orry about fatal
             reactions toward it and other violence that would come from the music of their teens.
             "Almost every parent in America would do what you did. It didn't look like a hand
             grenade. It looked like a CD," said Joseph Liberman who was trying to comfort Mr.
             One of the reasons heavy metal music has
             received so much public attention and debate over the past decade is that some critics
             hear in it not just obnoxious music but an incitement to antisocial behavior (Arnett). It is
             not difficult to find such incitements in the lyrics. Violence, defying authority, breaking
             the rules of society, these are common themes in heavy metal songs, and it could be
             argued that these themes promote behavior that is disruptive to the rest of society
             (Csikszentmihalyi/Larson). Behavior such as violence toward themselves and others,
             drug use and alcohol abuse, and the destruction of property.
             Heavy metal music has been said by
             its critics to be characterized by song of hatred and violence. The music
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