A heavy metal fan was found to have bleeding in the brain a month after a night of headbanging at a Motorhead concert, doctors in Germany reported on Friday. Headbanging -- the up-and-down movement of the head in time to a heavy beat -- is usually seen as a harmless bit of fun. Neurosurgeons at the Hanover Medical School found a small area of bleeding on the right side of his brain called a chronic subdural haematoma, where blood gathers under the outer membrane of the brain. Invented during heavy metal's 1970s heyday, headbanging has from time to time been associated with health scares such as whiplash and fractures of a cervical bone called the odontoid.
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