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| 2 | Primary Stylistic Influences: |
| 3 | + HardRock, BluesRock, PsychedelicRock |
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| 6 | Secondary Stylistic Influences: |
| 7 | + ProgressiveRock (in some cases) |
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| 9 | |
| 10 | Traditional heavy metal (also referred to as '''trad metal''', '''classic metal''', or simply '''heavy metal''') is metal music played in its original style. Generally considered to be not a SubGenre of metal, but the main genre of it, trad metal is characterized by most of the traits metal originally was known for, including blues-inspired riffs, distorted guitars, melodic vocals with an added bombastic edge, and psychedelic rock influences, particularly in the earliest of metal bands. However, after the numerous subsets of heavy metal began to spawn, fans and music critics alike began to refer to the traditional style of metal as its own separate genre, especially after many then-newer bands began to adopt the sound despite emerging years after metal came to be. |
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| 12 | For the most part, classic metal is, along with HairMetal or NuMetal, what most of the general public think of sound-wise when they hear the term "heavy metal". Nowadays the style is thought of as old-fashioned, but being the centerfold of all metal it is held in extremely high regard amongst metalheads and music fans alike for its old-school sound and rawness. Most popular bands performing the style formed in the 1970s or 1980s when metal was just done developing its identity, but its popularity has led to a new wave of bands in the new millennium, dubbed by fans as the NWOTHM (New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal), with examples including White Wizzard and Neuronspoiler. |
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| 14 | Traditional heavy metal often overlaps with PowerMetal, HairMetal, HardRock, PsychedelicRock, ThrashMetal, SpeedMetal, and (in newer bands) AlternativeMetal. |
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| 16 | |
| 17 | !! Bands generally considered to be traditional heavy metal include: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | [[index]] |
| 20 | * Music/{{Accept}} |
| 21 | * Music/{{Alcatrazz}} |
| 22 | * Music/AllThatRemains (starting with ''A War You Cannot Win'', eventually returned to {{Metalcore}} with ''Victim Of The New Disease'') |
| 23 | * Music/AliceCooper |
| 24 | ** 1971 - ''Music/LoveItToDeath'' |
| 25 | * Music/AngelWitch |
| 26 | * Music/{{Anvil}} (also has touches of PowerMetal) |
| 27 | * Music/{{Ariya}} |
| 28 | * Music/{{Armageddon}} (also ProgressiveRock) |
| 29 | * Music/ArmoredSaint |
| 30 | * Music/{{Artch}} |
| 31 | * Music/AtlanteanKodex (also DoomMetal) |
| 32 | * Music/{{Atomkraft}} |
| 33 | * Music/AxelRudiPell (also PowerMetal and SpeedMetal) |
| 34 | * Music/AvengedSevenfold (Starting with ''City of Evil'') |
| 35 | ** 2005 - ''Music/CityOfEvil'' |
| 36 | ** 2007 - ''Music/{{Avenged Sevenfold|Album}}'' |
| 37 | * Music/BandMaid |
| 38 | * Music/{{Bang}} |
| 39 | * Music/{{Banzai}} |
| 40 | * Music/BaronRojo |
| 41 | * Music/{{Battleaxe}} |
| 42 | * Music/BlackLabelSociety (an example of a newer band playing the style; overlaps with GrooveMetal, SludgeMetal, and HardRock) |
| 43 | * Music/BlackSabbath (often considered the TropeMakers) |
| 44 | ** 1970 - ''Music/{{Black Sabbath|Album}}'' |
| 45 | ** 1970 - ''Music/{{Paranoid|Album}}'' |
| 46 | ** 1971 - ''Music/MasterOfReality'' |
| 47 | ** 1975 - ''Music/{{Sabotage|BlackSabbathAlbum}}'' |
| 48 | ** 1980 - ''Music/{{Heaven and Hell|1980}}'' |
| 49 | ** 2009 - ''Music/TheDevilYouKnow'' [[note]] as Heaven & Hell.[[/note]] |
