Heavy Metal and Adolescents'
Suicide
This video shows a song named "Fade To Black " by Metallic.
It is not difficult to see why many adults have expressed alarm at the heavy metal songs and why heavy metal music has been accused of leading to suicide in some widely publicized cases. “In fact, subjects in this study most often named as their favorite song “Fade to Black” by Metallica, which describes a state of suicidal despair. This makes it even more remarkable that not even one subject reported that the music tended to make him feel sad or helpless."
There is another article named “Heavy Metal Music And Adolescent Suicidal Risk" by Lacourse, Eric, Michel Claes, and Martine Villeneuve.This article is investigative the differentiating characteristics (family relationships, social-psychological attitudes, drug use, and suicidal risk) of youth who prefer heavy metal music, who worship music, and use music for vicarious release. And through their research, they drew a conclusion, heavy metal music preference and worship is not significantly related to suicidal risk when controlling for other risk factors (poor family relationship, depression, feelings of alienation anomie, and drug abuse). This conclusion was found for both boys and girls.
There is another article named “Heavy Metal Music And Adolescent Suicidal Risk" by Lacourse, Eric, Michel Claes, and Martine Villeneuve.This article is investigative the differentiating characteristics (family relationships, social-psychological attitudes, drug use, and suicidal risk) of youth who prefer heavy metal music, who worship music, and use music for vicarious release. And through their research, they drew a conclusion, heavy metal music preference and worship is not significantly related to suicidal risk when controlling for other risk factors (poor family relationship, depression, feelings of alienation anomie, and drug abuse). This conclusion was found for both boys and girls.