Why listen to metal music ?!

Originally Posted by buttsie

You think labelling them as heavy metal is off key

The scourge of Wiki strikes again

Led Zeppellin

Origin London, England
Genres Hard rock, heavy metal, blues-rock,folk rock

Damn, you mean Wiki was wrong about something..?

Originally Posted by evilmoers

AC/DC
"Back in Black"

The album has sold an estimated 49 million copies worldwide to date, making it the second highest selling album of all time worldwide, and the best selling hard rock or heavy metal album, as well as the best selling album ever released by a band.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...bums_worldwide

Guns N' Roses
"Appetite for Destruction"

The album is the best-selling debut album of all-time worldwide, beating Boston's debut album Boston, which has gone 17x platinum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appetite_for_Destruction
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And as much as I love both of these albums and am on my 20th copy
of the first and probably the 10th on the second,
neither one of these are metal albums.
Hard Rock but not Metal.

[buttsie]

You too can contribute to Wiki...all you need is an imagination

Best definition I ever heard of the differences between Heavy Metal & Hard Rock which is useful given many bands cross over

Heavy explores darker material while Hard is about good times
generally speaking

This comment about the different genres by lemmy from Motorhead is a classic

"Of the genre debate itself Lemmy was more forthright when Joel McIver spoke to him for an interview published in the January 2000 edition of Record Collector. He asked him if he thought some people get confused between hard rock and soft metal and all the other categories. Lemmy replied "Cunt metal? Spunk metal? Left-handed metal? Right-handed metal? Upwardly-mobile metal? This term "heavy metal" is only rock'n'roll anyway, because metal bands are the logical successors to Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly".




Motorhead Back at the Funny Farm

YouTube - Back At The Funny Farm

YouTube - Back At The Funny Farm

The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden 1982 Live

YouTube - The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden 1982 Live

YouTube - The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden 1982 Live

[tmage]

I started listening to metal in the late 70's as a kid (Sabbath) which progressed to NWOBHM (Maiden et al.). I moved on to Venom, Motorhead, bay area thrash (Slayer, early Metallica etc), European thrash (Celtic Frost, Kreator etc) then on to early death metal (Death, Autopsy, Atheist, Obituary etc). I'm older now and my musical tastes have broadened significantly (jazz, hip-hop, world music, electronica, blues etc) but I still come back to metal because sometimes you want to bodyslam the walls screaming at the top of your lungs and there's no better music for that feeling.

Metal heads like to bitch about the modern metal, but from my perspective, metal is better off now than it's ever been. There's so many bands that have more exposure than ever before - the genre-fication of metal has led to amazing diversity in the music - if you can't find something new that you like, you aren't really into metal.

(sorry for the sanctimonious rant. I get like that sometimes)

Led Zep was proto-metal - the music itself wasn't metal, but possesses many qualities that would come to define later metal bands.

[evilmoers]

Originally Posted by thefrostqueen

And as much as I love both of these albums and am on my 20th copy
of the first and probably the 10th on the second,
neither one of these are metal albums.
Hard Rock but not Metal.

Originally Posted by evilmoers

As clarification for the "pimps" here (the "freaks" might already know for sure):
"Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in between 1968 and 1974."

Anyway, if you need some original metal - eat this one:

"Warpigs" of Paranoid album

BLACK SABBATH

Cheers so far, "pimp" !

[DoctorNo]

Originally Posted by buttsie

You think labelling them as heavy metal is off key

The scourge of Wiki strikes again

I considered them a metal band before computer networks were invented, as did most people at the time.

Originally Posted by buttsie

Heavy explores darker material while Hard is about good times
generally speaking

So Van Halen isn't metal?

Regardless, Led Zeppelin wrote some rather dark heavy lyrics.

[evilmoers]

For sure, tastes and opinions due to the never-ending debate of "is it metal or rock (or punk or grunge or independent)" always may vary - that makes things more interesting and exciting.

Best example: "Hair Metal" (also called Glam Metal) >> "real" Metal or "just" Rock ?

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And in the end of the end of the end >> who cares ? "Let's rock, freaks." [Rob Zombie]

[Canyon Joe]

exactly. who cares what genre. there are too many forms of metal and rock so lets just enjoy

[Metallicat1974]

Originally Posted by 2001RT

It's all very simple: Metal maintains the balance in the universe!

Follow his words of wisdom

[jpy012172]

Originally Posted by Canyon Joe

exactly. who cares what genre. there are too many forms of metal and rock so lets just enjoy

Amen Brother....

[cubsbuddy]

Originally Posted by Pheonixx

You consider Led Zep a metal band? lol

How old are you?

Thaaaaaaaaaaaank you.