unhealthy porn addiction, and being sexually frustrated.
Ted Bundy even said in an interview that he was addicted to porn magazines, and porn made him think of violent thoughts.
The issue when you have an unhealthy porn addiction is you start to easily get bored and then you want the porn to be even more taboo, and even more taboo, and even more taboo, until you get to the point that watching and looking is now not enough and you have to seek it out for real to get yourself off.
Watching mainstream level porn like Sasha Grey and not watching it too often is okay, it’s when you become addicted to porn and start to look at violent and taboo forms of porn is when it becomes unhealthy.
I know because I have a porn addiction, and I have violent sexual thoughts, so Ted Bundy when he said that being addicted to porn was part of his decent into violent behaviour, he was 100% correct on that.
Oh it's a very well known thing that porn addiction is such a dangerous thing on numerous levels and can be so disruptive for your personal life, mental health, relationships and relationship with yourself.
I'm sending you nothing but the best. I hope you're able to kick it. Just know you are no less and I appreciate you sharing that story. Keep working towards improving yourself because you don't deserve to be controlled by something beyond you.
@@TheMetalTempestYT Cheers for the positive message there mate.
@@NuMetalfan1996 cheers!
Depending on the band, metal can make me Violently Uncomfortable.
I'd say no it doesn't.
I think it's the opposite, actually. Metal music is more relatable than say pop or hip-hop to families who were raised in an angry or abusive environment. It is both relatable and cathartic.
Metal music does not make anybody violent. It's just that some violent people like metal music.
Precisely
Columbine happened while I was still in HS. I dealt with all the anti-Manson shit growing up. Sure, Manson is a piece of shit person, but his music is innocent of causing violence.
I mean, can you become racist listening to Morgan Wallen?
That is SUCH a good fucking example oh my lord. the country music debate and the racism associated with it or homophobia/transphobia.
Music can make you rethink yourself/learn more, but it cannot outright make you something you aren't to begin with or have traces of in you to begin with.
No
Metallica helped me from my darkest times when I was a teenager so... i say it is epic BS.
Short answer, no, but rap music will.
When I listen to metal does it make me angry no does it make me sing/SCREAM along to it yes does it make me dancing around the house yes also it has been helping me calm down and i have autism🎶🎵🪕🎷
Aww I'm so happy to hear that! Sending much love your way
I belive that if you're already in a violent mood, metal can amplify that. But normally, metal won't make one violent.
No (over 40 years of experience). But listening to country causes you to make death threats, as we've seen repeatedly in this political climate.