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Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation
- platevoltage 11mo ago> “Your homework tonight, and I’ll remind you of this later, go listen to the song ‘43% Burnt.’” Why weren't my teachers this cool? I would have assigned the entire album though.
- jaggederest 11mo agoWhen I was in school, before the turn of the century, we were reading Johnny Got His Gun in English class and discovered that Metallica's One is about a very similar situation (though not apparently originally inspired by Johnny Got His Gun), so we got to play it in class and do a report on the two. Received some minor kudos from the class and a reasonable grade from the teacher. It got slightly awkward as I believe that was just before the Columbine shooting, and after that metal had a more negative reputation for a while.
- rsingel 11mo agoThe video for that song uses excerpts from the movie version of Johnny Got His Gun. I don't know if the songwriting was inspired by it but the video certainly was. Because the video relied so much on the excerpts the band ended up buying the rights to the movie just to not pay royalties. Hilariously, I won a writing prize about this connection as a teenager in 1989. Fun to see you had a similar experience
- PunchyHamster 11mo agoI'd imagine it could backfire as anything school or parents recommend is automatically less cool
- platevoltage 11mo agoIf all you knew was Slipknot and a teacher hands you a Dillinger Escape Plan song, you would have the opposite reaction.
- foxglacier 11mo agoBecause it's not regular class. It's an extra-curricular club. If you joined the heavy metal club, you might have had similar activities.
- ErroneousBosh 11mo agoI knew someone from the local goth scene where I used to live, who was a German teacher. Part of the assigned homework was to listen to Rammstein ;-)
- lawgimenez 11mo agoI remember hearing for the first time Dillinger Escape Plan's Calculating Infinity over 20 years ago, life changing record indeed.
- platevoltage 11mo agoI had the absolute privilege of seeing them live during that era.
- lawgimenez 11mo agoMan I envy you, I live in Southeast Asia and there were only like 50 of us who's into hardcore in my whole country. This was late 90s I think.
- platevoltage 11mo agoI just discovered that they played some shows with their original vocalist recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WqIjayZ1qE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WqIjayZ1qE
- kroaton 11mo agoI saw their penultimate-ever concert (with Greg Puciato on vocals) in Prague, and it was a religious experience. By far the best concert I’ve ever seen.
- megamix 11mo agoWhy no one talks about the real issue (root cause) of why they feel this way? And where’s Sitting Bull
- PunchyHamster 11mo agoplenty of talking about that. Not all that much doing.
- eucyclos 11mo agoTalking about why one feels a particular way requires trust in the interlocutor, so I'm not surprised outsiders don't hear anyone taking about it. As for insiders, is it a given they aren't?
- rdtsc 11mo ago> And where’s Sitting Bull Gentle correction: you meant Crowfoot, or maybe John Two Guns White Calf? Because Sitting Bull, was a Lakota chief.
- megamix 11mo agoExcuse my ignorance, I was sincerely trying to understand the background, and had little knowledge about the different chiefs. I wanted to point to the fact “remember your roots”. Thanks!
- hexo 11mo agoOK lets play some UNO card: Why no one talks about the pop "music" sounding like a human tragedy? Listening to that whining all day everyday is sickening. And yet (presumably) majority of people do that. Why no one talks about what is wrong with them?
- megamix 11mo agoThat’s a good point too
- belZaah 11mo agoA moshpit is the only consensual form of non-sexual violence outside of sports.
- leipert 11mo agoI dunno. There is always this one, little overweight, sweaty guy without a shirt. Makes it a little bit sexual, doesn’t it?
- haddr 11mo agoThere are also some medieval reenactment groups who do some real battles (with rules of course) and that is totally about fighting with each other. Something like a fight club but set in medieval context.
- razakel 11mo agoThe Royal Armouries in Leeds, England has that. Well worth a visit if you're in the area.
- pdpi 11mo agoNot surprised. The imagery and the aggression involved in the music can make it seem daunting and somehow damaging, but the metal community is surprisingly chill and friendly, and, sometimes, just so damned silly. E.g. here's Slipknot's singer live in concert singing the SpongeBob Squarepants theme song, because the audience really wanted him to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5OLtoY70AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5OLtoY70AI Or, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Devin Townsend signing this thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1isK2MYWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1isK2MYWI is not the same Devin singing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsd4ZkFVOHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsd4ZkFVOHY
- Insanity 11mo agoIf you want some more humorous metal, check out the band “NanoWar of Steel”. It’s great. All their songs are humorous, but for example they have a song with Joachim from Sabaton called Pasadena 1994. It fits the “war metal” style of Sabaton, but instead the song is about football. (https://open.spotify.com/track/65i7HQAWy3ZlSTEyWWFoPN?si=kUm6_qZqQGSD5I8ricP2tA https://open.spotify.com/track/65i7HQAWy3ZlSTEyWWFoPN?si=kUm...)
- pdpi 11mo agoIf we're doing Nanowar of Steel, there's a more seasonally appropriate track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9WWz95ripA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9WWz95ripA Or, because this is HN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8gIXxWDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8gIXxWDU
- darkwater 11mo agoNanowar, the best Italian band ever!! Big fan of them, but I didn't know Hello world.java! :D Int pippo=0; is so meta(l) for Italian developers ! ROTFL
- rolandog 11mo agoThey also offer what some call rocky, others call stony, dating advice [0]. [0]: https://youtu.be/pJCxcdWqdto https://youtu.be/pJCxcdWqdto
- mariusor 11mo agoMetal music offers a sort of catharsis for people that can't scream into the void, but feel a need to. It's not about manifesting violence, but containing it and directing it into a creative outlet.
