The Metal Band

Normally, when you think of Metallica, you think of the heavy metal sound the band is famous for. But, if you think that's the only kind of music the band members, and former band members, enjoy making, you are sorely mistaken.

The groups first album released after Jimmy Stokley’s forced departure was not one that the group enjoyed recording. All There Is was full of disco influence; a style that was being forced on many groups at the time. As a group that did not even like disco,

“You’ve got to listen to the heavens, you got to try to understand. The greatness of their movement is just as small as it is grand.” Most young adults of my generation do not know who The Grateful Dead are, but they unknowingly dawn the apparels and slang created in the counterculture of the bands following the Deadheads. The band, The Grateful Dead, became popular in the 60s and carried out wide spread recognition and fame into the 80s. Their calming, peace-promoting music became popular because it ‘transported’ people, it took them away from whatever they were going through in their life and set them on a new path. Fans of the band

The Motley Crue is a heavy metal band, with carefree lifestyle, that they spread throughout the world through their music. The members of the band were not only memorable on the stage, but off stage as well. They lived a lifestyle most would not deem socially correct, though it seemed to benefit their career. Selling over 100 million albums worldwide, Motley Crue helped spread the heavy metal brand of music around the world. All of these factors contributed to making them one of the best selling bands of all time. Their style, their life outside of music, and the spread of their music has lead Motley Crue to the top of Rock and Roll.

Stone Temple Pilots was capable of turning their alternative rock into something that would be much more popular and lead to much more success, but in return they would face many critics. They became one of the most critically despised bands of their time, which was towards the start of the 1900s. Many critics had accused them of being nothing but a rip-off of some highly acclaimed artists such as Pearl Jam, and even the Beatles. Although they have been despised by many critics, they had become a major success and became very popular in 1993. The influence of the bands, that I had said previously, were very noticeable in their music and many could tell from their music who their influences were. Stone Temple Pilots did manage to change things

After groups paved the way for heavy metal, one band can be the representative of the heavy metal style in the 1980’s. Metallica was formed on October 15, 1981 by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. Lars played the drums while James was on vocals and guitar. Kirk Hammett joined the band in 1982 and became the band’s lead guitarist. Metallica’s bass player was Jason Newsted, after their first bassist, Cliff Murton, was killed in a bus crash. It was on March fourteenth that Metallica played their first gig at radio city Anaheim in California. On June fourteenth the Metal Massacre LP was released and it was Metallica's first appearance on an official record. The first release of the LP contained a few mistakes including band’s name being miss spelt Mettallica and Lloyd grants name being misspelled as Loydd Grant.

Successful bands must make a name for themselves, allowing fans to find a distinct quality they enjoy about the group. These names are a differentiating factor for consumers when deciding what concert to attend or music to purchase. The Eagles made a name for themselves by varying themes of music they played. This set the Eagles apart from other rock bands of the time, which had little, if any variety in the themes of music they played. Other successful bands likewise had memorable traits. For example, AC/DC was known for its hard rock music, and people remember Mick Jagger dancing on stage when they hear of the Rolling Stones. Sadly, the one-hit wonders of the time were able to make only a single successful song, but were quickly forgotten. Therefore, successful bands strive to be unique to impress their fans and become

The Band The Chainsmokers is easily one of the world's most popular bands right now and there songs are played everywhere you go. I picked this article because they have many good songs and are always so catchy. Also, they always come out with new songs and don’t let the old songs drag behind them. If I were going to go to a concert The Chainsmokers would always be my number one pick.

When people hear the genre “rock and roll,” they often think of performers like Elvis Presley, AC/DC, and Aerosmith. Those bands have provided the foundation for rock and roll, but the newer bands have to carry over from the bands of the 1960’s, 70’s, and 80’s to the bands of the 1990’s and the 2000’s. The new generation of bands has just as much, if not more, popularity than the bands of the older generation. Bands do not gain popularity just by showing up to rehearsal, though. Gaining popularity can take years of making music, and sometimes establishing credibility takes more time than other bands. The more popular bands that have many fans are bands like Three Days Grace, Alter Bridge, and Avenged Sevenfold. These three bands have had

Heavy metal became popular in the early 1980s with famous bands such as Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth for their epic headbangs and guitar riffs in live concerts. Although, lyrics can definitely taint heavy metal as dark. For instance, breathtaking composer, Marilyn Manson is known for horrifying the audience for having provocative outfits and different color eyes. Despite being peculiar, Manson “reached number three on the Billboard albums chart...sold 1.4 million copies from Antichrist Superstar” (McConnell 2). As scary Marilyn Manson appears on pictures, credit must be given to him because he quickly achieved fame. In fact, one of the famous songs is “The Beautiful People” which criticizes the privileged. Manson and Twain had similarities because both are known for a specific composition piece and receive critics of their works. Once again, censorship appears to cover work because heavy metal “promoted or condoned illegal drugs” (Censoring 5). A generalization is clearly made by ignorant individuals that do not give an opportunity to listen to music. Music is about expressing ideas or even protesting about injustice in society. If people want to be judgemental about Twain, heavy metal or anything that is out of the box, the realization that diversity is

The second artist I choose for my final is AC/DC. AC/DC is a hard rock band that formed in 1973. They have influenced generations with popular hard rock that when people hear it, it takes them back. In the beginning for AC/DC, they struck oil! In 1776, they went international with the album High Voltage which included that single and T.N.T. One artist who influenced AC/DC was Led Zeppelin, he showed AC/DC how to take rock n roll fundamentals and make them even harder. What made AC/DC so different was they were formed in Australia. On almost all of their songs, you can pick one song and right into the intro, it gets your blood pressure going. AC/DC is arguably the best at intro’s and overall music. There’s kids still wearing shirts that have

“If you came here to see spandex and big hair, this ain’t your band”, Metallica’s “war cry” throughout the early eighties. While the rest of the hard rock bands wanted to get rich and a lot of women, Metallica, as in the words of former lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, “Our hole existence pretty much was guitar, dominating the world and getting liquored up”.

Screamo evolved from emo hardcore punk, post-hardcore music. It is characterized by a strong influence from hardcore punk with the use of screamed vocals. Screamo evolved in the early 1990s. I chose this genre of music because the book did not cover it and the concept of screamo is interesting to me. Screamo bands tend to scream their lyrics instead of singing them. Screamo music is looked down on a lot because "How is screaming talent?" Screaming music has much more talent to it than people think. Screaming musically takes much talent.

Metallica (also known as the black album) is the eponymously titled fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on August 12, 1991, through Elektra Records. It is a subtle marriage between Thrash Metal's sheer heaviness and Glam Metal movement clean guitars and slowed rhythms, Black Album is, to quote the band, "The Thing That Should Not Be": not because it's bad, but because is contradictory. Could a metal band like Metallica write lines mocking like "Something's wrong, shut the light Heavy thoughts tonight/ And they aren't of Snow White" or confessional like "What I felt, what I've known/ Never shined through what I've shown/ Never be, never see/ Won't see what I've might been" and even ambiguous love declarations

The first hard rock and heavy metal music was produced by the rock group called Blue Cheer somewhere around 1967. Their music was angry and had a noticeably heavy beat.. At this time, the music of the Rolling Stones, too, became harder and angry, with a negative accent. Many other groups sprang up during this period. In truth, hard drugs, mixed with psychedelics were having an effect. The world was witnessing a new phenomenon: musical groups of young men - opening doors to the psychic world through the use of drugs - were using electrified instruments to bring in a new music that was harmful to the human psyche, destructive, and angry (2).