| 50 | * Music/{{Blackwater Park|Band}} (Yup, the band Music/{{Opeth}} named an album after; also ProgressiveRock) |
| 51 | * Music/{{Blitzkrieg}} |
| 52 | * Music/{{Bloodgood}} (a ChristianMetal example) |
| 53 | * Music/{{Bloodrock}} |
| 54 | * Music/BlueCheer (often cited as an UrExample) |
| 55 | * Music/BlueOysterCult |
| 56 | ** 1972 - ''[[Music/BlueOysterCult1972 Blue Öyster Cult]]'' |
| 57 | ** 1973 - ''Music/TyrannyAndMutation'' |
| 58 | ** 1974 - ''Music/SecretTreaties'' |
| 59 | ** 1976 - ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'' |
| 60 | ** 1977 - ''Music/{{Spectres}}'' |
| 61 | ** 1979 - ''Music/{{Mirrors|Album}}'' |
| 62 | ** 1980 - ''Music/CultosaurusErectus'' |
| 63 | ** 1981 - ''Music/FireOfUnknownOrigin'' |
| 64 | ** 1983 - ''Music/TheRevolutionByNight'' |
| 65 | ** 1986 - ''Music/ClubNinja'' |
| 66 | ** 1988 - ''Music/{{Imaginos}}'' |
| 67 | * Music/{{Budgie}} |
| 68 | * Music/{{Buffalo}} |
| 69 | * Music/{{Chickenfoot}} |
| 70 | * Music/ChristianMistress (new band, old style) |
| 71 | * Music/CirithUngol (also DoomMetal) |
| 72 | * Music/ClovenHoof (later material overlaps with PowerMetal) |
| 73 | * Music/CrimsonGlory (overlaps with ProgressiveMetal) |
| 74 | * Music/TheCult (from ''Electric'' on; also count as HardRock and, in some cases, AlternativeMetal) |
| 75 | * Music/{{Danzig}} (overlaps with DoomMetal and GothicMetal, with a bit of AlternativeMetal on the side) |
| 76 | * Music/TheDarkness (also HairMetal, and an example of a newer band playing this style) |
| 77 | * Music/DeepPurple (starting with ''Music/DeepPurpleInRock'') |
| 78 | * Music/DefLeppard (early material. Later became HairMetal) |
| 79 | * Music/{{Demon}} |
| 80 | * Music/DiamondHead |
| 81 | * Music/BruceDickinson |
| 82 | * [[Music/RonnieJamesDio Dio]] |
| 83 | ** 2000 - ''Music/{{Magica}}'' |
| 84 | * Music/{{Dokken}} (also GlamMetal) |
| 85 | * Music/{{Doro}} |
| 86 | * Music/JamesDurbin |
| 87 | * Music/{{Dust}} |
| 88 | * Music/{{Enforcer}} (new band, old style; ''Into the Night'' is SpeedMetal and ''Zenith'' borders on HairMetal, but they are trad revivalists as a whole) |
| 89 | * Music/{{Epitaph}} (also ProgressiveRock) |
| 90 | * Music/{{Euclid}} |
| 91 | * Music/{{Europe}} |
| 92 | * Music/{{Exciter}} |
| 93 | * Music/{{Fist}} |
| 94 | * Music/FlowerTravellinBand |
| 95 | * Music/LitaFord |
| 96 | * Music/{{Fozzy}} |
| 97 | * Music/{{Gillan}} |
| 98 | * Music/{{Girlschool}} (an all-female example) |
| 99 | * Music/{{Granicus}} |
| 100 | * Music/GraveDigger (along with PowerMetal) |
| 101 | * Music/GrimReaper |
| 102 | * Music/HammerFall |
| 103 | * Music/HardStuff |
| 104 | * Music/{{Hardline}} |
| 105 | * Music/HeavyLoad |
| 106 | * Music/{{Hell}} |
| 107 | * Music/{{Hevisaurus}} (also Children's music) |
| 108 | * Music/HighSpirits (new band, old style) |
| 109 | * Music/HighTide (also ProgressiveRock) |
| 110 | * Music/{{Holocaust}} |
| 111 | * Music/HolyGrail |
| 112 | * Music/IcedEarth (crosses to PowerMetal and ThrashMetal) |
| 113 | * Music/IronMaiden |
| 114 | ** 1980 - ''Music/IronMaidenAlbum'' |
| 115 | ** 1981 - ''Music/{{Killers|Album}}'' |
| 116 | ** 1982 - ''Music/TheNumberOfTheBeast'' |
| 117 | * Music/{{JBO}} (also Comedy) |
| 118 | * Music/{{Jaguar}} |
| 119 | * Music/{{Jorn}} (later works; earlier works were HardRock and ProgressiveMetal) |
| 120 | * Music/JudasPriest (TropeCodifier; the pre-1990 albums are classified as such) |
| 121 | ** 1980 - ''Music/BritishSteel'' |
| 122 | ** 1982 - ''Music/ScreamingForVengeance'' |
| 123 | * Music/KingDiamond |
| 124 | ** 1987 - ''Music/{{Abigail|Album}}'' |
| 125 | * Music/{{Kiss}} |
| 126 | * Music/{{Krokus}} |
| 127 | * Music/{{Kvelertak}} |
| 128 | * Music/LedZeppelin (While the band members expressed their disdain for the "heavy metal" label, they were an important link between the heavier forms of rock of the 60s and the early metal of the 70s and they're frequently cited as an UrExample alongside Blue Cheer and Steppenwolf) |
