Copperfox
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There is a young woman to whom I have become as a grandfather. Not the first such case. I'm trying to get Benisse to assist her in joining the revival of TDL; if the young woman gets on forum, she will probably use the name Wood Nymph.
Wood Nymph is a major fan of metal music, and has educated me in this esoteric field of not-overly-dignified performing arts.
Black Sabbath, she says, was the first band to be called "metal." The adjective "heavy" was usually added in those early days, because using the word "metal" in isolation seemed a bit odd. She adds that KISS and Bon Jovi were also among the early heavy metal bands.
Early metal bands maintained some ties to the world of rock. This included keeping the long hair common to male rock stars of the Seventies and Eighties. As the metal genre diversified, that first generation came to be called "hair metal," distinguishing it from the new styles that followed.
All metal music shares a tendency to keep instrumentation basic, seldom expanding beyond guitar, bass and drums. (Bands may work WITH orchestras, as Metallica has done, but the instruments of the band itself are unchanged.)
Thrash metal is characterized by rapid tempos. Death metal, just the way it sounds, offers grim, dark songs. Metal bands who particularly want to mock and ridicule God and His children come under the category of black metal, having nothing to do with their skin color. There's also "power metal," but Wood Nymph isn't sure how that is defined.
This much will serve to prime the pump for mining the history of metal.
Wood Nymph is a major fan of metal music, and has educated me in this esoteric field of not-overly-dignified performing arts.
Black Sabbath, she says, was the first band to be called "metal." The adjective "heavy" was usually added in those early days, because using the word "metal" in isolation seemed a bit odd. She adds that KISS and Bon Jovi were also among the early heavy metal bands.
Early metal bands maintained some ties to the world of rock. This included keeping the long hair common to male rock stars of the Seventies and Eighties. As the metal genre diversified, that first generation came to be called "hair metal," distinguishing it from the new styles that followed.
All metal music shares a tendency to keep instrumentation basic, seldom expanding beyond guitar, bass and drums. (Bands may work WITH orchestras, as Metallica has done, but the instruments of the band itself are unchanged.)
Thrash metal is characterized by rapid tempos. Death metal, just the way it sounds, offers grim, dark songs. Metal bands who particularly want to mock and ridicule God and His children come under the category of black metal, having nothing to do with their skin color. There's also "power metal," but Wood Nymph isn't sure how that is defined.
This much will serve to prime the pump for mining the history of metal.
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