I've come to contemplate at the effect of my musical habits on the outlook I have on life, and I do feel that it plays a certain role.
To sum it up, I'd say listening to the more extreme sides of metal music has consciously and subconsciously taught me some bad morals. One of them is that it's ok to give up.
Hey, there is a whole a lot of despair, sadness or anger in any kind of music, but where as in other musical forms you have some sort of a bitter-sweet approach, metal has a whole ideology involved concerning... err, let's say, the pityness of life? You also have sadness and despair in...say, classical music, but it comes of sounding heroic, different. I dunno, maybe I'm just saying this out of my general image about it.
In the end, I think it sinks in some level.
Maybe it's the individual from the first place that is drawn to the music, and not the other way, but there's always an interactive relationship. And as we have a whole forum listening pretty much to the same albums, I'd like to know what other people think about this. Do you even think someone could lead a happy and healthy life and put this influence aside? Can anyone tell this about himself?
I'm not talking about thrash or death metal, because those are different (correct me if I'm wrong). I'm talking here about sick stuff like Xasthur or Shape of Despair.
To sum it up, I'd say listening to the more extreme sides of metal music has consciously and subconsciously taught me some bad morals. One of them is that it's ok to give up.
Hey, there is a whole a lot of despair, sadness or anger in any kind of music, but where as in other musical forms you have some sort of a bitter-sweet approach, metal has a whole ideology involved concerning... err, let's say, the pityness of life? You also have sadness and despair in...say, classical music, but it comes of sounding heroic, different. I dunno, maybe I'm just saying this out of my general image about it.
In the end, I think it sinks in some level.
Maybe it's the individual from the first place that is drawn to the music, and not the other way, but there's always an interactive relationship. And as we have a whole forum listening pretty much to the same albums, I'd like to know what other people think about this. Do you even think someone could lead a happy and healthy life and put this influence aside? Can anyone tell this about himself?
I'm not talking about thrash or death metal, because those are different (correct me if I'm wrong). I'm talking here about sick stuff like Xasthur or Shape of Despair.