Something a bit different now...you will no doubt have picked up that we love a bit of Nine Inch Nails. We are absolutely delighted that Adam Steiner, who wrote a recent book, Into The Never, on the Nine Inch Nails album The Downward spiral, agreed to both talk to us about his thoughts on the … Continue reading [Standing at the Edge] →

We have been putting people's stories of how metal has helped them with wellbeing onto our site now for a couple of years. But now we are able to share our first proper video story with you! We spoke with Richy, friend of HMT and personal trainer. He talks to us about his experiences of … Continue reading Our First Video Story →

Help us find an image credit for this, if you know let us know.... Today is halloween (or as we prefer to say goth Christmas or gothmas).  As your gift from us we present you with this fabulous novelty playlist of all things devil/satan and Halloween related, you are welcome 😈As usual there are a … Continue reading The Devilish Halloween Playlist →

By Mara Lisenko Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. I only share my personal experiences and observations working with some of my voice students. I also do not generalise all metal vocalists as having identified ‘mental health problems’, here are just a few experiences as well as small fraction of my personal story, what … Continue reading The Therapeutics of Screaming →

Thank you to all of you who came to our first webinar A few of you from the webinar As part of the webinar and general celebrations we spent some time reflecting on the past year and also thinking about what we want to do next for year 3. We have come a long way … Continue reading Year 3 Begins →

It's hard to believe that Heavy Metal Therapy is now 2 years old, things have changed a lot since we set up a little Facebook group for a few friends who thought metal music could be therapeutic. To mark the occasion this year we asked you lot to submit videos, quotes and stories about why … Continue reading HMT is 2! Metal and Me….. →

Ben Ryan, HMT Staff Journalist You know what people love? Security, routine and a sense of identity.   We won’t admit it, we like to think we are creatures of adaptability, but change the layout in a supermarket and we lose our fucking minds. And you know that’s a rough thing because the one consistent … Continue reading Change (in the house of flies) →

It's nearly time!Next week we will be speaking at MHBlogAwards 2020. Get an insight to the sessions by watching the speakers video (link below).What do you need to know before the day:- Tickets to the zoom hosted event are £2.95 (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/86239920925)- Event programme can be found here (https://www.mhblogawards.com/programme)- Awards voting will happen on the day, … Continue reading MH Blog Awards →

One of the reasons heavy metal therapy exists is that metal music tends to have more depictions of mental health and extreme states then many other music genres.  There's some evidence that mental health is described differently in metal as well, so possibly 're-framed' as a more positive thing or even celebrated (and if you … Continue reading The Sound of Madness →

Hi guysThe YouTube link for the event we did for hearing voices network is now here! We talk about metal and voices, and reflect on how music of all kinds is related to voice hearing (e.g. As coping, references to voices in lyrics etc). Played a few awesome tunes from Our Hollow Our Home, Motionless … Continue reading Some voices stuff →