{"id":11553,"date":"2014-10-23T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=11553"},"modified":"2014-10-22T17:07:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T22:07:27","slug":"washington-think-tank-with-w-what-makes-metal-music-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/washington-think-tank-with-w-what-makes-metal-music-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Think Tank with W.: What makes metal music scary?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greetings, sewer urchins. The most unholy of all seasons is upon us! It\u2019s that time of the year when Americans embrace the darkness lurking within their blackened suburbanite souls and allow the festering wickedness to boil to the surface. That time of the year when all good and pure things are corrupted in the name of sexy costumes<\/a>. That special season when we give our spawn buckets shaped like skulls and severed heads and tell them to play cruel tricks on those who don\u2019t reward their gluttonous desires. That spooky time when we carve open the flesh of living things and shape them into ghoulish forms illuminated from within like hellish specters<\/a>. That mystical holiday when we open portals into the abyss through our television sets and indulge in the most macabre forms of art on the eve of Samhain<\/a>. It\u2019s almost Halloween! Let the dead rise from their graves and stalk the living once again! I\u00e4! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Question: What makes metal music scary?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friends, I love Halloween. I have fond memories of trick-or-treating with my family (always wearing a coat over my costume because we typically got our first snow right before Halloween) and of going to fall festivals with my friends. Even the most conservative people can find something to enjoy about the season, even if it is just the colorful displays of death and decay in the leaves of their trees. However, something interesting often happens around Halloween. Our innate desire to embrace the frightful is often enhanced as a cultural norm. Those who don\u2019t typically fare in the darker arts as we metalheads do will find themselves indulging in horror movies or \u201cscary\u201d music. Why? There\u2019s something raw and primal about tapping into your fears. There\u2019s a release of endorphins as you embrace the animal instinct of fight or flight. It can be thrilling to be terrified.<\/p>\n

We metal fans should know this more than most as we often willingly force ourselves to confront the confounding and face something frightening. I\u2019ve previously written<\/a> about bands that legitimately scare me. See the exhibits below.<\/p>\n

Exhibit A: \u00c6vangelist<\/strong><\/p>\n