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Amidst the screaming guitars, pounding drums and hair flying headbanging, heavy metal music is providing a unifying outlet for indigenous communities across the United States, said California State University, Northridge history professor Natale Zappia. Zappia said the power of heavy metal music with its aggressive sounds and distorted electric guitars is bridging generations and bringing together communities from disparate corners of Indian Country, particularly on Navajo reservations. “It’s so loud, and the beat is so demanding. It’s hard to understand how it’s captured entire communities,” said Zappia, an associate professor in CSUN’s Department of History. “But when you get there, and you listen and talk to people, you realize that it’s a very cathartic activity.

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