(08-06-2012, 04:56 AM)Tusk Wrote: Lovinda, as a metal fan since the 80's (not so much nowadays) I have to wonder if Twisted Sister or Kiss, constitutes 'Metal'...)
Wonder no more Fine Sir
...Lovinda to the resue
A number of heavy metal genres have developed since the emergence of heavy metal (often shortened to metal) during the late 1960s and early 1970s. At times heavy metal genres may overlap or are difficult to distinguish, but they can be identified by a number of traits. They may differ in terms of: instrumentation, tempo, song structure, vocal style, lyrics, guitar playing style, drumming style, and so on.
Glam metal (also known as hair metal) is the term used to describe the visual style of certain heavy metal bands that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene. It was popular throughout the 1980s and briefly in the early 1990s, combining the flamboyant look of glam rock and playing a commercial hard rock/heavy metal musical style. "Hair bands" was the term popularized by MTV in the 1990s and derives from the tendency among glam metal acts to style their long hair in a teased-up fashion. Many of the bands donned make-up to achieve an androgynous look, similar to that of some 1970s glam rock acts.
Kiss, Mötley Crüe, Poison and Twisted Sister are examples of metal bands who adopted the glam metal look in their stage attire and their music video imagery.
As for Kiss, there have no doubt been more talented metal bands over the history of metal, but few have been as influential. Kiss is a pioneer and charter member in the Metal Hall of Fame because they took the metal genre from cult status to mass, world appeal. Rock music fan or not, everybody has at least heard of Kiss. And I'm not a huge Kiss fan, but I do like a few of their songs.
MTVNews.com: The Greatest Metal Bands Of All Time (Kiss is number 9)
Metal Genres:
1. Alternative metal
2. Avant-garde metal
3. Black metal - Derivatives of black metal
Symphonic black metal
Viking metal
4. Cello metal
5. Christian metal - Derivatives of Christian metal
Unblack metal
6. Crust punk
7. Death metal - Derivatives of death metal
Death 'n' roll
Melodic death metal
Technical death metal
8. Doom metal - Derivatives of doom metal
Funeral doom
Death/doom
Drone metal
Sludge metal
9. Extreme metal
10. Folk metal - Derivatives of folk metal
Celtic metal
Medieval metal
Pagan metal
11. Funk metal
12. Glam metal
13. Gothic metal
14. Grindcore - Derivatives of grindcore
Deathgrind
Goregrind
15. Groove metal
16. Grunge
17. Industrial metal
18. Metalcore - Derivatives of metalcore
Deathcore
Mathcore
Nintendocore
19. Neo-classical metal
20. Nu metal
21. Post-metal
22. Power metal
23. Progressive metal - Derivatives of progressive metal
Djent
24. Rap metal
25. Speed metal
26. Stoner rock
27. Symphonic metal
28. Thrash metal - Derivatives of thrash metal
Crossover thrash
Teutonic thrash metal
29. Traditional heavy metal
PS. Bear in mind also that those videos I posted were in reply to Tower of Power and Pat Boone videos. I actually almost posted that Ozzy "Crazy Train" video as the "peace offering", but I remembered that John was "bored with Black Sabbath", and Ozzy hit too close to that (besides, the videos I posted seemed more in line with the gay trail we were on). But most of all, I thought all you men might enjoy the bare-breasted blonde in that Kiss video a bit more than another clip of maniac Oz.
