If you have never felt the weightlessness of falling in the pit and being picked up, it is like angels lifting you out of Hell. It is so tribally communal. Imagine losing your glasses and hat and after being picked up, asking (by tapping your head) and affixing invisible glasses only to have these unknown people hand them to you immediately afterward.
this, it happened to me as I tripped over my shoelaces at an acacia strain concert, a guy much bigger than me (i'm 5,2) picked me up by my armpits and threw me back in
I remember an Emmure concert in a rather small venue and some guy letting us know he'd lost his contact lenses. CONTACT LENSES! We found'em where the pit just was. I mean...needless to say he couldn't use'em any more but we found them still during the song! Same concert we had a guy in a wheelchair in the pit and lemme tell you he was going at it! Was one hell of a fun night!
so far, the closest thing i've ever had to a religious experience has been at a metal show, crowd surfing to the violin breakdown in The Black by Imminence. When i tell you that was like, genuinely fucking spiritual, i'm not kidding. I was surfing folks and going surfing all night, told everyone i wanted to surf for that breakdown, they sent me up, and i just put out my arms, closed my eyes and let the crowd take me. It was freaking glorious. also, lost my glasses crowdsurfing multiple times, and i have ALWAYS gotten them back. metal people really are the best
I work security at a music venue in Seattle. The Black metal shows always have the best and nicest people. A tight community, they buy drinks, tip and never cause problems.
Metal is the Dark Souls of music. From the outside it seems like something must be wrong with the person who is drawn to it. But once you get in, you'll understand.
I am a sixty years old woman and i am a metalhead in all my life, it's a cure for me and always was a company and a friend, especially in the COVID era with lockdown!!! Music and metal heal me from difficulties and health issues, metalheads are special people,very friendly and free spirits. They are so many genres of metal music for all, the lyrics are poetry, education and emotions!!! The concerts are a reunion of our souls in the same place!!! Stop the BS and listen to our music 😊.
I've been a metalhead since a young age. After a really crappy day at work I'll listen to some of the angriest music imaginable and feel much better afterwards. It allows me to vent those feelings so that I don't take them out on the people I care about.
Metal and Goth music probably stopped me taking my own life when I got older. I grew up with mental illness, therapy was useless, there are no meds for what my disorder is and my peer group were toxic as hell. Metal music allowed me to release my rage in a safe environment and instead of going out attacking people in my neighbourhood, I got to focus on the darkside without dangerous side effects. I'm still here because of Metal Music. Metal Forever \m/
Wow, that's great to hear you recovered from it! When I feel shit, I also listen to heavy metal. I am a big fan of EPICA and their lyrics are so deep spiritual and it really helps to cure me.
I am also into metal, but I must admit that there are only two things that can really soothe my mind; goth rock/metal and pagan music such as Heillung and Wardruna.
Left the venue after an Arch Enemy concert. It was after midnight in a sketchy area of the town. I was surrounded by metal-heads coming from that concert. And honestly - I have rarely felt more safe than back then. Everyone was polite, friendly and just outright lovely.
Most noble tribe of beautiful misfits ever! The lyrics speak about war, violence and destruction... what a paradox that so few can understand that a world full of metal heads would probably have far less of all of that !
Every metal concert I’ve ever been to has been a positive experience. No riots occurred. No chaos. Everyone there is usually friendly, supportive and respectful of one another. On rare occasions you’ve got maybe one drunk dude with the crappy attitude that security needs to throw out. Metal is the best! 🤘
Metal absolutely saved my life, and continues to keep me anchored. While an undiagnosed, yet completely treatable medical condition stole my life from me, metal kept me going. And today, I have more hope for my future than I've had in 30 years. I have a clear goal, and I'm going for it, and the single most motivating thing I have is metal. I was very young when I first heard it and I was sucked right in. It felt like home.
Metal keeps me walking the line of life. Whenever I feel alone, sad, angry or hopeless, metal is just the injection that brings me back; metal is truly about the "unbreakable human spirit", defiance, resilience and strength. Hail to all the metalheads, this is the path brothers!
Metal is what literally carried me through depression. I kept myself alive by always planning a new concert or festival so i couldn't just leave yet, i had to go to that one thing first. Now I'm doing a lot better, and I have found a side hustle in the event industry, having had the privilege to work backstage for bands like Meshuggah, Saxon, Nestor, In Flames, Avatar. The feeling the metal community gives me has never gone away and I hope I'll be able to enjoy it for much longer.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, etc. were the Metal Super Stars of their time. The music they created was louder, faster, more complex than anything that already existed. They mixed up the music scene and changed it forever for many generations. Especially Bach, who is called 'the father of music' created like a madman and people had trouble keeping up with his constant style and sound changes, and especially his infamous 'Toccata and Fugue D-Moll' played on a pipe organ does exactly the same as metall - it permits your bones and brain. Mozarts music was far more complex and loud than it was popular. Beethoven made music so complex and loud, he got deaf. And when Liszt promoted his piano pieces, he literally TRASHED his instrument and made the ladies in the public faint. So, for those who can't do much with metal, try those guys. And for a more modern alternative, there are some interesting K-pop groups who experiment a lot with the harder genres. Be it Stray Kids who strangely speak to most metal head hearts (like mine) or Ateez who incorporate a lot of harder noise style in their music. Both groups are self producing (the first completely, the other mostly). Also, might be interesting non-metal experiences for metalheads.
And believe it or not Sir Christopher Lee was a metal head as well ( He discovered the music genre later in his life and fell in love with it. He collaborated with Rhapsody of Fire on a number of their albums. He also released some concept albums under his own name) Metal is for all ages, all walks of life ect. The only advice I give is remember to wear hearing protection at those concerts. Tinnitus ain’t such a cool thing to have. And most musicians wear ear plugs believe it or not. Also stay responsibility hydrated… 🎸🥁…… ⚛️☮️🌏
Example of the second millennium headbanger... You just forgot to be vegan. Sorry, I'm an old guy who listened to heavy rock all my life. I have Tinnitus for years and one can live with it, (yes, once, in a festival in the 80', I slept in front of the cabs when Black Sabbath were playing... only place I could lay down, there was nobody there, too much noise, but I was sooo wasted). Somewhere, metal changed a lot ! But perhaps it's only society which is changing.
@@pitfrr it did. it changed a great deal. and yeah, society has too. I can't say much of it is for the better, but it has changed. and will continue on that path. but then, what fun would it be if everything stayed the same forever? I for one, quite like how metal has become much more then it once was. otherwise we wouldn't have gems like periphery, disturbed, and SOAD. we do have to remember gems like Sabbath, Metallica, Slayer, and the others of the founding fathers of sorts. but I would be lying if I didn't say I think it's beautiful so many people liked it so much they made twists on it until it became so much more then one small subset of rock. because of that, it is something to stand on its own now. sorry for the madman rambling! glad you like the music so much and rock on.
One day when I was 16, I was so furious at my parents that I had to put in effort to not break my entire room. I thought I'd just make some noise to spite them, so I put Pantera's Trendkill album in the stereo, chose track 7, maxed the volume, and sat on my bed. That song is crazy for about a minute and then simmers down, and by that point I was already calm as a daisy. That's when I found out just how cathartic metal can actually be.
I had this discussion with my boyfriend and he said it's not just the angry chords and double bass, it's also the lyrics and it instantly clicked for me. Those lyrics make us feel so understood. It's the combination of both that make it so much powerful.
Sounds like you guys would love power metal, then. May I recommend bands such as Two Eagles Request, Metalite, Alvablot, Follow the Cipher, Arkenstone, Brimstone, Azoria, Black Crystal, Age of Artemis, Audiovision, Alefla, Alquimia, Archontes, Azrael's Bane, Balflare, Aristarh, Etheral Dawn, Skyfire, Amenti, Viking Priests, BingoBongoP, Blessdivine, Azeroth, Atversus, Ammarah, Anthology, Astralion, Astra, Black Masquerade, Avelion, Agnes, Askariz, Alicercius, Eternal of Sweden, Baskerville, Mortimer's Mercy, Angel Vengeance, Timeless Miracle, Follow the Cipher, Darkwater and Sea of Dreams and such?
