Are people listening to extreme music brighter than common people?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 by cycoced | Discussion: Community
I came across this article on blabbermouth.net, and I appear to be part of the top 5 percent of the nation's gifted and talented youngsters, even though I'm not from this nation, and I'm not a youngster (more like a padawan in his glorious 30s).
Does this mean 95% of the rest of the world should bow to our superior intellect? I tend to believe so, but I'd like your opinion nonetheless...
I was a genius and I didn't know it! Thanks to 20+ years of listening to Cannibal Corpse, Nile, Emperor, Dying Fetus and others...
ARTICLE:
Jonathan Brown of U.K.'s The Independent reports:
Heavy metal has long been saddled with a reputation for attracting admirers more interested in decibels than Descartes. New research, however, promises to rescue the genre from the mosh pit of intellectual obscurity.
A study has revealed that death metal and thrash bands such as SLAYER and SLIPKNOT produce the music of choice for today's brightest youngsters.
A survey which was carried out among students at the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth, a cohort drawn from the top 5 per cent of the nation's youngsters, drew praise for metal's "visceral brutality" with more than a third rating it among their favourite styles. Researchers admitted they were surprised to find that "intelligent" genres traditionally associated with the precociously bright, such as classical and jazz, were the least popular.
What they discovered instead was that youngsters liked to let off steam to hardcore sounds, particularly if it had an emotionally charged or overtly political message behind it. One respondent said: "You can't really jump your anger into the floor and listen to music at the same time with other types of music."
Stuart Cadwallader of the University of Warwick, which conducted the survey, said heavy metal was found to provide a form of "catharsis", particularly for those with low self-esteem.
They found the aggressive music a useful conduit for their frustrations and anger, according to the findings revealed at the British Psychological Society conference in York yesterday.
Mr. Cadwallader said this intellectual elite often found themselves facing situations and issues not encountered by less able students.
"Perhaps the pressure associated with being gifted and talented can be temporarily forgotten with the aid of music," he said.
Source: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=69092
Does this mean 95% of the rest of the world should bow to our superior intellect? I tend to believe so, but I'd like your opinion nonetheless...
I was a genius and I didn't know it! Thanks to 20+ years of listening to Cannibal Corpse, Nile, Emperor, Dying Fetus and others...
ARTICLE:
Jonathan Brown of U.K.'s The Independent reports:
Heavy metal has long been saddled with a reputation for attracting admirers more interested in decibels than Descartes. New research, however, promises to rescue the genre from the mosh pit of intellectual obscurity.
A study has revealed that death metal and thrash bands such as SLAYER and SLIPKNOT produce the music of choice for today's brightest youngsters.
A survey which was carried out among students at the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth, a cohort drawn from the top 5 per cent of the nation's youngsters, drew praise for metal's "visceral brutality" with more than a third rating it among their favourite styles. Researchers admitted they were surprised to find that "intelligent" genres traditionally associated with the precociously bright, such as classical and jazz, were the least popular.
What they discovered instead was that youngsters liked to let off steam to hardcore sounds, particularly if it had an emotionally charged or overtly political message behind it. One respondent said: "You can't really jump your anger into the floor and listen to music at the same time with other types of music."
Stuart Cadwallader of the University of Warwick, which conducted the survey, said heavy metal was found to provide a form of "catharsis", particularly for those with low self-esteem.
They found the aggressive music a useful conduit for their frustrations and anger, according to the findings revealed at the British Psychological Society conference in York yesterday.
Mr. Cadwallader said this intellectual elite often found themselves facing situations and issues not encountered by less able students.
"Perhaps the pressure associated with being gifted and talented can be temporarily forgotten with the aid of music," he said.
Source: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=69092
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Lantec
Reply #3 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:52 AM
Sounds like a babbling psycho to me....
Reply #3 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:52 AM
Sounds like a lot of psycho babel to me
Sounds like a babbling psycho to me....
cycoced
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:52 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:52 AM
Hey BuddhaV10, my favorite has to be "Black seeds of vengeance", from the same-titled album. That was my first exposure to Nile when it came out, and whoa! This song still has the same effect on me -> Grin up to the ears 
Otherwise, one of my favorite DM song would be "Hammer smashed face" from Cannibal, even though I prefer George Fisher as singer.
what about you?
As far as Cattle Decapitation is concerned, it's GrindCore, not Death, so are you as bright as us Death listeners? Just kidding. Cattle Decapitation is cool (especially the uncensored "Humanure" cover), but I've never listened to Pig Destroyer (I understand it's GrindCore as well). I'll have to get one of their LPs soon it seems, or I'll look like a newbie.
Otherwise, one of my favorite DM song would be "Hammer smashed face" from Cannibal, even though I prefer George Fisher as singer.
what about you?
As far as Cattle Decapitation is concerned, it's GrindCore, not Death, so are you as bright as us Death listeners?
Just kidding. Cattle Decapitation is cool (especially the uncensored "Humanure" cover), but I've never listened to Pig Destroyer (I understand it's GrindCore as well). I'll have to get one of their LPs soon it seems, or I'll look like a newbie.
Jafo
Reply #5 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:55 AM
Reply #5 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:55 AM
A study has revealed that death metal and thrash bands such as SLAYER and SLIPKNOT produce the music of choice for today's brightest youngsters.
...and from the 'brightest' comes the suicidal....
