Headbanging

Headbanging (also called " head-banging " or " fear ") is a dance form that is practiced mainly by metal fans. When head banging the head to the beat of the music is fast forward and backward, sideways, moving in a circle or figure-eight shape. Headbanging is to be the first time happened at a concert of Led Zeppelin in 1968, as fans in the front row so began to beat her head ecstatically to the rhythm of the music on the edge of the stage.

Headbanging as namesake

Headbanging has repeatedly served as a namesake, for example:

• Headbangers Ball, a set Metal broadcast on MTV
• Headbangers Ballroom, a former metal bar in Hamburg (now Ballroom Hamburg ), a concert stage at the Wacken Open Air and a song of the band Masterplan
• Bang Your Head, a music festival in Balingen, a song by the band Unrest, Dream Evil 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 seventh studio album and a song of the band JBO
• Richie and headbangers that bikers figures of the Hessian comedy duo bath salts
• Suzy is a headbanger, a song by the Ramones (1977 )
• Albert is a Headbanger song by Phillip Boa on the album Hair ( 1987)

Potential Health Effects

According to Andrew McIntosh, a British physician, headbanging could of neck injuries to stroke a variety of risks entail. Later, the underlying calculations turned out to be wrong.

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