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Violent Music: How Dangerous Is It?

By Terry Modica

There’s also a connection between rap and heavy metal music with drugs and violence. Teenagers who are most likely to become obsessed with the darker music are usually (but not always) socially isolated, have experimented with drugs, and are living with deep-seated rage. They already see themselves as “weird,”so they’re looking for acceptance where weird is good. Violent music seems to offer help, but in turn it increases their violence and isolation from normal society.

Today the trend in heavy metal music is toward more destructive themes. Those who listen to it are getting a much more dismal, darker, bleak outlook on life than those in the last generation. Dr. Paul King, clinical assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Tennessee, has said, "The message of heavy metal is that there is a higher power in control of the world and that power is violence - often violence presided over by Satan."

Professor Carl Rashke, Director of the Institute for Humanities at the University of Denver, observes that heavy metal music "is a true aesthetics of violence. It is a metaphysics. It is the tactic of consecrating violent terror, of divinizing it."

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