Ive been telling Beef forever he needs to get in on this shit but he continues to turn his nose to this insightful mass of music. Great read for real though,,,
*Edit* Also if a mod would could they move this to the music forum. Probably better suited there.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ZlNiRIrAlRxm6Y
Brutality now becomes my appetiteViolence is now a way of life
The sledge my tool to torture
As it pounds down on your forehead
Shakespeare it’s not. Those lyrics, from “Hammer Smashed Face” by the band Cannibal Corpse, are typical of death metal—a subgenre of heavy metal music that features images of extreme violence and the sonic equivalent of, well, a sledgehammer to the forehead.
The appeal of this marginal musical form, which clearly seems bent on assaulting the senses and violating even the lowest standards of taste, is mystifying to non-fans—which is one reason music psychologist William Forde Thompson was drawn to it. Thompson and his colleagues have published three papers about death metal and its fans this year, and several more are in the works.
“It’s the paradox of enjoying a negative emotion that I was interested in,” says Thompson, a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. “Why are people interested in music that seems to induce a negative emotion, when in everyday life we tend to avoid situations that will induce a negative emotion?” A number of studies have explored the emotional appeal of sad music, Thompson notes. But relatively little research has examined the emotional effects of listening to music that is downright violent.