Same for me. When I listened to Linkin Park's albums Hybrid Theory and Meteora I felt understood for the first time and like someone took my feelings and thoughts, which I couldn't put into words and wrote them down, and spoke for me. I know a lot of people have felt this way about them, and other bands too. That's one of the things that makes me love music so much, apart from the instrumentals and vocals too.
I am a big fan of EPICA and their lyrics are very deep spiritually. A lot of their songs gives me goosebumps of specific lyrics lines in the songs. Same is also with Nightwish and Delain. Papa Roach also has those lyrics about life. And there are so many other bands!
When anxiety hits at night I always listen to metal and it calms me down and dries my tears. It's a real safe space where I can rest and come to when I'm overwhelmed, angry or anxious. And I never knew why, but know I know :)
the first time I ever went to a metal gig when i got back home afterwards my mum though i was on drugs with how much I were smiling... like for a while after it I just looked happy.
In the early 10s I was working customer service. On the way to and from work, I needed a dose of metal to keep my sanity in face of whiny customers who think the whole world revolves around them alone..
That's true my brother, that's true.. Its like wakes the f... up every brain cell synapses. Im very greatfull to Metal, its just unique music.. As a therapy definately YES. As the way of life, YES INDEED. Cheers.
When I came back from Iraq, I heard the song Spirit Breaker by August Burns Red while I was driving home, the lyrics completely lined up for me and how i was feeling. I broke down and cried for the first time in decades. That was my alittle bit of my therapy, along with listening to The Contortionist, which gave me an other worldly feeling, which help me detach from my negative emotions. A few years later, I met the vocalist for The Contortionist and told him how their music got me through my PTSD, he gave me a hug.
I was in one of my lowest moments a month ago. My head was filled with negative self-talk, anxiety, and helplessness. But I decided to listen to Lorna Shore that afternoon, and I cried my eyeballs out to their music. An hour later, I was already feeling better, and I felt like all those negative emotions were flushed away from me. Metal has certainly helped my life countless times.
I can attest to this, I work a sales customer service job and I listen to metal nearly every day. I have listened to it since middle school or high school, it really does manage my anger. I used to get mad very easily but it doesn’t happen nearly as often anymore, I just let it go and deal with it in my car lol. Also, Killswitch Engage is an example of beautiful metal music
I can relate. I too work in retail and can have a crappy morning and put my headphones on at lunch listening to something metal and the next thing I know is taking a nap…. Metal blaring in my ears 🤘🏻
Metal, especially black metal, not satanic, nsbm stuff but mostly atmospheric, nature-themed stuff, helped me become a calm, mature, insightful, spiritually oriented person. Not just for me but for many people I know. I was recently discussing with a friend how it can be a strange bridge to our spiritual side. In my words, we saw that a common theme in metal music, "positive negativity," has a hazy connection to the Buddhism we are born with and often associate with. Another old friend of mine even became a Buddhist monk. He believed that inspiration from metal music was definitely one of the motivations for it.
Metal doesn´t necessarily take people to activism but in many cases such as mine it definitely has a big place there! The awareness of violence destruction and loss might actually take us to a deeper type of peace and maybe fight for a better world of more justice and respect.
Metal heads are also more accepting of their own self image, well balanced and accepting the differences in society than those who listen to pop and country.
People often say they admire my positivity. They are shocked when they find out I mostly listen to metal. "But you're so happy and positive". Yeah lol cause I release all the negativity through metal and feel empowered by it at the same time.
Coming back from Summer Breeze festival yesterday I can relate heavily. I feel so much lighter right now. The community is the most inclusive, friendly and supporting one I have ever found, even in front of rock climbers. You fall in a pit, the pit stops. Somebody has a rough time? They will get help. I have seen guys in wheelchairs crowdsurf, if that´s not inclusion what is?
Music is my life. But I still love those screams, the intensity of metal, and just the drums that go along with it. The day I go deaf will be the day I turn miserable.
Yes finally someone who gets it. I do the same and i find it insanely relaxing. My only issue is living with my parents still and they get mad when i do it because “im not sleeping” when in reality i am. Obviously i dont play it loud just loud enough that i can hear it which is pretty low 😔
Metal lyrics and imagery: Amoral anarchists who doubt and hate everything and derive pleasure from death, destruction, madness, and despair. Metal community: Friendly, supportive, and neighborly fellows with a near universally accepted code of conduct dedicated to preserving the of life, liberty, and happiness of all attendees.
Sometimes It's like Brodie in the movie Deathgasm said: "It's like, when life sucks, and you feel alone and empty. You stick on some metal and life is better, because... because somebody else knows the pain and the rage that you're going through, y'know?"
When I was a teenager in the 80s, Heavy Metal was mostly bullies and extremely committed jerks. I noticed a change in the type of fans of Metal about 15 years ago, but I'm not a Metalhead, so I did not know it's actually that cool now. I may give it more of a listen.
Metal is after all, a sum of the extreme sides of existance and a reflection of the true human nature. Call it a musicalized version of shock therapy, because it shows you in a way how to cope with reality, rather than just close your eyes and cover your ears. By being shocking, terrific, evil, sad; Metal helps you accept life, with it's ups and downs. The channel _Occulturation_ has very in-depth analysis of heavy metal, i recommend everyone to watch them :)
I hung up this picture on my wall of a metal festival where theres a bunch of metal head covered head to toe in tattoo and looking like the type of people who you dont want to meet at night lifting up a skinny kid in a wheelchair. its so contradictory to what everyone thinks the community is but in the end THAT is what its about. we dont judge, we dont discriminate, were just a bunch of fun people having fun with other fun people. the only negativity here is in the lyrics
And even then, the negativity in the lyrics is only an expression of the darkness we all feel and shows us hope because we see (and hear) that we're not alone. There's catharsis in that understanding... 🎶🎸🤘😝🤘🎸🎶 🤘METAL 4 LIFE🤘 🎶🎸🤘😝🤘🎸🎶
Metal's negative image came from its early days with high profile icons having real issues with drugs and alcohol. People like John Bonham, Ozzy Osborne, and Nikki Six were legendary for their hard-partying. The argument can be made that it was all rock at that time (and still today as well), and that would be correct. However, metal and hard rock bands often went out of their way to be as rebellious and transgressive as possible, and thus cemented the negative image.
Metal did to me more than 2 years of therapy. I had to stay in a foreign country, more than I wanted to, cut from the support of my family and friends... I will not go into details, but I was in a tough spot with almost no one to turn to. From a colleague, I discovered a rock bar with karaoke events in my town. I found people who share similar interests, unironically enjoy my singing, and are glad to talk to me in English. Singing Paradise Lost, In Flames and Five Finger Death Punch was such an outlet for my emotions! Something I wanted for two years. It became better when I started singing something less karaoke-able - Kreator, Septicflesh, Adept, Cannibal Corpse. People started recognizing me by my voice and being really nice to me, although I'm just a random foreigner.
I feel very called out 😂 7:26 This was a very insightful and beautifully put video. Thank you for putting into succinct and gentle words what metal is for so many people ❤
Oh my goodness, yes! Imminence's new abum (and their stuff in general) is just- AGH! It's too hard to explain y'know? 😂 I feel so connected with their music! Definitely need a dose of them once a day! 🎻😍 edit: also thank you! 😂🙈 that is such a thoughtful compliment, I appreciate it!
I've been a diehard metalhead ever since i was a preteen and found music like Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed. Still listen to all of that and FAR heavier shit now, but metal has ABSOLUTELY helped save my life and gotten me through some of my darkest times. Music has always been my therapy, and metal has always been my go to genre. I think part of it is that it's one of the few genres that treads into darker topics and themes on the regular and that has always meant that you can find catharsis in the music. But purely instrumentally, it really IS a great outlet for some of the more destructive things we can feel, like rage. Put that together with a community that celebrates a HEALTHY expression of aggression, things like pits, and yeah you get a genre that's actually super healthy and wholesome. i mean, pits are a PERFECT example. From the outside they look so incredibly violent and aggressive, a bunch of people shoving each other around and violently smashing into each other. But that's the whole point. it's controlled chaos, where everyone gets to release that pent up shit they feel, but everyone is consenting to be there in that moshpit. And everyone in the pit knows that we're doing this TOGETHER, that this is a communal activity and the point is to let out your shit, but not to hurt anyone. So everyone takes care of each other, picks each other back up, and activities like that build these kind of bonds between people, even if they're fleeting, even if that bond only last for the duration of the show. Point is, it's a great way to let off some anger, but in a healthy way, and also one where you can connect to other people and feel a sense of camaraderie. Plus, also, metal people are just some of the nicest people I know. We REALLY look out for each other at shows, try to take care of each other. Someone loses something, they'll nearly always get it back. we're just a bunch of misfits, building a community around our shared love of this music It's just good freaking music and the people are mostly pretty great (at least in real life they are). like ABR says: angry music for happy people
Dude same here, I started off with the bands you listed above along with Dragonforce, and now? Ooh do I love that heavy shit to death! Still return to the hard rock scene, but I’m a Metalhead for life, nothing will change that, ever
I don't do Mosh pits or headbang. I do enjoy the music from many generations. For me, this keeps me calm when I need it. God speaks to us in many ways. I feel that listening to Metal keeps me calm when feeling like I am struggling with other things not in the working world. It does feel that some people that don't understand the music or don't care to. They may call it the Devil's Music. I have a co-worker who doesn't like metal (the throat scratch music) but has listened to rock.
