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METAL!
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DEVIL DRIVER
Download Festival, 2007
Donington Park, England
25,000 fans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVSDy2evNRU
Music Video: PANTERA - Cowboys from Hell
Monsters of Rock Show –
Moscow, Sept. 28, 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_WZkCgeXWk
A BIT ABOUT ME (and how I came to LOVE Metal)
• I was picked on when I was young
• I was tomboy
• I played classical piano
• Raised in a secular family
• I was obsessed with counterculture and anything that
rebelled against societal norms
• 13th birthday I pierced my own ear, bought Marilyn Manson
– Antichrist Superstar and picked up an electric guitar
• Metal gave me strength and celebrated everything
mainstream society had told me was bad and wrong
A BIT ABOUT ME (and how I came to LOVE Metal)
• In highschool I found people that listened to Metal shared
similar interests
• Straight out of highschool I worked at a&b Sound in the
music department for over four years
• I became heavily involved in the Vancouver Metal scene
and went to a lot of Metal shows
• I worked at the Commodore Ballroom on Granville for two
years where I saw a lot of Metal shows
• Although I know a fair amount about metal, I wanted to
know more about it and share it with YOU!
METAL INFLUENCES
CLASSICAL MUSIC:
• Operatic, projected vocal style from back before
there was amplification
• Artists like Wagner whose orchestra was heavily
loaded with bass
• Artists like Bach who used improvisation
http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/music/hawle
y-farbood-6-2000/i/wagner.jpg
BLUES:
• Blues guitar riffs and scales (the tritone)
• Black Sabbath was originally a jazz/blues band
POVERTY:
• Bands such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep
Purple and Slipknot grew up in rough, run down
neighbourhoods
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THE FIRST METAL BANDS (1966-1971)
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BLACK SABBATH (1968Present)
Black Sabbath created an evil
demonic sound that came to
define Metal
Used the tritone – Diminished
5th – on the blue’s scale..
In the middle ages the tritone
was used to summon the devil
and was prohibited
http://birminghammusicarchive.co.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2008/05/black_sabbath_black_and_white1.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akt3awj_Ah8
THE METAL SOUND
Eddie Van Halen: Guitar Solo
INSTRUMENTS:
• Distorted amplified electric guitars
• Heavy bass guitar lines
• Loud bass drums
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_lwocmL9dQ
Iron Maiden:
Early Days Tour, Sweden, 2005
• Wailing/Screaming/Projected/Operatic
/Soaring/Gutteral Vocals –
traditionally men
STYLE:
• Guitar Solos sometimes improvised
• Aggressive/Fast
• Loud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQW9wD0
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LYRICAL THEMES
• Rebellion – for example Rage Against the Machine’s anthem –
“F*ck you I won’t do what you tell me!”
• Staying true to yourself, standing up for yourself
• War
• Death
• Hedonism
• Sexuality
• Drugs
• Religion – some bands use satantic themes but the majority are
not Satanists
• Fantasy – dragons, swords, sorcery
• Gore (bands such as Cannibal Corpse have album covers are
banned in numerous countries)
HISTORY OF METAL
Clip from the documentary “Metal: A
Headbanger’s Journey”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaGsEwAW2pE&p=F486B21F21BA7794&in
dex=49&feature=BF
EARLY
1966-1971
• BLACK
SABBATH
SHOCK ROCK
1968-1983
• ALICE COOPER
• KISS
GLAM METAL
1973-1990
• MOTLEY CRUE
ORIGINAL HARD ROCK
1974-79
• AEROSMITH
POP METAL
1978-Present
• VAN HALEN
POWER METAL
1976-Present
• JUDAS PRIEST
STONER METAL
1982-Present
• KYUSS
THRASH METAL
1983-Present
• METALLICA
• PANTERA
• SLAYER
INDUSTRIAL
1988-Present
• MINISTRY
• NIN
• MARILYN
MANSON
GRUNGE
1988-1993
• NIRVANA
PROGRESSIVE
1970-Present
• RUSH
EARLY PUNK
1976-1979
• RAMONES
NEW WAVE
BRITISH HEAVY
METAL
1979-1983
• MOTORHEAD
DEATH METAL
1985-Present
• CANNIBAL CORPSE
GOTH
METAL
1990Present
• OPETH
HARD
ALTERNATIVE
1985-Present
• FAITH NO
MORE
• TOOL
ORIGINAL
HARDCORE
1980-1986
• DEAD
KENNEDYS
METALCORE
1985-Present
• SUICIDAL
TENDENCIES
SWEDISH
DEATH
1990-Present
• ARCH
ENEMY
NEW METAL
1994-Present
• SLIPKNOT
FIRST WAVE
BLACK METAL
1981-1986
• VENOM
GRINDCORE
1987-Present
• NAPALM
DEATH
NORWEGIAN
BLACK
1990-Present
• MAYHEM
NEW WAVE
AMERICAN
2000-Present
• LAMB OF
GOD
EARLY
Evil sounding
rock music
SHOCK ROCK
Rock music with
theatrical shock
value
GLAM METAL
All about dressing
up, powerchords
ORIGINAL HARD ROCK
Heavy use of
distorted guitars and
often piano
POP METAL
Metal + Pop =
Van Halen
POWER METAL
Fast tempo,
melodic
harmonies, high
pitched vocals
STONER METAL
Psychedelic,
blues, slower
tempo,
melodic vocals
THRASH METAL
Fast,
aggressive,
often political
lyrics
INDUSTRIAL
Experimental,
techno,
machinery
sound,
controversial
lyrics and
visuals
GRUNGE
Heavily
distorted
guitars,
powerchords
and angsty
lyrics
PROGRESSIVE
Experimental
in song
structure
EARLY PUNK
Fast, short,
raw, political
lyrics
NEW WAVE
BRITISH HEAVY
Blues and punk
elements, fast
tempo
DEATH METAL
Growling vocals,
distorted guitars
GOTH
METAL
Dark,
mournful
feel
HARD
ALTERNATIVE
Alternative,
but heavier
ORIGINAL
HARDCORE
Punk sound
but faster and
heavier
METALCORE
Fusion of
extreme metal
and hardcore
punk
SWEDISH
DEATH
Death Metal
Swedish style
NEW METAL
Fushion of
metal and
hip-hop etc.
