The Birth Of The Conventions

 

The basic conventions of Metal.

Metal is traditionally characterized by distorted guitars with fast riffs and solos, (but however this is not the case all the time as some Metal bands produce an acoustic albums). They also have wild hair styles which make them stand out from other bands as they have their own individual hair styles. The music video’s are traditionally Performance based  which are focusing on their instruments and a narrative, the music also involves sinister themes Such as Black Sabbaths ‘Heaven and Hell’. This sells the music itself and the instruments used. One band that challenges the conventions is Metallica. In one of their videos the hair is neat and their make-up is simple/natural. They also challenge the convention as their videos are sometimes just narrative based.

 

History of metal.

Metal developed in the late 1960’s early 70’s. In the late 1980’s the genre was reabsorbed by new genre’s and by the early 90’s the majority of Metal bands had evolved into other rock genre’s like hard rock, grunge, gothic rock , thrash metal and more.
Here is some of the most important historical events that made Heavy Metal
1968- ‘Born to be Wild’ was released and is said to be the first Heavy metal song.
1975- Heavy Metal began to influence British music.
1980- ‘Iron Maiden’ was released by a British Heavy Metal band .
1983- May 29 a festival for Heavy Metal was named the biggest Heavy Metal event which helped promote the genre.
From then on Heavy Metal was promoted across different country’s and began to influence UK bands such as ‘Metallica’
1999 The Dutch Heavy Metal fan club ‘Heavy Metal Maniacs’ release a complication album with Bands from Holland
From then on the Metal genre has become huge with teenagers and young adults across many countries.

 

No other genres influenced the Metal genre. But however Metal has influenced other genres for instance rock and punk.

 

New matal bands compared to old meltal bands.

The differences between old Metal bands albums covers compared to new Metal bands alnums covers.