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Often confused with hair metal, but slightly different. Many did have big hair, but these bands were not as pop-ish in their sound: they were heavier.
Motley Crue, Skid Row, Guns N' Roses, among others
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A hybrid genre created by combining - wait for it - Industrial and Heavy Metal. The genre is characterized by electronics-heavy production, including looped, distorted guitar riffs, distorted vocals, drum machines, and relatively heavy use of keyboards and sampling. The genre was pioneered in the late 1980s by Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM, and rose to prominence in the 1990s with massive successes like Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, White Zombie, and Marilyn Manson. Essentially died after that, with most modern bands in the genre (having no interest in electronic music) attempting to imitate the "death metal" sound found in Godflesh's Streetcleaner and Fear Factory's Demanufacture without understanding what makes those albums great, and failing spectacularly. One is extremely hard-pressed to name any good industrial metal bands formed after the '90s.
Industrial metal is often the source of endless online arguments about the definitions of "industrial" and "metal", usually instigated by people who only listen to one (or neither) of those genres but want to appear more knowledgeable about music than they actually are.
Not to be confused with Industrial Rock.
KMFDM, Ministry, Rob Zombie, Handzul und Gretel, Fear Factory, and Rammstein are industrial metal bands.
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1. Noun referring to an artist within the genre of heavy metal, who is considered a central an important figure.
2. Noun referring to Rob Halford of Judas Priest, alluding to their famous song "Metal Gods".
3. "Metal God Apparel" is name of an clothing line owned by Rob Halford
Metal god Ronnie James Dio dead.
Metal God Rob Halford shrieked, wailed and rocked a full set of heavy rock at the Ogden Theatre on Wednesday.
How did Metal God Apparel come into being?
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A fucking awesome subgenre of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal subgenres that is characterised by high speed riffing and aggression.
Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work.
Possibly the four biggest bands in the Thrash Metal genre include: Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica, and Anthrax.
Thrash guitar solos are almost exclusively played at high speed, as they are usually characterized by shredding, and use techniques such as sweep picking, legato phrasing, alternate picking, string skipping, and two-hand tapping. Thrash lead guitarists are rooted in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement.
The speed and pacing of the songs is what defines thrash metal. The music tends to have a visceral, propellant feel to it due to its drumming style, most commonly utilizing the snare drum on the 1/2 beat, or the 2nd and 4th beats of the measure. Frantic bass drum use is also common. Thrash drummers often use two bass drums. Some thrash drummers are revered as some of the "best drummers in rock music".
Most famous thrash metal bands: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax.
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A nuclear equipped walking death mobile.Origanally designed to shoot down nuclear missles.For defensive purposes of course
LIAR! I already know that Metal Gear is nothing but a nuclear equipped walking death mobil!
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A hybrid genre of funk and metal charactrezied by funk-like beats, metallic guitar riffs, prominent bass, and occasionally rap. Funk metal was created and rose to popularity on a timeline similar to that of grunge.
One of the earliest forms of alternative metal.
Examples: Rage Against the Machine, Faith No More, Living Colour, Primus, some Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc.
-This is good music. The bassline is complex and groovy but the guitarist is tapping and shredding like a madman.
-Yeah, that's funk metal.
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An acquired ability to decipher the lyrics of Metal singers without any trouble at all. Some Metalheads never acquire this ability, having to either resort to searching up the lyrics or making up their own. If you ask what the lyrics to a song are near a person with Metal Ear, you'll likely be regarded with disgust and maybe an exasperated answer.
Guy: Why are you even listening to this crap? I can't make out a word of it.
Metalhead: That's because you never listen to it, and you obviously don't have the Metal Ear.
Guy: You're lying, I bet you don't even know what they're saying.
Metalhead: Get out of my car. Now.