English Newspaper Confirms My Suspicions

According to the Telegraph, heavy metal music has been found to be "a comfort for the bright child." As someone who has listened to metal since the teenage years I've known that most metal offers a wider range of lyrical topics than normal pop music and the perceived notion that it's all about Satan is incorrect. (Of course, some of it is about Satan. Hail Satan!)

Stuart Cadwallader, a psychologist at the University of Warwick, explains:

Participants said they appreciated the complex and sometimes political themes of heavy metal music more than perhaps the average pop song. It has a tendency to worry adults a bit but I think it is just a cathartic thing. It does not indicate problems.

Now, some people will point out that a lot of miscreants and scum listen to metal as well, but I would counter that there's a lot more people listening to pop music that's just as bad. It's all about perception. There's stupid people who like all different kinds of entertainment.

Also, while some kids in the article said that it helped them with stress or to cope with being socially awkward, I can fall asleep by it, so perhaps I'm just a little strange. If you're looking for some good bands speaking about things such as corruption and government check out Countdown to Extinction by Megadeth, ...And Justice for All by Metallica, and Ashes of the Wake by Lamb of God.

Like you have something better to do.