Social functions of heavy metal music  by Jon Wild August 10,
2013 –  metal_onlyThe origins of human fascination with music
remain unknown. A number of hypotheses have arisen throughout
the years in an attempt to explain the utility of music to human
civilization.  These vary from viewing it as arising as an
individual occurrence with unique philosophical implications, to
seeing it as a side-effect of language-based communication; a
pleasant phenomenon but without any meaning beyond that.
Regardless of its cause, the functions music provides are
generally easier to identify.  Via the Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, newly released academic research into the
social implications of music has claimed that music functions as
a way of bringing people together within a group. Specifically,
the authors claim that music is a vehicle for projecting
“information about the group’s shared mental state to a number
of individuals at once.”  In this view, music is a type of
broadcast that attracts people based