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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Judas Priest, the parent generation, who answered thrash in 1990 with Painkiller Explainers

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...