Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

" Study finds metalheads amongst happiest music fans, clearly didn't poll our Facebook page

 Study finds metalheads amongst happiest music fans, clearly didn't poll our Facebook page

New research finds that metal fans are among the cheeriest of all music listeners

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

"New Study: Death Metal Fans Are Nice!

New Study: Death Metal Fans Are Nice!
"[Death metal] fans are nice people. They're not going to go out and hurt someone."

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Monday, November 5, 2018

"Scientists study the psychology of death metal


Scientists study the psychology of death metal
Psychology professor William Forde Thompson of Australia's Macquarie University and his colleagues have published a series of scientific papers about the appeal of death metal. The scientists were surprised to learn that death metal fans aren't particularly angry or violent people and actually in a happy place whilst head-banging to the likes of Morbid Angel (above) and Cannibal Corpse (below). The research reminds me of how my dad was always so surprised at my love for goth music even though I was a generally happy teen. From Scientific American:

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Monday, July 4, 2016

"Analyzing all known Metal lyrics with natural language processing

Iain ("an ex-physicist currently working as a data scientist") scraped Dark Lyricsand built a dataset of lyrics to 222,623 songs by 7,364 metal bands, then used traditional natural language processing techniques to analyze them. 

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

"Science Says Metal Fans Like To Analyze Things

Science Says Metal Fans Like To Analyze Things
Like sub-genres. You bastards.

Fans of heavy music are more likely to think about how things work in the world rather than how people feel, a study suggests.

Sunday, July 12, 2015

"Metalheads grow up better adjusted, study says

Metalheads grow up to be happier and better adjusted adults than many fans of other genres, a study has suggested.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

"'Angry' music makes you happy say experts

Music with angry lyrics can help calm listeners down and make them feel happier, a study has suggested.