sexta-feira, 18 de junho de 2010

History of the band Metallica:


Metallica: Metallica is an American heavy metal band formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich placed an ad in the Recycler in Los Angeles, Metallica's original line consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, lead guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist Ron McGovney. The latter Kirk Hammett and Cliff Burton respectively. In September 1986, the band's tour bus lost control and flipped, which resuted in Burton being crushed under the bus and killed. Jason Newsted left the band in 2001 and was replaced by Robert Trujillo in 2003.
Metallica's early releases included fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship that placed them as one of the "Big Four" of thrash metal subgenre alongside Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. The band earned a growing fan base in the albums of thrash metal's most influential and "heavy". The band a achieved substantial commercial success with their self-titled album in 1991 which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Some critics and fans believed the band's musical style has changed direction to appealto the mainstream audience.

History of the band Guns N' Roses:


Guns N' Roses: Guns n' Roses is a hard rock band American band formed in Los Angelesm California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through several lineup changes amd controversy since its inception. Guns N' Roses released six studio albums, threee EP, a live album and three music video DVDs during its carrer. The band's latest album Chinese Democracy is released in 2008 and working with new bands first since 1993.
His most successful songs are "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradide City", "Do not Cry", "Sweet Child O'Mine", "Patience"m "November Rain" which reached the top 10 of Billboard. In ots new phase there are the songs "Chinese Democracy", "Street Of Dreams", "This I Love" and "Better" singles from the album "Chinese Democracy", and "Shackler's Revenge" which came out in the game Rock Band 2.
The band has sold over 100 milion copies worldwide, with about 43 milion U.S. only. Their debut album in 1987, Appetite for Destruction has sold 40 milion copies worldwide, 23 milion in the RIAA(Recording Industry Association of America).

History of the band Iron Maiden:


Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band, formed in 1975 by bassist Steve Harris, former member of the bands Gypsy's, Kiss and Smiler. Originally from London, was one of the leading bands of the musical movement that became a known as NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The name "Iron Mainden" was inspired by a medieval instrument of torture in the film The Man in the Iron Mask. This was also the nickname of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who appears on the covers of compact "Women in Uniform" and "Sanctuary."
With pver three decadas of existence, fourteen studio videos, the Iron Maiden is one of the most important and successful bands in the history of heavy metal, having sold 230 milion albums reported around the world. His work has influenced many rock and metal. They are cited as an influence by bands like Hazy Hamlet, Anthrax, Angra, Metallica, Helloween, Death, Megadeth, Dream Theater and Mystery, among many others.

quinta-feira, 17 de junho de 2010

History of the Heavy Metal:


Where does the Heavy Metal ?



Heavy Metal is genre of rock music that developedin the late 1960s and early 1970s, in large partly in England and the United States. As having the bluesroots rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created the genre developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by high ampligied distortion, extended guitar solos, and emphatic beats. The Allmusic states that "of all formats of rock 'n' roll, heavy metal is the most extreme in terms of volume, machismo, and theatricality."



Who introduced the Heavy Metal ? And who made it known ?



The fist heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple attracted large audiences, a common attribute in the entire history of the genre. In the mid- 1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by removing much of the blues influence in this fist generation of British metal, Motörhead indroduced the aggression and anger in the voice, influence punk rock, and an increasing emphasis on speed. Bans of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Iron Maiden followed suit. Before the end of the decade, heavy metal had attracted a following of fans worldwide known as "metalheads" or "headbangers" and as "metallica", althoungh within the realm of heavy metal subculture or the term is considered derogatory and quite repudiated by most aonnoisseurs of the genre.



Bands, Singers and Successes of Heavy Metal:



Alice Cooper, Black Label Society, Def Leppard, Guns N'roses, Heaven and Hell, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Kiss, Loudness, Queen, Mötley Crüe, Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford, James Hetfield, Motörhead, Cliff Burton, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Whom Dickie Peterson, W.A.S.P. and Ozzy Osbourne.



Some songs of Heavy Metal:



'Paranoid', 'Fairies Wer Boots', 'War Pigs', 'Hand of Doom, '2 Minutes to Midnight', 'Rime of Ancient Mariner', ' The Wizard', 'The Conjurung', 'Five Magics', ' Dreamer Deceiver', 'Peace Sells', 'Helter Skelter' and 'Whole Lotta Love'