Researcher Dr Genevieve Dingle and a University of Queensland, Australia, School of Psychology student Leah Sharman published their “Extreme Metal Music and Anger Processing” study in the Frontiers in Human Neuroscience journal. They found that loud extreme music (including metal, emo, punk, death metal, and screamo) might actually help calm angry listeners. The study included thirty-nine extreme music lovers (ages 18-34) – three-fourths native Australians and one-fourth from countries around the world. As their heart rates were monitored, the participants were asked to describe a frustrating situation (relationship, finance, or work) for a period of 16 minutes. Their heart rates

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