Heavy Metal
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Heavy Metal
History
Heavy Metal is maybe one of the most diverse Genres of music that exists today. From droning guitar sounds to classic riffs of the 60's and 70's Metal is one of the most evolved and still evolving forms of music today. Heavy Metal's roots can be traced back to the late 60's early 70's with the era of Classic Rock. The transformation occurred slowly as Rock got pushed to the extreme, with distorted guitars, faster drums, more aggressive singing and an overall louder feeling the beast that would become Heavy Metal began to emerge. Some of the first metal bands to get great notice are many which still stand as great pillars in music today. Bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Mountain and Deep purple. From there Metal expanded into many different Categories which are still heavily disputed today. The early 70's lead to bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Van Halen, Def Leppard,Guns'n'Roses, the Scorpions and Motorhead. From here we see the beginnings of the thrash metal genre. Kill Em All is questionably the godfather album of thrash metal, being metallica's first release lead to many other great thrash albums and to bands like Megadeth, Testament, Sepultura, Slayer and many others.
(SOMEONE PLEASE EDIT THIS MY KNOWLEDGE OF THE HISTORY OF METAL IS LIMITED AND I KNOW VERY LITTLE OF NWOBHM SO THIS NEEDS TO BE ADDED THANKS!)
The limited was still being pushed into the early 80's when a culture of Heavy Metal really began to form, bands such as Blind Guardian, Dream Theater, Rush, Helloween, Symphony X pushed the progressive limits of Metal opening the doors wide open for thousands of bands to join the culture and create there own sound. Today within Heavy Metal there are Hundreds of classifications within the genre. These lines are sometimes hard to define and end up causing many arguments between people.
A few of the classifications which fall under Heavy metal could include Progressive Metal, Death Metal, Hardcore, Thrash Metal, Trash Metal, Grunge, Punk, Shock Rock, Glam Metal, Drone Metal, Doom metal, Black Metal,Power Metal, Speed Metal, Industrial, Instrumental, Viking Metal, Pirate Metal,Symphonic Metal,Troll Metal, Pop Metal, Hard Rock, Groove Metal,Nu metal, Stoner Metal,Hair metal,Melodic Death, Folk Metal,
