I don’t listen to Watain, neither am I knowledgeable enough to remotely consider myself a metalhead, but this whole thing disturbs me so deeply. Not least because the poor Swedish band’s concert was abruptly cancelled for “social harmony” and “public order”, but also because of all the horrid things people are saying in response, about heavy music in general.
I taught English Literature to teenagers for 5 years. In the classroom we grappled with mortality, existential despair, suicidal characters. Soon, I noticed that many of my students struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts happened to be metalheads. They put Macbeth’s “Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow” soliloquy beside some metal song verses and broke down, for me, how similar they were.
Isn’t that the same with all art and literature? Novels, poems, non-fiction, films, plays, artwork containing themes of death, suicide, subcultures, even satanism are in all our libraries and bookstores; far more accessible and prevalent than this little gig tucked away in an industrial building, rated R18, privy to only a select group of gig-goers.
This sentiment is echoed worldwide, with a study by Humboldt State University going so far as to say that metalheads generally lived happier lives than non-metal music listeners. Psychology professor Tasha R. Howe notes that
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