Heavy Metal Subgenres
A number of heavy metal genres have developed since the emergence of heavy metal (often shortened to metal) during the late 1960s and early 1970s. At times heavy metal genres may overlap or are difficult to distinguish, but they can be identified by a number of traits. They may differ in terms of: instrumentation, tempo, song structure, vocal style, lyrics, guitar playing style, drumming style, and so on.
Read more about Heavy Metal Subgenres: Alternative Metal, Black Metal, Cello Metal, Christian Metal, Crust Punk, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Experimental Metal, Extreme Metal, Folk Metal, Funk Metal, Glam Metal, Gothic Metal, Grindcore, Groove Metal, Industrial Metal, Metalcore, Neo-classical Metal, Nu Metal, Post-metal, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Rap Metal, Speed Metal, Stoner Rock, Symphonic Metal, Thrash Metal, Traditional Heavy Metal
Famous quotes containing the words heavy and/or metal:
“O kinsmen of the Three in One,
O kinsmen, bless the hands that play.
The notes they waken shall live on
When all this heavy history’s done;
Our hands, our hands must ebb away.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilisation.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)