Once 1 of my teacher said that if I,m depressed and go therapy and I need to stop listening to Metal because it makes me depressed. But she had no idea how much shit I have in my life and therapy + Metal helps me survive. This music is my friend and even family when everyone else hurt me left me. This music makes me go with life.
Yeah, this is something us metal heads have known since getting into the genre. Now don’t completely dismiss the fact that there are bad apples that also listen to metal but it’s fairly rare.
Once had my glasses knocked off at the edge of a small bar equivalent of a pit. Immediatley everyone stepped back and several kneeled down to help locate the lost glasses. They were retrieved. Great community of strangers.
Its the one genre of music where I will see more people of many different ages then any other music. From young to old. It's the one genre where you can mix an orchestra and it sounds even bigger then life. It's the one genre where many of the bands still very much write there own music and lyrics.
That's a great point! :O I love the connection all ages have with each other as well! You got each generation teaching other generations their music lol, it really creates a strong bond and mutual respect!
One time I visited my old friends in Michigan, they weren’t into my kind of metal. It was cool and stuff. But when I got home and threw on my music.. I’ll never forget. I knew then our music spoke to our brains in a positive way 💪🏻
My playlist is mixed; from System of a Down to Paramore, add some Theatre of Tragedy and Trees of Eternity, to Arghoslent, Immolation and Sacramentum. Simply put, I've never run out of bands and genres to choose from. It's rock, it's metal, it's everything I've ever need regardless what some bands tend to stand for, politically or otherwise
Just went to my first concert last weekend. It was one of the most incredible experiences I’ve ever had, and the most faith I’ve had restored in humanity in a really long time. I’ve always been the type that simultaneously fits in everywhere and nowhere, depending entirely on how honest I am about myself and what I believe. But this is the only community I’ve found where I feel like I can be entirely honest and not get ousted for it.
That's amazing! 🤘😍 who did you see? Also, I relate to this comment on a spiritual level, especially the fitting in everywhere and nowhere simultaneously!
@@Chromasylumusic it was Slaughter to Prevail, Marylin Manson, and 5FDP. Let me tell you I’m starting to like Manson way more than a libertarian should
Dang! What an amazing lineup for a first concert! I've only seen 5FDP from those 3! Slaughter must've been unreal! 😱😍 Did Manson have a good stage presence?
@@Chromasylumusic That’d be an understatement lmao, I went mainly to see slaughter and lit up right after they finished. Manson got up there right as it was starting to kick in and that shit sent me to another fucking dimension. I don’t have the words to describe how intense he is live.
Unpopular opinion: Though I love metal and probably owe my life to it, head banging is probably giving you CTE. Which might be partially driving your mental health issues to begin with. In my early teens I remember head banging till I got a headache. I spent 15 years head banging on stages in bands. Only to later find out that something as mellow as waterskiing can slosh your brain around enough to cause traumatic brain injury. I feel 99% sure my alcoholism and depression are a consequence of that. If anyone has evidence to the contrary, I would love to hear it. But it seems pretty likely to me. I only try to warn younger people of the potential risk. Outside that I whole heartedly agree.
I've been a metalhead for a minute but bands like Imminence and Currents got me through my divorce with my ex wife, which was extra tough because she is an amazing person that I still love dearly. The lyrics fit my headspace and pain that I was dealing with and allowed to me to go through the emotions needed to heal. I felt so privileged to see Imminence in Sacramento, CA this year, awesome show!
Metal...the ultimate energy booster when working out! In fact, it raises my energy levels to such a degree that I never listen to metal at bedtime, or I will not be able to fall asleep.
Even to this day the song “The Grudge”, by the band Tool, helps realign me to the version of myself that’s ready to transition from a place of blame and pain to free that energy for a new life free of negativity.
I'm a metal head and my wife left me in 2009 but thanks to metal music for giving me hope that there are plenty of fish in the pond and its true now i'm still alive and she(my wife) died in 2012 tryin to win back my love......its sad but there's nothing i could have done...now i'm into new bands like 'Falling in reverse,Torture killer,Lord of the lost etc and i love them all🤘🤘🤘🤘
Whenever i listen to Slayer, Converge, Meshuggah or Gojira while driving my car, i feel like Sebastien Loeb plowing through the Finnish woods, never missing a shift and always hitting the apex perfectly. Whenever i drive my car without music, i feel like I'm in driving school again.
Heavy music saved me. Even reading the lyrics of a lot of metal (and some subgenres of hardcore) bands will show you the raw emotion and visceral honesty very rarely found in other genres. It's definitely a haven for outcasts and anyone who's felt othered.
Metal was there for me since my youth, early 90s when I first "jumped in". Also when I lost my father 20 years ago... Still during my bad days, no one understands me better than Ronnie James Dio, Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson, Jon Oliva, Mathew Barlow, Tom Englund, Russen Allen, Tarja Turunnen and all my other metal heros (the list can go on and on), who are there, beside me, singing for me.... Healing me and give me strength to carry on.
I personally think metal community is one of the best and most constructive communities on earth. Sure there are some toxic people, there always are. But almost all the time especially on the internet, I see people supporting each other. For example I sometimes see some dudes' guitar playing videos with a handful of views and even if they play below decent or make noticable mistakes, comment sections are virtually like "keep practicing, you got this, wonderful play" etc. I like this. 🤘
I find metal genre has songs and bands who have the most beautiful lyrics and creative music that can ever be. I am not one for the angry vibes (though it helps sometimes) but if someone is willing to dive in, they might find something unexpected and beautiful.
That's the point of a song like "The Darkness within" in which Rob Flynn (Machine Head) tells how music saved him from mental breakdown. I'm disabled, and when I'm down in the mouth, I put my favourite metal music very loud (I'm lucky enough to have 60 cm thick walls!). It's a real relief for the soul.
Metal is a gift. People who don't listen to metal or appreciate it don't understand how therapeutic and cerebral metal can be. Also, there is so much diversity and flexibility in metal. Sometimes I want to gallop through the forest slaying dragons with triplets sounding my movement as I reach the end of time like Hammerfall or Dragonforce. Sometimes I just want some fun, in-your-face anthems like Iron Maiden or Edguy to free myself and get loose. Metal can be brutal and technical with the right amount of flare like Slipknot or Trivium. It can be brutally beautiful like Dark Tranquillity or vintage In Flames. It can be relatable and reflective like Everygrey. It can be poetic and gothic like Kamelot. It can be infectious and furious like classic Metallica. It can be symphonic and mystifying like Nightwish or Stratovarius. It can be spiritual like Theocracy or Stryper. Metal is for EVERYONE (Freedom Call, haha) because it's not about how we look or where we come from. It's about bonding over the love of real, powerful music, raw passion, and the courage to blast out our anger, frustration, and creativity through the instruments that weave our joy and sew up wounds that need a little more attention. Metal is a community of misfits and rebels who find commonalities and mutual sensibilities among each other in a world plagued by conformity and full of hatred and corruption. Some of the nicest people I've ever known are metalheads. Most of my experiences at metal concerts have been fun, liberating, and cathartic. I wish everyone here love, peace, and METAL. . .Metal up!
