Scorpions
Does anyone know anything about the Scorpions? How do they relate in your mind to other bands of the era? I just found this CD of them (unopened) and decided to listen to them. I thought they're pretty good. Not the best ever, but certainly not bad. Better than what we have today.
I have other questions: What about metal bands? I've been interested in the history of metal lately and have been wondering: what are some good true metal bands? (Not hair metal. I hate that stuff.)
I have other questions: What about metal bands? I've been interested in the history of metal lately and have been wondering: what are some good true metal bands? (Not hair metal. I hate that stuff.)
posted by LeifEriksson at 12:14 AM
8 Comments:
classic/80s metal (non-hair bands):
ozzy, black sabbath, iron maiden, metallica, anthrax, guns n' roses, pantera, motorhead
newer metal:
black label society, children of bodom, shadows fall, avenged sevenfold
death metal:
lamb of god
most metal bands were the hair guys, most doing mainstream metal. ozzy was really a pioneer in sabbath and his solo career. the rest followed.
the newer guys stay truer to metallica style metal (less distortion). death metal like lamb of god involves a ton of heavy double bass drums, heavy guitar, and deep screaming vocals. it also involves some kick ass guitaring.
if you want metal, check out fuse's metal asylum, uranium, and if you have digital cable music choice's metal channel.
"Better than what we have today."
today we got some good bands. check out the group BEDlight for blueEYES on purevolume. the song 'dig on this' is great. we got good stuff today, you just have to look for it.
BFB is not bad. They're definitely more musically defined that a lot of stuff I've heard lately.
Don't leave out the mother of all metal, Led Zepplin, the band that all that came after tried to aspire to.
i am not so sure i'd consider Zepplin metal.
I don't think Zeppelin is metal, but they were definitely important in the hard rock scene. I bet a lot of metal musicians really liked LZ before they started playing metal. LZ has been influential for many.
Actually, of course, there was no term "metal" in their early day, but LZ took blues-rock to the harder edge and for sure Black Sabbath took rock to a much harder edge and between the two, metal was born. All that followed drew from this influence.
Take a moment to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_%28Music%29 a great write up on the genere. Many bands of the time contributed to what would become metal.
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