Heavy Metal
Birmingham, February 1970, a factory town band and a detuned tritone. A decade later Britain had hundreds of them, Judas Priest had put the leather on and Iron Maiden had put the gallop in, and the template has barely moved since. The genre everything else on this site is a reaction to.
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Thrash Metal vs Heavy Metal
Separated by a generation, not by a schism. Every thrash musician was a heavy metal fan first, and what they built was an argument: that the tempos had slowed, the c...