Heavy metal
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Originating Location: UK
Originating Era: late 1960s
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[edit] Genre Description
Heavy metal, usually abbreviated to metal is a bit of a blanket term for many different flavors of music, Metal is most known by its loudness, distortion, intricacy and often its lyrical themes of alienation, war, the occult, myth, and other theatrical themes. Early metal acts had a lot of base in a neo-Blues sound, though as metal progressed, prog seemed to take over as a larger influence on the sound. Metal was most popular in the 1980s thanks to the glam metal scene, which had a considerable presence on the radio and MTV. Glam metal, or rock borrowing metal's instrumental sound and song structures, often introduced people into actual metal. In the 1990s metal still remained popular, and often more underground -- though a form of metal, called nu-metal, had re-emerged into the mainstream, one that is a bit more pop like and also borrows from rap. In the 90s many metal artists emerged from the saturation of grunge artists, especially in the USA. They set out to distance themselves from the grunge image, too popish and one which many bands at the time were copying.
[edit] Key Artists
- Black Sabbath
- Motörhead
- Iron Maiden
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Judas Priest
- Megadeth
- Bathory
- Venom
- Helloween
- Death
- Metallica
[edit] Key Albums
- Black Sabbath - Paranoid (album)
- Dio - Holy Diver
- Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
- Metallica - The Black Album
[edit] Artists in this genre
- Darediablo
- Fantômas
- The Sword
- Coulier
- HORSE The Band
- Fléau
- Primus
- Bran Barr
- Devil In The Kitchen
- Despond
- Doom Engine
- Axegrinder
- Dean Ween
- Gene Ween
- All Shall Perish
- Pagan Sun
- Archgoat
- Astriaal
