Collecting Heavy Metal Music

Automatic Subgenre Classification of Heavy Metal Music

Heavy Metal Music and Adolescent Suicidal Risk

This study probes the differentiating characteristics (family relationships, social– psychological attitudes, drug use, and suicidal risk) of youth who prefer heavy metal (HM) music, worship music, and use music for vicarious release. Data analysis was based on a sample of 275 secondary school students between the ages of 14 and 18. Logistic regressions revealed that HM music preference and wor...

Heavy metal music meets complexity and sustainability science

This paper builds a bridge between heavy metal music, complexity theory and sustainability science to show the potential of the (auditory) arts to inform different aspects of complex systems of people and nature. The links are described along different dimensions. This first dimension focuses on the scientific aspect of heavy metal. It uses complex adaptive systems theory to show that the rapid...

Heavy metal music and adolescent suicidality: an empirical investigation.

This study investigated the relationship between preference for heavy metal music and vulnerability to suicide among 121 high school students. Heavy metal fans had less strong reasons for living (especially male fans) and had more thoughts of suicide (especially female fans). For a large majority, listening to music (all types) had a positive effect on mood. Overall, the results indicate that p...

Metalheads heavy metal music and adolescent alienation pdf

VAN.Fans of heavy metal music have created their own subculture which. Arnetts 1996 book Metalheads: Heavy Metal Music and Adolescent Alienation argues that. Especially in adolescence and young adulthood Rentfrow Gosling, 2006. Rebellious music rock, alternative, and heavy metal was posi. Culture of alienation among heavy metal fans, which, in turn, was.Attitudes and characteristics of adolesce...