FENOMEN NASILJA I HEAVY METAL MUZIKA
PHENOMEN VIOLENCE AND HEAVY METAL MUSIC

Summary/Abstract: The world we live in is the world of great social, economical and political turbulence,the breakdown of social fabric, wars and conflicts, universal corruption and neglect, brutality and violence, which bring together a general feeling of life's uncertainty and fear. Heavy metal, as a musical direction and a cultural phenomenon, which is often controversial and rebellious, often uses the paradigm of social conscience, and with its view of reality through music texts and symbolic messages, the various aspects of life and the negative phenomena in society are actualized. Such an understanding of heavy metal scenes is often neglected. The reason lies in the fact that given for several decades (even from the very outset of this musical direction) there is concern among some theorists but also accepted public, opinion that heavy metal promotes and glorifies violence and other deviations, all that without takeing in consideration, sociologically speaking, its imaginative approach. Of course, treating many social phenomena and problems of today, heavy metal artists often do not soften their way of, realistically but also metaphorically, showing the crude reality of today and the context of the contemporary world.Using a comparative method, we will analyze the content of two heavy metal online portals and webs, Encyclopaedia Metallum, Spirit of Metal, metal lyrics archive Dark Lyrics and literature dealing with heavy metal scenes. The paper will discuss the most striking forms of violence spoken by heavy metal texts. The analysis will pay attention to the understanding of certain subgenres as well as the names of some heavy metal bands that actualize this phenomenon. Although almost all heavy metal genres actualize violence, the work will focus on extreme heavy metal subgenre.

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