New Study Reveals Slipknot Are Top Artist to Listen to When Angry

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A new study has revealed that Iowa’s masked madmen Slipknot are the number one artist people listen to when they’re pissed off.

The study, conducted by U.K. ticketing service TickX, utilized Spotify’s Playlist Miner to find the most common songs in users’ playlists that include the keywords “happy,” “sad,” “sexy,” “love,” “chill” and “angry.”

The researchers also identified the top songs that people stream when they’re raging. While Slipknot’s “Duality,” “Before I Forget,” “Wait and Bleed” and “Psychosocial” all made the list, the number one slot was filled by Disturbed’s 2000 nu-metal hit “Down With the Sickness.”

TickX then used the Organize Your Music tool to quantify the “anatomy” of what makes up an angry song. They cataloged the BPM, valence, danceability, energy, duration and year for each track and then averaged the values.

They found the typical “angry” song looks a bit like this:

  • BPM at 130
  • Valence (positivity) at 49/100
  • Danceability at 54/100
  • Energy at 86/100
  • Duration of 226 seconds (3 minutes and 47 seconds)
  • Average year of release is 2007

TickX also scanned the Spotify data to pinpoint the “angriest” genres. See that list, as well as the full Angriest Artists and Songs rankings below:

Angriest Genres

  1. Alternative Metal
  2. Dance Pop
  3. Emo
  4. Dark Trap
  5. Detroit Hip Hop

Angriest Artists

  1. Slipknot
  2. Three Days Grace
  3. Linkin Park
  4. Disturbed
  5. Avenged Sevenfold
  6. System Of A Down
  7. Skillet
  8. Rage Against The Machine
  9. Korn
  10. Breaking Benjamin

 Angriest Songs

  1. Disturbed “Down With the Sickness”
  2. Three Days Grace “I Hate Everything About You”
  3. Slipknot “Duality”
  4. Trapt “Headstrong”
  5. Slipknot “Before I Forget”
  6. Drowning Pool “Bodies”
  7. Slipknot “Psychosocial”
  8. Rage Against The Machine “Killing In The Name”
  9. Skillet “Monster”
  10. Disturbed “Stricken”
  11. Avenged Sevenfold “Hail To The King”
  12. Linkin Park “Numb”
  13. System Of A Down “Chop Suey”
  14. Breaking Benjamin “I Will Not Bow”
  15. Slipknot “Wait and Bleed”
  16. Eminem “Till I Collapse”
  17. Three Days Grace “Riot”
  18. Pantera “Walk”
  19. Korn “Coming Undone”

See a full breakdown of the study’s results here.