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  1. heavy metal music
    loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat
    Heavy metal music
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    Heavy metal
    Stylistic origins Blues-rock, psychedelic rock
    Cultural origins Late 1960s, United Kingdom and United States
    Typical instruments Electric guitar • bass guitar • drums • vocals • keyboards
    Mainstream popularity Worldwide, late 1960s–present
    Subgenres
    Black metal • classic metal • death metal • doom metal • glam metal • gothic metal • groove metal • power metal • speed metal • stoner rock...
  2. heavy metal
    a metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about 5) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is poisonous like mercury or lead)
    Heavy metal music
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    Heavy metal
    Stylistic origins Blues-rock, psychedelic rock
    Cultural origins Late 1960s, United Kingdom and United States
    Typical instruments Electric guitar • bass guitar • drums • vocals • keyboards
    Mainstream popularity Worldwide, late 1960s–present
    Subgenres
    Black metal • classic metal • death metal • doom metal • glam metal • gothic metal • groove metal • power metal • speed metal • stoner rock...
  3. metal
    a chemical element or alloy that is usually a shiny solid
    Heavy metal music
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    Heavy metal
    Stylistic origins Blues-rock, psychedelic rock
    Cultural origins Late 1960s, United Kingdom and United States
    Typical instruments Electric guitar • bass guitar • drums • vocals • keyboards
    Mainstream popularity Worldwide, late 1960s–present
    Subgenres
    Black metal • classic metal • death metal • doom metal • glam metal • gothic metal • groove metal • power metal • speed metal • stoner rock...
  4. iron maiden
    instrument of torture consisting of a hollow iron frame shaped like the human body and lined with spikes to impale the victim
    Bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Iron Maiden followed in a similar vein.
  5. metalhead
    a fan of heavy metal music
    Before the end of the decade, heavy metal had attracted a worldwide following of fans known as "metalheads" or "headbangers".
  6. pedal point
    a sustained bass note
    Metal basslines vary widely in complexity, from holding down a low pedal point as a foundation to doubling complex riffs and licks along with the lead and/or rhythm guitars.
  7. psychedelic rock
    a musical style that emerged in the 1960s
    Heavy metal music
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    Heavy metal
    Stylistic origins Blues-rock, psychedelic rock
    Cultural origins Late 1960s, United Kingdom and United States
    Typical instruments Electric guitar • bass guitar • drums • vocals • keyboards
    Mainstream popularity Worldwide, late 1960s–present
    Subgenres
    Black metal • classic metal • death metal • doom metal • glam metal • gothic metal • groove metal • power metal • speed metal • stoner rock...
  8. subliterary
    not written as or intended to be literature
    With grunts, moans and subliterary lyrics, it celebrates...a party without limits....
  9. yardbird
    a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks
    Bands like The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds developed blues-rock by recording covers of many classic blues songs, often speeding up the tempos.
  10. New Wave
    an art movement in French cinema in the 1960s
    Bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Iron Maiden followed in a similar vein.
  11. foregrounding
    the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system
    The occult lyrics and imagery employed by Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep would prove particularly influential; Led Zeppelin also began foregrounding such elements with its fourth album, released in 1971.[85]
  12. nonmetal
    not resembling shiny, malleable, conductive elements
    Pioneered by the heavy metal act X Japan in the late 1980s, bands in the Japanese movement known as visual kei—which includes many nonmetal groups—emphasize elaborate costumes, hair, and makeup.[39]
    [edit] Physical gestures
    Fans raise their fists and make the "devil horns" gesture at a concert by Estonian heavy metal group Metsatöll in 2006

    Many metal musicians when performing live engage in headbanging, which involves rhythmically beating time with the head, often emphasized by long...
  13. subculture
    a distinctive social group within a national society
    Fan subculture
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  14. grunge
    the state of being covered with unclean things
    Since the mid-1990s, popular styles such as nu metal, which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop; and metalcore, which blends extreme metal with hardcore punk, have further expanded the definition of the genre.
  15. guitar
    a stringed instrument usually having six strings
    Heavy metal music
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    Heavy metal
    Stylistic origins Blues-rock, psychedelic rock
    Cultural origins Late 1960s, United Kingdom and United States
    Typical instruments Electric guitar • bass guitar • drums • vocals • keyboards
    Mainstream popularity Worldwide, late 1960s–present
    Subgenres
    Black metal • classic metal • death metal • doom metal • glam metal • gothic metal • groove metal • power metal • speed metal • stoner rock...
  16. quarter note
    a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
    Heavy metal songs also use longer rhythmic figures such as whole note- or dotted quarter note-length chords in slow-tempo power ballads.
  17. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
    Heavy metal music
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    Heavy metal
    Stylistic origins Blues-rock, psychedelic rock
    Cultural origins Late 1960s, United Kingdom and United States
    Typical instruments Electric guitar • bass guitar • drums • vocals • keyboards
    Mainstream popularity Worldwide, late 1960s–present
    Subgenres
    Black metal • classic metal • death metal • doom metal • glam metal • gothic metal • groove metal • power metal • speed metal • stoner rock • thra...
  18. band
    an unofficial association of people or groups
    Heavy metal music
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    Heavy metal
    Stylistic origins Blues-rock, psychedelic rock
    Cultural origins Late 1960s, United Kingdom and United States
    Typical instruments Electric guitar • bass guitar • drums • vocals • keyboards
    Mainstream popularity Worldwide, late 1960s–present
    Subgenres
    Black metal • classic metal • death metal • doom metal • glam metal • gothic metal • groove metal • power metal • speed metal • stoner rock • thra...
  19. album
    a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes
    They take as an example Sabbath's 1970 album Paranoid, which "included songs dealing with personal trauma—'Paranoid' and 'Fairies Wear Boots' (which described the unsavoury side effects of drug-taking)—as well as those confronting wider issues, such as the self-explanatory 'War Pigs' and 'Hand of Doom.'"[29]
  20. Zeppelin
    German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917)
    The first heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple attracted large audiences, though they were often critically reviled, a status common throughout the history of the genre.
  21. 1980s
    the decade from 1980 to 1989
    In the 1980s, glam metal became a major commercial force with groups like Mötley Crüe and Ratt.
  22. guitarist
    a musician who plays the guitar
    The typical band lineup includes a drummer, a bassist, a rhythm guitarist, a lead guitarist, and a singer, who may or may not be an instrumentalist.
  23. riff
    a jazz ostinato
    Metal basslines vary widely in complexity, from holding down a low pedal point as a foundation to doubling complex riffs and licks along with the lead and/or rhythm guitars.
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