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Originating Location: Unknown

Originating Era: late 1960s

Genre DescriptionEdit

Heavy metal, usually abbreviated to metal is a loosely based genre generally characterized by its distorted electric guitar work, loudness, shock value, and experimentation with vocals. The origin of heavy metal music is unclear, but it most likely started in 1966 when Jimi Hendrix took influence from bluesy and psychedelic guitar work and incorporated them in his sound. Unfortunately, his band Jimi Hendrix Experience, only survived until 1969, because Jimi died from an intense overuse of drugs that year. Though he's deceased, his legacy became timeless. That same year a "triple band explosion" of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin followed Hendrix which further influenced the genre. Many other heavy metal bands and musicians who soon aided them in pioneering and progressing heavy metal for several years, including AC/DC, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Cream, Def Leppard, Faster Pussycat, Foghat, Kansas, Kiss, Night Ranger, Quiet Riot, Scorpions, Ted Nugent,Van Halen, and Warrant, Z.Z. Top. These were among the first major heavy metal bands and their music has been called several things, including "Hard Rock" "Glam Metal" and "Hair Metal." Then the 80s came along and an event called the New Wave of British Heavy Metal happened, which sought to revive the early heavy metal music which, was declining due to the existing dance and pop music that seemed to be dominating. One could argue the movement was to Heavy Metal what the Punk Movement was to Rock & Roll, since the NWOBH bands were rougher and tougher than the early heavy metal, yet still sought to revive it. And like the Punk Movement, the NWOBH was short lived, but it was essential in the heavy metal timeline.

After a few years the NWOBH movement ended up splitting into two new subgenres of metal, Thrash Metal and Power Metal, and Thrash Metal ended up giving way to Black Metal, the most extreme of all metals. Whereas Black Metal took influence from the thrash bands Venom, Celtic Frost, and Hellhammer, is generally characterized by chaotic drum beats, possessed vocals, often with diaphragm ussage, use of corpse paint, and meanings usually religion-based (Christianity, Paganism, and Christian-blasphemy are the most common). Notable black metal bands include Antestor, Bathory, Behemoth, Burzum, Emperor, Enslaved, Mayhem, Moonsorrow, Satyricon, Xasthur, and the musical projects of the musicians Gaahl and King ov Hell (Gaahlskaag, Godseed, Gorgoroth, and Trelldom). Thrash metal is generally characterized by violent vocals (aggression, death growls, etc.) and lyrics pertaining to Atheism and violence. The most famous and influencial thrash band of all time was Metallica, but other notable bands include Annihilator, Anthrax, Children of Bodom, Exodus, Megadeth, Motorhead, Sepultra, Slayer, and Testament. Officially, a genre called Death Metal exists and is separate from Thrash but it really shouldn't be because the only major difference between the two is that what is called "Death Metal" uses vocals that are just a bit more violent than that of what is called "Thrash Metal" but there Meanwhile, power metal was developing as well. Modern power metal is generally known for having nicer, fantastical song meanings, coincided with epic melodies and often the inclusion of band members who play classical instruments like strings and pianos. However, original power metal seemed to just be a milder side of thrash metal, still retaining aggression in its sound only a bit more melodic/, with bands like Blind Fury, Dream Evil, Judas Priest, Manowar, Metal Law, etc. During this time, power metal and thrash metal were still closely linked together through the NWOBH. Eventually power metal seemed to separate more musically from thrash metal, sounding less aggressive and incorporating strings, pianos, and other neoclassical instruments with bands like Dragonforce, Dragonland, Dream Theater, Enchant, Gamma Ray, Helloween, Krusader, Queensryche, and Rhapsody of Fire. Power metal bands also tend to be fairly long, often passing 15 minutes with ease. Now lets go back to 1969 with Black Sabbath for a second. They may have been a hard rock themselves but they were a key factor in the emergence of Doom/Sludge Metal, which is generally characterized by low temp guitar work, depressing lyrics (usually either about doomsday, drugs, or witchcraft) and low-pitched singing (in fact, Doom metal vocals are the closest thing Heavy Metal has come to normal singing). The first true doom metal band was probably Pentagram in the mid 70s, but other notable bands that followed him included Candlemass, Electric Magma, Electric Sun, Electric Wizard, Goatsnake, Reverend Bizarre, Saint Vitus, and Witchfinder General. Doom metal songs, like power metal songs tend to be long, but also very slow. Some have even made it past a whole hour. In this sense of duration, doom and power metal have that in common, but lyrically and musically, they're very different, practically opposite in fact. Take note that these are just the independent subgenres of heavy metal. There are other forms of heavy metal like progressive metal, gothic metal, pagan metal, and nu metal, but there more so concepts that are interchangeable with the metal subgenres than subgenres themselves.

