Starting the presence of metal music originated from Heavy metal. Heavy metal is a flow of rock music that developed in the 1970s, with the roots of blues rock and psychedelic rock. The flow of this music is characterized by a very strong guitar distortion, long guitar solos, fast beats, good in all the instrumentation of his instrument. Heavy metal lyrics associated with masculinity and virility.
Heavy Metal early 70's fronted by bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple, Heavy Metal at that time are still influenced by elements of Blues thick. Judas Priest develop this genre by eliminating the elements of blues and more rely on distortion, beat faster, and harmony.
In the late 70's came the New Wave of British Heavy Metal is often abbreviated (NWOBHM), which pioneered Motorhead. NWOBHM combines Punk and Heavy Metal. Other NWOBHM bands are Iron Maiden, Saxon, Venom, Diamond Head, and others.
Developments beginning of the 80s
Early '80s era fronted by NWOBAM bands like Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Venom and Diamond Head. Heavy Metal eventually collide with it evokes Pop music genre called Glam metal, Glam metal broke through the charts on board, it causes heavy metal is spreading rapidly throughout the world.
Continued into the early 90's
In the era of 90s Heavy Metal music started shaken by the presence of strength Alternative Grunge Rock particular,
Glam Metal bands in the '80s era of declining popularity, at the time of the publication focused on Grunge. Meanwhile bands like Metallica, Pantera, Tool, White Zombie and Megadeth spearhead the existence of the current metal music.
In the 1990s this underground is entered into Extreme Grindcore metal as pioneered by Napalm Death and Brutal Truth, evolved in 1991 into Death metal Scandinavia by Entombed, Desmember, Unleashed, and At The Gates. Melodic Death metal derived from Gothenburg Sweden then developed in Finland and Norway by bands like Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, Disessction. Then there is the term used in the metal Techical pioniri by Cynic, Atheist, Meshuggah, Death. Progressive Death metal that may be more inclined to use a lot of traditional visualization and even understandable, the pioneer is Opeth, Pestilence, Death, November and maybe progressive metal by Dream Theater, Queensryche and Fates Warning.
Metal music is divided into 9 sections including:
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common characteristics include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo pick, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure. During the 1980s, thrash metal band formed several prototype for black metal. This is called "first wave" included bands such as Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. A "second wave" appeared in the early 1990s, spearheaded by Norwegian bands such as Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone, Immortal and Emperor. Early Norwegian black metal scene to develop a style of their ancestors into different genres. Inspired Norwegian black metal scene appeared throughout Europe and North America, although some other scenes developed their own style has nothing to do with one of Norway. Originally a synonym for "metal devil", black metal is often met with hostility from mainstream culture, mainly because of the view misanthropic and anti-Christian many artists. In addition, some of the pioneers of this genre has been associated with church burnings and murder. For these reasons and others, black metal is usually seen as a form of underground music. Some artists have also been linked to neo-Nazism, even though most black metal fans and most prominent black metal artists have avoided Nazism and oppose its influence on black metal subculture.
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It usually employs a highly distorted guitars, tremolo picking, the growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes. The building of the structure of thrash metal and early black metal, death metal emerged in the mid-1980s. Metal acts like Slayer, Kreator, Celtic Frost and Venom is a very important influence for the craft of the genre. Possessed and Death, along with bands like Obituary, Carcass, Deicide and Morbid Angel are often considered pioneers of the genre. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, death metal gained more media attention as popular genre niche record labels like Combat, Earache and Roadrunner began to sign death metal bands at high speed. Since then, death metal has diversified, spawning a variety of subgenres.
Doom metal
Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres. Both the music and the lyrics intend to evoke a sense of despair, fear and impending doom. Genre is strongly influenced by the early work of Black Sabbath, who formed a prototype for doom metal with songs such as "Black Sabbath", "Electric Funeral" and "Into the Void". During the first half of the 1980s, a number of bands from England (Pagan Altar, Witchfinder General), United States (Pentagram, Saint Vitus, Problems) and Sweden (Candlemass, Count Raven) defined doom metal as a distinct genre.
Folk metal
Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe in the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with traditional folk music. These include the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing style (for example, the Netherlands Heidevolk, Denmark sylvatica and Stone Spanish Erech). The earliest example of folk metal is a British band Golgotha, the 1984 EP Dangerous Game contains a mixture of New Wave of British Heavy Metal and folk style. Genre is not developed further, however, until the advent of another English band, Skyclad. Their debut album The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth was released in 1990.
