Comments on: Music; how does it affect you?

by: MetalSavedMe

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:10:42 +0000

I cannot agree with this. I have grown up listening to metal, and it has had absolutely no negative effect on me. I am not a violent person with brain cells that have rotted out. I am an honor student, a devout Catholic, and a Boy Scout, as well as a devout metalhead. This article comes across as very mean-spirited. I appreciate the fact that you did not draw religion into the mess, or call metal and hard rock “devil music”. I have seen this brought up far too often. The idea thast it destroys one’s brain is a new idea…one that I find false.

Metal music made me who I am, and I am a proud metalhead. Metal is music that comes to life. It is a brotherhood, a sense of family. It is not just screaming guitars and blast beat drums. It is a message, a blessing…it is an art. It has never hurt me. It has made me stronger, made me have a good reason to get out of bed in the morning.

Ms. Seaward, I will not judge you. Your article is well-written, and you seem passionate. My only advice is this: if you dislike metal and hard rock, don’t listen to them. But please, do not enforce your opinions on the rest of us. Please do not grab hold of paranoid, strange, and likely untrue theories about our music. It only offends us, just as a devout Catholic would be offended if you said that the Church seeks only to make money off of its members.

Thank you,

A Metalhead

by: Chris

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:13:34 +0000

Huh…thats funny because i’ve conducted an experiment twice on plants where one set is listening to nothing, one set listening to classical, and one set listening to a wide range of rock/heavy metal, and the heavy metal set grew the most in both scenarios.

Even in the popular TV show mythbusters this was proven…the classical plants died off and the heavy metal plants looked like they were on plant steroids and grew SOOOO much more…and the peas on them “tasted better”.

So where is this mice experiment where they “try to kill eachother” and since when has heavy metal killed plants? Every other experiment contradicts yours my friend. Lets see some sources bud…

And for what it’s worth i’m a metal head achieving a 3.68 GPA at a college prep private school…metal isn’t killing my brain cells, if anything metal stimulates them.

by: Altair

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:24:57 +0000

I think that Heavy metal music is realy good and that people who kill other people while listing to it are not killing cause of “the music hypnotised them”. They know that they are dind it and they want an excuse to do it when they get caught by the police. also kids dont kill there self cause of the metal music they want to hear there favorit song one last time before they die. so who every says i am wrong is stupid for saying that i love listing to heavy metal music and i am not santanic i am agnostic and dont realy care for religion were all just going to die.

by: Patricia Adams

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:36:00 +0000

i listen to hard core rock and well anything that would be classified under rock and i have the music on all the time so thats 24 all day everyday and during school i have the ear buds in my ear all the time and i am not violent or attepmted to kill any one…well i get that way and think about killing is when im mad. When i dont listen to rock then yeah i play classical music on a violin and sometimes i listen to it and im not smart or nice or anything. so i woulndt say it balences out. I would say that im more “violent” then classical but i do listen to more rock.

by: Mr. Garrison

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:25:24 +0000

wow this is very interesting. i am currently doing a project on plants and music and i am finding similar results. keep working hard!

by: Darien Gilkey

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:24:23 +0000

What about hip hop and par. i listen that tpe of music and i dont see any diffrence in myself

by: OrangeMango

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:37:08 +0000

Is there an eleventh commandment? Thou shalt not listen to rock music? Did Paul mention in Revelation that when rock music comes in the late 50s=early 60s, we shouldn’t listen to it? I think this was lost on all of you.

by: Ian

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:17:03 +0000

Yo, I know this whole thing is really old, but I couldn’t help but leave my two cents.

I read most of the comments above and what I’m confused about is how rock music is generally equated with modern sludgy nu-metal bands and hardcore/metalcore bands. I can understand people calling a lot of those bands negative. On a tangent, I do think it’s interesting that a lot of the more popular bands in the metalcore genre do seem to be Christian in nature.

Back to my point though. How is that covering all of the rock music spectrum? I don’t know if any of you have heard the song “Guiding Light” by Television, but that has to be one of the most uplifting songs I’ve ever heard in my life. It’s a hauntingly beautiful song with this wonderful guitar line that comes in about halfway through the song and again at the end. It always puts a smile on my face.

Another example would be “Mogwai Fear Satan” by the band Mogwai. It’s instrumental and relies heavily on distortion, but once again, it’s an amazingly beautiful song. It has a very positive sound. It’s really hard to put it into words. However you get your music, be it p2p file sharing, iTunes or Wal-Mart, you should hear at least those two songs.

I’m also offended by people disregarding rap music as a viable art form. There are a plethora of rap artists that don’t do the whole gangster and violence thing. Blackalicious has a great song called “Shallow Days” when it’s their way of telling everyone why they AREN’T a gangsta rap outfit.

Yes, music is powerful, but when it’s good, it’s quite possibly the most wonderful thing on Earth. I can listen to any genre of music from the most basic pop music to the most brutal grindcore, but if it’s good, it’s good.

If anyone has no other way of obtaining those songs, I’ll send them via e-mail to any interested parties. Just drop me a line at frumpleorz@gmail.com. I’m always happy to help people find something good to listen to. I’m terrible at ending things, so here’s the end.

-Ian