I’ve delt with severe depression and anxiety for a few years now… when I got into metal it felt like I was cured anytime I blasted some music and danced, when I saw slipknot on October 2nd 2022 I was in the pit (outside on a deeply slanted hill) I lost my balance and went tumbling backwards, only to be grabbed and yanked by a jacked dude who walked me to the sidelines and told me “you’re going to get hurt be careful “
I'm 44 y.o. I've been listenin to metal since i was 17. If i should say some reasons to live after any struggle, firstly my inner self and metal externally. Even i divorced last year, i went out to take a walk putting my earphones playing Ride The Lightning album, Stratovarius, Arch Enemy, etc..Even one of my friend notice that i'm in love with a girl, so he requested me a shitty love song for emphaty and i say: "Man, this ones make my heart feel like a jelly fish, stop it." :) There are many things more to tell but long story short, metal saved me and still does. All the best .🤘🙏
So I get a bit of a different but related experience from metal. I feel more like I have excess happy but aggressive energy, overly excitable. It's not mania or anything to that level as I can tamp it down easily enough. But it can be frustrating when the external world seems a bit out of sync with my mood. Everything moving a bit to slow, a bit to gentle. Also as the energy is there it seems like a waste not to make use of it. So metal is something I can make happen easily externally that matches that internal energy. I can find the lyrics interesting on occasion, though it's much more about the heaviness, tempo, vocal style, the amount going on all at once. Add in the crowd participation from a live recording and intensity is just off the charts. And if it changes tempo a lot, jumps genres a but here and there, then that amps it up even more which is why I love some prog songs. Unclean vocals feel like normal vocals, but ratcheted up many notches. Plus vocalisations that are not words, or at least not clearly words, are far more interesting to me than standard singing. That's true whether it's pig squeals, yodelling or scat. However when actually angry, upset etc metal doesn't do anything for me. I understand how it can for many, and I understand how a vocalist focusing on the subject of something you also struggle with can you feel seen, understood, like it's a shared problem, that someone with the same problem has succeeded in spite of the issue. But because of my need for the happy overwhelming aggressive vibe I often gravitate to stuff that's heavy as hell but really fun, tongue in cheek, lyrically just straight up positive (there are exceptions) So in short for me metal relates to a need for something external that has bouncing off the walls "I'M ALIVE!!!!" energy. There are other things that can do this. Being in a huge excitable crowd in a street festival, aggressive sex, the climatic violent but comical scene of a really good action packed film at the cinema, walking down a random road of a foreign city and seeing something amazing an unexpected. But none can be turned on or off quite as easily.
I've always told people who don't understand metal that it helps to calm and sooth me. Which is the opposite of what it does for others. I know my uncle says that it puts him on edge and makes him anxious. So I'm curious as to why it has a calming effect on some people, but not others. Fun video, thanks for putting it out. I know at the end of the day nothing puts me in my happy place better than a workout and listening to some good old school thrash.
Metal has helped me through many difficult years. When in the early 80's' I got to know Maiden - Van Halen - Priest and on to Metallica -Slayer - Exodus - Anthrax and many other bands until the current generation of metal. It has always been a positive release for me. And no, I have not become a devil worshipper 😉😉😉😉and all that crap. Now metal is my training partner.🦾🦾. Metal will always charm me until the end of my days.
When I discovered Deep Purple and Black Sabbath in 1975, I knew the world for me would never be the same. Then later Kings-X, Morbid Angel and the plethora of 90's and to the present with White Chapel, wow... I'm starting to ramble. Rock on brothers and sisters of metal.
the metal community is a brotherhood, I have spoken with random people at various metal shows and found many things in common and learned lots of things. I don't think that happens with any other genres, imagine if you paid a couple of hundreds to a festival plus travel and accommodation to see some utterly unknown bands, you're a die hard fan, unlike mainstream pop music for instance. All these big bands are big for us, the fans, but commercially I guess we could only name very few that reached popularity To me, metal is pure joy and headbanging is the absolute form of freedom. I agree that most of the metal artists are very nice people with a deep philosophical understanding, but there are notable exceptions as well, but I would definitely say that you need to be in very good shape to keep rocking deep in your 50's or 60's as most of our metal idols are now.
I remember seeing Parkway and Thy Art back in the day. I was in the central pit of several and copped a solid kick to the hip, twisting my leg pretty badly and knocking me into the circle pit around us. Before even touching the ground two randoms had hold of me and kept holding on as we went around the pit until the end of the song. Madlads helped me out to some benches and checked on me before returning to the fun. Never will I forget that
I am getting used to say each time someone asks me why I listen to metal: As long as the music bangs, screams and roars, I don't have to. I just smile and headbang my spine off. It's therapy.
Metal has definitely helped me through some tough moments in my life. There is no equal of having it just burst through your body and take you on a spiritual journey. It doesn't matter if you are an Atheist or a believer metal makes you feel something that no religion can.
I am 61. I went to see Sabaton in the Cardiff International Arena last year. After Babymetal, I headed upstairs to the "quieter" toilets and tripped on the stairs, two huge tattooed monoliths caught me before I hit the floor. They kept asking if I was okay, even as I tried to reassure them that I had only slipped. You meet the nicest people at Metal concerts. If either of you read this, thank you very much.
If you have never felt the weightlessness of falling in the pit and being picked up, it is like angels lifting you out of Hell. It is so tribally communal. Imagine losing your glasses and hat and after being picked up, asking (by tapping your head) and affixing invisible glasses only to have these unknown people hand them to you immediately afterward.
Beautifully said! 🤘😍
i slipped on some beer in the pit, was picked up so so fast it was like i never even hit the ground
this, it happened to me as I tripped over my shoelaces at an acacia strain concert, a guy much bigger than me (i'm 5,2) picked me up by my armpits and threw me back in
I remember an Emmure concert in a rather small venue and some guy letting us know he'd lost his contact lenses. CONTACT LENSES!
We found'em where the pit just was. I mean...needless to say he couldn't use'em any more but we found them still during the song!
Same concert we had a guy in a wheelchair in the pit and lemme tell you he was going at it!
Was one hell of a fun night!
so far, the closest thing i've ever had to a religious experience has been at a metal show, crowd surfing to the violin breakdown in The Black by Imminence. When i tell you that was like, genuinely fucking spiritual, i'm not kidding.
I was surfing folks and going surfing all night, told everyone i wanted to surf for that breakdown, they sent me up, and i just put out my arms, closed my eyes and let the crowd take me. It was freaking glorious.
also, lost my glasses crowdsurfing multiple times, and i have ALWAYS gotten them back. metal people really are the best
I've always called metal a positive release for negativity.
Let it out,
Paint the town
With all my negativity
- Fight Fire with Gasoline by Self Deception
Yep.
Everybody gangsta until someone says "disrespect your surroundings!"
HELL YEAH🗣🔥🔥!!!
@@dereinzigwahreRichi damn I love this band!
I listen to loud, angry, violent metal music so I don't have to be loud, angry and violent myself.
Same!
I listen to it AND create it. 🤘😁
Haha I can 100% relate
well iam angry but not loud nor violent
Absolutely same. I'm not an aggressive person by nature but it doesn't mean I don't have those aggressive feelings. Metal is a healthy outlet :)
Metalheads are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
Shhhh don’t spill the beans
I work security at a music venue in Seattle. The Black metal shows always have the best and nicest people. A tight community, they buy drinks, tip and never cause problems.
yaaahh
@@mcjackspaz thats simply not true. they dont hate on it cos of there gender, ur just a hater.
I’m pretty sure no one at work actually knows I’m a metal head but they all like me and think I’m chill 😂😂
Metal is the Dark Souls of music.
From the outside it seems like something must be wrong with the person who is drawn to it. But once you get in, you'll understand.
Might explain why after listening to Funeral Doom Metal, I actually feel so much calmer and happier :D
And I'm a metalhead who loves dark souls!
Breakdown of Sanity while battling up the steps of Anor Londo cathedral was one of my personal cures for depression ngl
i thought that my friend that's liking DS is strange, thanks for comparing. :D
I am a sixty years old woman and i am a metalhead in all my life, it's a cure for me and always was a company and a friend, especially in the COVID era with lockdown!!!
Music and metal heal me from difficulties and health issues, metalheads are special people,very friendly and free spirits.
They are so many genres of metal music for all, the lyrics are poetry, education and emotions!!!
The concerts are a reunion of our souls in the same place!!!
Stop the BS and listen to our music 😊.
