Metal lyrics are not always about massacres or carnage, they also deal with believe and peace, sometimes even with love. Many of the bands attach a great importance on their lyrics and its statement.
The lyrics
often deal with extreme situations and themes/topics, states of emotion and events which cannot be experienced this way in the daily life or real life. Therefore they reflect the wishes of the “trueness” and the “authentic”.
Actually everyone of us possesses something like a desire for blood, desire of being violent. To live out this feeling you can write a song text, some other metalhead might listen to it and another plays violent videogames. das gefällt mir irgendwie nicht so recht. Ich überlege noch warum.
Just like films, comics and videogames with violent content, metal is also classified as a danger for youth. Mostly it is said that the violent topics of metal lyrics (as already mentioned) act negatively on/ and influence the psyche of the youth. Those accusations reach so far that metal music (or “listening to such kind of music) is made responsible for suicides of young people and several amok runs in schools. Bands such as Marilyn Manson or Slipknot were blamed for their negative influence several times already.
Especially in the
1960s gabs da schon Metal in der Form? nein! also schreib besser "Rock" oder so... people tended to mark Metal as stupefying, primitive noise, which would harm the morality of the listeners.
Though this attitude has vanished from the everyday thinking, it continues to exist in an over exaggerated cliché/stereotype
cliche ist hier besser, denk ich. for example in the MTV cartoon figures “Beavis and Butthead”.
Metal lyrics
often are of violent content
eben nicht immer! but whoever uses them as an excuse for his deeds hasn’t got an own opinion and can be influenced too easily. Who listens to metal consciously knows that the lyrics dealing with bloodbaths and so on are only fiction/fantasy.
To many people’s astonishment, there is only little actual violence within the metal scene on concerts or festivals, for instance if you consider the “Wacken Open Air” which is Europe’s biggest metal festival.
Gib ruhig Zahlen an, meinen Prof hat das in meiner Prüfung letzte Woche (Thema "Metalfestivals aus der Sicht der Allgemeinen Psychologie"
) auch beeindruckt.
Ich denke offiziell 35-40.000, inoffiziell bzw nach Polizeibericht wohl eher noch 10.000 mehr. There might be a little fight between two or three drunken metalheads, but it will definitely not end in a mass row like some people would expect.
Small conflicts like that simply tend to happen every now and then at places where drunken people come together, for example in pubs (sagt man "in"?) or at fairs. oder sowas in der Art hätt ich geschrieben.
Metal music is
always connected to Satanism.
Stimmt nicht! Ich weiß zwar was du meinst. Aber so ist der Satz völlig missverständlich. Schreib einfach "sometimes" oder von mir aus "often", aber keinesfalls "always". But this form or any other form of the occult does not play an important role within the music. They are used in most cases merely as a provocation, even if
most ich bin für "many" metalheads have a negative attitude toward
s the church.
Only in Black Metal some of the musicians deal seriously with the philosophy and religious Satanism (in their lyrics and so on.)
However media depicts the connection of metal to Satanism in an exaggerated way so that people are forced to think all metalheads worship Satan and denounce the church.
Truly, most of the listeners of metal are atheist but that doesn’t make them Satanists, does it? Nein, tut es natürlich nicht. Aber "most" in Verbindung mit "atheist" find ich nicht gut, weil Atheismus die völlige Ablehnung oder Verleugnung eines Gottes bedeutet. Ich bin zwar extrem kirchenkritisch, aber deswegen bin ich noch lange kein Atheist. Ich bin halt nur kein Christ. Auch die ganze, sagen wir, "nordische" Szene hat ja mehr oder minder religiöse Texte
(halt mit Odin und Thor und Zeugs...).
There is one sub-genre of Black Metal know
n as NSBM. Bands of this genre usually have lyrics with right winged contents.
But actually the majority of the metal scene denounce
s right winged radicalism.
Most NSBM bands and other politically extreme bands are not allowed to play on bigger festivals and are often not granted a record deal.