Heavy metal music helps adolescents to let off anger of other kinds of negative feelings.
There is an article discuss the relationship between the
heavy metal music and adolescents named “Adolescents and Heavy Metal Music; From the Mouths of Metalheads” by Jeffrey Arnett. In his research, he did many interviews about heavy metal music; the subject’s ages are between 14 and 20. The result shows, “15 who said they listened to it especially when they were angry, 10 said it had the effect of relaxing them and dissipating their anger (in response to the question “Does it put you in any particular mood?”). Only 3 said they listened to it especially when they were in a positive mood (“happy,” “partying,” and “out with the guys”)” In total, the music served as a calming influence for 54% of subjects interviewed. It can be easy to conclude, heavy metal music positively influences on releasing the bad feelings, and make people rebuild their spirit.
This video is actually came from a movie named “Global Metal” that is directed by Sam Dunn. This film is mainly talk about the heavy metal’s influences to different parts of the world. They throughout the world to looking for metal bans, headbangers, in order to comprehend all over the world’s cultural about the heavy metal music, and even their local culture, and to find answer how metal gone global. After leaving the metal base areas North America and Europe, they went to South America like Brazil, Asia like Japan, China, India, Indonesia and the Middle East like Israel, and Iran, and other countries. This movie is a kind of scholarly textbook for people who want to know more about heavy metal music. We use it here to show heavy metal’s positive influence on China's adolescents.