Heavy rock in all its diversity

Rock music began to emerge quite a long time, back in the 60s of the last century. She grew up from such areas as blues and jazz. Surprising is the picture, if you cover the history of the development of this musical genre. Much of what the blues and jazz grew up in has become very heavy in sound and difficult to perceive.

Heavy rock today is a popular musical trend among young people . This concept is very extensive, because it includes dozens, if not hundreds of genres.

Heavy foreign rock

In general, hard rock (which just means "hard") in its pure form to the modern listener does not at all seem heavy. The fact is that this genre was born in the seventies. He came to replace the easier, though "fatal" music, such, for example, as The Beatles, The Animals, The Who and so on. Among the most famous groups playing in the genre of hard rock, you can name: Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin (these teams were at the forefront of the development of heavy music), Guns N 'Roses, Def Leppard, AC / DC, Mötley Crüe Sound more powerful, the flowering of their creativity fell on the 80's).

Hardly later, along with hard rock, heavy metal began to develop. These styles have a lot of similar features. However, heavy - it's more guitar solos and melodies, a little more aggression, and also mostly high vocals. Kiss, Iron Maiden and all the same Guns N 'Roses and AC / DC are the brightest examples of this direction.

Soon, in parallel with hard rock and heavy metal, heavier styles began to develop. A fairly well-known band Metallica, for example, plays in the style of thrash metal. But now you can see the beginning of a big competition called "Who is heavier?" Many will say that Metallica is not a hard rock at all, and the thrash metal group Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth, along with this team, is also part of the Big Four. In this case, Sodom and Kreator, playing in the same style, can already be attributed to really powerful teams. Trash is the beginning of all the beginnings in extremely heavy music. It's about protesting what is happening in the modern world: wars, injustice, infringement of other people's rights.

You have already certainly ascertained how diverse and multifaceted hard rock. Groups that can be called "heavy" can significantly differ in style, sound, ideology, texts, and so on.

For example, other styles have grown from thrash. Here you can say, say, speed metal. It is noticeable influence and heavy, with both old and new waves. The development of the genre was in the eighties. Thus, the most influential groups include Agent Steel, Helloween, Znöwhite, Grave Digger.

Interesting is its history group Blind Guardian. Today these guys play in one of the easiest genres of metal - power. However, in the far eighties they recorded two standard albums (in the opinion of many) in the speed-metal genre. Over time, they became more melodic and "kind," but some of the old speed metal compositions continue to play in their performances.

Many people like black metal. A simple man in the street will find it difficult to understand that some people find in the works of such groups as Burzum, Immortal, Gorgoroth, Summoning and many others. Interestingly, this genre is another branch of thrash. At the moment it is perhaps the heaviest rock that only exists. Contrary to the popular belief that black metal bands worship the devil, this is not so. A significant part of the creativity of such teams has a pagan or atheistic basis.

As you understand, heavy rock - the concept is very, very stretchable. Then you have wonderful classical "ballads", and drive songs, and protest compositions, and the most complicated depressive and extreme tracks.