Metal music is more like classical music than any other genre since.
Why not fuse haha
@@yamiimax fleshgod apocalypse
*Film music
@@yamiimax Nightwish has been doing just that for almost 30 years.
@@godsasleep yeah but I only liked them with Tarja I also liked rhapsody of fire but only with Fabio Lione
I've been a metalhead since a young age. After a really crappy day at work I'll listen to some of the angriest music imaginable and feel much better afterwards. It allows me to vent those feelings so that I don't take them out on the people I care about.
Dillinger escape plan’s calculating infinity?
It's somewhat of a mental realase for the oppression of capitalism. We need to end the system so we can really rock out.
Oh my ffing gosh, Strapping Young Lad 😁
Metal health will cure your crazy!
Metal health will cure your mad!
Metal health is what we all need!
or at least make your mad easier to deal with ;)
Turns out QR were prophets afterall.
I love that song!
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Average Quiet Riot enjoyer :)
I’ve got the boys to make the noise!!!
People always ask me "why do you like people screaming at you?" I always reply "they aren't screaming at me, but rather with and for me."
Oooh! I’m gonna have to use this one! such a great response! 🤘🏻🥰
people who summarize metal as screaming piss me off so much
Metal and Goth music probably stopped me taking my own life when I got older. I grew up with mental illness, therapy was useless, there are no meds for what my disorder is and my peer group were toxic as hell. Metal music allowed me to release my rage in a safe environment and instead of going out attacking people in my neighbourhood, I got to focus on the darkside without dangerous side effects. I'm still here because of Metal Music. Metal Forever \m/
theres always hope, Im sure you'll be just fine, never stop!
keep going and find the right help, too!
Yep ♡
Glad you're still with us!
Wow, that's great to hear you recovered from it! When I feel shit, I also listen to heavy metal. I am a big fan of EPICA and their lyrics are so deep spiritual and it really helps to cure me.
I am also into metal, but I must admit that there are only two things that can really soothe my mind; goth rock/metal and pagan music such as Heillung and Wardruna.
I love the way you articulated this. People always ask, "why do people listen to metal?" and you've answered that eloquently. Excellent video!
Left the venue after an Arch Enemy concert. It was after midnight in a sketchy area of the town. I was surrounded by metal-heads coming from that concert. And honestly - I have rarely felt more safe than back then. Everyone was polite, friendly and just outright lovely.
Most noble tribe of beautiful misfits ever! The lyrics speak about war, violence and destruction... what a paradox that so few can understand that a world full of metal heads would probably have far less of all of that !
Every metal concert I’ve ever been to has been a positive experience. No riots occurred. No chaos. Everyone there is usually friendly, supportive and respectful of one another. On rare occasions you’ve got maybe one drunk dude with the crappy attitude that security needs to throw out. Metal is the best! 🤘
Metal absolutely saved my life, and continues to keep me anchored. While an undiagnosed, yet completely treatable medical condition stole my life from me, metal kept me going. And today, I have more hope for my future than I've had in 30 years. I have a clear goal, and I'm going for it, and the single most motivating thing I have is metal. I was very young when I first heard it and I was sucked right in. It felt like home.
Metal keeps me walking the line of life. Whenever I feel alone, sad, angry or hopeless, metal is just the injection that brings me back; metal is truly about the "unbreakable human spirit", defiance, resilience and strength. Hail to all the metalheads, this is the path brothers!
Metal is what literally carried me through depression. I kept myself alive by always planning a new concert or festival so i couldn't just leave yet, i had to go to that one thing first. Now I'm doing a lot better, and I have found a side hustle in the event industry, having had the privilege to work backstage for bands like Meshuggah, Saxon, Nestor, In Flames, Avatar. The feeling the metal community gives me has never gone away and I hope I'll be able to enjoy it for much longer.
All the best to you!
@@flyingv7442 Thanks man! Appreciate the kind words
@@Verulyrus You are welcome. Please check my songs. There could be something which you would like.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, etc. were the Metal Super Stars of their time. The music they created was louder, faster, more complex than anything that already existed. They mixed up the music scene and changed it forever for many generations. Especially Bach, who is called 'the father of music' created like a madman and people had trouble keeping up with his constant style and sound changes, and especially his infamous 'Toccata and Fugue D-Moll' played on a pipe organ does exactly the same as metall - it permits your bones and brain. Mozarts music was far more complex and loud than it was popular. Beethoven made music so complex and loud, he got deaf. And when Liszt promoted his piano pieces, he literally TRASHED his instrument and made the ladies in the public faint.
So, for those who can't do much with metal, try those guys. And for a more modern alternative, there are some interesting K-pop groups who experiment a lot with the harder genres. Be it Stray Kids who strangely speak to most metal head hearts (like mine) or Ateez who incorporate a lot of harder noise style in their music. Both groups are self producing (the first completely, the other mostly). Also, might be interesting non-metal experiences for metalheads.
And believe it or not Sir Christopher Lee was a metal head as well ( He discovered the music genre later in his life and fell in love with it. He collaborated with Rhapsody of Fire on a number of their albums. He also released some concept albums under his own name) Metal is for all ages, all walks of life ect. The only advice I give is remember to wear hearing protection at those concerts. Tinnitus ain’t such a cool thing to have. And most musicians wear ear plugs believe it or not. Also stay responsibility hydrated… 🎸🥁…… ⚛️☮️🌏
Example of the second millennium headbanger... You just forgot to be vegan.
Sorry, I'm an old guy who listened to heavy rock all my life. I have Tinnitus for years and one can live with it, (yes, once, in a festival in the 80', I slept in front of the cabs when Black Sabbath were playing... only place I could lay down, there was nobody there, too much noise, but I was sooo wasted).
Somewhere, metal changed a lot ! But perhaps it's only society which is changing.
@@pitfrr it did. it changed a great deal. and yeah, society has too. I can't say much of it is for the better, but it has changed. and will continue on that path.
but then, what fun would it be if everything stayed the same forever? I for one, quite like how metal has become much more then it once was. otherwise we wouldn't have gems like periphery, disturbed, and SOAD.
we do have to remember gems like Sabbath, Metallica, Slayer, and the others of the founding fathers of sorts.
but I would be lying if I didn't say I think it's beautiful so many people liked it so much they made twists on it until it became so much more then one small subset of rock. because of that, it is something to stand on its own now.
sorry for the madman rambling! glad you like the music so much and rock on.
One day when I was 16, I was so furious at my parents that I had to put in effort to not break my entire room. I thought I'd just make some noise to spite them, so I put Pantera's Trendkill album in the stereo, chose track 7, maxed the volume, and sat on my bed. That song is crazy for about a minute and then simmers down, and by that point I was already calm as a daisy. That's when I found out just how cathartic metal can actually be.
I had this discussion with my boyfriend and he said it's not just the angry chords and double bass, it's also the lyrics and it instantly clicked for me. Those lyrics make us feel so understood. It's the combination of both that make it so much powerful.
Sounds like you guys would love power metal, then. May I recommend bands such as Two Eagles Request, Metalite, Alvablot, Follow the Cipher, Arkenstone, Brimstone, Azoria, Black Crystal, Age of Artemis, Audiovision, Alefla, Alquimia, Archontes, Azrael's Bane, Balflare, Aristarh, Etheral Dawn, Skyfire, Amenti, Viking Priests, BingoBongoP, Blessdivine, Azeroth, Atversus, Ammarah, Anthology, Astralion, Astra, Black Masquerade, Avelion, Agnes, Askariz, Alicercius, Eternal of Sweden, Baskerville, Mortimer's Mercy, Angel Vengeance, Timeless Miracle, Follow the Cipher, Darkwater and Sea of Dreams and such?
Same for me. When I listened to Linkin Park's albums Hybrid Theory and Meteora I felt understood for the first time and like someone took my feelings and thoughts, which I couldn't put into words and wrote them down, and spoke for me. I know a lot of people have felt this way about them, and other bands too. That's one of the things that makes me love music so much, apart from the instrumentals and vocals too.
The lyrics can end up being far deeper then in an other genre.
I am a big fan of EPICA and their lyrics are very deep spiritually. A lot of their songs gives me goosebumps of specific lyrics lines in the songs. Same is also with Nightwish and Delain. Papa Roach also has those lyrics about life. And there are so many other bands!
