What is Heavy Metal?

power metal is gay huh? i guess when bands like rhapsody get christopher lee (saruman) to narrate for the album, they really crossed the line there....

jag panzer and iced earth are the super cool ungay kinda power metal for dark POWERFUL coolness without the D&D

but i think only kamelot does that "gay power metal" stuff very well.

 

why is everyone forgetting queensryche in the prog metal group?

 

i dont understand why everyone thinks power metal is gay.. glam metal is teh gayness. melody+speed+ technique= power metal.

and fuck genres. its all about the feeling the music envokes anyway

 

I will try to put an example of some of the genres, and descriptions.

Classic Heavy Metal - Judas Priest: Clean Vocals, and Chug Riff guitars
Doom Metal - My Dying Bride, Antestor: Slow, Sludgy Stuff
Power Metal - Dragonforce, Blind Guardian: Almost always has keyboardist, high vocals, double kick drummers, shredding guitars.
Thrash Metal - Sepultura, Exodus: Vocals can be any range, very fun and hyped up drinking stuff.
Stoner Metal - Acid Bath, Orange Goblin: Bands with Abstract lyrics, sometimes describing trips.
Black Metal - Xasthur, Immortal: More then commonly Antichristian.
Death Metal - Cryptopsy, Nile: CookieMonster vocals, FAST drums,
Grind Metal - Napalm Death: More upbeat death metal.
Progressive Metal - Dream Theatre, Symphony X: Clean vocals normally, usually has good drums, guitar, and singers. Sometimes quite technical.
Technical Metal - Death: Weird time signatures, odd drum parts, could be mixed with any genre really.
Metal-core - Atreyu, As I Lay Dying: Clean and heavy Vocals, very melodic guitar part. Basic double pedal drummers, very basic.
Melodic Death Metal - Amon Amarth, Black Dahlia Murder: Normally has legible vocals, but all the same traits as DM with melody!
Melodic Black Metal - ...And Oceans, Aaskereia: Not as raw as most BM bands, sometimes even beautiful.

I can't go on, it's getting late. Hahaha, don't critisize this too much.

 

Bingo .

 

So actually a song like painted black by the rolling stones could be consider Metal.

 

Or Alice Cooper = Dead babies"

 

Little Betty ate a pound of aspirin
She got them from the shelf upon the wall
Betty's mommy wasn't there to save her
She didn't even hear her baby call
(Waaah!)

Dead babies can't take care of themselves
Dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well we didn't want you anyway
Lalala-la, lalala-la, la la la

Daddy is an agrophile in Texas
Mommy's on the bar most every night
Little Betty's sleeping in the graveyard
Living there in burgundy and white

Dead babies can't take care of themselves
Dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well we didn't love you anyway
ma ma ma-ma, ma ma ma-ma, ma ma ma

Goodbye, Little Betty
Goodbye, Little Betty
So long, Little Betty
So long, Little Betty
Betty, so long

Dead babies can't take care of themselves
Dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well we didn't need you anyway
ma ma ma-ma, ma ma ma ma-ma, ma ma ma

Goodbye, Little Betty

(Order in the court! Order in the court room!
Order! Order in the court! Order!...)

 

Good question, one of the best metal bands there was.

One of my favourite Cooper songs, I never understood why people always called Alice Cooper heavy metal though, sure Cooper did make some stuff that could definitly fall into the metal category, especially in the later 80's and early 90's, but all the most famous works, Billion Dollar Babies, Welcome to My Nightmare, Love it To Death, School's Out, Killer, just don't seem like heavy metal. Same with Led Zeppelin, except for the fact 30 years later people are still calling those works heavy metal, while with Zeppelin almost no one does anymore.