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    Default Metal Music is good for you

    Thanks to Kinger for pointing the article out to me so im sharing to all you lovely people who need more metal in your life.

    https://www.popsci.com/science/metal...-14pqWYTllNyoI

    Metalheads aren’t who you think they are

    Just as the genre is more complex than you might assume, so too are its myriad fans. They’re more diverse—and less angry—than stereotypes would have you believe. For starters, they’re everywhere: A full 145 of the world’s nations had at least one active metal band in 2021.


    And contrary to popular belief, fans don’t all look like burly Vikings. Laina Dawes, an ethnomusicologist and author of What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal, has seen as much while investigating why young Black Americans tend to gravitate toward intense music. Her interviews with artists and devotees over the last few years suggest that punk, powerviolence, grindcore, and other genres known to be explicitly political may offer a form of catharsis for youths dealing with individual and systemic oppressions.

    Could metal help us save the world?

    When you accept that metal builds communities (and frequently functions like a cleansing primal scream), it follows that headbanging could help us survive tough times—including, one scientist argues, the impending climate apocalypse.


    Bear with us here. Maintaining mental and emotional resilience—that is, processing difficult feelings—will be key to both surviving the upheaval and building a stronger future. That’s why David Angeler, an ecologist and complex systems researcher, published a 2016 paper in SpringerPlus on metal’s potential to keep us afloat. According to Angeler, building resilient societies depends on a complex set of factors affecting both systems and individuals. Anything that helps people cope with their own emotions, including the catharsis many feel while listening to metal, also helps keep their communities strong.


    But Angeler’s ideas go beyond that. What if metalheads could collaborate with the sustainability community? “We need to return to the era of Romanticism, where different fields, such as the arts and sciences, are not mutually exclusive,” he says. If you think about metal and sustainability as complex ecosystems analogous to the ones we see in nature, it’s easy to envision how the two could interact and create change at the systemic level for humans.

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    I only like Deftones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aberdien View Post
    I only like Deftones.
    What's their best song?

    I **** with Metal in general. I don't dig deep into the genre wars, but it's in my genre rotation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by King87 View Post
    What's their best song?

    I **** with Metal in general. I don't dig deep into the genre wars, but it's in my genre rotation.
    I can dig some heavier music when I'm in the mood, but I need a balance of melodic stuff, vocals that are singable and not just screaming, and a cool vibe in general. There's some metal that I like.

    I'm not a superfan of Deftones so I can't say what are generally agreed upon as their best....but my favorite songs as a casual listener:

    Cherry Waves
    Sextape
    Be Quiet and Drive
    Xerces
    What Happened to You?


    I found a spotify playlist called "deftones sex playlist" so there's that.

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    Be quiet and drive is a SONG.
    Quote Originally Posted by Sting
    "You know cos I just lost my parents--both my parents died in the same year...to this day, people come up to me and say 'my dad died and that album really meant a lot to me,' which is very nourishing {pats heart} for a songwriter to hear that your songs have a utility beyond just their own solace, that it actually helps other people."

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    Quote Originally Posted by aberdien View Post
    I can dig some heavier music when I'm in the mood, but I need a balance of melodic stuff, vocals that are singable and not just screaming, and a cool vibe in general. There's some metal that I like.

    I'm not a superfan of Deftones so I can't say what are generally agreed upon as their best....but my favorite songs as a casual listener:

    Cherry Waves
    Sextape
    Be Quiet and Drive
    Xerces
    What Happened to You?


    I found a spotify playlist called "deftones sex playlist" so there's that.
    This is the god damn hipster'ist deftones hitlist I've ever seen. But at least you got Be Quiet and Drive in there...

    The best songs are:

    Around the fur
    Seven Words
    Bored
    Engine No 9

    Chino Moreno one of the better front men live.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buff View Post
    This is the god damn hipster'ist deftones hitlist I've ever seen. But at least you got Be Quiet and Drive in there...

    The best songs are:

    Around the fur
    Seven Words
    Bored
    Engine No 9

    Chino Moreno one of the better front men live.
    Well you do have to keep in mind 2 things:

    1) I am a skinny jeans wearing hipster
    2) I prefer more melodic styles of music

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    Quote Originally Posted by aberdien View Post
    Well you do have to keep in mind 2 things:

    1) I am a skinny jeans wearing hipster
    2) I prefer more melodic styles of music
    All fair, I just had to make a stand in the metal! thread!

    I've always liked metal that can incorporate good melodies... Minerva and Be Quiet and Drive are probably my fav in that category.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buff View Post
    All fair, I just had to make a stand in the metal! thread!

    I've always liked metal that can incorporate good melodies... Minerva and Be Quiet and Drive are probably my fav in that category.
    I just went through the Deftones reddit looking for recs on songs like Cherry Waves. I now have a good 30ish song playlist that I'll be listening to the next few days. Entombed, Riviere, and Knife Prty are the ones that stick out as my vibe. I'm excited to become a real Deftones fan in the next week or so after I go through the playlist and some of their albums.

    My high school friends who I still talk to frequently are all big Deftones fans and have seen them in concert.

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    Does the Northman even consider Deftones metal?

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    Quote Originally Posted by aberdien View Post
    Does the Northman even consider Deftones metal?
    Early Deftones yes, anything after Around the Fur started to go into Post Rock which im quite alright with since its better material anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aberdien View Post
    I just went through the Deftones reddit looking for recs on songs like Cherry Waves. I now have a good 30ish song playlist that I'll be listening to the next few days. Entombed, Riviere, and Knife Prty are the ones that stick out as my vibe. I'm excited to become a real Deftones fan in the next week or so after I go through the playlist and some of their albums.

    My high school friends who I still talk to frequently are all big Deftones fans and have seen them in concert.
    Just listen to their last 3 records as they are all instant classics.

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    You're an instant classic, bitch!

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    Quote Originally Posted by King87 View Post
    You're an instant classic, bitch!
    Well yea, of course.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buff View Post
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    The best songs are:

    Around the fur
    Seven Words
    Bored
    Engine No 9

    Chino Moreno one of the better front men live.
    +1.

    Replace Around the Fur with Knife Prty tho.
    Quote Originally Posted by Sting
    "You know cos I just lost my parents--both my parents died in the same year...to this day, people come up to me and say 'my dad died and that album really meant a lot to me,' which is very nourishing {pats heart} for a songwriter to hear that your songs have a utility beyond just their own solace, that it actually helps other people."

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