WarriorPrincess
W:O:A Metalmaster
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1. Why do people listen to Metal and what does it mean to these people?
Metal helps you to cope with extreme feelings such as anger, happiness, stress and so on. How?
Through the hard and honest sound of metal your emotions/feelings are enhanced/ strengthened and when you’re angry, the music helps you to reduce that feeling.
Metal goes far beyond the usual music business, it’s a way of life and within the scene you can find a lot of support of your fellow metalheads, which most people surprisingly do not expect. The metal scene is sometimes even regarded as a sort of "second family".
There are several kinds of metal referred to as (you all know it) “genres”. Metal itself is only an “umbrella term”, describing the whole of it. In this way, you can always choose the genre, you might need at the moment. Whether you want something fast or slow, growling or clear vocals, you will always find something that will suit you and your temporary mood.
The interaction of guitars, bass and drums gives everybody a different feeling.
Going to a metal party, festival or concert means having a lot of fun and just feeling good. Can you feel better anywhere else than at a place where there are only people who think and feel just the way you do? It’s astonishing how easy it is to start a conversation with somebody. Metalheads feel they belong together and are always frank to any other of their kind, and very straightforward.
Metal means honesty and togetherness, that’s what they keep on saying.
Looking at the musical aspect, metal is said to be of higher quality than it is assumed to be – There are ingenious(beschreibt meines Wissens nach nur die geistige Ebene der Genialität, oder???) guitar players, stunning/breathtaking vocalists and fantastic drummers.
At the beginning, it was the music of rebels, of people who were different, and dared to be different. People, who did not give a damn about what other people thought about their opinion, and who did not care, what "the others" thought about their behaviour, their way of life.lifestyle is glaub ich eher angebracht... way of life betrifft ja den Tagesablauf, auch wenn der bei vielen Metallern auch nen anderer is)
Today they are a little bit more accepted by the society, however, they still live the way they think is the right one, not caring about what the rest of the society might think.
You could say that listening to Metal is like belonging to a huge group. A group in which you feel good-.
Metalheads don’t worry about what you look like, there is almost no superficiality in the scene. You’re a freak and so are the others! Because you have something in common – Extreme music. (Hm, warum da das "Because"??? wegen dem "freak"... fehlt irgendwie ein wenig der Bezug/ Zusammenhang)
The feeling which arises at a concert is indescribable. There’s the band on the stage, playing your favourite music. Around you, there are only people who are hooked on the same drug as you are – Metal. The musicians, the music and the crowd become one.
When you fall,e.g. while stage diving/ crowd surfing, you know there will be hands to help you up. Metal is not only music. It goes far beyond the usual music business, as already mentioned.
Some people say Metal is a religion, and partly, they are right.
The Metal scene has grown huge all over the world. You can find metalheads all over the world!
There’s a kind of proverb, saying that “extreme music is for extreme people”, and it’s the truth.
What are extreme people in our society? People who don’t give a damn about what others might think of them, for instance.
Metal is a very emotional music. It creates communities, brings people together and can help you cope with your extreme feelings by bringing them down to a better balanced level.
2. What is so particular/special about Metal?
As already mentioned, Metal consists of a number of subgenres. Even though the genres are sometimes difficult to segregate, they show different characteristics in their overall structures, instrument styles (particularly vocals), and tempo.
In some genres the melodies and rhythms are - very simple, while in others the compositions are very complicated, sometimes based on classical structures. In some genres the vocals are clear, very high, while (in for instance Death or Black Metal) the vocals are described as “growling” or “grunting”.
In some bands the use of opera-like singing (especially sopranos)is also common. (Nightwish, Within Temptation)
There’s also a variety ich würd eher sagen "differences" oder sogar "wide spectre")in the lyrics of the different genres. Some deal with merely fantasy, or deep hatred or anger, religion, sexual texts, melancholy up to political criticism of the society. --- Öhm, so n Satz is was anderes
Metal and Rock lyrics all consist of individuality and the freedom of -thoughts/freedom of thinking. And this also includes lyrics aboutviolence and death experiences of human sorrow, like it is in the real world.
Unfortunately, the people look too superficially on most of those lyrics and interpret them wrong, like they did with Manowar's “Hail and Kill” or other similarly striking titles/songs.
Metal is hand made, not created with/ bya computer or whatsoever.
There’s a positive energy within the songs, even when they are regarded as negative and aggressive.
The greeting sign of the Metalhead is the so called „Pommesgabel“ (also known as the „Frittenstecher“) and has become popular in the scene since Ronnie James Dio introduced it at one of his concerts. Since then all the metalheads identify themselves with the sign, which is also regarded as the „devil’s horns“.
The metalheads have not invented their own slang to such an extend as the hip-hoppers have done.
Next to some terms like “trueness” and “poser” there are only other terms concerning the names of the genres, the band names and some other different things concerning the music itself.
Sometimes, jokingly, the different kinds of metal are referred to as “Gemetzel” or “Geknüppel” and other terms describing violence (wanting to underline the hardness of metal). The music is sometimes even referred to as “terror”.
You can observe different ways of “dancing” on a concert or festival or whatever place where metal is played:
Headbanging
Moshpit
Circlepit
Crowdsurfing
Stagediving
Wall of Death
Slamdance (?)
Violent Dancing
Poging
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