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Grosske How did heavy metal start? Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in between 1968, and 1974. The genre was most common in the United Kingdom. And the United states. Heavy metal had major guitar solos, amplified sound crazy beats, with some or more people screaming lyrics. Over all very head banging and CRAZY. The first bands were Led Zeppelin, Deep purple, Iron maiden, Judas priest, and black Sabbath. By the end of the century heavy metal had attracted fans world wide what did they call heavy metal fans? Metal heads, or head bangers. As heavy metal grew. During the 1980s bands like motley crue, and ratt joined in. As well underground scenes produced more aggressive types of metal like thrash metal, death metal, and black metal. Popular bands in these categories were megadeth, Metallica, and slipknot. People usually listen to metal if there angry, sad, or if they just want to let it all out. Usually heavy metal songs consist of depressing lyrics where people are screaming about how bad there lives suck. People who are most likely to join a heavy metal band if there depressed, or there just an over all deep person. Heavy metal bands use a bass guitar to keep the music heavy there are also a lot of riffs, and drums to keep the beat. Black metal vocalists singers scream the lyrics of the song, and other bands may just use a lot of guitar. Lots of heavy metal musicians said that they got there inspirations from classical music, even though these types of music are used un different traditions, like classical is an art type of music where as heavy metal is a popular used today, and its more used out of popularity. Other later heavy metal bands said they got there inspiration from earlier heavy metal bands like Guns N Roses there inspiration was Led Zeppelin, AC\DC, and Aerosmith. In the earlier 90s however they started getting influenced by other bands like Nirvana, Alice in chains, and pearl jam. Like every other type of music heavy metal bands image was expressed music videos, and by using logos, and stage presence to really let people get the mood of what there talking about. Alice Cooper, and Kiss were known for there crazy stage performances. Down the back long hair was a distinguishing feature of metal. Heavy metal hair symbolized the hate, and desenchament of a generation that never really felt at home. The classic uniform that heavy metal fans wore consisted of blue jeans, black T shirts, boots, and black leather, or jean jackets. T shirts usually had a favorite band logo, and visual image to represent the band. Metal fans chose certain elements to represent the genre like chains, metal studs, and skulls. Many metal performers in the 1970s-1980s used brightly colored instruments to enhance there stage appearance. Fashions were especially used in glam metal bands performers had long, brightly dyed hair, wore lip stick, and eye liner. Performers wore leopard skin printed shirts, or vests, tight pants. Accessories included hair bands, and jewellery. Performers in the glam metal genre were nicknamed hair metal because of there crazy fashion. Physical gestures include head banging which is when performers with long hair bang there head rhythmically in time with the beat, hand gestures, and devil horns were also popular. Ronnie James Dio of black Sabbath is said to have come up with those gestures although Gene Simmins of Kiss was the first to perform those types of gestures in concert. During concerts heavy metal fans don't dance, or anything, but there is a lot of stage diving, crowd surfing, pushing, and shoving this is called moshing, Air guitar is also what fans do at concerts, and at home. No one really knows how the phrase heavy metal began, but in a 1964 book by William S Burroughs called Nova Express uses the term heavy metal as a metaphor for addictive drugs. In 1979 New York Times music critic John Rockwell described the term heavy metal in one of his articles as an aggressive genre played for people whose minds were clouded with drugs. In another article he described the genre as a crude exaggeration of rock listened to by white teenagers. Punk rock emerged in the mod 1970s because of this main stream, music heavy metal sales were starting to decline. Some British bands who were inspired by the loud, and aggressive attitude of heavy metal started to sell there albums cheaply to small devoted audiences. Motorhead was the first important band to straddle the punk\metal divide. Into the late 1970s and early 1980s heavy metal bands like deep purple and led zeppelin broke up. Inspired by the leading guitarist of the year Eddie Van Halen a bunch of metal bands in southern California began to form like Motley crue, W.A.S.P, and ratt who were influenced by the early 70s metal styles. The lyrics of these glam-heavy metal bands influenced wild behavior. These bands were recognized for there crazy guitar solos, and mical choruses Heavy metal sales began to increase in the 1980s after Judas priest' brake through, and thanks to the exposure of MTV who aired a lot of band videos. In 1983 there was some .U.S. festival in California. Ozzy Osborne, Eddie Van Halen, Motley Crue, and the scorpions attracted the largest audience of the 3 day event. The same year heavy metal went from an 8% to a 20% share of recordings sold. In 1985 billboard declared that heavy metal wasn't just something male teenagers listened to, but something that college students and preteens listened too. Billboard also mentioned that the genre had become more female. So that’s pretty much how it all began. After there was more variety in the audience heavy metal became popular, and known like it is today.