"Heavy Metal" has been traced to have started about two hundred years ago. Heavy Metal has two meanings, for the real meaning it is for chemists and metallurgist, which is labeled for elements and toxic compounds. But for the rest of us it is a meaning for a type of music. Heavy Metal has to do with the variety of musical discourse, social practices and cultural meanings, which all of them have the same concepts, images, and experiences of power."Heavy Metal" has been traced to have started about two hundred years ago. Heavy Metal has two meanings, for the real meaning it is for chemists and metallurgist, which is labeled for elements and toxic compounds. But for the rest of us it is a meaning for a type of music. Heavy Metal has to do with the variety of musical discourse, social practices and cultural meanings, which all of them have the same concepts, images, and experiences of power. Heavy Metal began in the late 1960s as a "harder" sort of hard rock. Heavy Metal was known as something threatened to the listerners of Heavy Metal. With no radio air play and no support from their album any Heavy Metal band had to do constant touring to be recognize from any fans. In the 1980's Heavy Metal was brought out to the mainstream and the emergence of the massive fans it turn Heavy Metal as one of the most popular musical style, as it was gaining more commerical success and stylistic variety. By the 1990s Heavy Metal was accounted for as much as 40% of all the sound recordings sold in the United States, and in the Rolling Stone announced that Heavy Metal now made up for the mainstream of rock and roll. Today Heavy Metal has diversified into a number of different styles and is influencing othr musical styles. Bands like Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest,and AC/DC fought to bring Heavy Metal to the people and gave bands like Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth someone to build off and learn from while today Korn, Rob Zombie, Rage Against the Machine, and God Smack take Heavy Metal in a new direction.
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