Headbanging

Alexander Dietz, guitarist of Heaven Shall Burn "headbanging".

Headbanging

Headbanging (also "headbanging" or "bangen" / "banging") is a dance form that is mainly practiced by metal , and more rarely by hard rock and punk fans. With headbanging, the head is quickly moved forwards and backwards, sideways, in a circle or in a figure of eight to the beat of the music. Headbanging is said to have first occurred at a Led Zeppelin concert in 1968, when front-row fans began banging their heads ecstatically on the edge of the stage to the rhythm of the music.

Headbanging as a namesake

Headbanging has always served as a namesake, for example for:

Headbangers Ball , a discontinued metal show on MTV
Headbangers Ballroom , a former metal bar in Hamburg (today Ballroom Hamburg ), a concert stage at the Wacken Open Air and a song by the band Masterplan
Bang Your Head , a music festival in Balingen and one song each from the bands Quiet Riot , Unrest , Dream Evil , Hammerfall and Dope Stars Inc.
Headbangers Open Air , a music festival in Brande-Hörnerkirchen
Headbanging Man , a song by the band Grave Digger
Head Bang Boing , the 7th studio album and a song by the band JBO
Richie and Headbanger , the biker characters of the Hessian comedy duo Badesalz
Suzy is a Headbanger , a Ramones song (1977)
Albert is a Headbanger , song by Phillip Boa on the album Hair (1987)
Headbangeeeeerrrrr !!!!! (ヘドバンギャー！！), song by Babymetal on the debut album Babymetal (2014)

Possible health risks

According to Andrew McIntosh, a British medical professional, headbanging can pose a variety of risks, from neck damage to stroke . The underlying calculations were later found to be incorrect. Furthermore, chronic cerebral hemorrhages (subdural hematomas) can be traced back to frequent headbanging in several patients.

An accumulation of cases of aneurysm of the vertebral artery in headbangers is known.

Web links

Wiktionary: headbanging - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Commons : Headbanging - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Headbanging at concerts can be very dangerous for heavy metal fans

Individual evidence

^ Declan Patton, Andrew McIntosh: Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass . In: The British Medical Journal . No. 337 , December 17, 2008, doi : 10.1136 / bmj.a2825 (English).
^ Party Off: Headbanging May Be Harmful. In: New York Times. December 22, 2008.
↑ Answer from James R. Funk: Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass In: British Medical Journal. 337, 2008, p. A2825.
↑ Ariyan Pirayesh Islamian, Manolis Polemikos, Joachim K Krauss: Chronic subdural hematoma secondary to headbanging . In: The Lancet . No. 384 , July 5, 2014, p. 102 , doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (14) 60923-5 (English).
↑ Naoki Nitta, Junya Jito, Kazuhiko Nozaki: Recurrent subdural hematoma secondary to headbanging: A case report . In: Surgical Neurology International . No. 6/19 , October 7, 2015, p. 448-450 , doi : 10.4103 / 2152-7806.166777 (English).
↑ MR Egnor, LK Page, C. David: Vertebral artery aneurysm- - a unique hazard of head banging by heavy metal rockers. Case report . In: Pediatr Neurosurg . No. 17 (3) , 1991, pp. 135-138 , doi : 10.1159 / 000120583 (English).

[1] Declan Patton, Andrew McIntosh: Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass . In: The British Medical Journal . No. 337 , December 17, 2008, doi : 10.1136 / bmj.a2825 (English).

[2] Party Off: Headbanging May Be Harmful. In: New York Times. December 22, 2008.

[3] Answer from James R. Funk: Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass In: British Medical Journal. 337, 2008, p. A2825.

[4] Ariyan Pirayesh Islamian, Manolis Polemikos, Joachim K Krauss: Chronic subdural hematoma secondary to headbanging . In: The Lancet . No. 384 , July 5, 2014, p. 102 , doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (14) 60923-5 (English).

[5] Naoki Nitta, Junya Jito, Kazuhiko Nozaki: Recurrent subdural hematoma secondary to headbanging: A case report . In: Surgical Neurology International . No. 6/19 , October 7, 2015, p. 448-450 , doi : 10.4103 / 2152-7806.166777 (English).

[6] MR Egnor, LK Page, C. David: Vertebral artery aneurysm- - a unique hazard of head banging by heavy metal rockers. Case report . In: Pediatr Neurosurg . No. 17 (3) , 1991, pp. 135-138 , doi : 10.1159 / 000120583 (English).