Not until 1994 and 1995 that other early contributors in the genre began to emerge from the various regions in Europe as well as in Israel. Among the early groups, the Irish band Cruachan and German band Subway to Sally each spearheaded a different regional variation that over time became known as Celtic metal and medieval metal respectively. Despite their contributions, folk metal remained little known with few representatives during the 1990s. Not until the early 2000s when the genre exploded into prominence, particularly in Finland with the efforts of such groups as Finntroll, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, Turisas, and Moonsorrow.
Folk metal music characterized by a diversity with bands known to perform different styles of both heavy metal and folk music. A wide variety of folk instruments used in the genre with many bands consequently featuring six or more members in their regular line-up. A few bands are also known to rely on the keyboard to simulate the sound of folk instruments. Lyrics in the genre usually deal with fantasy, mythology, paganism, history and nature.
Glam metal
Glam metal (also known as metal combing and is often used synonymously with pop metal) is a subgenre of hard rock and heavy metal. It combines elements of the punk rock genre, adding catchy hooks and guitar riffs, while loans from 1970 glam rock aesthetic. It emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, especially in the music scene of Los Angeles Sunset Strip, pioneered by bands like Kix, Night Ranger, Mötley Crüe and Quiet Riot. It was popular throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, bringing well-known bands, including Poison, Cinderella and Bon Jovi. Genre 1991-1993 main quickly lost interest with the advent of grunge and release albums like Nevermind Nirvana, but has enjoyed a revival since the beginning of the new millennium with the movement of Swedish sleaze metal and retro styling bands including The Darkness and Steel Panther.
Heavy metal
Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, especially in Britain and the United States. With the roots of blues rock and psychedelic rock, the band that created heavy metal developed a sound, a big thick, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are generally associated with masculinity and virility.
First heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple attracted large audiences, though they were often critically reviled, a status common throughout the history of the genre. In the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its influence Blues Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. Bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Iron Maiden followed in a similar vein.
Before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as "metalheads" or "headbangers". During the 1980s, glam metal became a commercial force with groups like Mötley Crüe and Poison. Underground scenes produced an array of more extreme, aggressive styles: thrash metal broke into the mainstream with bands such as Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax, while other styles from the most extreme subgenre of metal like death metal and black metal remain subcultural phenomena. Since the mid-1990s, popular styles such as nu metal, which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop, and metalcore, which blends extreme metal with hardcore punk, have further expanded the definition of the genre.
Nu metal
Nu metal (also called new metal / nü metal / neo metal) is a genre of music that is similar to grunge and alternative metal music with funk, hip-hop and heavy metal subgenre. Nu metal was born in the mid-1990s, introduced by the band Limp Bizkit and Korn, however, the term nu metal familiar in the early era of the 2000s. Now, the most popular nu metal band is Linkin Park.
Nu metal music which includes many rap often called rapcore. 90s many emerging bands that use the term Nu Metal is like POD, Static X, KoRn, Aggro Rock genre, a genre Aggro Rock Nu Metal music as we hear or know until now. Record label / media renames "Aggro Rock" with the term New Metal or Nu Metal to attract the market. Initially this label Nu Metal is triggered by a producer named Ross Robinson that cooperation korn and Limp Bizkit.
Power metal
Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. Generally, power metal sound is characterized by a more encouraging, in contrast to the heavy and dissonance prevalent in such style doom metal and death metal. The term was first used in the middle 80s and refers to two different styles but related: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a loud sound similar to speed metal, and style then more widespread and popular based in Europe ( especially Germany, Finland, Italy, Scandinavia), Latin America (Argentina, Brazil) and Japan, with the sound of lighter, more melodic and often using the keyboard.
Thrash metal
Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is most typically characterized by fast tempo and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast percussion and fast, low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. Lyrically, thrash metal songs often deal with social issues and blamed for Establishment, often using direct and denunciatory language, an approach which partially overlaps with the hardcore genre. Thrash metal "Big Four", four band widely regarded as an act of the genre's most successful and influential, is Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax because of their status as pioneers of the genre in the 1980s. Some common characteristics of thrash metal is fast guitar riffs with aggressive strumming style and lightning fast solos. Drum in thrash metal songs feature extensive use of snare drum and bass drum double. The origins of thrash metal are generally traced to the late 1970s and early 1980s, when a number of predominantly American band started fusing elements of New Wave of British Heavy Metal with pace and aggression of hardcore punk. Thrash metal is more aggressive than the relative metal, speed, and thought to have emerged at least in part as a reaction to sound more conventional and widely accepted and themes of glam metal, metal much more aggressive weight of sub-genres that appear simultaneously.
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