I've been listening to way too much Metallica lately, why am I so obsessed with them? What makes them so great?
Metallica is an awesome rock band from California!
Is it that they're from California that's the reason why I like them? I didn't even know that was possible!
No, not particularly. I am from the American South, and I have never been to California. I first learned of the when playing Guitar Hero: Metallica.
Did you enjoy their music? How would you characterize it?
I do enjoy music. I would categorize it as a heavy metal genre.
That sounds about right. But it's not "death metal," is it?
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
from in the first place: the heart. The difference comes when you hear this band, they're as different from the rest of the pack as, say, The Stooges were from The MC5 so why am I about to praise them to the skies? For the same reason The Stooges and The MC5 are worshiped today: because they understood that it ain't what you do it's the way that you do it. Blackcube do it with spirit, and sometimes that's all you need in this game.'