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    Heavy Metal Music

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    Heavy metal music is and always will be one of the most polarising and controversial music genres in the world. While it is not without controversy, many fans of metal praise it as being the greatest musical style in the world. With the legions of fans it has, it is easy to see why metal has become such a massive phenomenon. The history of metal, staying true to the themes of it, is a dark grueling path of drugs, fights, brotherhood, and death. Metal has a very rich history full of culture shaking events, and this paper will cover the many beginnings, endings, deaths, breakups, and reunions that created metal. Metal is one of the most diverse genres in the music world. Although modern metal is heavy, loud, and violent sounding, the roots…

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    media. Due to this, many parents and guardians believe that listening to metal music leads adolescents into a world of drugs, mental illness, and even suicide. However, experts have shown that listening to this stimuli, actually does not lead to bad behavior, and can even have positive effects. Metal music has been put down since the start, but it culminated in 1985 when D. Snider of Twisted Sister, was taken to court over a list of bands that parents in a group called PMRC had conducted known…

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    Throughout time, music has been one of the most influential and moving art the world has known. Music can change people’s mood, behavior, and beliefs. One particular genre of rock music popular among young people is heavy metal. Many people enjoy listening to this type of music and love going to concerts were heavy metal is played. Even though many people enjoy it others believe this genre is associated with violence, depression and more negative behaviors. Weather heavy metal influences…

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    Music is the international medium that can link both mind and soul. From sophisticated, well drawn out classical music, to drums and rocks in Aboriginal tribes in Africa, music is a natural and seemingly God-given talent we all possess. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent,” it is supernatural yet so uniquely human simultaneously (Hugo). Music elicits response; one main response it draws out is in-depth analysis. As popular as music is, music…

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    Musicians create music for many reasons. They write songs about love and songs about the loss of love. Some create songs to brag about how much material possessions they have or to express their own personal happiness. However sometimes there exists situations in the world that are so upsetting and controversial that even musicians feel forced to act. In time of war and turmoil, musicians become the voice of the people and through their music they reflect the growing discontent of the…

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    devoted to heavy metal music revolves around the idea that the satanic identity associated with heavy metal diffused as a result of anti-satanic propaganda spread by Christian organizations. Dyrendal asserts that the satanism…

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    classification as a musical genre, there is much debate, not only from fans or their music, but from the band members themselves. In this discourse, I will examine whether or not the band can be labeled as “metal,” and if not, then where exactly should their works be displayed at the record store? Music is divided in to all sorts of genres and subgenres: Blue, Jazz, Folk, Latin, Pop, Rock, Country - and sometimes, it isn’t easy to put a song in to just…

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    The History Of Heavy Metal

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    Come take a walk down the boardwalk that is Heavy Metal history. Note by note. Guitar riff by guitar riff. Unravel the mystery that is Heavy Metal. Let 's jump into the late 1960’s, now you might find yourself at a Led Zeppelin jamaton, or even a The Jimi Hendrix Experience concert? Now these revolutionary bands brought the blunt and clear lyrics showing all the faults in the world that we want to overlook. Travel to Birmingham, England in 1968 and you would be there for the birth of true metal…

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    Heavy Metal: A Contrast and Comparison Between Two Historical Bands Heavy metal music has a reputation of having been devil inspired, however groups such a Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne show just how wrong this is, both in their similarities and their differences. They are fathers, husbands, and business men. They are adored by the masses and have become the largest sellers of heavy metal music. Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne (Ozzy) have had their share of tragedy and controversy, but their…

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    No matter where you live or where you are from, people of the earth believe music to be extraordinary and an evocative fixation. People of all walks appreciate hearing and listening to their favorite tunes. Music can generate feelings within a listener whether it has a singular meaning or one of extraordinary sensation. How do songs achieve this? Music is more intricate than most can comprehend. There are numerous characteristics such as melody, texture, tempo, rhythm and dynamics, to be…

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