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10-07-2010, 02:39 AM | #12 (permalink) | |
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The differentiating between heavy metal and hard rock though, is far more open to personal opinion. Scorpions, UFO, Rainbow, Kiss, Van Halen, AC/DC, Uriah Heep etc to name just a few, often get labelled as one or the other and usually as both. |
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10-07-2010, 08:17 AM | #13 (permalink) |
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Good insight! ^, Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, or crossing between, the genres. Hard Rock is a derivative to Heavy Metal.
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10-07-2010, 09:12 AM | #14 (permalink) | |
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Another way of looking at it is the British and American models of what was heavy metal as they were very different: British-Leather, chains, denim, satanic messages, sword & scorcery etc and shaking your fist at the audience (Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Rainbow despite having an American vocalist) American- Glam, make-up, theatrical, glamouros as opposed to glam and more open to pop elements (Kiss, Alice Cooper, Van Halen) Even the so called American version of Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult were really just in essence a hard rock biker band, but because they sang about dark musings etc they got labelled metal or proto-metal. |
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10-07-2010, 11:12 AM | #15 (permalink) | |
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It was coined in the late 60s to describe American bands like Mountain, Steppenwolf & Vanilla Fudge and bands like that who were heavier than most other bands around at the time who were popular with bikers & hells angels.
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10-07-2010, 12:20 PM | #16 (permalink) | |
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"Whole Lotta Love" was out in 1969 and probably had the biggest impact both sides of the atlantic, probably for this reason it was referred to as the first heavy metal song! Which is an oxymoron, considering that the above groups were putting heavy stuff out before that. |
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10-07-2010, 07:27 PM | #17 (permalink) |
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Ok, after spending about 15 minutes trying to hunt down the source of the term, it appears as though nobody has any idea. Seriously. Although this isn't the only place I looked, I refer you all to the wikipedia article. The first sentence is "The origin of the term heavy metal in a musical context is uncertain."
Heavy metal music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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10-08-2010, 02:48 AM | #18 (permalink) | |
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10-08-2010, 07:03 AM | #20 (permalink) |
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The 90s definitely had some good metal but unfortunately I think it also had the largest amount of shitty metal out of any decade. For my money I'd actually say the 00s were my favorite decade for metal so far. The variety and level of creativity in the past decade was really astonishing.
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