And during that documentary (which no one was able to replicate) he was essentially an alcoholic, which is the real reason his liver enzymes were elevated and is statistically a much greater contributor to poor health than McDonalds.
A lot of these are anger or high energy. What about when you’re hungover and it’s early in the morning? I went to a metal festival once and was woken up by Skindred - Nobody at about 8am. I don’t want metal in the morning! I want something safe and slow. Give me Journey or Snow Patrol.
What about some Doom like Khemmis, Neurosis, Windhand, Monolord? Low energy like Devin Townsend’s “Ocean Machine” Melodic and melancholic like Leprous Or progressive like Wheel
So, this is gonna sound weird, but I actually find a lot of these bands calming to listen to. I’m autistic, and have a lot of weird sensory issues because of it, so music that’s too simple (a lot of pop or punk or other genres that show up on the radio usually) doesn’t fully grab my attention. Like, there’s not enough happening at once for me to feel immersed in it.
So I’ll end up listening to Power Metal to fall asleep sometimes because I can hear every instrument individually, and my brain switches focus to each one at random times, and it’s stimulating enough that I can be completely distracted from my other senses and calm down. Dragonforce is my go-to because they even have two lead guitarists at the same time.
That said, I do have songs of every genre in my library, and if I do want something slower or simpler, there’s a ton of Metal ballads that aren’t necessarily high energy. Try something like Crimson Day by Avenged Sevenfold, Remembrance Day or Trail of Broken Hearts by Dragonforce, Christmas Truce by Sabaton, or Mother Gaia by Stradivarius.
There’s a lot more examples, but you can certainly have slow, calm metal. I could probably make a decent sized playlist
Korpiklaaani’s cover of Ievan Polkka goes absolutely insanely hard
Yes, that’s the only thing I know about them
I’ve also recently discovered Brothers of Metal who despite having the most boring metal band name in history are a pretty good nordic/viking metal band, I’m a big fan of Powersnake by them in particular recently
Coldworld (DSBM - If I’m feeling absolutely miserable)
Trees of Eternity (Doom?)
Heisskalt (German Post-Rock)
Invent Animate (Metalcore)
Fen (Atmospheric Black Metal?)
More Than Life (Metalcore)
Angry
FJØRT (German Post-Rock)
Infant Annihilator (Deathcore)
Der Weg Einer Freiheit (Black Metal
ERRA (Metalcore)
Gojira (Death Metal)
Ensiferum (again)
Disgust
IGORRR (???)
Gutalax (Grindcore)
Dehumanizing Itatrian Worship (Grindcore?)
Fear
Lifelover
Hollow Prophet (Deathcore)
I wanna set the world on fire
Primordial
Just vibing
Mesarthim (Chill Space Black Metal)
Long Distance Calling (Instrumental)
Vola (Djent/Progressive)
Brutus (Post-Rock)
The Moth Gatherer (Sludge/Drone Metal)
Sisare (Progressive Rock)
Ne Obliviscaris (Progressive)
Rammstein (Industrial Metal)
Creating this list I noticed, that many songs and bands fit multiple moods, which kind of made it hard for me to öin down which emotion I would assign them lol
LOL, I guess that’s fitting for some of his songs! If you listen to others like “ieuD” it’s more on the Metal side, but they always keep you guessing whatever they may come up with next
If anyone ever had a friend who never had anything good happen to them and you wonder if something is up with them mentally…totally the same vibes as this post
He was a raging alcoholic who hid his illness from the medical professionals who examined him as part of his Super Size Me “experiment.” A lifetime of booze did way more damage than 30 days of McDs possibly could.
That’s true. He died of pancreatic cancer. Heavy alcohol use can lead to conditions such as chronic pancreatitis, which is known to increase pancreatic cancer risk. The largest associated cause of pancreatic cancer is food that is cooked until charred or blackened, which you won’t find much of at McDonald’s.
With that being said, don’t eat at McDonald’s. It’s terribly malnutritious, laden with chemical treatments, and sourced by forced prison slave labor.
A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.
One line in and already sounds like a horrible parody of the states that we’d call too on the nose
His method wasn’t specifically about eating super-size, it was just that he ate nothing but McDonald’s for a month (and probably a lot of booze according to various sources).
That’s true, but that only amounted to 9 meals out of 90 over the month. It wasn’t really the burning issue, just a knee jerk reaction to the title of the film.
I believe a school tested it with some volunteers, someone also challenged the original movie by eating a healthy amount of calories of just McDonald’s food.
Spurlock also admitted to struggling with alcoholism. While reflecting on his sobriety journey, Spurlock told ABC News he had to start with himself, adding, “I wished I’d done it 10 years ago.”
I’ve lost quite a few people to various addictions over the years. Only 1 to drinking.
Storytime if you're curiousThat one still haunts me oftentimes (though not as much as it used to) about a decade later. They were my long-term boyfriend at the time and after our mutual long-term girlfriend passed away suddenly we both fell off the wagon hard. I made it out the other side of the path of self destruction, they didn’t. And when they passed I fell even harder into alcoholism. My wakeup call was when my doctor asked how many drinks I had per week and when I told him he had me go through the math right there for how I calculated it. It was over 300. I was there because of some health issues that turned out to be liver problems. I got sober a few months later.
Sobriety can be a real bitch to maintain at first but it gets easier the longer you’re sober. Especially if you utilize the new found clarity of mind to address the causes of your addiction.
Nice! I’m not even at a full year and I’m like, damn if I’d known the dry life would be so much better I would’ve never started drinking. Physically/mentally/emotionally/(sexually) everything has just got better. Even things like singing and dancing (which I could barely bring myself to do after a full night of boozing) are better sober.
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