Rock Band Classification

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I never knew so many alternative rock bands were also considered hard rock bands. So many people around the world are major listeners of so many subgenres of rock music. I found that the most popular genres are alternative and hard rock. Personally my phone is full of music from both genres of rock. The two genres seem to be so different from one another to have so many of the same bands in them. A very popular rock back these days Avenged Sevenfold is under both classifications. I guess this must be because of the wide rand of different styles of their music. With so many different types of rock music to choose from so many people seem to keep between alternative and hard rock. Alternative rock is one brand of the rock music genre that really …show more content…
Adding to this distinctions better hard rock and heavy metal styles are usually subtle and often more determined by a bands image rather than its songs. The two genres have some crossovers. Heavy metal pioneers such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin are are often considered to be both hard rock bands and heavy metal bands. Where Nazareth, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Status QUO and Guns N’ Roses and KISS are normally referred to as just hard rock bands and not heavy metal bands. One of the heavy metal sub-geners of the 1980s adding further to the confusion they are considered glam- medtal such as bands like Alice Cooper, Motley Crye, and KiSS. KISS subsequently went on to experiment with glam metal. (Hard Rock, …show more content…
Early forms of hard rock can be heard in the songs “Helter Skelter” by The Beatles “You Really Got Me” by the Kinks and “ Can see f Miles” by the Who. Jimi Hendrix the musician at the same time produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues, nd rock and roll, rerating a unique genre. He was one of the first guitarists to experiment with new guitar effects like phasing, feedback, and distortion. In the late-1960s hard rock became big from British groups like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. In 1969 the group Led Zeppelin released an album 1 that was a great example of blues rock that sows the beginning of the hard rock genre. Later on Deep Purple emerge red into the hard rock scene with the albums the book of Taulesyuin in 1968 and Deep Purple in 1969 and Shade if Purple in 1968. Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are mainly considered some of the first hard rock bands. (Hard Rock,

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