When anxiety hits at night I always listen to metal and it calms me down and dries my tears. It's a real safe space where I can rest and come to when I'm overwhelmed, angry or anxious. And I never knew why, but know I know :)
Metal is proper frequency therapy. 🤘 🎸 🔥
03:13 what is going on here?
Cause I need metal in my life, just like an Eagle needs to fly.
--Manowar
They call themselves immortals of the truest of the true!
the first time I ever went to a metal gig when i got back home afterwards my mum though i was on drugs with how much I were smiling... like for a while after it I just looked happy.
Metal = happiness
Metal keeps me out of the penitentiary.
Metal is a prevention of murder, not a cause 🤘🏼
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Cathartic? Yes. Also, deeply intellectual and artsy when you factor in the extreme prog stuff.
i love prog. Haken and Periphery are my fav bands ever and I think Leprous might be about to drop my AOTY
In the early 10s I was working customer service. On the way to and from work, I needed a dose of metal to keep my sanity in face of whiny customers who think the whole world revolves around them alone..
Slightly sooner i started teaching in a really crappy school. What kept me going was a mix of Pink Floyd and Doom metal. Cyclo-F man, Cyclo-F...
Music therapy is the way. When my mind is a real mess and I need to reconfigure, realign, readjust I listen to Metal. Works every time.
That's true my brother, that's true.. Its like wakes the f... up every brain cell synapses. Im very greatfull to Metal, its just unique music.. As a therapy definately YES. As the way of life, YES INDEED. Cheers.
When I came back from Iraq, I heard the song Spirit Breaker by August Burns Red while I was driving home, the lyrics completely lined up for me and how i was feeling. I broke down and cried for the first time in decades. That was my alittle bit of my therapy, along with listening to The Contortionist, which gave me an other worldly feeling, which help me detach from my negative emotions. A few years later, I met the vocalist for The Contortionist and told him how their music got me through my PTSD, he gave me a hug.
@@ATR000So listening to them cured your PTSD... seriously?
@vladimpaler1804 didn't cure it entirely, but it helped me, nothing but time will "cure" it. But rather helped me cope with it.
@@ATR000 Thanks.
For years I have blasted metal in my car on the ride home after a shift at the nursing home. Metal always puts a smile on my face!
I was in one of my lowest moments a month ago. My head was filled with negative self-talk, anxiety, and helplessness. But I decided to listen to Lorna Shore that afternoon, and I cried my eyeballs out to their music. An hour later, I was already feeling better, and I felt like all those negative emotions were flushed away from me. Metal has certainly helped my life countless times.
I can't imagine this world without Metal music
I can attest to this, I work a sales customer service job and I listen to metal nearly every day. I have listened to it since middle school or high school, it really does manage my anger. I used to get mad very easily but it doesn’t happen nearly as often anymore, I just let it go and deal with it in my car lol. Also, Killswitch Engage is an example of beautiful metal music
I can relate. I too work in retail and can have a crappy morning and put my headphones on at lunch listening to something metal and the next thing I know is taking a nap…. Metal blaring in my ears 🤘🏻
Metal, especially black metal, not satanic, nsbm stuff but mostly atmospheric, nature-themed stuff, helped me become a calm, mature, insightful, spiritually oriented person. Not just for me but for many people I know. I was recently discussing with a friend how it can be a strange bridge to our spiritual side. In my words, we saw that a common theme in metal music, "positive negativity," has a hazy connection to the Buddhism we are born with and often associate with. Another old friend of mine even became a Buddhist monk. He believed that inspiration from metal music was definitely one of the motivations for it.
Metal doesn´t necessarily take people to activism but in many cases such as mine it definitely has a big place there! The awareness of violence destruction and loss might actually take us to a deeper type of peace and maybe fight for a better world of more justice and respect.
Metal is a high energy output that many fear to understand. Has kept me going for decades.
Metal heads are also more accepting of their own self image, well balanced and accepting the differences in society than those who listen to pop and country.
I always listen to metal when I'm angry, stressed out or just studying, it's crazy how something as loud and chaotic as metal can be so calming.
People often say they admire my positivity. They are shocked when they find out I mostly listen to metal. "But you're so happy and positive". Yeah lol cause I release all the negativity through metal and feel empowered by it at the same time.
Metal is the truest form of music....metalhead 4 life 🤘😎🤘
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I've been addicted since the early 80s. Ebay CD binges have been my latest craze. Catching up on some lost classics.
Coming back from Summer Breeze festival yesterday I can relate heavily. I feel so much lighter right now. The community is the most inclusive, friendly and supporting one I have ever found, even in front of rock climbers. You fall in a pit, the pit stops. Somebody has a rough time? They will get help. I have seen guys in wheelchairs crowdsurf, if that´s not inclusion what is?
Music is my life.
But I still love those screams, the intensity of metal, and just the drums that go along with it.
The day I go deaf will be the day I turn miserable.
It's ironic people tell me i need therapy cause i love heavy metal when heavy metal is the best therapy
people wonder how i can sleep with metal music like parkway drive, caliban, killswitch enganage, inflames, just to name a few, I say it relaxes me
I don't listen to metalcore, but a lot of black metal is pretty relaxing. Filosofem by Burzum is really nice for chilling to.
I have slept to deathcore before
Orbit Culture might work for you too.
Yes finally someone who gets it.
I do the same and i find it insanely relaxing.
My only issue is living with my parents still and they get mad when i do it because “im not sleeping” when in reality i am. Obviously i dont play it loud just loud enough that i can hear it which is pretty low 😔
@@GodofToastme too, u was on a long car trip once, i played some good old lorna shore and went out like a light
Metal lyrics and imagery: Amoral anarchists who doubt and hate everything and derive pleasure from death, destruction, madness, and despair.
Metal community: Friendly, supportive, and neighborly fellows with a near universally accepted code of conduct dedicated to preserving the of life, liberty, and happiness of all attendees.
The night and day reality of Image VS Truth can be staggering, especially with counter culture movements like Heavy Metal, Punk, Goth, and Grunge.
Sometimes It's like Brodie in the movie Deathgasm said: "It's like, when life sucks, and you feel alone and empty. You stick on some metal and life is better, because... because somebody else knows the pain and the rage that you're going through, y'know?"
When I was a teenager in the 80s, Heavy Metal was mostly bullies and extremely committed jerks. I noticed a change in the type of fans of Metal about 15 years ago, but I'm not a Metalhead, so I did not know it's actually that cool now. I may give it more of a listen.
Metal is after all, a sum of the extreme sides of existance and a reflection of the true human nature. Call it a musicalized version of shock therapy, because it shows you in a way how to cope with reality, rather than just close your eyes and cover your ears. By being shocking, terrific, evil, sad; Metal helps you accept life, with it's ups and downs.
The channel _Occulturation_ has very in-depth analysis of heavy metal, i recommend everyone to watch them :)
Thanks for the suggestion.
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That is why I find it stupidly ironic that many people call heavy metal "the devil's music"! 😂😂😂
I hung up this picture on my wall of a metal festival where theres a bunch of metal head covered head to toe in tattoo and looking like the type of people who you dont want to meet at night lifting up a skinny kid in a wheelchair. its so contradictory to what everyone thinks the community is but in the end THAT is what its about. we dont judge, we dont discriminate, were just a bunch of fun people having fun with other fun people. the only negativity here is in the lyrics
And even then, the negativity in the lyrics is only an expression of the darkness we all feel and shows us hope because we see (and hear) that we're not alone. There's catharsis in that understanding...
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Sums up the spirit of metal pretty well
"The only negativity is in the lyrics."
Nope.
I present to you: Opal In Sky.
Metal's negative image came from its early days with high profile icons having real issues with drugs and alcohol. People like John Bonham, Ozzy Osborne, and Nikki Six were legendary for their hard-partying. The argument can be made that it was all rock at that time (and still today as well), and that would be correct. However, metal and hard rock bands often went out of their way to be as rebellious and transgressive as possible, and thus cemented the negative image.
0:31 Mine goes to 12.
