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One critique on Heavy Metal is its fixation on anger and hatred, while being primitive and anti-intellectual. What a critic in the 70’s has said with regards to Black Sabbath about the ‘sophistication of four Cro-Magnon hunters who’ve stumbled upon a rock band’s equipment’might be well accepted by many critics of this particular style today. Taking a look at the aesthetics, the artistic expression and imagery of post-modern Heavy Metal, we will focus on the expression of intensity and authenticity as an attitude to life. However, we will not only take a look at the modes of expression, but also at the limitations and restrictions on the expression of anger. We will correlate music, lyrics, video, gestures, facial expressions as well as band and fan communication to understand why intensity emerges from ‘controlled anger’. As Elster explains, since the time of Aristotle ‘the most frequent antonym of passion was reason’. In this tradition anger is the passion we have to worry about the most in case we want to act reasonable. However, passions might also be seen as an instrument of self-binding by being instrumental to overcome time-inconsistency of personal identity. In our chapter we will work within a framework, which assumes that Heavy Metal has to strive for creating a resource to refuel anger enabling the community members to ‘stay true’.