Good morning to our lecturer and my fellow friends. Today. Im going to Inform you about my favorite music genre, the heavy metal or metal. I’ll talk about its origin, characteristics and its velveteen. I am pretty sure that all of you are not fans of heavy metal. Perhaps, some of you did not even heard of it. Heavy metal , often referred to as metal , Is a genre of rock music that developed In the late 1 sass and early asses with roots in blues rock and psychedelic rock. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are often associated with masculinity, aggression and machismo.
Heavy metal is one of the most misunderstood genres of music in our day. Rather unfortunately, this Is often a result of brazen Ignorance about the subject, brought about by certain sectors of the media and society but still metal has outlasted many other rock genres. Heavy metal started its origin in the late asses and early asses. Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath have been considered as the pioneer of heavy metal music. Heavy metal acts always attracted large audiences, though they were often derided by critics, a status common throughout the history of heavy metal music.
In the mid-asses Judas Priest helped spur the genre’s evolution by discarding much of its blues influence. Motherhood in the other hand introduced a punk rock sensibility and an Increasing emphasis on speed. Bands In the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Iron Maiden and Saxon followed In a similar vein. Before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as “metatheses” or “headbands”. Heavy metal is traditionally characterized by loud distorted guitars, emphatic rhythms, dense bass-and-drum sound, and vigorous vocals.
The electric guitar and the sonic ewer that It projects through amplification has historically been the key element In heavy metal. The essence of metal drumming is creating a loud, constant beat for the band.. The prominent role of the bass is also key to the metal sound as it provides the low-end sound crucial to making the music “heavy”. For certain artists and bands, visual Imagery plays a large role In heavy metal. In Dalton to Its sound and lyrics, a heavy metal band’s “image” is expressed in album sleeve art, logos, stage sets, clothing, and music videos while some have outrageous performance personae and take shows.
Many submerges of heavy metal developed outside of the commercial mainstream during the asses. These submerges Include thrash metal, death metal and power metal. Thrash metal is the most notable as it was popularized by the “Big Four which are Metallic, Anthrax, Megalith, and Slayer. In the mid- and late asses came a new wave of U. S. Metal groups inspired by the alternative metal bands and their mix of genres. Dubbed as the “nu- metal”, bands such as Slipknot, Link Park, Limp Blitz, Papa Roach, P. O. D.
Koran and Disturbed are the most notable bands that inspired by this genre. In the mid-late asses,metalwork,a hybrid of extreme metal and hardcore punk, emerge as commercial force. Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine and Trillium are among the worldwide popular bands that carry the Influence of ‘metalwork’ In their music. As a conclusion, heavy metal Is one of the genres that has vast followers worldwide thanks to the pioneers and other bands that emerged later which help in the evolution of this genre from blues rock origin to genre of music till this day.