Heavy Metal HeroesEdit

Jimi Hendrix

Jimmy Page

Timo Tolkki

John Petrucci

Kai Hansen

Michael Kiske

Ozzy Osbourne

Rob Halford

Ronnie James Dio

Tuomas Holopainen

Yngwie Malmsteen

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-'''Originating Location:''' UK
+'''Originating Location:''' Unknown
 '''Originating Era:''' late 1960s
 ==Genre Description==
-'''Heavy metal''', usually abbreviated to '''metal''' is a loosely based genre generally characterized by its distorted guitar work, loudness, shock value, and experimentation with lead vocals. The origin of heavy metal music is unclear, but it most likely started in 1966 when Jimi Hendrix took influence from bluesy and psychedelic guitar and incorporated them in his sound. A "triple band explosion" of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin followed Hendrix in 1969 which further influenced the genre. Ironically, these three bands took Heavy Metal towards three very different directions. Black Sabbath became the lead pioneer for the depressing Doom Metal, Deep Purple became one of the lead pioneer for the technical/progressive metal, and Led Zeppelin became one of the lead pioneers for the music commonly labeled "hard rock" and "classic rock" by self proclaimed non-metalheads who do not associate the metal bands they like with metal. This music would eventually be called Glam metal which brought heavy metal to the mainstream in the late 70s and 80s, giving way to a theoretical Golden Age of Heavy Metal. Besides Zeppelin, other heavy metal bands and musicians who helped pioneer this music, included Aerosmith, Steppenwolf, Foghat, Kansas, Kiss, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Boston, Vixen, Warrant, Quiet Riot, Van Halen, Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, the Scorpions, and Z.Z. Top. Then the 80s came along and an event called the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, which sought to revive the early heavy metal music which, other than glam metal, was declining in popularity. One could argue the movement was to Heavy Metal what the Punk Movement was to Rock & Roll, since the NWOBH bands were rougher and a bit less bluesy than the early heavy metal, yet still sought to revive it. And like the Punk Movement, the NWOBH was short lived, but it was essential in the heavy metal timeline. After a few years the NWOBH movement ended up splitting into two new subgenres of metal, Thrash Metal and Power Metal, and Thrash Metal ended up further splitting into Death Metal and Black Metal. Death Metal took influence from the thrash bands Slayer, Possessed, and Atheist, is generally characterized by blast beats, low-pitched beastly vocals (growls, roars, snarls, etc.), highly distorted, low tempo guitar solos, and meanings pertaining to issues concerning religion, the government, and other topics in society. Whereas Black Metal took influence from the thrash bands Venom, Celtic Frost, and Hellhammer, is generally characterized by chaotic drum beats, possessed shrieks with diaphragm ussage, use of corpse paint, and meanings usually based on either Christian Blasphemy, Norse Paganism or Darkness/Despair. Although Death Metal is musically the most violent, Black Metal is actually the most extreme existing form of Heavy Metal. Now we're going back to 1969 with Deep Purple's pioneering of progressive metal. Now, progressive metal was originally very different from Progressive Rock, possessing mainly a bluesy mood and originally incorporated organ work, not synthenization. But eventually when the 80s came along, like Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal took more influence from synthesizers and neoclassical orchestras, with bands like Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, Symphony X, and Queensryche. Power Metal evolved in a similar fashion, so the two are often interchangeable. For instance the power metal bands Rhapsody of Fire and Theocracy are often labeled "progressive power metal." Despite this, the two subgenres are separate and independent, with a few notable differences. The first, is that prog metal bands incorporate whole, complex orchestras with all different kinds of classical instruments, whereas power metal bands don't incorporate orchestras but may have band members that play classical instruments, most commonly pianists and violinists. The second is that, even with the orchestras prog metal bands still retain more of a bluesy sound to it, whereas power metal bands play very epic, melodic music, the kind of epic you'd see in a lot of fantasy games. And the third is that power metal bands tend to speed up their drum beats in studios, giving it a much faster pase (Dragonforce is best known for doing this) whereas prog metal bands don't.
