Thread: Heavy metal music promotes health and cures Alzheimer's

I guess to me it was always clear that heavy metal was good for me. I had the choice between a bunch of stuff that sounded like Lady GaGa or Nas, or I had this powerful, evil-sounding, intense music that was as brave as a warrior and as impersonal as a history of the civil war. While everyone around me was obsessed with their own little ego dramas, heavy metal was big picture music. It was both heavy (deep, dark, and ambiguous concepts in life) and simply rockin'. It gave energy where pop music took it away.

However, I'm told that not all people share this view. Specifically, every minute of the day somewhere on earth a metalhead is being told that heavy metal is dumb, simple and for losers. It's not good for you, saying the doubting voices. So to fight back against this pure stupidity, I've compiled a list of reasons why heavy metal is good for you:

• It's not about "safe" topics
• Cool cover art
• It forces you to re-assess your surroundings
• It's not the same ol' rock n roll gag
• It's more complex than other genres
• Smart kids like it
• It mellows you out
• It's about literary themes
• It's like classical music

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1...s-good-for-you

Since in contrast with rock music, metal is not gay, it also prevents AIDS.

Is heavy metal still around? Or you mean that shreaking noise they call metal in the past 15 years or so? I prefer the old melodic metal from eighties. I can't take the new stuff (if what I'm thinking of is even what they call metal these days).

My favorite band was Judas Priest, but that's probably not what you wipper snappers call "metal." Course, old Rob H. was/is gay, but JP did rock. Fav songs were "Breaking the Law," "Heading Out to the Highway," "The Sentinel," and "Electric Eye." I actually liked "Turbo" too, but I know most people though it was pussy music. JP kicked freaking ass!

Priest is one of the grandfathers of metal. No, you aren't thinking of heavy metal today, you're thinking of what's called nu-metal today which I lump together with rock music entertainment. Not that genuine heavy metal isn't made still today.

I love judas preist, turbo i thought was kinda gay but painkiller, all guns blazing, jack the ripper, and exciter where all fucking amaing songs and who cares if halferd was gay the man could sing a wicked falsetto. and you would be amazed at how far metal has come now its all divided up into genres. we still got thrash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_FhIppQdU)
and black metal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ6s89QWYjc)
(glam is dead),
there really advanced shit like progressive metal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR_GDB67eKg)
, power metal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOkGYTM6PwU), speed metal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtUcllgYJi0)
, really hardcore shit like death metal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aXAc_Zaz0s), doom metal and then theres the absolute garbage you hear on the radio (nu metal) (http://www.youtube.com/user/slipknot?blend=1&ob=4)

Ancient guaranteed cure found for Alzheimer's

I watched some exerpts from the well known 1986 documentary "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" this weekend. It is a short film that consists simply of brief interviews with various attendees in the Parking Lot prior to a Judas Priest concert at Beltway Arena in Maryland in 1986 during the "Turbo" tour. Yes, its hillarious, probably even to those too young (or too old) to remember those days and certainly ANYONE who was a youth in the 1980s whether they were a metaller or not would immediately understand.

What struck me was where the hell did the heavy metal / rocker subculture vanish to so quickly? I mean those kids in that parking lot were, if not a majority of youth, then a very very large minority. In those days we didn't use the term "nation" to describe a subculture, but honestly that term should have been made for the Heavy Metal Nation of youth in the 80s if it ever applied to any community. Yet, by the early 90s, at least the mainstream metal culture was gone. There may have been and may still be metal in various subgenres, but its status as the largest minority youth subculture vanished like the wind. Even rap/hip hop may today be the dominant form of youth culture, but its not the cohesive insular scene like 80s metal, and yet the smaller subcultures that exist among youth are no where near as large or as prominent as heavy metal in its hayday.

Though watching that film is somewhat embarassing due to the shere idiocy that most of us didn't realize at the time being stupid kids, and clearly there were bad aspects of the culture (I guess I forgot just how dirty and drugged up so many rocker kids were), on the other hand I truly miss the comforting aspects that such a culture existed and was there for those young people who wanted it to give a big middle finger to society.