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Heavy metal: The music genre offering solace to victims of war around the world.
Heavy metal is a genre of music that has a group of related styles. These styles are powerful, intense and accompanied by shrieking , yelling and incomprehensible lyrics. They are driven by the aggressive sounds of a distorted guitar. These aggressive sounds and themes of death are, surprisingly ,offering comfort and solace to war victims around the globe
Artists from the war ravaged Syria are travelling to London for the first ever world heavy metal congress- a celebration of this genre.
But, can heavy metal offer solace to those who see bloodshed, bombings ,destruction and war around them on an almost daily basis? Can the music drown the sounds of the war? Can it offer peace when metal is itself associated to destruction?
A recent study found that this extreme music genre helps to calm and soothe the frayed nerves of the angry listeners. It is believed that music fans usually like to listen to music that matches their emotions. Hence, heavy metal helped in lessening the sadness and increasing positivity in it’s listeners.
The shouting, shrieking and the distorted music acts as an outlet to the pent up feelings of people and that’s exactly what humans do when they are angry or sad. They yell , shout, they bang things, they scream