I find that when I'm feeling sick (I guess sick = anything worse than typical cold...so bad cold, flu, anything else that makes me feel tired and crappy), I seem to lose my desire to listen to metal. I just feel too run down, like I don't have the energy to enjoy it. Generally I know I'm getting better when I start feeling the urge to throw on some Hibria (or whatever my latest interest is) again. Does it work the same way for most people? I'd guess yes, but no way to find out without asking, so cast your vote and add your comments.

Yeah I still listen to metal whether I'm sick or not. And it doesn't matter what kind of metal it is. Generally it may be whatever I'm in the mood for. However, I don't get sick that often.

I cant listen to anything while im sick

I get sick when I don't listen to metal.

Written by Guest on 13.04.2011 at 02:34

I get sick when I don't listen to metal.

Haha awesome. I agree

When i am sick,I always dig up some old Viking era Bathory....Somehow i feel better ....

As long as I'm not trying to sleep or something, I still like listening to metal when I'm sick. If anything, I think it helps me feel better

I find that whatever I listen to when I am sick I get a negative association with... but usually I can't listen to anything except the sound of my dreams.

I listen to whatever I like whenever I like... unless I want to sleep.

Written by Guest on 13.04.2011 at 02:34

I get sick when I don't listen to metal.

::chuckles::
Nice, good answer.

The only thing that changes when I'm sick is the amount of headbaning I do , but the desire for metal is unchanged.

Yeah, I'll just listen to something more melodic.

Written by Guest on 13.04.2011 at 02:34

I get sick when I don't listen to metal.

LOL! TRUE METALHEAD.

I still listen to metal, I'm recovering from surgery still, got some bruises where they sliced me up, and I'm still listening to metal. Mostly power, stuff makes me feel happy.

Depends on how sick I am, if I'm on antibiotics and have a headache which makes me want to drown myself until I can't feel my fucking head anymore I'm most likely not listening to any kind of "too rough" metal. But metal can be so varied that I can't really say that I'd never listen to it while being sick since you can find so incredibly many bands that play a bit calmer music which still (of course) is metal.

When I'm sick I mostly listen to depressive black metal, funeral doom, atmospheric sludge, post-punk, shoegaze, dream pop, EBM, and trip hop.

Can't remember being sick, except for 2 or 3 hospital surgeries and no way I can listen metal there
I guess metal is good anytime, who doesn't like blast beats fest when you got headache ?

Written by Troy Killjoy on 16.04.2011 at 01:57

When I'm sick I mostly listen to depressive black metal, funeral doom, atmospheric sludge, post-punk, shoegaze, dream pop, EBM, and trip hop.

I'm breaking in and forcing you to listen to Lady Gaga ALL night long.

Written by Yasmine on 16.04.2011 at 02:35

I'm breaking in and forcing you to listen to Lady Gaga ALL night long.

The goal when sick is to feel better, not worse.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 16.04.2011 at 02:36

Written by Yasmine on 16.04.2011 at 02:35

I'm breaking in and forcing you to listen to Lady Gaga ALL night long.

The goal when sick is to feel better, not worse.

Exactly, so you'll be my slave forevah. Maybe tomorrow we'll do Carrie Underwood, course I'll wear ear plugs.

Yeah I'll listen to metal no matter what, but sometimes it'll be more toned down metal. Like, if I have a really bad headache, I won't usually listen to say death or thrash metal at high volumes, because that doesn't help much always. Instead I might listen to some mellow doom or stoner metal.

Buuuut, there have been a few cases where Judas Priests' Painkiller actually (no lie) cured me of my headaches and migraines. Was pretty cool, so sometimes I'll give that song a few spins.

Hmm. If I have a headache or other physical pain, I'll tone it down, or simply switch to lower-paced melancholic stuff like Katatonia or The Foreshadowing

16 people are recovering, while listening to metal.

I gotta tone it down, due to the fact that most of illness often sides with headaches. In other cases, hell yeah - headbang til recovery \m/
Toning it down is kinda nice for guys like me, I like the fast and heavy tracks during 'normal' time and pain sort of gives me something else to listen to. Last time I toned down, I got hooked into Lake of Tears.

I felt sick on my drive to school this morning. I started playing Municpal Waste in my car and felt better soon after. It was awesome.

If I'm sick enough to stay home, I listen to more metal! The last time I was sick I was a little delirious from fever and I found that the delirium actually enhanced the listening experience...or at least I thought it did at the time. lol When I'm sick toning it down, listening to other kinds of music or going without music all tend to be too depressing.

Listening to metal while I am sick make me BETTER...

I think if I had a really bad stomach ache I'd just stick on some black metal and just scream in anguish along to it.

Yes Vomitorium

I don't listen to metal if im not sick !

Well actually when im sick I must admit that I gotta tone it down alot. Not that I don't wanna listen to it but when I got those crappy headaches I just can't ... usually it pisses me off even more, like being sick ain't enough.

@Yasmine and Troy's early posts: Poor troy don't let her poison you with that Gaga mania.

I'm sick now and find that listening to calmer, progessive metal helps, I definitely tone it down.