"Angry" music: why do some people find it relaxing?

[1487610420]

because they are broken and it resonates with them

 

[laterlazer]

Idk it's like a release of emotions I think. The music sort of puts your feelings into the track or cocoons them through displacement with the sound so it's like you've been purged of your feelings and that gives a sort of relaxing feeling. (Sorry if that makes no sense, literally fail of a sentence.)

 

[Such Irony]

I think angry music can give one perspective. Your personal situation ends up not being as bad as what's portrayed in the music, so in that sense I supposed it's relaxing.

 

[sprinkles]

Dot matrix make the best music.

 

[sprinkles]

 

[swordpath]

 

[Chrysanthea]

Explains why I only ever cared to listen to the most extreme of death metal during middle school- to release anger, appearing from absolutely nowhere, which couldn't be released elsewhere without someone dying. Also I suppose I could relate to the lyrics, and so it felt as if I wasn't alone with such emotions. Nowadays it just gives me a rush of energy that I can use to exercise with, like the video below. The only metal I can use as "listening music" nowadays is .00004 the speed and intensity of normal metal and is more akin to prog rock than stereotypical metal.

 

[Morpeko]

I'm one of these people. I've gotten so used to all kinds of metal that it doesn't even sound "angry" to me anymore, it's just the baseline and ideal tempo and instrumentation for music that I prefer. I find it relaxing because it matches my mood for the most part, like the anger I constantly feel within. I don't have any affinity toward most calmer music and don't find it relatable, so it does nothing for me but bore me.