HEAVY METAL RESEARCH PAPER
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Heavy Metal is a unique style of music in which loud guitars, double bass drums, and extremely high or low pitch singing is incorporated. With the wide range of heavy metal bands comes a wide range of styles of heavy metal. Of the many types of Heavy Metal are Speed Metal, Black/Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Thrash Metal, Epic Metal, and Grindcore. Despite the negative effects of Heavy Metal, it still remains a positive form of music to some.
"Heavy Metal music occupies a distinct position in being music of the dissatisfied arising from within the dissatisfied". "Its dissidence demands values before immediate action and thus is less obviously political than other genres, but its aesthetic reveals a genre convinced that the making of noise and violence music of beauty and logical, clear structure is in some way, transcendent". (Historical View of Metal 7)
This style of music was said to be started off by many different bands of the past. Some people say that "The Beatles" started to ignite the metal music movement with their album "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" and the song "Helter Skelter". But the earliest song that is clearly identifiable as an example of Heavy Metal appears to be "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks...