The News Review:

- Headbanging music fans encouraged to wear neck braces
- Clint Mansell taps Slash for ‘The Wrestler’
- Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game

Headbanging music fans encouraged to wear neck braces
Melbourne Herald Sun Australia 
But a Sydney-based researcher is suggesting the unimaginable to heavy metal fans – wear a neck brace or ditch your love of hard music. Dr Andrew McIntosh biomedical and injury expert at the University of NSW has found that headbanging in time to heavy metal music could cause head and neck injuries. The self-confessed lover of milder music has found that songs such as Spinal Tap’s Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight and glam-metal band Motley Crue’s Kickstart My Heart top the list of injury-inducing songs. "We would suggest a proper public health warning as for smoking. " The study revealed that an average headbanging song with a tempo of 146 beats a minute is likely to cause mild injury if the head’s range of motion is greater than 75 degrees.
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Clint Mansell taps Slash for ‘The Wrestler’
Los Angeles Times CA 
"The fact that the film is set in New Jersey didn’t hurt either. Mansell wanted an instrument that could reflect the grittiness of the setting and the character even if the ultimate sound was soft. "He loves his metal music and he lives in New Jersey and all those things started pushing me toward the fact that the guitar might be the instrument that represents this character’s voice. "Mansell is the go-to composer Aronofsky. The two first worked together on Aronofsky’s first feature-length film "Pi. " Typically Mansell and Aronofsky begin plotting the music before shooting begins. In the case of "The Wrestler" the idea of using a simple guitar score wasn’t easily arrived at.

Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game
Los Angeles Times CA 
You couldn’t do that back then. You could only imagine that. What this game allows you to do is physicalize heavy metal music. You can do battle with this dramatic dangerous music as your score. It’s a real wish-fulfillment game for me. How is working in games different from in movies? Black: It’s exciting to me because it’s still relatively new. It’s an art form that hasn’t really reached its potential yet.