+[[File:Stratovarius actual.jpg|thumb|[[Stratovarius]], one of the pioneers of Power Metal and Neoclassical Metal.|250px]]
+'''Heavy metal''', usually abbreviated to '''metal''' is a loosely based genre generally characterized by its distorted electric guitar work, loudness, shock value, and experimentation with vocals. The origin of heavy metal music is unclear, but it most likely started in 1966 when Jimi Hendrix took influence from bluesy and psychedelic guitar work and incorporated them in his sound. Unfortunately, his band Jimi Hendrix Experience, only survived until 1969, because Jimi died from an intense overuse of drugs that year. Though he's deceased, his legacy became timeless. That same year a "triple band explosion" of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin followed Hendrix which further influenced the genre. Many other heavy metal bands and musicians who soon aided them in pioneering and progressing heavy metal for several years, including AC/DC, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Cream, Def Leppard, Faster Pussycat, Foghat, Kansas, Kiss, Night Ranger, Quiet Riot, Scorpions, Ted Nugent,Van Halen, and Warrant, Z.Z. Top. These were among the first major heavy metal bands and their music has been called several things, including "Hard Rock" "Glam Metal" and "Hair Metal." Then the 80s came along and an event called the New Wave of British Heavy Metal happened, which sought to revive the early heavy metal music which, was declining due to the existing dance and pop music that seemed to be dominating. One could argue the movement was to Heavy Metal what the Punk Movement was to Rock & Roll, since the NWOBH bands were rougher and tougher than the early heavy metal, yet still sought to revive it. And like the Punk Movement, the NWOBH was short lived, but it was essential in the heavy metal timeline.
+[[File:Tarja-Turunen.jpg|thumb|left|[[Tarja Turunen]] is often referred as the Queen or Goddess of Metal|150px]]
+After a few years the NWOBH movement ended up splitting into two new subgenres of metal, Thrash Metal and Power Metal, and Thrash Metal ended up giving way to Black Metal, the most extreme of all metals. Whereas Black Metal took influence from the thrash bands Venom, Celtic Frost, and Hellhammer, is generally characterized by chaotic drum beats, possessed vocals, often with diaphragm ussage, use of corpse paint, and meanings usually religion-based (Christianity, Paganism, and Christian-blasphemy are the most common). Notable black metal bands include Antestor, Bathory, Behemoth, Burzum, Emperor, Enslaved, Mayhem, Moonsorrow, Satyricon, Xasthur, and the musical projects of the musicians Gaahl and King ov Hell (Gaahlskaag, Godseed, Gorgoroth, and Trelldom). Thrash metal is generally characterized by violent vocals (aggression, death growls, etc.) and lyrics pertaining to Atheism and violence. The most famous and influencial thrash band of all time was Metallica, but other notable bands include Annihilator, Anthrax, Children of Bodom, Exodus, Megadeth, Motorhead, Sepultra, Slayer, and Testament. Officially, a genre called Death Metal exists and is separate from Thrash but it really shouldn't be because the only major difference between the two is that what is called "Death Metal" uses vocals that are just a bit more violent than that of what is called "Thrash Metal" but there Meanwhile, power metal was developing as well. Modern power metal is generally known for having nicer, fantastical song meanings, coincided with epic melodies and often the inclusion of band members who play classical instruments like strings and pianos. However, original power metal seemed to just be a milder side of thrash metal, still retaining aggression in its sound only a bit more melodic/, with bands like Blind Fury, Dream Evil, Judas Priest, Manowar, Metal Law, etc. During this time, power metal and thrash metal were still closely linked together through the NWOBH. Eventually power metal seemed to separate more musically from thrash metal, sounding less aggressive and incorporating strings, pianos, and other neoclassical instruments with bands like Dragonforce, Dragonland, Dream Theater, Enchant, Gamma