Metal and Mayhem

Everyone has at sometime been so angry that they just wanna break something. When something you've been looking forward to doesn't work out, something else follows up and thats when the chain starts, one thing goes wrong then the next and boom you're so pissed you just wanna punch someone's lights out.

One thing that has always managed to calm me down was pure metal, i mean i hear that distortion guitar on full blast and someone like Hetfield shout out from behind it, ah now that brings bliss sheer bliss. But thats the strange thing isn't it, logically speaking something more calm more soft should generally soothe you back to normal. sure smooth calm music does that too, but not the same way that metal does. Metal gives u a satisfaction like you've actually let all of that pent up anger out. where as smooth music just plains pushes all that anger under the carpet.

I wonder why metal does that though? i mean think about it, you're angry and angry, enraged music calms u down. My theory? well i think its purely because when you're surrounded by that kind of music you're surrounded by that amount of anger so at that instance the amount of anger in you and the amount of anger around you is equal almost. So in your own little world you're normal now, as opposed to the "normal world" where you would be one angry guy. but in your angry world of metal your normal and i think its that thought that calms u down eventually and the anger just flows out of ya and boom you can get back to the real world.