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This month Global Beats dons ear defenders, dresses completely in black, grows its hair long, wears chains, bracelets and tattoos, and dives into the world of heavy metal.

Heavy-metal music, with its distorted guitar sounds, emphatic rhythms and dense bass and drum, is incredibly popular in Nordic countries. In Finland there are more heavy-metal musicians per capita than in any other nation on earth, and the country seems to have a real love affair with this genre of music.

Finnish presenter Ida Kiljander takes us to ‘Tuska’, one of her country’s biggest metal festivals, to meet bands including Finland’s Moonsorrow, Sweden’s Bombus, and the headlining French band Gojira.  With them, Ida explores why such a dark genre of music is so popular: is it because of Finland’s long, cold winters?

She is also fascinated by how this style of music that appears to be so violent and aggressive seems to encourage a very peaceful and harmonious fan base.

• Produced by Penny Boreham for 主播大秀 World Service

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