Well, it has been another strange year hasn't it? The pandemic has now probably been a feature in the majority of our (HMT's) time in existence and that has caused a few things to be different to how we might have imagined. Still, there have been a few exciting developments and aspects of growth, and … Continue reading The End of 2021 →

We asked you over on social media to share with us your tips for surviving the holiday period, as part of our Dismember December stuff this month. We put your contributions into themes and summarised them here There are some more comprehensive guides available, here's a couple you might be interested in: Primordial Radio Know … Continue reading Holiday Survival →

Welcome to Dis-member December! This will hopefully be a recurrent feature each 'holiday period' starting this year. As you know for the past 3 years we have been quite low key about Christmas because not everyone is a fan of it and it can be quite hard for lots of people. Plus we reckon you … Continue reading Dis-member December →

We are delighted to be partnering with metal magazine Metal Digest who are focusing December on mental health, with our help 🙂 Please check out their stuff here: https://metal-digest.com/2021/12/01/december-mental-health-focus-metal-digest-heavy-metal-therapy/

Some of you may remember doing a survey for us in the metal health moshpit a few months ago (our Facebook group which is here if you want to join us). This was part of a research dissertation at Wakefield College University Centre, School of Popular Music about heavy metal and mental health. We wanted … Continue reading Metal Moshpit Research →

A chapter that we (Kate and Danny) wrote about using metalcore music in therapy work with voices has been published in this new book: https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/the-practical-handbook-of-hearing-voices Now, this could be quite niche, and we don't expect that many of our HMT followers will buy it but it is part of the story of HMT as this … Continue reading Awesome Metalcore Therapy →

Last weekend we had the pleasure of joining the lovely folks at Primordial Radio for their annual gig/gathering, they are big on mental health support (see their resources section), and we were made to feel most welcome indeed. This is the first time we've attempted any sort of 'stall' at an event, thanks to covid, … Continue reading HMT at Primordial Radio AGM →

One of the strange things about us is that we don't really know when our 'birthday' is - it is a long middle-aged story about how we were only supposed to be a Facebook page and became something else pretty quick, but it is sometime around the end of August and the start of September. … Continue reading HMT is 3 – Welcome to the Weird →

Patch Amnesty sell metal patches for battle jackets and give the money they raise to the mental health charity Mind. They have raised almost 19K so far! Mike from the project talks to Sam, one of our Roadies, about how it started, and the plans to bring it to a close at the Primordial Radio … Continue reading Patch Amnesty Interview →

Pleased to have a guest blog out with SCRA, a US based community psychology organisation. Check it out here: https://www.communitypsychology.com/heavy-metal-therapy/