omg what ever shall we do now!

A grim, grim day for metalheads worldwide..............................

Most of this involves dumb ass shorthairs like me trying to mosh as hard as the long hairs. Which is why I just stick to banging heads with people and dropping the shoulder. Pain is gain, if you go to a show and your neck doesnt hurt, your voice isn't sore, and you haven't lost anything(shoes,hats,etc) than you haven't been to a show.

To each their own I guess. In my opinion there's no need to be a macho fucknut. Arriving at a point where my voice and neck hurt, I rather listen to what my body is telling me: not wise to continue.

if you have long hair your risks don't exist just sayin

Who gives a fuck

Haha...i will be sure to wear a neck brace at the next concert i go to...the bodily injury from the beating i will get (and deserve) will be ten times worse than the stiff neck the next day.

i love how his advice is to wear a NECK BRACE to concerts, and even better, to change our taste in music

This is clearly just some asshole who doesn't like metal and is trying to steer dumbasses away from it.

Rattlehead fo life

Good thing I listen to a lot of post metal. Slower safe tempos.

i wonder if they sell neck braces in metallica

As long as you don't go to a Hatebreed show you should be fine.

Hatebreed my ass..Go see Slayer you will hang your head till you bleed

yeah this is mega old Lol

Jebus Epic Frackin Christ, Metal is a violent genre? :O

And I had been waggling my finger and humming to Slayer all this time.

This news is completely retarded. I'm certainly not going to stop banging my head because some dumbass says it isn't good for me.

dumbass

stop ruining our fun

Michael Bolton > Metal

i know it's really old but I had to post it to see the various reactions from all the metal people in the sputnik community lol.

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fuck science
jk, this research isnt going to change anything so just ignore it. I mosh at gigs but it never hurts, and i never do it constantly so it's all good.

i love the paragraph where it tells you to attend formal training, change your music you listen to and wear protective gear

lmfaoo

Heavy headbanging hurts? Wow, I'd never have guessed...

"If you observe people after concerts, they clearly look dazed, confused and incoherent, so something must be going on and we wanted to look into it,"

"Ummm, drugs?"
If it only was that obvious.

I prefer to hummm my metal on the way to the barber shop and snap my fingers to the catchy rhythm!

Most of this involves dumb *** shorthairs like me trying to mosh as hard as the long hairs. Which is why I just stick to banging heads with people and dropping the shoulder. Pain is gain, if you go to a show and your neck doesnt hurt, your voice isn't sore, and you haven't lost anything(shoes,hats,etc) than you haven't been to a show.

I cut my hair last weekend so I don't have to worry about this anymore :rolleyes:

OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE.

"If you observe people after concerts, they clearly look dazed, confused and incoherent, so something must be going on "

....yea....couldn't possibly be all the drugs and alcohol.

They failed to take into account that these guys have also been running around or jumpingthafuckup a lot. Also i look pretty dazed after a gig because i've just been in a really loud, dark room for hours being sonically battered into a state of wonder.

I hurt my neck head banging at the last Sufjan Stevens concert.

Did you guys know that if you play metal music non-stop in front of a flower for a couple days it'll just fuckin' die? And if you play classical, it'll thrive.

Yeah how would a "scientist" ignore all those other glaring variables? Where is this story from? Is it even serious because the paragraph about how to prevent injury is so funny it makes me think otherwise.

i'm not so sure this guy is as ignorant as he seems to be trying to make himself out to be. angus young has been headbanging for 40 years and now he looks totally fucked

[quote=Awesome Guys!]"Possible preventive interventions include limiting the range of neck motion through a formal training program delivered before a concert, switching to easy-listening music like Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Enya and Richard Clayderman, and using personal protective equipment, such as neck braces, to limit range of motion,"[/quote]

Lol I hope people read this and go to their next metal concert wearing neck braces. I do believe that would be one of the funniest things that I would ever see, either that or one of the saddest.

Did you guys know that if you play metal music non-stop in front of a flower for a couple days it'll just ****in' die? And if you play classical, it'll thrive.

Thats a TV show, scripted and stuff, the experiment has been done millions of times across the world at millions of different science fairs its pretty basic.

i used to headbang for whole gigs when i played in a rock/metal covers band. it's gotten to the point now that if i headbang for just a few mins, it hurts a bit, and then i can barely move my neck in the morning.

now if i get the urge to headbang, i do the kinda upper-body-bang thing, where there's less impact on the neck (and looks more badass). altho usually i stick to the whole fist/finger in the air and shouting the lyrics, and jumping about. and ball-punching/stealing the wallets of any crowd surfer that feels the need to kick me in the head more than could be deemed accidental...

EDIT: Holy ever-living fuck, how did I not realise I'd just reached 2000 comments?!This Message Edited On 01.09.09

Thats a TV show, scripted and stuff, the experiment has been done millions of times across the world at millions of different science fairs its pretty basic.

how is this news?

I headbanging is dangerous...shouldn't Angus young be Dead? he never stops!

Oh! So that's why my neck is now a bleeding mass of broken bone and scarred tissue!

I should wear a neck brace next time I go to a concert.

yea thank god i only listen to bands that only make songs at 145 beats per minute. wooooo

I don't give a fuck. I'll worry about my health when I'm dead.

"If you observe people after concerts, they clearly look dazed, confused and incoherent"

Zep reference? I doubt it, still kinda laughed at that.

"Possible preventive interventions include limiting the range of neck motion through a formal training program delivered before a concert, switching to easy-listening music like Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Enya and Richard Clayderman, and using personal protective equipment, such as neck braces, to limit range of motion,"

Fuck that shit.

i love how his advice is to wear a NECK BRACE to concerts, and even better, to change our taste in music



This is clearly just some asshole who doesn't like metal and is trying to steer dumbasses away from it.

I have to say, while its a legit observation, I really do hate it when they tell us not to listen to metal.

[quote=BornDeadBuriedAlive]"Possible preventive interventions include limiting the range of neck motion through a formal training program delivered before a concert, switching to easy-listening music like Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Enya and Richard Clayderman, and using personal protective equipment, such as neck braces, to limit range of motion,"



**** that ****. [/quote]

lol made my day

oh yeah and old news

It just takes training. Once you've passed a certain limit, you can headbang without any reprecussions. I remember a year or so again I had pretty bad bangovers, but these days I can bang a long time, and... survive? :D

pretty lame imo

I saw Giant (post metal band) about a year ago, and my friend was doing that "two-stepping" stuff in slow motion to the music. It was awesome.This Message Edited On 01.10.09