heavy metal violence

Fires burning out of control. Women being raped. No one around to stop the mayhem.

But where you ask: Bosnia, or somewhere in Africa perhaps? Try upstate New York, at

the Woodstock ‘99 music festival. The festival was supposed to be a 30-year anniversary

to the original Woodstock in 1969, one that represented peace, love, and rock and roll

music. However, the weeklong concert was totally the opposite instead. A tamer

glimpse of popular culture now: thrashing in the mosh pit in front of the stage, from

which security people would occasionally rescue a naked girl, her clothes ripped away by

enthusiasts as she incautiously body-surfed the pit. From the stage, Fred Durst, singer for

the aggressively rap-metal band Limp Bizkit, made it explicit: he instructed the audience

to “start some *censored*.” Which some of the audience obediently did, scaling the sound tower

and ripping away the plywood boards protecting electronic equipment (Morrow). The

only aspect, which even somewhat reflected the original Woodstock, was the music, and

many people could make a case that not even the music was nearly the same. “The

music wasn’t a message of peace and love. There were heavy m

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Before conducting the research for this paper, I was

not really in the mind set that heavy metal music, nor any form of music for that matter,

was to blame for violence and destruction. Heavy metal influences outward violence towards others in many ways. During many newscasts after the

Columbine shooting the media blamed one particular group for the murderous rampage

at the school and that group was Marilyn Manson. ” American Academy of

Pediatrics, Washington, D. “Teen Proves Hard Rock’s Bad for You.

2) Austin, Joe, and Nevin, Michael Willard. Its like passing out live

ammunition at stores all over the world, to all ages of people of all genders as a sort of

mental weapon to be used at home and store thoughts of death and destruction for all to

have. It sounds like teens

are getting more from music than they are from their teachers they see 5 out of 7 days per

week. However, the media

still only points him out instead of the entire heavy metal world and how it has affected

thousands of people’s lives through a little thing called a CD. A partial cause for the

violence and suicide of teens is what you would call heavy metal. The music of heavy metal

is inherently well suited to expressions of violence; the rough, distorted guitar sound, the

rumbling bass guitar, and the pounding drums would not be effective in conveying

gentleness or compassion but are exceptionally effective in portraying chaos, death,

destruction, and other violent themes (Arnett).

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