| 129 | * Music/{{Lordi}} |
| 130 | * [[Music/LucifersFriend Lucifer's Friend]] |
| 131 | * Music/{{Loudness}} (have also experimented with ProgressiveMetal, GlamMetal, and ThrashMetal) |
| 132 | * Music/{{Manowar}} |
| 133 | * Music/{{Massacration}} (also Comedy) |
| 134 | * Music/MegaColossus |
| 135 | * Music/{{Megadeth}} (''Youthanasia'' is the only straightforward example. Though, they mix this with ThrashMetal on ''Countdown to Extinction,'' ''The World Needs a Hero'' and ''The System Has Failed'', and with HardRock on ''Cryptic Writings'' and ''Super Collider''.) |
| 136 | * Music/MetalChurch (along with PowerMetal and ThrashMetal) |
| 137 | * Music/{{Metallica}} (''Black Album'' only, though they have elements of it on some of their other material) |
| 138 | ** 1991 - ''Music/MetallicaAlbum'' |
| 139 | * Music/MotleyCrue (especially on their early albums; also GlamMetal) |
| 140 | * Music/{{Motorhead}} (although they self-identified as "rock 'n' roll") |
| 141 | ** 1980 - ''Music/AceOfSpades'' |
| 142 | ** 1991 - ''Music/Nineteen16'' |
| 143 | * Music/{{Mustasch}} (also mixed with SpeedMetal) |
| 144 | * Music/NanowarOfSteel (also Comedy) |
| 145 | * Music/{{Nazareth}} (on the border between this and HardRock) |
| 146 | * [[Music/JasonNewsted Newsted]] ( a modern example, and one of the heaviest) |
| 147 | * Music/NightSun (also ProgressiveRock) |
| 148 | * Music/NingenIsu |
| 149 | * Music/TedNugent |
| 150 | * Music/OzzyOsbourne |
| 151 | ** 1981 - ''Music/BlizzardOfOzz'' |
| 152 | * Music/{{Pantera}} |
| 153 | * Music/{{Pentagram}} (the American band; also DoomMetal) |
| 154 | * Music/{{Portrait}} (new band, old sound, became PowerMetal on ''Burn the World'') |
| 155 | * Music/PrettyMaids |
| 156 | * Music/PrayingMantis |
| 157 | * Music/{{Quartz}} |
| 158 | * Music/{{Queensryche}} (fused with ProgressiveMetal) |
| 159 | * Music/QuietRiot (along with HairMetal) |
| 160 | * Music/{{Rainbow}} (also HardRock) |
| 161 | * Ram |
| 162 | * Music/RataBlanca |
| 163 | * Music/{{Ratt}} (also GlamMetal) |
| 164 | * Music/{{Raven}} |
| 165 | * Music/{{Riot}} (also PowerMetal) |
| 166 | * Music/RoseTattoo |
| 167 | * Music/TheRunaways |
| 168 | * Music/RunningWild |
| 169 | * Music/{{Sabaton}} ''started'' as this and their early songs up to the ''Attero Dominatus'' album retain considerable influence, but they're more known as PowerMetal. |
| 170 | * Music/{{Samson}} |
| 171 | * Music/{{Satan}} |
| 172 | * Music/{{Saxon}} |
| 173 | * Music/{{Scorpions|Band}} (also HardRock and GlamMetal) |
| 174 | * Music/{{Seax}} (new band, old style, also SpeedMetal) |
| 175 | * Music/SirLordBaltimore |
| 176 | * Music/SkidRow (also GlamMetal) |
| 177 | * Music/SloughFeg |
| 178 | * Music/SteelPanther (also Comedy) |
| 179 | * Music/{{Steelpreacher}} |
| 180 | * Music/{{Steppenwolf}} (another candidate for UrExample) |
| 181 | * Music/{{Stray}} |
| 182 | * Music/{{Striker}} (new band, old style, later material overlaps with PowerMetal) |
| 183 | * Music/{{Stryper}} (also GlamMetal) |
| 184 | * Music/{{Tank}} |
| 185 | * Music/ThinLizzy (their 80s albums, particularly their final album ''Thunder and Lightning'', are generally considered to be the most "metal", and their dueling-lead-guitar sound would be hugely influential on subsequent metal bands) |
| 186 | * Music/{{Thor}} |
| 187 | * Music/ThreeManArmy |
| 188 | * Music/{{Thunder}} (another newer band playing this style, also HardRock) |
| 189 | * Music/{{TNT|Band}} |
| 190 | * Music/{{Toad}} |
| 191 | * Music/ToeFat |
| 192 | * Music/TokyoBlade |
| 193 | * [[Anime/CyberneticsGuardian Trash Gang]] (Mixed with HairMetal) |
| 194 | * Music/{{Trial}} (Swe) (new band, old style, has shades of ProgressiveMetal) |