Thrash Metal simply has a superfluous 'h' [the first one].
Jafo is a slobbering imbecile...and has enjoyed 'heavy metal' since BEFORE the term was coined....
cycoced
Reply #6 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:56 AM
Reply #6 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:56 AM
Sir Lantec,
the funniest thing is when reading Blabbermouth users comments, you can see how hard they try to hide the fact that they have a superior intellect. And it works! You are tricked into believing that they are a bunch of banana eating apes, while really they could create devices to harness the power of cold fusion.
the funniest thing is when reading Blabbermouth users comments, you can see how hard they try to hide the fact that they have a superior intellect. And it works! You are tricked into believing that they are a bunch of banana eating apes, while really they could create devices to harness the power of cold fusion.
RomanDA
Reply #7 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:57 AM
i think i fall into that category
Reply #7 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:57 AM
ou are tricked into believing that they are a bunch of banana eating apes
i think i fall into that category
Bandit4edu
Reply #8 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:59 AM
Reply #8 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:59 AM
Simply "Sailing The Seas of Cheese"...
you'll figure it out
you'll figure it out
cycoced
Reply #9 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:00 AM
Reply #9 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:00 AM
Jafo, "...and from the 'brightest' comes the suicidal....", that is sadly also true.
As far as "and have enjoyed 'heavy metal' since BEFORE the term was coined", what do you mean? I don't think Frank Sinatra can be coined Heavy Metal, but I can be wrong...
As far as "and have enjoyed 'heavy metal' since BEFORE the term was coined", what do you mean? I don't think Frank Sinatra can be coined Heavy Metal, but I can be wrong...
BONEHEADdb
Reply #12 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:22 AM
Just to set the record strait.
The Kinks started the whole thing with a single song: their first hit, "You Really Got Me. The term "Heavy Metal" had not been coined yet.
Reply #12 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:22 AM
As far as "and have enjoyed 'heavy metal' since BEFORE the term was coined", what do you mean? I don't think Frank Sinatra can be coined Heavy Metal, but I can be wrong...
Just to set the record strait.
The Kinks started the whole thing with a single song: their first hit, "You Really Got Me. The term "Heavy Metal" had not been coined yet.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #13 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:37 PM
Reply #13 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:37 PM
I'm think I saw a study somewhere which showed Celine Dion was the favourite amongst those from the lower end of the gene pool...
NightTrainthedark
Reply #15 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:12 PM
Reply #15 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:12 PM
Did you go to the next page to see the other article about Jerry Springer watchers being intelligent also? 
Bandit4edu
Reply #16 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:59 PM
Reply #16 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:59 PM
missed that one...but saw the one where Bat Boy was being recruited for the war on terrorism...
HG_Eliminator
Reply #17 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:17 PM
Reply #17 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:17 PM
I could tend to agree with the sumation...
metal tells you to rage against the machine. and be your own person no mater what others think..
RAP on the other hand tells kids to do/sell drugs ,steal, treat women as objects, kill each other for shoes..etc...while as an adult i listen to both old school rap like will smith and old metal like metallica and maiden and others like boingo, the cure... it is clear to see the message of most rap today is "break the law" and "die early"...It just shows the infulence POP culture has in shaping impressionable youths...
it maybe as simple of a matter of metal heads possibly tend to out live the rap listeners .. as we metal heads arent encouraged by the music industry to "Buss a cap" in each other.....
i have yet to hear of a drive by where they had DIO cranked up while blasting at each other....
I was thinking more along the lines of Mozart inconcert live.... but this works to..
metal tells you to rage against the machine. and be your own person no mater what others think..
RAP on the other hand tells kids to do/sell drugs ,steal, treat women as objects, kill each other for shoes..etc...while as an adult i listen to both old school rap like will smith and old metal like metallica and maiden and others like boingo, the cure... it is clear to see the message of most rap today is "break the law" and "die early"...It just shows the infulence POP culture has in shaping impressionable youths...
it maybe as simple of a matter of metal heads possibly tend to out live the rap listeners .. as we metal heads arent encouraged by the music industry to "Buss a cap" in each other.....
i have yet to hear of a drive by where they had DIO cranked up while blasting at each other....
As far as "and have enjoyed 'heavy metal' since BEFORE the term was coined", what do you mean? I don't think Frank Sinatra can be coined Heavy Metal, but I can be wrong...
I was thinking more along the lines of Mozart inconcert live.... but this works to..
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #18 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:36 PM
Reply #18 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:36 PM
mE AM Rush fan...Yes,Vai,Hendrix,Stevie,Eric Johnson,Satriani...I.R.semi-intelektshual.
HG_Eliminator
Reply #19 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:40 PM
there are exceptions to every rule ... J/K hehe
Reply #19 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:40 PM
mE AM Rush fan...Yes,Vai,Hendrix,Stevie,Eric Johnson,Satriani...I.R.semi-intelektshual.
there are exceptions to every rule ...
J/K hehe
cycoced
Reply #20 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:33 PM
Reply #20 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:33 PM
Bandit4edu, did you know that the Primus guitarist used to be in a band called "Possessed", which pioneered the whole Death Metal scene back in 86? They should create a Trivial Pursuit Metal edition, I would finally win at this game...
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Reply #1 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:37 AM
nothing makes me feel smarter than jamming to some Humanure!
btw, what's your favorite nile song?