Metal: The Intelligent Choice 3
The Telegraph recently posted an article reporting that many of today’s brightest children listen to metal as a way to relieve stress and relax.
“Participants said they appreciated the complex and sometimes political themes of heavy metal music more than perhaps the average pop song. It has a tendency to worry adults a bit but I think it is just a cathartic thing. It does not indicate problems.”
— Stuart Cadwallader, psychologist, University of Warwick
Metal to me is a useful tool, as well as something I generally just enjoy. It’s my main music of choice, so I listen to it all the time. When I’m working, it relieves some of the inherent stress. When I’m just lazing around, I enjoy the instrumentation and the words, they help me to unwind. And going to a metal concert is always fun to me.
Being a fan of metal myself (long hair and all), it’s a relief to finally see someone trying to dispell the myth that anyone who listens to metal is either on some kind of drug, dumb, or any of the other silly stereotypes.