Then put it to 13
Metal did to me more than 2 years of therapy. I had to stay in a foreign country, more than I wanted to, cut from the support of my family and friends... I will not go into details, but I was in a tough spot with almost no one to turn to. From a colleague, I discovered a rock bar with karaoke events in my town. I found people who share similar interests, unironically enjoy my singing, and are glad to talk to me in English. Singing Paradise Lost, In Flames and Five Finger Death Punch was such an outlet for my emotions! Something I wanted for two years. It became better when I started singing something less karaoke-able - Kreator, Septicflesh, Adept, Cannibal Corpse. People started recognizing me by my voice and being really nice to me, although I'm just a random foreigner.
Complexity and catharsis.
I feel very called out 😂 7:26
This was a very insightful and beautifully put video. Thank you for putting into succinct and gentle words what metal is for so many people ❤
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Oh my goodness, yes! Imminence's new abum (and their stuff in general) is just- AGH! It's too hard to explain y'know? 😂
I feel so connected with their music! Definitely need a dose of them once a day! 🎻😍
edit: also thank you! 😂🙈 that is such a thoughtful compliment, I appreciate it!
I've been a diehard metalhead ever since i was a preteen and found music like Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed.
Still listen to all of that and FAR heavier shit now, but metal has ABSOLUTELY helped save my life and gotten me through some of my darkest times.
Music has always been my therapy, and metal has always been my go to genre.
I think part of it is that it's one of the few genres that treads into darker topics and themes on the regular and that has always meant that you can find catharsis in the music. But purely instrumentally, it really IS a great outlet for some of the more destructive things we can feel, like rage. Put that together with a community that celebrates a HEALTHY expression of aggression, things like pits, and yeah you get a genre that's actually super healthy and wholesome.
i mean, pits are a PERFECT example. From the outside they look so incredibly violent and aggressive, a bunch of people shoving each other around and violently smashing into each other. But that's the whole point. it's controlled chaos, where everyone gets to release that pent up shit they feel, but everyone is consenting to be there in that moshpit. And everyone in the pit knows that we're doing this TOGETHER, that this is a communal activity and the point is to let out your shit, but not to hurt anyone. So everyone takes care of each other, picks each other back up, and activities like that build these kind of bonds between people, even if they're fleeting, even if that bond only last for the duration of the show. Point is, it's a great way to let off some anger, but in a healthy way, and also one where you can connect to other people and feel a sense of camaraderie.
Plus, also, metal people are just some of the nicest people I know. We REALLY look out for each other at shows, try to take care of each other. Someone loses something, they'll nearly always get it back. we're just a bunch of misfits, building a community around our shared love of this music
It's just good freaking music and the people are mostly pretty great (at least in real life they are). like ABR says: angry music for happy people
Dude same here, I started off with the bands you listed above along with Dragonforce, and now? Ooh do I love that heavy shit to death! Still return to the hard rock scene, but I’m a Metalhead for life, nothing will change that, ever
It's already fun to listen to but I'd say it's even more cathartic when you write metal songs and perform them. ☺
I don't do Mosh pits or headbang. I do enjoy the music from many generations.
For me, this keeps me calm when I need it.
God speaks to us in many ways. I feel that listening to Metal keeps me calm when feeling like I am struggling with other things not in the working world.
It does feel that some people that don't understand the music or don't care to. They may call it the Devil's Music. I have a co-worker who doesn't like metal (the throat scratch music) but has listened to rock.
Once 1 of my teacher said that if I,m depressed and go therapy and I need to stop listening to Metal because it makes me depressed. But she had no idea how much shit I have in my life and therapy + Metal helps me survive.
This music is my friend and even family when everyone else hurt me left me. This music makes me go with life.
Yeah, this is something us metal heads have known since getting into the genre. Now don’t completely dismiss the fact that there are bad apples that also listen to metal but it’s fairly rare.
Once had my glasses knocked off at the edge of a small bar equivalent of a pit. Immediatley everyone stepped back and several kneeled down to help locate the lost glasses. They were retrieved. Great community of strangers.
I was 40 years old the first time I listened to metal. That's when I discovered what my brain was missing. Now at 61, I still listen! 🤘🏻
Its the one genre of music where I will see more people of many different ages then any other music. From young to old. It's the one genre where you can mix an orchestra and it sounds even bigger then life. It's the one genre where many of the bands still very much write there own music and lyrics.
That's a great point! :O
I love the connection all ages have with each other as well! You got each generation teaching other generations their music lol, it really creates a strong bond and mutual respect!
One time I visited my old friends in Michigan, they weren’t into my kind of metal. It was cool and stuff. But when I got home and threw on my music.. I’ll never forget. I knew then our music spoke to our brains in a positive way 💪🏻
My playlist is mixed; from System of a Down to Paramore, add some Theatre of Tragedy and Trees of Eternity, to Arghoslent, Immolation and Sacramentum. Simply put, I've never run out of bands and genres to choose from. It's rock, it's metal, it's everything I've ever need regardless what some bands tend to stand for, politically or otherwise
Just went to my first concert last weekend. It was one of the most incredible experiences I’ve ever had, and the most faith I’ve had restored in humanity in a really long time. I’ve always been the type that simultaneously fits in everywhere and nowhere, depending entirely on how honest I am about myself and what I believe. But this is the only community I’ve found where I feel like I can be entirely honest and not get ousted for it.
That's amazing! 🤘😍 who did you see?
Also, I relate to this comment on a spiritual level, especially the fitting in everywhere and nowhere simultaneously!
@@Chromasylumusic it was Slaughter to Prevail, Marylin Manson, and 5FDP. Let me tell you I’m starting to like Manson way more than a libertarian should
Dang! What an amazing lineup for a first concert! I've only seen 5FDP from those 3! Slaughter must've been unreal! 😱😍
Did Manson have a good stage presence?
@@Chromasylumusic That’d be an understatement lmao, I went mainly to see slaughter and lit up right after they finished. Manson got up there right as it was starting to kick in and that shit sent me to another fucking dimension. I don’t have the words to describe how intense he is live.
Unpopular opinion: Though I love metal and probably owe my life to it, head banging is probably giving you CTE. Which might be partially driving your mental health issues to begin with. In my early teens I remember head banging till I got a headache. I spent 15 years head banging on stages in bands. Only to later find out that something as mellow as waterskiing can slosh your brain around enough to cause traumatic brain injury. I feel 99% sure my alcoholism and depression are a consequence of that. If anyone has evidence to the contrary, I would love to hear it. But it seems pretty likely to me. I only try to warn younger people of the potential risk. Outside that I whole heartedly agree.
Slipknot and TOOL got me trough some shit and without them i wouldnt probably be here
I've been a metalhead for a minute but bands like Imminence and Currents got me through my divorce with my ex wife, which was extra tough because she is an amazing person that I still love dearly. The lyrics fit my headspace and pain that I was dealing with and allowed to me to go through the emotions needed to heal. I felt so privileged to see Imminence in Sacramento, CA this year, awesome show!
Metal...the ultimate energy booster when working out! In fact, it raises my energy levels to such a degree that I never listen to metal at bedtime, or I will not be able to fall asleep.
Even to this day the song “The Grudge”, by the band Tool, helps realign me to the version of myself that’s ready to transition from a place of blame and pain to free that energy for a new life free of negativity.
I'm a metal head and my wife left me in 2009 but thanks to metal music for giving me hope that there are plenty of fish in the pond and its true now i'm still alive and she(my wife) died in 2012 tryin to win back my love......its sad but there's nothing i could have done...now i'm into new bands like 'Falling in reverse,Torture killer,Lord of the lost etc and i love them all🤘🤘🤘🤘
Whenever i listen to Slayer, Converge, Meshuggah or Gojira while driving my car, i feel like Sebastien Loeb plowing through the Finnish woods, never missing a shift and always hitting the apex perfectly. Whenever i drive my car without music, i feel like I'm in driving school again.
Metal is healing and so many people don’t understand
Heavy music saved me. Even reading the lyrics of a lot of metal (and some subgenres of hardcore) bands will show you the raw emotion and visceral honesty very rarely found in other genres. It's definitely a haven for outcasts and anyone who's felt othered.
Metal was there for me since my youth, early 90s when I first "jumped in".
Also when I lost my father 20 years ago...
Still during my bad days, no one understands me better than
Ronnie James Dio, Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson, Jon Oliva, Mathew Barlow,
Tom Englund, Russen Allen, Tarja Turunnen and all my other metal heros (the list can go on and on),
who are there, beside me, singing for me.... Healing me and give me strength to carry on.
