BY: ANNABELLE (ALY McMAHON)
HEAVY METAL AMERICA VS FRANCE BY: ANNABELLE (ALY McMAHON) Whats in store Metal through the decades French artists in America
French metal bands French music festivals Metal Music and Mental Health *Fun Facts along the way! What do you think of when you hear heavy metal? Maybe something like this https://youtu.be/qUylZ08N_Q4 origins Black Sabbath (EARTH) Birmingham, England 1969
Happened on accident Tony Iommi lost tips of his fingers Used thimbles and leather from his jacket to play Tuned his guitar down low to play easier Geezer Butler tuned his bass lower making a low murky sound Heavy metal was born Black Sabbath Named after a horror movie
Used to practice in a warehouse across the street from a movietheatre Horror movie music was the main idea for heavy metal Black Sabbath was written about a nightmare that Butler had whenhe woke up he saw a figure in the corner of his room andcontinued to destroy it (ended up being a coat rack) Devils Chord banned in medieval times Thought to open the gates of hell Consequence was amputated hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVdMbUx1_k 1970s Blues oriented Black Sabbath Led Zeppelin Sortilge
_______________________ Kept playing down tunedbut played faster Judas Priest Motorhead 1980s Hair Metal Motley Crue Twisted Sister Ratt _________________
Speed Metal(THRASH!!) Testament Slayer Metallica Fun fact Tipper Gore Parent Music Resource Center
Goal of increasing parental control overmusic with sex, drugs, and violence Helped sell music (rebels!) 1990s Grunge Pearl Jam Nirvana ________________ Groove metal Pantera
Gojira New line ups (JudasPriest, Black Sabbath) 2000s NU Metal Rap/rock Korn Limp Bizkit Eths _________________
Origins come back Bands like Sabbathreunite to tour andrelease new music CAN YOUR HEAR THE DIFFERENCE?
KORN https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=jRGrNDV2mKc ETHS https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=98z1ghG0opk America France present New Age of American Heavy Metal Lamb of God
Killswitch Engage Shadows Fall https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=oqdZpxkzN vc Death, Gothic, BlackMetal Gojira (Groove/Death) Blut Aus Nord (Black) Massacra(Death/Thrash) https://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=FYdX0W96-os Fun fact Lamb of God vocalist imprisoned in Prague Fan stage dives
Hits head and dies Band leaves the country not knowing whathappened Comes back on another tour and RandyBlythe is arrested immediately of the plane Spent one month in jail Just wrote album(storm and stress German) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVQqy7V 6FKk French-American artists
Phil Anselmo Dave Mustaine Alice Cooper Vocalist 1982 Alice Cooper aParis TV special onlyreleased in Paris Vocalist for Pantera,Down, and Super JointRitual French heritage Grew up in the Frencharea of New Orleans Vocalist/guitar forMegadeth Parents were Frenchimmigrants Wrote a French songA tout le monde https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEyOwLY3rV4 A tout le monde (To all the world)A tout mes amis (To all my friends)Je vous aime (I love you)Je dois partir (I must leave) Fun fact Judas Priest wrote an entire album dedicated to Nostradamus
Frenchapothecary(medical professional) andreputedseerwho published collections ofprophecies disasters, such as plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions,murders, droughts, and battles French Metal Thrash Metal Speed Technical
Occult themes Black Magic- Slayer Death Metal Same speed as thrash but harsh vocals Cookie Monster stereotype Gory Hammer Smashed Face- Cannibal Corpse BlackMetal musical nonconformity (lo-fi poor quality) closely associated with hatred, chaos, misanthropy,individualism, and a lack of rules Kill Your Boss- Eyehategod festivals Hellfest (June 2016) Founded in 2006
Hosted in Clisson (Western France) One of the leaders in Europe for extreme music concerts More than 160 bands perform on HELLFESTs 6 stages, each withits own particular style: MAIN STAGE 1 & MAIN STAGE 2 ( hard rock / thrash ) TEMPLE STAGE ( doom / pagan metal / black metal ) ALTAR STAGE ( death metal / grind ) VALLEY STAGE ( sludge / stoner ) WARZONE STAGE ( punk / HxC ) Metal music & Mental health in france
Numerous authors have associated metal music with socialproblems such as suicide, self-destruction and Satanism Examine the mental health of fans of heavy metal music Determine if there is a link between mental health and theenjoyment of this type of music in France. Surveyed 333 fans of metal music. Their mental health was evaluated by the Hospital Anxiety andDepression Scale (HADS), a widely used instrument that measuresanxiety and depression. The scores of the sample of metal music fans were then comparedto the scores that reveal possible, probable, or severe mentaldisorders. Metal music & mental health in france
Variables included age, gender, status, education, motivation andparticipation in metal music culture. The results indicated that fans of metal music are mainly young adults(median age = 22.67) and tend to be male (87.85 %). As a whole, metal music fans have levels of anxiety and depression thatare similar to and lower than levels in the general population Specically 5 % Subjects that scored higher levels of anxiety and depression were thosethat had literary and/or arts backgrounds This study suggests that opponents of metal music should re-examine thebasis for their criticism. More scholarly research is needed to betterunderstand the effects of metal music on fans and on society. results 282 males (87.85 %) and 39 females (12.15 %).
The mean age was years old 49.53 % were students and % were employed 8.73 % were both employed and students. The average number of concerts each year was (maximum = 100 concerts) 35.20 % had permanent body modications (e.x., tatoos,piercings, scarications) 5.30 % had a combination of two types of body modications results Varying preferences for different types of metal music:
death metal (37.69 %), black metal (22.74 %) and thrash metal(18.07 %). The motivations for metal concert participation were also diverse to listen to music they enjoy (95.93 %) for the ambiance (84.62 %) to party (66.97 %) and/or to unwind (55.66 %) to drink a lot (33.94 %), to take drugs (4.98 %) to sell drugs (2.72 %) to ght (0.91 %) Works Cited Kahn-Harris, Keith (2011), Metal Studies: IntellectualFragmentation or Organic Intellectualism.,Journal for CulturalResearch, vol. 15, n3, 2011, p "Metal Festivals in France."All Metal Fest. N.p., Web. 25Nov Recours, Robin, Franois Aussaguel, and Nick Trujillo. "MetalMusic And Mental Health In France."Culture, Medicine &Psychiatry33.3 (2009): Academic Search Complete.Web. 25 Nov