Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal, or Thrash Metal, is the fiercest species of rock music out there. Other genres may aim to shock and offend with their obscene and violent lyrics, but Thrash Metal is a stark and simple mode of expression that rocks you to the marrow of your very core. There is no obligation to current politics or culture and the sound is timeless. Heavy metal bands like Metallica are masters of the genre and any Metallica fan can tell you why. Hard rock is making a big comeback at the moment; the AC/DC Black Ice tour schedule just came out and AC/DC tickets are selling like crazy! Metallica are part of this exciting heavy resurgence.
Heavy Rock and Heavy Metal blasted onto the scene from the US and British electric blues phase of the 60s and 70s. The form allowed a massive projection of extended riffs designed to numb and then transport the listener to distant pinnacles in the spinal cord. Some even claimed it could make your ears bleed and cause brain damage. Metal freaks didn’t care about that. The monster metal bands like Led Zep and Deep Purple were legend for their monumental concerts played in vast arenas packed with people. Other musical forms like Punk, New Wave and psychedelic blues have all been incorporated into Metal to some degree or other but the heart of the music remains simply Rock. With a molten iron core. Fans of Metallica and other thrash bands have come to be named “headbangers” thanks to the crazed dance they perform - a frantic and exaggerated nodding movement that mimics a whiplashed motorist caught in a snarling auto-wreck. Now you can be thrashing about to Metallica live, on the Metallica 2008 tour!
In the 1980s, Metallica pioneered a new form of the music and quickly rose to prominence with their shattered tales of monster-beasts and distorted reality. The Metallica sound was tailor-made for a new generation of tech-savvy metal geeks and electric guitar addicts. That Metallica were Number One has never really been disputed. If you love distortion and screaming mad guitars from the bowels of secret castles on alien ice planets, then buy Metallica tickets and shove a piece of heavy metal in your earhole! Now!