- npodbielski 11mo agoExactly. you can't shout to your teachers and parents 'Fuck you! I won't do what you tell me' but you can in the concert. :)
- ErroneousBosh 11mo agoMy small son loves listening to Rage Against The Machine, having heard Guerilla Radio as the intro music to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and always wants it on when we're driving round to granny's house about 25 minutes away. Spotify plays the same sequence every time, Guerilla Radio first, then Bombtrack, then Bulls on Parade, then Take the Power Back, all of which are the radio edits. Then Killing in the Name, which is most definitely not the radio edit, but by judicious use of the little pedal and if we don't get stuck behind a tractor too long, we're just pulling up outside and switching off the ignition at juuuuuust the right moment. Once he's bigger he'd better be sneaking the full version behind my back on headphones when he thinks I don't know. It's nothing he doesn't hear - and worse - from the bigger kids at school.
- npodbielski 11mo agoI understand and I am happy that you guys enjoy things together! I was not trying to say that children was not meant to listem to rock or metal. I was just trying to say that it is a way to rebel for teens or young adults. The problem I am a bit afraid of a way my kids will be rebelling with against me, it won't be heavy metal because I am listening to heavy metal. Maybe it will be some pycho-folk-new-wave-electric-r&b or some other silly shit like that ;)
- reactordev 11mo agoPunk rockers would disagree and tell you, “Yes, yes you can.”
- ahmedfromtunis 11mo agoApparently there are multiple studies that show a link between listening to heavy metal and being 'happier' and/or 'less angry': - What Makes Metalheads Happy? A Phenomenological Analysis of Flow Experiences in Metal Musicians [0] - Extreme metal music and anger processing [1] - The effects of heavy metal music on arousal and anger [2] [0]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321893408_What_Makes_Metalheads_Happy_A_Phenomenological_Analysis_of_Flow_Experiences_in_Metal_Musicians https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321893408_What_Make... [1]: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00272/full https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/arti... [2]: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-05014-002 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-05014-002
- niemandhier 11mo agoI often have the feeling that kids today lack the experience of being part of something. Metal can provide this, especially live concerts and the fandom is pretty stable: You meet the same people again and again in your tiny very noisy social bubble. The whole 6-7 or „chicken jerky“ madness felt very similar to classical group formation dynamics: Be part of it by knowing the secret rites and separate yourself from outsiders that don’t. The sad thing about those TikTok movements as opposed to metal is: The feeling to belong is an illusion. There isn’t real group just a set of strangers that share a fleeting experience that rarely creates something lasting, a „one-night stand“ like experience if you will.
- noufalibrahim 11mo agoI think you've nailed it and it's kind of depressing in a way since there were a lot of things kids were part of just a few decades ago. The local football group, the bunch that gathered together to watch a TV show at one guys house that would air at 7:30 pm on a weekend, the circle of cousins kids would hang out with during a stretch of holidays, the circle of people who they'd meet regularly during a congregational prayers, etc. etc. These things are as missing as they're necessary in kids' lives and (non-mainstream?) music gives people some semblance of community that has a stabilizing effect. The Discord "communities" don't have the same effect unless the group actually meets in person regularly.
- metalman 11mo agohttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc The Hu ↑ Helps if you have speakers that wouldn't look out of place at stonehenge.
- pezezin 11mo agoThank you for the link, I didn't know them and they sound pretty awesome.
- waihtis 11mo agoI'm willing to bet both metal and combat sports share some same primitive release mechanism that helps curb bad emotions.
- dvratil 11mo agoI always enjoyed being a metal head, the music is the main reason of course (I like it), but the community is a very big aspect of it too. I always thought about metal shows and festivals as a "safe space", where people can really be themselves, because you don't have to suffer judgmental remarks about what you wear, what you look like or what you listen to. And most people there get this and feel this as well, which is why the community feels so welcoming and chill. Plus as someone else posted here, it's also all a bit silly and I think most people get that as well.
- reactordev 11mo agoMetal heads are the nicest people. The music is a front for how they feel about society but individually, they are all just big softies. I know a couple heavy metal bands and they would agree that once the early 20s was out of their system, they just want to bring people together.
- grindermaster 11mo agoin grind we crust
- skirge 11mo agoand good for ADHD. At 110% speed.
- flanked-evergl 11mo agodoubt
- dustractor 11mo agoI'm glad to hear that the Blackfoot tribe is still going strong. I'm a nobody white guy but I've always felt a special connection with them. Here's why: When I was a teenager and my parents weren't home, there was a knock at the door and it was an ancient-looking old man. He said he was a medicine man of the Blackfoot tribe. He didn't go into details but he said that since the tribe's numbers had dwindled they had voted to move to a different reservation. The problem was that the reservation they were going to was on land that used to belong to a tribe that was one of their ancient enemies and that he could not allow his tribe's medicine bag to end up there. He had heard that my parents were friends with the (? shawnee ? pawnee) and we had let them build a sweat lodge on our land that before he and his tribe left to go live with the tribe that was taking them in, he wanted to leave the medicine pouch somewhere it could stay on traditional Blackfoot lands. So anyway, he gave it to me and I got to hold it. The leather was old and cracked, the feathers were brittle, and the decorations were old shells and antique beads. I kept it for a while and used it in a couple of sweat lodge ceremonies with my friends before I finally told my dad about it and let him keep it.
- bentt 11mo agoHN should relate to metal because it’s just nerds who have taken a different path. You could say computer nerds are intellectual nerds, and metalheads are emotional nerds who love the music made by music nerds. the cool people are elsewhere