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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Most death metal I’ve heard seems horror-themed anyway. I’m not aware of many death metal bands who’s lyrics are primarily anger-themed.

Also, I‘m not sure anyone listens to death metal specifically for the lyrics.

Anyway, that whole “depressed peolle care about lyrics and happy people don’t” seems like a huge oversimplification overall anyway.

Source: I’ve been depressed my whole life, and I usually don’t care about lyrics, although sometimes I do. And it’s not necessarily when I’m more depressed, but rather if the lyrics noticeably good or bad I might notice, if I can even understand them.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Horror and anger definitely have crossover. Look at the people who are "punished" by the monsters of horror films and you will quickly realize it's just catharsism in the form of gross justified violence against those that are deemed as either corrupt to deserve it or pure innocent that iS being wrongly punished by the sins of the society. (look to toxic avenger for a super on the nose representation)

But metal music is often in search of that same catharsism of feeling alive, yelling back against the things that make you angry or scared and loud and hard enough to hear that you can't think or focus on the merits of the song.

I understand it's a large oversimplification and it's not really my research while I have a distinct interest in it. But metal music can not be compressed into a repeatable chorus like clean happy pop music can be, and if you look into the topics and lyrics of popular heavy metal music you will often find them to be secretly about some polarizing topics.

And honestly you kinda stated my point on you take notice of lyrics that give you a strong emotional response. You don't have to necessarily fit the curve because it's more about averages than catch all statements.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m also horror fan and I don’t relate to horror being about wanting to watch people get punished

Edit: Also, I apologize if I missed your point, but I didn’t really see that as the point when you said:

Quite literally it breaks down to people who are happy tend to just want to hear music and don’t comprehend or want lyrically complicated songs. People who are depressed or at high risk for it tend to be more seeking more complex story telling and will be more aware of the lyrics.