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Girls who prefer Heavy Metal music reported  more feelings of alienation and anomie, and presented a higher suicide risk than their same sex peers

Heavy Metal Music and Adolescent Suicide Risk. pg. 330

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These conclusions suggest that Heavy Metal Music is not likely to nurture current suicidal ideation

Heavy Metal and Adolescent Suicide Risk 

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When I hear the opening riff to "Crazy Train," I am catapulted back to a fantasy world of loud music, theatrics, masquerade, blood, magic, smoke, and of mirrors. Yet I am become a god, able to create and murder to dissect.

Erik Campbell

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Thus popular/ rock/ metal music goes straight for the id-there is no time to process the immanent climax/ chorus and properly prepare oneself.

Erik Campbell

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Put it simply, to be considered heavy metal a band has to play hard rock/heavy metal music; needs to be limited in its number of ballads

Erik Campbell “The Death of Satan: A Novice Poet’s Ode to his Innocence, Classic Heavy Metal, and the Creativity of Imaginary Evil” pg.106. 

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Metal music has an affinity with critical theory because of its form as well as its communicative power that offers a negative alternative to the culture industry  musical deceptions in fantastic and shocking forms.

Martin Morris “Adorno and Heavy Metal” pg. 563

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Metal music and lyrics produce an affective response in fans that is similar to the affective response of religious liturgy in believers-an ecstatic experience is induced through the ritualistic head banging of metal fans that can be compared to musical and nonmusical practices that induce ecstasy.

Martin Morris “Adorno and Heavy Metal” pg. 559

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There is also a special sound to death metal 'singing' performance that deserves comment because it is so important for the fans reception-the demonic growling, hoarsely screamed delivery

“Adorno and Heavy Metal” Martin Morris pg. 558

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Metal lyrics may include political themes such as the criticism of what, the hypocrisy of politicians or environmental threat, yet there is little that could be interpreted as hope for the future. Most Lyrics are typically anguished laments and admonitions rather than incitements to action or anticipations of progressive change

“Adorno and Heavy Metal” Mark Morris pg. 556 

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Metal music and its screen register the crisis of the absence of political fulfillment that Adorno associated with music expressive of this music crisis. As a result, metal may be considered as a negative dialectical challenge to the politics of Cultural Industry music.

“Adorno and Heavy Metal” pg.555

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Music that expresses a kind of resistance valued by Adorno, which is contrasted with conformist Culture Industry music, each generate one another within the contradictory totality of late capitalist society.

“Adorno and Heavy Metal” Mar Morris. Pg 552

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Adorno's critical alternative to popular music- what he calls 'serious music' expresses resistance to such ideological needs and as a result is not generally popular in the sense that the music composed does not present a mere musical compensation for the alienated experience of spiritual and material lack under capitalism

“Adorno and Heavy Metal” Mark Morris. pg.551

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For Adorno, thus communicative power of music is to be understood within the context of the dominant social requirements of social capitalism, which always seek to assimilate music to capital accumulation and which marginalize music that, for whatever reason, cannot be assimilated to these needs.

Martin Morris “Adorno and Heavy Metal. pg. 551

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Music seeks to constitute a community that relies on aesthetic and affective response combined with interpretive context- a communicative practical achievement common to most art. The reception of music must unfold over time through a physical, bodily experience that is co-determinant with its comprehension by the mind. Yet necessary performance of music-live recorded seems to accord a unique condition to the appreciation of music and the immanently related art of dance.

Negative Dialectics in Music: Adorno and Heavy Metal” Martin Morris. pg 549-550. 

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The findings for heavy metal are very interesting, and unexpected,however. It is not exactly the music of the socially marginal. It is certainly young men who are attracted to it, but these tend to be those in middle-income brackets, with city and guilds qualifications, in intermediate and low supervisory positions.

“The Musical Field” Mike Savage pg. 170

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By Contrast, more 'popular forms of music are actually much less liked. Urban, World Jazz, electro and heavy metal all see high negative ratings.

Mike Savage “The Musical Field” pg. 160

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Music has usually been seen asa highly contentious cultural arena, one which acts as a crucible of social tensions around such axes of age, class and ethnicity. It is a central component of specific subcultures, each marketing out a dsitinctive test community.

“The Musical Field” Mike Savage pg. 159