Over 30 years ago a woman named Dorothy Retallack conducted experiments using music, plants and their combined environment. These results are famous.

Taking two identical sets of plants in two separated but identical rooms, she exposed them to music. The first set of plants were played quiet placid subdued devotional "religious" classical music, while the other set were subjected to loud aggressive rock music played at full deafening volume 24 hours a day. The plants exposed to rock grew away from the music source, withered and died, while the plants that were played religious music grew towards the music source and thrived.

20 years later, David Merrill, a high school student from Suffolk, won top regional and state science-fair honors by repeating the exact same experiment, this time using mice, a maze, and music.

Merrill got 72 mice, and first established a base-line of about 10 minutes that it took for the average mouse to solve the maze.

He then divided them into two groups. To one group of mice he played hard rock music (Satanic artist Alice Cooper) 10 hours a day, to the other he played the classical music (the music of Mozart) 10 hours a day.

The results were conclusive. The mice that listened to classical music managed to cut their time back to only one-and-a-half minutes when solving the maze. That's almost ten times faster than the established baseline.

However, the mice that listened to hard rock took on average of 30 minutes  to solve the maze. That's 20 minutes longer than the established baseline. 300 percent more than the original average.

I think these results speak for themselves, though it is worth noting that these experiments had to be cut short. The reason? Well let me quote David Merrill on this -

"I had to cut my project short because all the hard-rock mice killed each other," Merrill said. "None of the classical mice did that."

The lesson? If rock music attacks and kills plants, and makes mice tear each other apart, then what does it do to people? I think it's rather obvious - it does the exact same thing!

THIS ARTICLE STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, WHEN COMPLETE IT WILL INCLUDE A HISTORY OF GOTH AND ROCK MUSIC, WHERE GOTH MUSIC REALLY COMES FROM, IT'S LINKS TO VOODOO AND RITUAL SACRIFICE, AND WHAT THE BIBLE HAD TO SAY ABOUT IT.