Sometimes comfort doesn't come in a hug, sometimes it comes in a scream.... I needed to hear that today

I would argue that there is more merit to heavy metal than most mainstream music. It's an acquired taste not for mass consumption. 🤘🏻

Heavy metal has the most amazing rythms and the lyrics talks of a great variety of subjects. I think heavy metal is wildly misunderstood.

Very well said. Happiness can be found in the smallest of things, even amongst a sea of chaos and setbacks. Having a Monday-Friday where everything seems to go wrong can be forgotten or dramatically downsized after spending a few hours in my garden. Heavy Metal music playing while caring for my roses and vegetables makes me forget about all of the bad. Not completely, but long enough to breathe and re-center myself while finding beauty and peace moshing around in the dirt like a kid. I'm sure it also brings laughter to my neighbors seeing me bouncing around in the mud like a drunken lunatic!! (I don't drink)

What we need is not nessesarily more research into this topic, but most definately that the social sphere adapts to the findings. But most of all that adults and older people simply mind their own business and stop pointlessly judging.

Meshuggah Bleed encourages me to get projects done around my house and it is my motivation to workout. Metal can help to tweak your energy levels.

Heavy Metal is the best therapy and for me, it is calming. After a hard day at work, the first thing that came on my radio was either a metal cd or listening to my favorite metal stations on Sirius. Metalheads are a tribe.

Metal has prevented my death at my own hands more than once.

Two words, escapism and catharsis, key to experiencing heavy metal and both are essential (within reasonable levels) for a healthy mind.

Being a life long metalhead all I can say is...duh.

The ambivalence from the audience and their lack of applause always amuses me , surrounding the topic of metal and it’s communal and therapeutic benefits. Challenging stereotypes. I do wonder how many of them step into that rabbit hole… we metal heads know once we do and it takes hold, it’s a life long affair, even if we attempt to deny it to supplicate to the less informed and arrogant.

There's no better feeling than cutting through chaos to then discover life's rhythm pulsating all around & through ya.

TED Talks of limited cultural relevance. Try telling in Finland "we associate heavy metal with unsuccessfulness".

I feel happy when I see a moshpit circling around

Fasinating!

The mice didn’t need to rush their time in the maze because they were vibing so hard - them mice moshed their way through, not sprinted

But...I'm not a mouse.

Interesting video!!!

I have always loved how "mice" is our only real so called science to humans. The kid that did this "study" left out a ton of empirical eveidence that you bring into by North Europe countries have been showing us for generations!!

Angus McSix is a lawyer in real life. I think it's Sozos that is a Physicist. (Both lead singers in Heavy Metal bands).

Very interesting ! Is there a transcript of this speech ? It's so dense and fast that it's quite difficult to follow.... I had to "rewind" several times

The study that he mentioned is obviously flawed. First of all, mice are not human beings. Secondly, who listens to metal music for seven hours straight every day? Also, wouldn’t it depend on what kind of metal you’re listening to? Like yeah, if you force someone to listen to the heaviest most brutal metal against their will, like they do in Guantánamo Bay, that technically is a form of torture, sleep deprivation.

FINLAND!!! Finland bands RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i live my life at 140-150 BPM

Very interesting that studies are needed to prove that metal music makes happy. Why don’t they just believe us? Everybody who listens to metal will tell that it makes him or her happy. But there seem to be people who then say noooo, you can’t be happy from this, you are unhappy! - ???? Which part of „makes me happy“ did they not get? Do they really think all these thousands of people on festivals are there and are unhappy when the music is played?? And we buy CDs to feel unhappy? I just don’t get what‘s in people‘s minds.

A ton of the studies that he cited are very obviously flawed. He talks a lot about correlation, but very little about causation. A lot of people turn to heavy metal BECAUSE they are doing bad and want to escape, not the other way around. Also, the mice test was ABSOLUTELY not related AT ALL to successfulness in humans. 7 hours a day metal is way too much stimulation for a mouse, even is way too much for humans. Even if it was just a study only for mice and wasn't meant to be related to humans, that is still a horribly conducted experiment with not much thought behind it. He also didn't compare how successful bands were in other genres of music. That's a VERY major part of statistics; you don't hyperfocus on one specific group and try to use that as evidence, you want to gather from a diverse range of sources.

Explaining to normies why people listen to metal 🤣

MetalMouse

Metal singers scream so I don't have to

For the experiment with heavy metal music on mice and rats. That music was not created with rodents' listening capacity in mind. Neither did anyone pretend they would understand the emotional storm being expressed. Rodents can simply not digest it mentally. Of course they would go dippy dally all over the mental space.

OR the mice g9t more rebellious. Fackur maze anywaze!

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God loves bad people. Jesus said to love everyone. God is part of everyone. God is bad people, good and grey soul. There is a Goddess. She is also part of everyone.

TED Talks of limited cultural relevance. Try telling in Finland "we associate heavy metal with unsuccessfulness".