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  2. Heavy metal music - Wikipedia

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    Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. [2] With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock and acid rock, heavy metal bands developed a thick, monumental sound characterized by distorted guitars, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats and loudness.

  3. Heavy: The Story of Metal - Wikipedia

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    Heavy: The Story of Metal is a four-part documentary special that aired on VH1 from May 22 to 25, 2006.. The series focuses on the origins, subgenres and the bands of heavy metal music, paying close attention to influential bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, who helped to define heavy metal in its early years.

  4. List of avant-garde metal artists - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of avant-garde metal artists, regional scenes, and record labels.Avant-garde metal or avant-metal, also known as experimental metal, is a subgenre of heavy metal music loosely defined by use of experimentation and characterized by the use of innovative, avant-garde elements, large-scale experimentation, and the use of non-standard and unconventional sounds, instruments, song ...

  5. Black Sabbath - Wikipedia

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    In addition to being pioneers of heavy metal, they also have been credited for laying the foundations for heavy metal subgenres stoner rock, [287] sludge metal, [288] thrash metal, [289] black metal and doom metal. [290] Sabbath has had a significant impact on alternative music, being cited as an influence by Nirvana, [291] Soundgarden, [292 ...

  6. List of heavy metal bands - Wikipedia

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    Van Halen's combination of hard rock, heavy metal, and pop elements helped to popularize and mainstream the genre of hard rock music, and is known for changing the way we play guitar. The band disbanded in 2020 following Eddie Van Halen's death. Vanilla Fudge [35] United States: 1967–1970, 1982–1984, 1987–1988, 1991, 1999–present: Vardis

  7. Metal Evolution - Wikipedia

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    Metal Evolution is broken down into episodes about a different piece of metal history. The series includes interviews with and about Alice Cooper, Slash, Lemmy, Rob Zombie, members of Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Slayer, Judas Priest, Van Halen, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, The Stooges, ZZ Top, Soundgarden, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Rage Against the Machine, Alice in ...

  8. Heavy metal music before 1970 - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1960s, this experimentation coalesced into various rock subgenres like hard rock, acid rock, and psychedelic rock, which were all influential in the development of heavy metal. These albums would later be retroactively categorised as proto-metal.

  9. Table of years in heavy metal music - Wikipedia

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