Rock music and heavy metal are visual experiences, to be sure.īut the relationship between the sound and sight is strongest with album cover art. Blurry fingers delivering 100 notes in a split second.
We all know this.Īfter sound, no other sense associates stronger with metal than sight. So yeah, metal’s association with a few of the five senses isn’t always glamorous or even within health codes.
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Taste is probably the biggest stretch to associate with heavy metal, unless of course you love pairing a good brew with your machine gun riffs or have ever taken a mouth full of sweaty hair from someone’s headbang backswing (it happens). Smell could be the welcoming must of a vintage record store of any of the more obvious odors associated with a reeky show (one friend of mine recently said one of the best things about a show was “fart anonymity”). Touch is the throbbing of the bass in your chest, the uncomfortable rub-up by a drunk stranger, or the full assault of a fun pit. What of the other four senses? Anyone that has spent a good amount of time at shows or shopping for records knows that metal can be a full sensory experience. Music is of course something you hear, meaning that of humankind’s five senses, heavy metal is most closely associated with sound. No matter what your freshman English teacher once told you when she caught you sneaking Once Upon the Cross in one ear instead of listening to her drone on about Keats, heavy metal is music.
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