MUSIC PROYECT

WHAT IS HEAVY METAL

- Heavy metal, genre of rock music that includes a group of related styles that are intense, virtuosic, and powerful. Driven by the aggressive sounds of the distorted electric guitar, heavy  metal is arguably the most commercially successful genre of rock music.

- Although the origin of the term heavy metal is widely attributed to novelist William Burroughs, its use actually dates well back into the 19th century, when it referred to cannon or to power more generally.

INSTRUMENTS

- There are many instruments used in heavy metal. The most famous are the electric guitar, the electric bass and the drum kit

                   Electric guitar

                   The electric bass

                   The drums

　

SUBGENRES

- During the eighties many subgenres developed away from the commercial scene and since then there have been several attempts to classify this underground metal world, both by editors of Allmusic or Rolling Stone, as well as the critic Garry Sharpe-Young. According to Sharpe-Young this underground circuit is divided into five major categories; doom metal, thrash metal, death metal, power metal and black metal.

FASHIONED

- Clothing associated with heavy metal has its roots in rebel motorcycles and rocky subcultures of the era. Heavy metal clothing includes items such as leather jackets, denim jackets, patchwork vest, high basketball shoes , biker boots, workman's boots or military boots, blue or black jeans, cloth jackets or vests often adorned with badges, buttons and patches, studs are also used , jackets, pants and usually long hair. As with motorcyclists, there is a peculiar fascination with Germanic images, such as the Iron Cross.

SIMBOLS

- Pentagram: Meaning: Ancient magic sign / Union Earth-Sky / Star

Attributions in Metal: Reverse: Satanism, goat. In its most precise explanation, an inverse pentagram is the representation of the importance of the earthly over the spiritual, therefore, a distancing from the divine, to be clearly connected with what is inherent in this plane.

- Cruz Inverted: anticlericalism, anti Christianity, protest against the Catholic religious system. It does not implicitly manifest Satanism.

　

GROUPS

- The most importants groups of heavy metal are

Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest.