In Your Opinion: What Band Represents The Truest Form Of Metal Music?
In other words, what would you call Real metal music.
In my group of friends no one can agree with the other.
So I’m interested in hearing your thoughts.
It can be any of the subgenres if you like.
Any country. Any place in time.
i would actually say the “purest form of metal” is old metallica because it is hard as hell but with no screaming or growls even though i like that kind of stuff its not pure in the sense of the music and what the genere is about
When I think of pure metal, I think of heavy metal, and no subgenres (i do like almost all of metal/punk/rock subgenres though) so this opinion may be biased.
I’d say Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Early Metallica.
Judas Priest: each of their albums has covered a different sub genre of metal.
Stained Class(1978): early power/thrash metal
British Steel(1980): hair metal
Painkiller(1990): speed metal
Nostradamus(2008): symphonic metal
Pantera
(With Phil Anselmo) Starting with Cowboys From Hell.
1990 – 2003
“Pure Against The Grain American Metal”.
I would say Heaven and Hell they are some of the heaviest stuff I have ever heard and 2 of the members were previous Black Sabbath members and they continue to move the genre forward.
King Diamond.
Great band.
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
or Metallica
iron maiden
Black Sabbath and Led Zepplin
Gojira
To me the purest for of metal is called Black Sabbath
Well that is a tough question. And for that it deserves a long, intricate answer.
Metal came to light in the 1960’s with Alice Cooper, and continued with it’s success in the 1970’s with Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath. In the 1980’s there was an explosion of metal music after the punk and post-punk scene had hit, as a reaction to New Wave and pop music of the day. Bands such as The Scorpions and AC/DC were very popular, but represented a more “hard-rock metal” view on the music. As the 1980’s became more of it’s own decade, gothic rock began to establish itself with bands such as Bauhaus, The Cure, and Joy Division, although they were only popular in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, as the lead singer, Ian Curtis, hung himself before the release of their second album.
British music hit the U.S. in the mid-1980’s, with bands such as Judas Priest, Def Lepard, and Iron Maiden becoming mainstream, even though they had all been around since the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. During the 1980’s, British music and fashion was extremely popular, probably due to the influence Black Sabbath and the Sex Pistols had in the 1970’s. As the 1980’s took shape, many bands began playing hair metal and stadium rock, such as Queen, which, in some circumstances, could be considered metal.
In the late 1980’s the sounds of Seattle began to take hold. With the growing underground “alternative” scene coming to light, bands such as Nirvana and The Pixies became popular. With a distorted, monotonous beat, these bands soared to the top of the charts. Bands such as Cannibal Corpse and NIN began to form in the early 1990’s, owing much of their success to word-of-mouth. Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, later shortened to Marilyn Manson, became popular, along with NIN, creating an industrial-metal sound, which drew upon the influences of gothic-rock of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s and the hair metal of the 1980’s, plus many other influences including the dark sounds of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest. Nu-Metal acts such as Korn, Slipknot, and Limp Bizkit sprung out of these bands. Metal and gothic-rock was later blamed for the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, in which two students murdered 15 and injured 25, with Marilyn Manson taking the chief blame.
The 2000’s has seen a steady rise in the popularity of Nu-Metal and black metal, an indie-take on metal originating from the lands of the Norse.
Although there are a wide variety of metal genres, I would have to say that the current black-metal scene is the epitome of metal, as it combines the raw energy of Cannibal Corpse with the harsh, yet introspective, sounds of Grunge, and can really vary from band to band.