I love heavy metal music. Slayer is my favorite.
Nice! Me too. The genre of rock music was developed in the late 1960s and has been rocking hard ever since!
Definitely! Who started the whole rock and roll genre of music?
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo.
In 1968, three of the genre's
could be heard in mid-1960s songs, such as "Here, There and Everywhere" by the Beatles and "I Love My Dog" by Cat Stevens, both from 1966.
By 1968, hard rock had been established as a mainstream genre. From the end of the 1960s, it became common to divide mainstream rock music into soft and hard rock, with both emerging as major radio formats in the US. Late 1960s soft rock artists included the Bee Gees, whose song "I Started a Joke" was a