What bands do people reckon I should include in my essay on the psychological effects of Metal music?

You see, I am writing an essay on the psychology of metal-how metal is the one genre where fans are 'united' by their music, metal fans have the greatest sense of comraradie- and I was wondering about what kinds of influencial bands I should include- not just for fanbase qualities but also depths of lyrics.





I am including Machine Head, Slipknot and Iron Maiden so far, and would like to know what others think of this.What bands do people reckon I should include in my essay on the psychological effects of Metal music?
You can't write an essay about metal and not talk about black metal! Look up Gorgoroth and Mayhem. That should give you some interesting stuff. Go to youtube and look up True Norwegian Black Metal. There are 5 parts, but its short. Please watch it. This guy is insane!!!
(I'm going to appologize in advance if it sounds like I'm ranting, but I'm not.)



To be totally truthful, not all metalheads are united. If you look close enough, there is usually a very noticeable schism between those who think that metal is Bullet for my Valentine and those who think that metal should be kept "pure". Heavy metal purists, also called "metal elitists", often show great distaste for more mainstream forms of heavy metal, such as glam metal and nu metal. Metal purists are most prevalent in the black metal scene, often rejecting bands for deviating from the "true" black metal sound. I am somewhat on that side, but not as extreme.





Get rid of Slipknot, they are not metal.



You definately want to include the Big Four of Thrash: Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeath, and Slayer. They revolutionized the metal industry with their varied styles and lyrics. Certainly include the beginnings of the genre: Black Sabbath. Without Black Sabbath, there would not be "heavy metal". I'm sure that it would have came along eventually, but Black Sabbath brought it on first. Hell, if this was me writing this paper, I'd put in some late rock that boardered heavy metal like Blue Oyster Cult and Deep Purple.What bands do people reckon I should include in my essay on the psychological effects of Metal music?
Metallica.

They came up in the genre of "pretty boy" metal, or "glam metal" as most call it. They broke that image, that's what metal does. It breaks what society is use to, what they say is "normal"

Take thew Jonas brothers, they have no talent. Instead they bring in a huge fan base. Why?, cause of all the teenage girls who think there hot. They use that to hide how BAD they are. Metal bands like Metallica, Slipknot, Lamb of god, Iron maiden, Slayer. They don't care!, they don't write songs that the masses will like, they don't dress up to look like fags so some 13 year old girl will love them.



There into there music, they are what music is all about and is SUPOSED to be about. Individuality, Freshness, Realism. They are like everyone else, the common person. Not some perfect little rich boy wanna be.



That's just my opinion on why Metal bands have such a huge following, there REAL bands, they represent what music is all about. There not into pleasing the masses, they do ti for the art of music.

Rock on \m/
Your assertion that Metal is the only style of music with "united" fans isn't completely true, nor is your assumption that all metal fans are united (like that other guy said).



Secondly, Machine Head and Slipknot are false metal and should not be included in your essay. Might want to include bands like: Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Sodom, Kreator, Death, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Darkthrone, Bathory, Immortal, Napalm Death, Brutal Truth, Hypocrisy, At The Gates, Blind Guardian, Eyehategod, Crowbar, Enslaved, Opeth, Gojira....I dunno, do some research.What bands do people reckon I should include in my essay on the psychological effects of Metal music?
Do the world a favor and don't include Slipknot. Slipknot is just watered down crap that isn't metal.



Include (awesome) bands like Carcass, Death, Decapitated (obviously, RIP Vitek), Immortal, Kreator, Morbid Angel etc.



And prolly watching these might help you.



Promised Land Of Heavy Metal (documentary about heavy metal in Finland)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ_WewgcZ鈥?/a>



Global Metal (awesome movie by an anthropologist)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spto3mfbT鈥?/a>



Good luck for your essay. Hail \m/



And I see you like 69 Eyes, cool band.
I would mention Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax %26amp; Metallica who single handedly destroyed the hair metal bands during the 80s. A lot of metal fans were getting sick of glam metal because every man and his dog would start a glam metal band. These four paved the way for the next order of metal which continued on from the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal).



You have to mention Sabbath being as they were possibly the first band that were called metal instead of hard rock. The influenced everyone in metal.
Here are some eerie, profane bands / albums which are "not for the faint of heart." A few are somewhat underground, with a cult following. (very talented nontheless, not heard of mostly because of overall content)



Darkthrone (album "A blaze in the northern sky")

Brujeria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y6OWW0YV鈥?/a>

Vaginal Jesus ("Affirmative Apartheid" is the compilation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCKfst0Rj鈥?/a>

Pig Destroyer (album "Prowler in the yard")

Anal C()nt (This song: "Hitler was a sensitive man") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPGIdsIfU鈥?/a>

The Raunchous Brothers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86_QwahtQ鈥?/a>
Machine head isn't metal... neither is Slipknot...



In Flames for sure, they're probably one of the biggest modern metal bands, and their fans are extremely united hence the motto "In Flames we trust" which fans from all over the world post on websites like youtube.

ummm... August Burns Red, As I lay Dying and Killswitch Engage all have really deep lyrics, and are pioneers of Metalcore.
You should include bands like Manowar, Slayer and Metallica which have some of the most devoted fans in music.



And to everyone who said Slipknot isn't metal...are you serious?!



I'm not a fan myself, but saying Slipknot isn't metal is like saying Limp Bizkit IS hip hop.
Trust me on these. I am both a metal musician of 16 yrs. and a connoisseur.



Cynic -Traced in Air (for atmosphere and lyrical evolution)



Psychometry - The Four Points (beautifully aggressive composition)



Spastic Ink - Ink Complete (ground-breaking writing)



Enjoy!
well lets see those are great examples i think you should do like a band from each genre i believe all metal is metal even glam metal you got a great start i recommend manowar,venom,slayer,motley crue,black sabbath and such and yeah you probably should put metallica(even thjough im not a fan) and megadeth
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to bad you weren't talking about industrial



Coil - Dark River

no lyrics

just kinda takes you someplace else
go for Metallica because there one of the best and even if you dont like them you cant deny the massive influence they had

plus they have very good lyrical content

like Creeping Death, One and Master Of Puppets
Metallica and Megadeath - there is some rivalry between the fans of these 2 groups.
Metallica and Ozzy
definately metallica. theyre still kicking a** with their music
You should put in some death metal bands.
Just talk about black metal, your teacher will love you.







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