GENRE · KNOWLEDGE GUIDE
Heavy Metal
- Genre family
- Metal
- Starting recordings
- 7
ORIGIN · SOUND · PEOPLE
Meet Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal is a branch of the Metal family, with its own performance and recording traditions.
The clearest way to understand Heavy Metal is to hear how its rhythm, timbre and performance language change across artists and recordings.
Begin with Epica, Machinae Supremacy and Mille Petrozza.
GENRE FAMILY
Its place in the genre family
Parent genreMetal
Current genreHeavy Metal
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Continental Europe · Heavy Metal
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ESSENTIAL LISTENING
7 recordingsStart with these recordings
01Let There Be Night2018 · Metal · heavy metalOpen in new tab 02Amen & Attack2018 · Metal · heavy metalOpen in new tab 03Overworld2011 · Metal · heavy metalOpen in new tab 04The Evil Made Me Do It2018 · Metal · heavy metalOpen in new tab 05Sacred & Wild2018 · Metal · heavy metalOpen in new tab 06Resurrection by Erection2018 · Metal · heavy metalOpen in new tab 07We Drink Your Blood2018 · Metal · heavy metalOpen in new tab
KEY ARTISTS
Key artists
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