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Heavy Metal Rock Is Still Alive And Well

Even if heavy metal is seen by many people asbands became popular during the late 1960s to
evil and destructive it is still very popularthe 1970s, with groups that were more steeped
among young and old. It is pretty obviousin American blues music than their more
that the thing teenagers today (and yesterdaypop-oriented predecessors. Bands such as Led
and tomorrow) are crazy about is music. OfZeppelin, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Judas
all the musical genres the one with probablyPriest, Status Quo, Aerosmith, Queen, Black
the most enthusiastic fans has to be heavySabbath, and Uriah Heep played highly
metal and all the hundreds of sub-categories,amplified, guitar-driven hard rock that would
whether it is classic hard rock or grindcore.come to be known as heavy metal. Heavy metal
languished into obscurity in the late 1970s.
Discordant heavy metal music struck a chordA few bands including Kiss, Queen, Black
with many teenagers during the late '70s andSabbath,AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith
'80s. The loud, fast, guitar-driven music hasmaintained large followings and there were
since languished commercially as successiveoccasional mainstream hits such as Blue
generations have chosen newer soundtracks toÖyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) the Reaper".
fuel their rebellion against theMusic critics overwhelmingly disliked the
establishment. Many of the original fans,genre. This began to change in 1978 following
however, never moved on, even as they aged,the release of Van Halen's eponymous,
started careers, got married and had childrenself-titled debut album. The album helped to
of  their  own.usher in an era of high-energy rock and roll,
based  out  of  Los  Angeles,  California.
"If you're seeing a 40-year-old at a concert,
you're quite sure at 18 you know what kind ofOne genre that was widely popular in the
music he was into. For so many people the1980s (c.1983) was glam metal. Taking
music of the most emotional point of theirinfluence from various artists such as
lives is a touchstone that they return to forAerosmith, Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Queen,
the rest of their lives, there keeping theirKiss, Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, (all but
own youth alive. Heavy metal fans wear theirQueen would eventually play glam metal at
passion on more than just the sleeves ofsome point in the 80s), Sweet and the New
skull T-shirts and black leather jackets. ForYork Dolls. The earliest glam metal bands to
many of them, the music--louder and fastergain notability included: Mötley Crüe,
than anything heard before--became a way ofW.A.S.P. and Ratt. They became known for
life. The mostly white, mostly male andtheir debauched lifestyles, teased hair and
mostly middle-class listeners found a feelinguse of make-up and clothing. Their songs were
of power over their parents, over theirbombastic and often defiantly macho, with
teachers, over the jocks at school thatlyrics focused on sex, drinking, drugs, and
treated  them  as  outcasts.the  occult.
Metalheads, or headbangers, as they calledBy the mid 1980s, a formula developed in
themselves, built up a community linkedwhich a glam metal band had two hits -- one a
through underground tape swapping networks"power ballad" (slow-dance tempo, with soft
and conversations about Metallica lyricsverses and bombastic anthemic choruses), and
while camping out on line for concertthe other a hard-rocking anthem. In 1987 a
tickets.second wave of glam metal acts, sometimes
referred to as sleaze rock, emerged including
A second wave of British and American rockL.A. Guns and Faster Pussycat.



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