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Fans of heavy metal music are gentle, creative people who are at ease with themselves, which makes them very similar to fans of classical music.
That’s the finding of a new study at Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University of the link between peoples’ personalities and their choice of music.
Adrian North, the professor behind the study, said he was surprised at the similarities between fans of classical music and heavy metal, especially their creativity and generally shy natures.
“The general public has held a stereotype of heavy metal fans being suicidally depressed and of being a danger to themselves and society in general. But they are quite delicate things,” he said in an interview with the BBC.
i thought this was a little peculiar that heavy metal are gentle creative people… interesting. i like a bit of rock, pop, classical and new age… so what does that make me?