heavy metal

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music which began in the 1960s in the UK and USA. It is known for its thick, loud sound with distorted, amplified electric guitar playing.

There's an astonishingly large collection of subgenres, including African heavy metal, Alternative metal, Avant-garde metal, Bay Area thrash metal, Beatdown hardcore, Biker metal, Black metal, Blackened death metal, Blackgaze, Celtic metal, Christian metal, Crossover thrash, Death 'n' roll, Death metal, Deathcore, Djent, Doom metal, Drone metal,  Electronicore, Extreme metal, Florida death metal, Folk metal, Funeral doom, Funk metal, Glam metal, Goregrind, Gothic metal, Grindcore, Groove metal, Indigenous metal music, Industrial metal, Kawaii metal, Latin metal, Medieval metal, Melodic death metal, Melodic metalcore, Metalcore, Mincecore, Nagoya kei, Neoclassical metal, Neue Deutsche Härte, New wave of traditional heavy metal, Nintendocore, Nu metal, Nu metalcore, Pagan metal, Pirate metal, Pop metal, Pornogrind, Post-metal, Power metal, Progressive metal, Progressive metalcore, Rap metal, Sludge metal, Speed metal, Stoner rock, Symphonic black metal, Symphonic metal, Thrash metal, Unblack metal, Viking metal and Visual kei.

 

A selection of articles about heavy metal

Spotlight. Precious, Luminous Gems - Esdras Mugatik listens to music for accordion by British composer Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015). '... a magical capacity to differentiate levels of sound ...'

Ensemble. Radically New for Western Audiences - Adam J Sacks reports from the Hong Kong Arts Festival

Think Again - A late review of Anvil (and some musings on classical music equivalents), by Gordon Rumson