Raiders of the Lost... Happiness!!

Heavy metal was born in the 1960s in the UK influenced by other kinds of music like hard rock. It was very popular in the 1960s and 1970s and from the 1990s it becaame less popular, but nowadays you can find heavy metal bands all over the world. Heavy metal has also many subgenres and the hardest and heaviest is death metal, which is characterized by its guttural voices and its musical structures.

It is usually associated with aggressive behaviour, decapitation of small animals, satanism or canibalism. Because of this, people who don't listen to heavy metal can think that people who listen to this music is aggressive and insensitive to violence, but they're wrong. According to a new study people who listen to heavy metal or similar music can be posistively influrnced by the music because it inspires calmness.

I think heavy metal can help people because its characteristics make people feel emotions like calmness and joy. In my case, I listen to many genres of music but mostly to rock, rap and heavy metal and I can say that when I listen to these songs I feel calmer and even happier because in my opinion the aggresive lyrics and songs in general can make you calmer and also can make you feel better when you are sad or angry.