Nurse Ratched and Kate wrote this blog about mental health 'awareness' and some thoughts on what that really means. We are most grateful to our friends at Soundsphere Magazine for publishing it as a guest blog. Read it here: https://www.soundspheremag.com/news/guest-blog-dont-buy-our-shirts-for-mental-health-awareness/

Blog by Dan who you can follow on twitter @djrobotham A mundane consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the increased amount of time I've spent at home. Face-to face interactions with anyone beyond immediate family have been infrequent. My geographical world has been reduced to a couple of square miles. For some reason I … Continue reading Lost souls domain; Bolt Thrower, mindfulness and Covid-19 →

We'd like to thank our friends at Wobbling About and Rocking Out for this nice write up 🤘🤘🤘 https://waro.co.uk/headbanging-for-healthier-minds-an-interview-with-the-founder-of-heavy-metal-therapy/

2021 has got off to a busy start for us.... The Lancet Psychiatry, which is an important mental health journal, published an essay about heavy metal and mental health, which featured some heavy metal therapy: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30558-7/fulltext?fbclid=IwAR0eV45AVGsnx6QXfcRE-wjio22_ZXABhT00OyvuYwTCDagwFaXJfzP3o6s . We have also been doing a bit of podcasting with two new additions to our collection: Death Comes … Continue reading Some Metal University Updates →

Well, it's been quite a year! Not what we were expecting and a challenge for many. Some of our plans had to change in terms of our hopes for the project this year. However, as an online resource we wanted to do what we can even if it is just to help people out in … Continue reading Bye bye 2020 →

By Scott Arlow Sometimes it's easy to forget how important some simple things are. Like cheese on toast. Or Rice Krispies. Or music.Today, the stars have aligned in such a way as to remind me how important music is to our everyday lives. Image from Crofton parish, lyrics Foo Fighters I was talking to my … Continue reading Times Like These →

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 →