FIRST WAVE
BLACK METAL
Fast, shrieking
vocals, antiChristian
GRINDCORE
Fast,
screams and
growling
NORWEGIAN
BLACK
Next wave of
Black Metal
NEW WAVE
AMERICAN
Radio Metal,
today’s
mainstream
BIGGEST METAL BAND
(OF COURSE THIS IS DEBATABLE)
BUT MANY BELIEVE IT IS…
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INDUSTRIAL
NINE INCH NAILS: Wish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuoFiIFkdAA&ob=av2n
HARD ALTERNATIVE
TOOL: Parabola
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiV_ue-PbL4
MASCULINITY AND METAL
• Metal music has always been
dominated by men
• A place where men can celebrate
being men
• Glam Rock cross-dressers were seen
as daring and the most “manly” as
they were comfortable enough with
their sexuality to dress like women
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WOMEN IN METAL
• Girl school was the first popular
female Metal band, formed in
1978 and still active today
• Women are still a minority in
Metal but more women are
beginning to master the
“gutteral” style of vocals
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PuD3XrF9Hg
METAL CULTURE
Clip from the
Metal Culture
• Backlash to societal pressures like how to
documentary “Metal: A
dress, how to act and what a person
Headbanger’s Journey”,
An escape – from bordom, mundane, small towns,
something
they can take
should
or shouldn’t
do and make their own
filmed at the Wacken
Open Air Festival in
Backlash to societal pressures like how to dress,
act, what
a person
should
shouldn’t do
• how
The to
Metal
scene
is a place
ofor
acceptance
Germany
– freaks and weirdos, EVERYONE
Release of agression
WELCOME
Self-expression
• Gives people a sense of belonging,
Self-confidence – a strong kind of music
community and brotherhood (the boys
club)
“you feel weird, but you’re not”
• Most “Metalheads” dress in a similar
Way of dress – BLACK, leather, band shirts, studs,fashion
tattoos – black, leather, silver, studs,
patches, army pants, combat boots and
Community/brotherhood
tattoos are all characteristic
Male dominated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Ye7u-TvPI
• Metal truly is a global phenomenon – most
countries have a metal scene. The
majority of metal bands hail from North
and South America and Europe
METAL CULTURE
• MOSHPITS allow you to dance and
move and thrash and scream and sing
and headbang and FEEL and
EXPERIENCE the music – without
feeling judged for it
• A place where “boys can be boys” and
the girls can be boys as well – also
without judgement!
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SYMBOLS IN METAL
• Religious symbols are often used for
shock value, such as crosses (rightsideup or upside-down), and pentagrams
• Skulls are often used, again for shock
value, but also to represent death
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SYMBOLS IN METAL
DEVIL HORNS
• Ronnie James Dio of Black
Sabbath came from a traditional
Italian family
• His grandmother was
superstitious and used to give
people the “malloic” which was
protection against the evil eye
• Could use the malloic to give the
evil eye as well
• Used during his time with Black
Sabbath and caught on
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/ronnie-james-dio.jpg
METAL IN POLITICS / AS A FORM OF RESISTANCE
SOME EXAMPLES:
• Rage Against the Machine has made music
advocating for the indigenous Zapatista
group in Mexico
• Leftover Crack (a punk/metal group) writes
music against capitalism, with songs such
as “F*ck World Trade”
http://smashingmag.com/tour/trphoto/yusuke/080209rage
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• Many bands such as Slayer openly oppose
Christian ideals in their lyrics
THE END
REFERENCES
www.allmusicguide.com
“Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey”, 2006, Directed by
Sam Dunn
All other references included within the presentation