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A new study indicates that head banging or in this case ‘head-thrashing’ can seriously damage your brain causing whiplash and even a stroke. duh?

There have been isolated reports of head-banging injuries in the past: When guitarist Terry Balsamo of Evanescence had a stroke, his doctors attributed it to his on-stage thrashing. But until now, scientists really haven’t studied the effects of head-banging since it first started back in 1968 with Led Zeplin.

According to Australian risk and safety researchers Declan Patton and Andrew McIntosh from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, head-banging is pretty much guaranteed to give you brain damage if you’re not careful. To test their theory, the researchers went to a variety of metal and hard rock concerts (the best way to test any scientific theory) and observed the head-thrashing techniques used by artists.

Then they created a “theoretical head-banging model” and plugged in various possible head angles and intensities. Using the top 11 “head-banging songs” chosen by a focus group, they measured an average tempo of 146 beats per minute, which they combined with head-banging arcs of more than 75 degrees from a person’s upright stance. They concluded that the typical death-metal tempo combined with a head-banging arc of at least 45 degrees will likely “cause mild head and neck injury.”

I wish the article posted the list of the metal and hard rock concerts they researched so that I can ‘head-thrash’ to it.

Yea, I’m surprised this study/research was just conducted because any brain dead person would know banging your head as violently as some tards do does damage something, I mean it’s your brain in there.

I remember in Jr High anythime my school had a dance, some douche would request Metallica or Megadeth and we’d start head banging and moshing to it until the Principle shit himself and cut it short. Ah, those were the days.

By the Way, Evanescence? Seriously? Why was that guy head banging to begin with? That band sucks monkey balls, it’s not even close to being head-banging worthy.

via Discover

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