What is heavy metal rock music?

Answer 1

Heavy metal by definition can be described as music but it is much more then music. If you know anything about black metal then you have at least an idea of what this means.

Heavy metal started in the 60s with bands like Blue Cheer and such. It is the result of a progressively heavier, more electric sound. It is influenced by the blues and much of the dark classical composers, namely Wagner and Beethoven. It is also influenced by opera in its vocal style, portrayed best in bands like Iron Maiden. Death growls are also very operatic in their projection.

That is basically "heavy metal" but black metal is an entirely different ballgame.

Black metal started in Oslo, Norway. It was made with controversy and a hatred for Christianity. Their music was a direct attack on God and Christianity. Bands like Burzum and Mayhem were at the forefront of this controversy. Varg Vikernes (creator of Burzum) is still in prison today as a result of his crimes including arson of Catholic Churches and the murder of Erroneous, former guitarist of Mayhem. This is heavy metal at its most extreme and its most evil.

This music is more than just music, its a mindset, its an ideology, its a way of life. You don't say, "oh I used to be really into Emperor, but I'm done with that now" You either love it or you hate it. It is the truest music in the world.

"Play metal louder than hell" -excerpt from Manowar's song 'Die for Metal'.

Heavy metal music is the best damn music in the world. I personally think =]

AnswerBlack metal is only a sub genre of heavy metal, and a very late one at that.

Heavy Metal is a subgenre of music that whose individual elements were present in the works of early Baroque and Classical composers like J.S. Bach and Beethoven. Early musical examples include Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Mozart's Requiem, and Beethoven's string quartet opus 132 (1st movement). It was Richard Wagner whom actually invented the genre: introducing fantastical elements; exploring chromatic composition like no one before; and pioneering an crushing instrumental sound (today it would certainly be called "heaviness") that is yet to be matched in overall intensity of effect.

Though Wagner basically defined and pioneered what would be later termed as Heavy Metal, Black Sabbath is considered the first true heavy metal band. Earlier bands such as Iron Butterfly and Blue Cheer played loud rock, but Black Sabbath codified the main elements and tone of the genre. It played in both a painfully slow, grinding, "heavy" style (eg. "Iron Man", "Black Sabbath", "Cornucopia", "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath") and a fast, hard hitting, galloping style (ex. "Paranoid", "Megalomania", "Supernaut", "Children of the Grave"), coupled with occult-invoking lyrics that are overtly religious in tone, often misanthropic and hopeless. Members of Black Sabbath liken their sound as similar to horror movies. And the song "Black Sabbath" is the most famous use of the "flatted fifth" chord, known as "the devil's interval" because of its "evil" sound. Lead singer Ozzy Osbourne's cracked, anguished vocals and guitarist Tony Iommi's sludgy, thick sound are staples of heavy metal.

Later sub genres branched out, with some becoming more melodic and mainstream (eg. hair metal, pop metal) and others becoming darker, more dissonant and more aggressive (eg. thrash, speed, death metal, black metal).

Answer 2

The roots of metal lie back in the 60s. Bands like the Kinks started using heavy riffs - one of the earliest examples of a heavy metal riff is the Kinks' debut single You Really Got Me. The Stones were using riffs, the Who were getting louder and heavier, Cream were taking the blues and making them heavier, Steppenwolf released Born to be Wild with the lyric 'heavy metal thunder'.

Deep Purple got their debut out in 68; they weren't heavy yet. Led Zeppelin got theirs out in 69; they took Cream's blues-rock heaviness a slight step further. In 1970, Deep Purple released In Rock with Gillan and Glover and Black Sabbath released their eponymous debut. That album invented heavy metal.

Answer 3

Heavy metal rock is between death metal and metal. It is not as violent as death metal but is louder and more aggressive than metal.

Plus its just called heavy metal, not heavy metal rock.

Answer 4

Heavy metal description:

• Makes much more sense than most of the music today
• Is listened by ages 10-100
• Is loud, yes, but it's great that way
• Is heavy
• Can be both fast and slow
• One of the most flexible genres today; ranging from heavy, proggresive, thrash to death, neo-classical, symphonic, alternative, black, avant-garde, even Christian metal etc.
• Also has varying lyrical themes; fantasy, sci-fi, personal issues, history, politics, life, basicly stuff that matter and/or that make a real story (except for gore and satanism, and that's mainly for shock value). No happy lyrics, though, and "drugs, sex and rock n' roll" theme greatly reduced
• NOT satanic, little bands sing of satanism, and when they do... see above
• Classical influences, especially in neo-classical metal.
• Some of the best singers are in this genre including such gods as Rob Halford (5-octave range), Bruce Dickinson (4-octave range), Dio (very powerful voice)...
• Very complicated, often has songs up to 8 minutes and sometimes up to 13-15 minutes (the longest I know is by Dream Theater, proggresive metal - Six Deegres of Inner Turbulence: 42 minutes), often straying from typical intro-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus progression.

Some of the bands: Metallica, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Alice in Chains (alternative metal), Slayer, Kreator, Sepultura, Yngwie Malsteem, Queensryche, Manowar, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and Beethoven.

Answer 5

Whatever the band wants it to be. You can have pretty much anything be the subject matter. If "sex, drugs, and rock n' roll" is your thing, you can do that. If occultism is your muse, that can be done. Likewise, if Christianity is your thing, that's been done, too. There really isn't a limit as to what could be used for subject matter..

Answer 6

Heavy Metal is filled with Hard Beat, Ultra-Violent Screaming, and its thought to be from Hell, but its just a freaking rumor.

Answer 7

fast, loud, obnoxious, upbeat, annoying, stupid