>heavy metal>is not actually heavy
Brie Larson thread?
>>130707868I've heard the origin of the term "heavy metal" (which even Ozzy had more or less consistently rejected) was a pejorative term applied by critic(s) to dissonant distorted guitar sounds and -based music which sounded like scraping metal and such industrial unpleasantries. He maintained it was always just Rock music to him, otherwise. In some sense, being harsher than traditional rock is integral to its identity, but on the same token, its earliest incarnations pale in harshness compared to some of the genres it's evolved to. It creates an irony insofar as, like "hard rock" meaning 70s and 80s non-hippy-dippy vulgarity-based rock & roll, "heavy metal" also tends to be used to describe retro "metal" that sounds downright pillowy compared to colloquial metal music of more modern times.
>>130707905If you want.>>130707910Thank you anon for the info. I didn't know.
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most heavy metal is actually just hard rock because the lines between the two are often blurry. Heavy Metal was basically coined by critics to refer to "rock that was harder than hard rock"
>>130708098thematically, heavy metal is supposed to be edgier and darker while hard rock is supposed to be more debauched and lighthearted
>>130707868Good thing extreme metal is actually extreme.
>>130708098i think a important distinction between heavy metal and "hard" rock is looking at how inspirational each band was on metal as a genre after.bands like saxon, dio, iron maiden and cirith ungol are heavy metal because you can see how they influenced dungeons and dragons stylings into shit like power metal. AC DC aren't a heavy metal band, there's no specific metal band you can look at and see how AC DC may have inspired them. stuff like kiss is a grey area, on one hand you can see how their face-painting may have influenced black metal bands but on the other, their music sounds nothing like heavy metal as a genre.
