video1.0<iframe src="https://www.loom.com/embed/f26b6c513f6b42e7bc3fee282381ffec" frameborder="0" width="1920" height="1440" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>14401920Loomhttps://www.loom.com14401920https://cdn.loom.com/sessions/thumbnails/f26b6c513f6b42e7bc3fee282381ffec-9f57f42469d8887a.gif211.744867This Loom introduces The Metal Corpus and explains how it analyzes metal music lyrics to answer what metal songs talk about. William Anderson describes a long-running project begun about 10 years ago that combines about 16 million words from roughly 1100 bands into one dataset for analysis. He reports that the most used non-stopword word is “life,” while “blackened” is the most disproportionately used word compared to everyday speech, and “fate” is the most consistently disproportionately used across metal subgenres. He also notes the dataset may be biased toward death metal due to his own preferences and points viewers to an accompanying MetalCorpus notebook for details and limitations.