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- Eilis O'Neill
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- Location: Cambridge, MA
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- "Mind Your Metal"
- Summary: Satanic and violent or just another genre of music? High school English teacher, Travis Fields, dispels some myths about heavy metal music.
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Review of Mind Your Metal
Eilis O'Neill
Posted on January 17, 2006 at 12:27 PM
For someone like me with my many preconceived notions about the violence of heavy metal music, this piece represents well the perspectives of both the artists who create and the listeners who love this music; the story presents a very positive, convincing argument for the genre. Particularly creative is the montage of voices that opens the piece. The use of heavy metal for transition music also adds to the depth and flow of the piece. For the most part, the narration works well, although it could be improved by editing the script to make it more succinct and by reading more smoothly. Overall, however, the piece leaves even the most skeptical listener with a better sense of the motivation behind creating and listening to this genre.