Ray, Helloween, Krusader, Queensryche, and Rhapsody of Fire. Power metal bands also tend to be fairly long, often passing 15 minutes with ease. Now lets go back to 1969 with Black Sabbath for a second. They may have been a hard rock themselves but they were a key factor in the emergence of Doom/Sludge Metal, which is generally characterized by low temp guitar work, depressing lyrics (usually either about doomsday, drugs, or witchcraft) and low-pitched singing (in fact, Doom metal vocals are the closest thing Heavy Metal has come to normal singing). The first true doom metal band was probably Pentagram in the mid 70s, but other notable bands that followed him included Candlemass, Electric Magma, Electric Sun, Electric Wizard, Goatsnake, Reverend Bizarre, Saint Vitus, and Witchfinder General. Doom metal songs, like power metal songs tend to be long, but also very slow. Some have even made it past a whole hour. In this sense of duration, doom and power metal have that in common, but lyrically and musically, they're very different, practically opposite in fact. Take note that these are just the independent subgenres of heavy metal. There are other forms of heavy metal like progressive metal, gothic metal, pagan metal, and nu metal, but there more so concepts that are interchangeable with the metal subgenres than subgenres themselves.
-==Key Artists==
+==Heavy Metal Heroes==
-Heroes of Heavy Metal
+[[File:RonnieDio.jpg|right|DIO.|150px]]
-Pioneers of Black Metal
+*Jimi Hendrix
-. Bathory
+*Jimmy Page
-. Burzum
+*Timo Tolkki
-. Darkthrone
+*John Petrucci
-. Emperor
+*Kai Hansen
-. Gorgoroth
+*Michael Kiske
-. Hellhammer
+*Ozzy Osbourne
-. Mayhem
+*Rob Halford
-Pioneers of Death Metal
+*Ronnie James Dio
-. Arch Enemy (Although their music seems more black)
+*Tuomas Holopainen
-. Atheist
+*Yngwie Malmsteen
-. Cannibal Corpse
-. Death (They could've been the very first true death metal band as they were one of the very first pioneers that weren't just a pioneer with a thrashers sound)
-. Deicide
-. Morbid Angel
-. Possessed (Although their music seemed more thrash)
-. Slayer (Although their music seemed more thrash)
-Pioneers of Doom Metal
-. Black Sabbath (The very first doom metal band ever)
-. Candlemass (Lead pioneer of funeral doom metal
-. Electric Wizard (Lead pioneer of stoner metal)
-. Mastodon (Lead pioneer of sludge metal)
-. Pentagram (The second big doom metal band to appear in the mid-late 70s, they seemed to take after Black Sabbath)
-. Solitude Aeternus
-Pioneers of Glam Metal
-. AC/DC (One of the first hair bands to incorporate rebel chants in their sound)
-. Aerosmith
-. Led Zeppelin
-. Motley Crue
-. Quiet Riot (Their hit single Bang Your Head became the accepted "Heavy Metal National Anthem" as metalheads usually bang their heads when rocking out)
-. Steppenwolf (Their 1969 album, Heavy Metal Thunder was quite possibly the very first hint of glam metal's emergence, making Steppenwolf the very first hair band)
-. Van Halen
-Pioneers of Power Metal
-. Dio
-. Helloween
-. Judas Priest (The NWOBH band was likely the lead pioneer for power metal altogether)
-Pioneers of Progressive Metal
-. Deep Purple (One of the very first heavy metal bands ever and quite possibly the very first prog metal band ever, besides Jimi Hendrix)
-. Dream Theater (One of the first prog metal bands to take after the prog rock bands by using heavy synthesization)
-. Jimi Hendrix (The Heavy Metal King obviously stands on his own but if he's to be pinpointed in any of the heavy metals, early prog metal is his best bet)
-. Queensryche
-. Rush
-. Symphony X (One of the first prog metal bands to take after the prog rock bands by using whole orchestras)
-. Yngwie Malmsteen (Lead pioneer for Neoclassical Metal)
-Pioneers of Thrash Metal
-. Anthrax
-. Exodus (Though not officially a member of the Big Four, it is generally believed that Exodus should've been)
-. Kreator (Notable pioneer for Teutonic Thrash)
-. Megadeth
-. Metallica
-. Slayer
-==Key Albums==
-* [[Black Sabbath]] - ''[[Paranoid (album)]]''
-* [[Dio]] - ''[[Holy Diver]]''
-* [[Iron Maiden]] - ''[[The Number Of The Beast]]''
-* [[Metallica]] - ''[[Metallica (album)|The Black Album]]''
-<h2 data-rte-spaces-after="1" data-rte-spaces-before="1">Other artists in this genre</h2>
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 ==Further Reading==
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music Wikipedia page]
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