What's up with headbanging, anyway?!

[Tut Ankh Amon]

Okay, i just got myself with my hair loose, headbanging all over the place...
and i ask myself... why is it so cool to headbang?!

i mean... you're screwing your neck and everything... but it just rules!

what do you guys think?

 

[Tut Ankh Amon]

Damn

i just asked that to my band's bassplayer (he has short hair) , and he said

"Because you have hair......."


poor dude

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

I agree there is nothing like having my head bung so hard that I get super dizzy!!

 

[bobvex]

well. . .

























Its better than fingerbanging
*runs*

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

god dammit!!!!!!!!!!!!!! will it ever end??

 

[Fenrir13]

hehe...some metal I just can't help but headbang to. And of course the 'day after' stiff neck just shows how good a show is sometimes.

 

[Cat5Messiah]

Headbanging sucks......it's not worth the whiplash. Plus, yea......my neck hurts.

 

[Caelum Adustum]

My hair gets really tangled when I headbang, so I don't do it much unless I really get into what I'm playing on guitar or something.

 

[MagSec4]

Hmm.. I don't know, it's just something you feel compelled to do when hearing the good shit.
It's also pretty specific and systematic, it feels natural to do it as the music plays but in a certain rhythm and rate. If it's even a little off, it definitely feels really weird. This'll usually happen when there's an abrupt and unexpected change in the music and it takes you a second or two to adjust your headbanging to it.

I'd say, in general, the rate of headbanging correlates to the current rate of tom or snare hits by the drummer.. but other things may influence as well.

my uh.. 2 cents.

 

[Tut Ankh Amon]

baah! you wusses!
i once headbanged in a car with 4 people in it, the car was shaking and STILL, i had no neck ache! Uhueahueh

and hey, try headbanging with Mesuggah!
now THAT is teh shit!

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Hell yeah!!! One night after lots of drinking we drove home and listened to NILE! I was growling and headbanging the entire time! I felt great!!!!!!!!!

 

[xjimmyleungx]

damn i wish i have long hair so i can hang-bang in a really cool style

 

[Dred]

hehe...some metal I just can't help but headbang to. And of course the 'day after' stiff neck just shows how good a show is sometimes.

so fuckin true. after bodom's was the best.
to agree with Magsec, its a natural reaction to bob your head a bit when getting into the music (such as tapping toes) but when long hair came into play, it needed to be a bit faster to swing the hair around everywhere (and my hair will be that long again soon enough)

 

[†_Aragorth_†]

headbanging rox, man! Best 'job' evar!!

 

[The_Children_of_Decadence]

sometimes so beutiful other times so vain...

 

[MagSec4]

headbanging rox, man! Best 'job' evar!!

If you got paid for headbanging I'd have to go over there and break your knees, ya lucky bastard

 

[The_Children_of_Decadence]

headbanging rox, man! Best 'job' evar!!

job?

damn, i'm fucked

 

[A Fire Inside]

I am growing my hair up for the sole purpose to headbang at anytime I want to do it. No more reasons.

 

[Tut Ankh Amon]

headbanging rox, man! Best 'job' evar!!

actually the best job ever would be being paid to be Dr. Pussy Licker

and if you're paid for that, I'LL come over and brake your legs!

 

[Kitty]

Everytime I do it, I get laughed at by my younger sisters. Not to mention my hair just goes crazy and puffs up. Not good not good yet I cant help myself sometimes. I also sometimes tend to move my head from side to side until I stop realizing I'm moving like Axl Rose. :roll eyes: