Metalheads can endure pain longer thanks to the festival experience

Metalheads can endure pain longer thanks to the festival experience

True to the motto "Faster, harder, louder," some 80,000 metal fans celebrate their music and bands at Wacken Open Air every year. Lydia Schneider and Tom Fritz from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig conducted a field study on-site to investigate whether and how the festival experience and listening to heavy metal live affect the audience's pain tolerance.