A brilliant BBC News story has been doing the rounds lately, which features lyrics and music from my Swedish/UK death metal pals in Bloodbath.
The BBC News story focuses on Macquarie University's music lab in Australia, which used a psychological test to determine that death metal music brings joy to its listeners instead of a desensitised urge of violence (well duh)
The article says that “the findings are published in the Royal Society journal Open Science,
"[Death metal] fans are nice people," said Prof Bill Thompson, from the Australian university, which is based in Sydney. "They're not going to go out and hurt someone."
This latest study is part of a decades-long investigation by Prof Thompson and his colleagues into the emotional effects of music. These effects, he explained, are complex.”
The study is actually quite interesting and puts the age old protest from religious groups/fanatical parents about this kind of music, under the microscope.
”Bloodbath's lead singer Nick Holmes told BBC News. "The lyrics are harmless fun, as the study proved." He added that Bloodbath's lyrical content was "basically an aural version of an 80s horror film".
"The majority of death metal fans are intelligent, thoughtful people who just have a passion for the music," he said. "It's the equivalent of people who are obsessed with horror movies or even battle re-enactments."
Here’s the latest Bloodbath video I made a few months back for a track called, quite fittingly, Chainsaw Lullaby
It’s a throw back to classic 80’s slasher movies. I tried my best to make it as authentic looking as possible under the limitations I had :)
Anyway it’s been fun to see them in the news!
They’re great musicians and even better humans :)
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Extra points for spotting Ash @ashtv and Ben @fierceideas in the Bloodbath video
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It’s a great video!
What a fantastic study too. Finally proving what a lot of people have known for years.
I’ve always felt safe in the company of fellow heavy metal fans and in my teens I went to lots of gigs on my own. I was always fascinated by the ‘mosh pits’ because of how they were surrounded by people making sure everyone was ok. If anyone fell, they stopped and helped them back up so they wouldn’t get stepped on.
Plus I love the music and find it relaxing to listen to!
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Great point @radicalpears. Feeling comfortable in a community is the most important thing; whether it’s heavy metal, or Steem ;)
Death Metal musicians are always the most lovely considerate people. The stage performance is just theatre - underneath that they’re often intelligent and articulate.
Saying that, by some statistic, I’m sure there is a psycho killer out there who loves death metal. Equally there’s probably one who loves house music.
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Thanks as ever @partiko, I’ll be doing a little post shortly about how much I enjoy your app :)
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Thank you so much for that! Look forward!
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The video subtitles were necessary for me to make sense of the vocals!
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Haha! Me too, without a lyric sheet Nick could be singing anything..
“I LIKE LONG HOT BATHS AND WEARING TIGHT SLIPPERS!”
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Hehe....Ahh death metal video with parody subtitles - could be hilarious!
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