I personally think metal community is one of the best and most constructive communities on earth. Sure there are some toxic people, there always are. But almost all the time especially on the internet, I see people supporting each other. For example I sometimes see some dudes' guitar playing videos with a handful of views and even if they play below decent or make noticable mistakes, comment sections are virtually like "keep practicing, you got this, wonderful play" etc. I like this. 🤘
I find metal genre has songs and bands who have the most beautiful lyrics and creative music that can ever be.
I am not one for the angry vibes (though it helps sometimes) but if someone is willing to dive in, they might find something unexpected and beautiful.
That's the point of a song like "The Darkness within" in which Rob Flynn (Machine Head) tells how music saved him from mental breakdown.
I'm disabled, and when I'm down in the mouth, I put my favourite metal music very loud (I'm lucky enough to have 60 cm thick walls!).
It's a real relief for the soul.
For the past 3 years I've had a goal to mosh at least once a year. And ive noticed that for about a month after moshing i feel exalted
Metal is a gift. People who don't listen to metal or appreciate it don't understand how therapeutic and cerebral metal can be. Also, there is so much diversity and flexibility in metal. Sometimes I want to gallop through the forest slaying dragons with triplets sounding my movement as I reach the end of time like Hammerfall or Dragonforce. Sometimes I just want some fun, in-your-face anthems like Iron Maiden or Edguy to free myself and get loose.
Metal can be brutal and technical with the right amount of flare like Slipknot or Trivium. It can be brutally beautiful like Dark Tranquillity or vintage In Flames. It can be relatable and reflective like Everygrey. It can be poetic and gothic like Kamelot. It can be infectious and furious like classic Metallica. It can be symphonic and mystifying like Nightwish or Stratovarius. It can be spiritual like Theocracy or Stryper.
Metal is for EVERYONE (Freedom Call, haha) because it's not about how we look or where we come from. It's about bonding over the love of real, powerful music, raw passion, and the courage to blast out our anger, frustration, and creativity through the instruments that weave our joy and sew up wounds that need a little more attention. Metal is a community of misfits and rebels who find commonalities and mutual sensibilities among each other in a world plagued by conformity and full of hatred and corruption. Some of the nicest people I've ever known are metalheads. Most of my experiences at metal concerts have been fun, liberating, and cathartic.
I wish everyone here love, peace, and METAL. . .Metal up!
I’ve delt with severe depression and anxiety for a few years now… when I got into metal it felt like I was cured anytime I blasted some music and danced, when I saw slipknot on October 2nd 2022 I was in the pit (outside on a deeply slanted hill) I lost my balance and went tumbling backwards, only to be grabbed and yanked by a jacked dude who walked me to the sidelines and told me “you’re going to get hurt be careful “
I'm 44 y.o. I've been listenin to metal since i was 17. If i should say some reasons to live after any struggle, firstly my inner self and metal externally. Even i divorced last year, i went out to take a walk putting my earphones playing Ride The Lightning album, Stratovarius, Arch Enemy, etc..Even one of my friend notice that i'm in love with a girl, so he requested me a shitty love song for emphaty and i say: "Man, this ones make my heart feel like a jelly fish, stop it." :) There are many things more to tell but long story short, metal saved me and still does. All the best .🤘🙏
I have seen the literal scenario from the intro on multiple occasions. Metalheads are super nice.
I recovered completely from a coma that left me physically and mentally disabled simply by going to metal concerts nonstop. Metal saved me.
So I get a bit of a different but related experience from metal. I feel more like I have excess happy but aggressive energy, overly excitable. It's not mania or anything to that level as I can tamp it down easily enough. But it can be frustrating when the external world seems a bit out of sync with my mood. Everything moving a bit to slow, a bit to gentle. Also as the energy is there it seems like a waste not to make use of it.
So metal is something I can make happen easily externally that matches that internal energy. I can find the lyrics interesting on occasion, though it's much more about the heaviness, tempo, vocal style, the amount going on all at once. Add in the crowd participation from a live recording and intensity is just off the charts. And if it changes tempo a lot, jumps genres a but here and there, then that amps it up even more which is why I love some prog songs.
Unclean vocals feel like normal vocals, but ratcheted up many notches. Plus vocalisations that are not words, or at least not clearly words, are far more interesting to me than standard singing. That's true whether it's pig squeals, yodelling or scat.
However when actually angry, upset etc metal doesn't do anything for me. I understand how it can for many, and I understand how a vocalist focusing on the subject of something you also struggle with can you feel seen, understood, like it's a shared problem, that someone with the same problem has succeeded in spite of the issue.
But because of my need for the happy overwhelming aggressive vibe I often gravitate to stuff that's heavy as hell but really fun, tongue in cheek, lyrically just straight up positive (there are exceptions)
So in short for me metal relates to a need for something external that has bouncing off the walls "I'M ALIVE!!!!" energy. There are other things that can do this. Being in a huge excitable crowd in a street festival, aggressive sex, the climatic violent but comical scene of a really good action packed film at the cinema, walking down a random road of a foreign city and seeing something amazing an unexpected. But none can be turned on or off quite as easily.
I've always told people who don't understand metal that it helps to calm and sooth me. Which is the opposite of what it does for others. I know my uncle says that it puts him on edge and makes him anxious. So I'm curious as to why it has a calming effect on some people, but not others. Fun video, thanks for putting it out. I know at the end of the day nothing puts me in my happy place better than a workout and listening to some good old school thrash.
“Angry Music for Happy People” - my favorite August Burns Red shirt
When I’m at a metal show, I tell my wife “These are my people and this is my tribe!”❤️🤘
Bro metal saved me tbh. I feel myself in it im a better man than i was before
Metal has helped me through many difficult years. When in the early 80's' I got to know Maiden - Van Halen - Priest and on to Metallica -Slayer - Exodus - Anthrax and many other bands until the current generation of metal. It has always been a positive release for me. And no, I have not become a devil worshipper 😉😉😉😉and all that crap. Now metal is my training partner.🦾🦾.
Metal will always charm me until the end of my days.
When I discovered Deep Purple and Black Sabbath in 1975, I knew the world for me would never be the same. Then later Kings-X, Morbid Angel and the plethora of 90's and to the present with White Chapel, wow... I'm starting to ramble. Rock on brothers and sisters of metal.
the metal community is a brotherhood, I have spoken with random people at various metal shows and found many things in common and learned lots of things. I don't think that happens with any other genres, imagine if you paid a couple of hundreds to a festival plus travel and accommodation to see some utterly unknown bands, you're a die hard fan, unlike mainstream pop music for instance. All these big bands are big for us, the fans, but commercially I guess we could only name very few that reached popularity To me, metal is pure joy and headbanging is the absolute form of freedom. I agree that most of the metal artists are very nice people with a deep philosophical understanding, but there are notable exceptions as well, but I would definitely say that you need to be in very good shape to keep rocking deep in your 50's or 60's as most of our metal idols are now.
I remember seeing Parkway and Thy Art back in the day. I was in the central pit of several and copped a solid kick to the hip, twisting my leg pretty badly and knocking me into the circle pit around us. Before even touching the ground two randoms had hold of me and kept holding on as we went around the pit until the end of the song. Madlads helped me out to some benches and checked on me before returning to the fun. Never will I forget that
metal got me acting all confident n shi like some typa normal person that can talk to others or maybe im just becoming an actually good human
Wow great vid! Yes I can relate I have been listening to metal since the age of four and I know I've always had ppl telling me that I am so calm.
I love the female vocals, they can get softness and strength in a delicious blend!
Like Spirit Box, Heart and Lizzy Hale....I agree 100 percent
I am getting used to say each time someone asks me why I listen to metal: As long as the music bangs, screams and roars, I don't have to. I just smile and headbang my spine off. It's therapy.
Metal has definitely helped me through some tough moments in my life. There is no equal of having it just burst through your body and take you on a spiritual journey. It doesn't matter if you are an Atheist or a believer metal makes you feel something that no religion can.
I am 61. I went to see Sabaton in the Cardiff International Arena last year. After Babymetal, I headed upstairs to the "quieter" toilets and tripped on the stairs, two huge tattooed monoliths caught me before I hit the floor. They kept asking if I was okay, even as I tried to reassure them that I had only slipped. You meet the nicest people at Metal concerts. If either of you read this, thank you very much.