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How Heavy Metal Has Kept USne For 40 Years By James Parker Analysis

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In “Notes From The Underworld: How Heavy Metal Has Kept Us Sane For 40 Years,” James Parker, a contributing editor, argues that heavy metal is the source of humanities’ sanity. He marks the beginning of heavy metal i.e. Black Sabbath and Metallica, and compares it to the present-day metal. Parker summarizes the general themes of heavy metal throughout the years, the order is: Dark ages/Victorian/Romance, glamorized/metallic, fantasy and Nu-metal. He examines lyrics from songs, and discuss’ the meaning of it. No matter what the theme is metal carries a massage (Parker). “Heavy metal is cosmic protest music” (Parker). He briefly mentions the backlash on heavy metal in past years involving law suits and suicide, which he considers it to be “like
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