| 195 | * Music/{{Trust}} |
| 196 | * Music/TwistedSister |
| 197 | * Music/TygersOfPanTang |
| 198 | * Music/{{UDO}} |
| 199 | * Music/{{UFO|Band}} |
| 200 | * Music/UriahHeep |
| 201 | * Music/SteveVai |
| 202 | * Music/ViciousRumors (also PowerMetal) |
| 203 | * Music/{{Volbeat}} |
| 204 | * Music/AndrewWK |
| 205 | * Music/{{Warhorse}} |
| 206 | * Music/{{Warlock}} |
| 207 | * Music/TheWarning |
| 208 | * Music/WarriorSoul (This combined with AlternativeMetal) |
| 209 | * Music/{{WASP|Band}} |
| 210 | ** 1992 - ''Music/TheCrimsonIdol'' |
| 211 | * Music/WhiteSpirit |
| 212 | * Music/WhiteWizzard (new band, old sound) |
| 213 | [[/index]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | !! Common Tropes Used in this Genre: |
| 216 | |
| 217 | * BoringButPractical: It may not be awe-inspiring and flashy as several other metal subgenres these days, but it is the lifeblood of the general metal genre and still packed a lot of EpicRiff, MetalScream and general musical power. Without it, HeavyMetal may not exist at all, so not really "boring" in any sense, simply underrepresented nowadays. |
| 218 | * ChristianMetal : Bloodgood and Music/{{Stryper}} are prominent examples. The Resurrection Band are generally considered the UrExample of ChristianMetal, and did dab in this style, but are also considered HardRock. |
| 219 | * DoomMetal: Arguably the first major offshoot metal subgenre, DoomMetal is just the logical continuation of the original Music/BlackSabbath sound. Obviously, there is a decent amount of overlap between DoomMetal and Traditional Heavy Metal. |
| 220 | * HardRock: The direct musical progenitor of HeavyMetal. While the exact dividing line between HardRock and Metal is the subject of a lot of (often extremely vocal and bitter) arguments, and both genres have plenty of crossover, there are a few key differences. HardRock is solely based in Blues, and while Black Sabbath (and by extension, a lot of DoomMetal bands) also had heavy Blues influences, Metal lost the blues elements very quickly, often being more based in ClassicalMusic or ProgressiveRock than basic blues. The guitar tone and style of riffing is also different. Metal is often more complex and technical, with a thicker sound. Metal bands often employ two or three guitars where a HardRock band would only use one (clearly, there are exceptions on both sides of this as well). The difference between the two is not just a question of heaviness, although TraditionalHeavyMetal bands were generally heavier than most HardRock bands. |
| 221 | * HairMetal: There is a ''lot'' of overlap between these styles. At its basic core, HairMetal combines a HardRock song structure with metal riffs and solos, with a thick poppy sheen over top. |
| 222 | * MetalScream: Over-the-top pseudo operatic shouts and wails are often used to great effect. HarshVocals in the more modern sense were pretty much unheard of at the time, but later bands that played this style would occasionally employ them. |
| 223 | * RockMeAsmodeus: Songs about TheDevil aren't uncommon, but unlike the stereotype they weren't usually praising him so much as singing about what horrors he would bring upon the world, not unlike a fire and brimstone sermon. |
| 224 | * TropeCodifier: Music/IronMaiden and Music/JudasPriest are generally considered to have taken what Music/BlackSabbath did and shaped it into a proper genre, but other metal bands were also prominent at the same time, including Music/{{Rainbow}} and Music/{{Scorpions|Band}}. |
| 225 | * TropeMakers: Black Sabbath is generally considered the first metal band. |
| 226 | * UrExample: Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf, and Led Zeppelin have been cited as this. |
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