Heavy metal music combats emotions like depression, anger, study finds

Photo: Study shows that by listening to heavy metal concerts, respondents' hostility, hypersensitivity, stress has been alleviated. (University of Queensland)

According to a study, listening to heavy metals and extreme kinds of music makes it possible to clarify emotions such as anger and depression.

Leah Sharman of Queensland University psychology department is studying the influence of music on society

According to a survey of 39 adults between the ages of 18 and 34, she revealed that it is calm and inspired when listening to heavy metals.

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"I would like to know how people are using this music because people listening to it use it in a variety of emotional states," Shaman said.

"When you are mad, you will hear something very exciting that will match your emotional state."

Sharman said that respondents' hostility, hypersensitivity, and stress levels declined after listening to heavy metals and extreme music.

"Of course, many people are shouting on the roof and say I have told you about it," she said.

Mr. Sharman said the study would argue against previous studies that found a correlation between people who prefer heavy metals and those with higher levels of anxiety and depression.

"When I am sad I do not want to hear Farrell's happy, I want to hear something that makes me sad.

Mr. Sharman said the research participants spent time in "inducing anger" for 16 minutes and explained the relationship that feels anxiety, employment, and financial problems.

Half of the participants chose songs including anger and aggression and the rest picked songs about loneliness and sorrow.

"From all the answers, she found that extreme music listeners seem to be using the music of their choice for active self-regulation," she says.

"Whatever kind of music you like, be sure to use that music as long as this is what you like and help.

Most of the participants (74%) were born in Australia, the rest were born in Oman, Sweden, Indonesia, South Africa, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and the United States of America.

A new study recently published in the Journal of Community Psychology published a survey not depending on the type of influence of heavy metal music on psychosocial function. Researchers have reported that heavy metal music can be a catalyst to improve the emotional function of bullied or marginalized youth. For some fans they discovered that metal music may protect mental health problems against harmful environmental factors. Heavy metal artists have long been criticized by parents and politicians. Metal head (Heavy Metal Fan) is also a victim of suspicion. "People generally believe that metal music and culture can cause mental health problems or attract people with mental health problems," the author wrote.

The purpose of this paper is to use a similar model to relate heavy metal music to the phenomenology of psychosis (health, asymptomatic phase) and ontology (symptoms of depressed mania and depression). The function of this model is to artistically express symptoms of bipolar disorder using heavy metals throughout the structure of the overall song expressed in various subtypes. In this model, heavy metals are used as a heuristic to associate emotions experienced by bipolar people through plots, to emotions that music may evoke to the audience. As with many potential music types, heavy metals seem to be potentially appropriate heuristics, as the attributes of music can be regarded as similar to the emotional properties experienced in this series. Heuristic is not a representative of "self-content" but a purpose of agent learning.

At first glance it is surprising that heavy metal music is often regarded as a fast and lively form of music that may be related to depression. However, the range of pace slow, thick tone and bass guitar and subclass of metal may capture the diversity of symptoms of depression. These types include metals of fate similar to despair, fear, imminent fate. The structure of the song of the drones metal may be related to symptoms of activity decline, emptiness, and drowsiness. The darkness of the environment caused by the fate of the funeral can heuristically express the pathological idea of ​​suicide ideology and death. Other symptoms such as confusion, uncertainty, emotional disturbance, anxiety are sudden guitar solos whose songs are often unpredictable, a reduction in dynamic chords, and war metal with an important meaning (aka animal black metal) It appears in. Speed ​​has risen, usually sudden rhythm