Good morning to our lecturer and my fellow friends. Today, I’m going to inform you about my favourite music genre, the heavy metal or metal. I’ll talk about its origin, characteristics and its evolvement. I am pretty sure that all of you are not fans of heavy metal. Perhaps, some of you did not even heard of it. Heavy metal , often referred to as metal , is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s with roots in blues rock and psychedelic rock. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are often associated with masculinity, aggression and machismo. Heavy metal is one of the most misunderstood genres of music in our day. Rather unfortunately, this is often a result of brazen ignorance about the subject, brought about by certain sectors of the media and society but still metal has outlasted many other rock genres.
Heavy metal started its origin in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath have been considered as the pioneer of heavy metal music. Heavy metal acts always attracted large audiences, though they were often derided by critics, a status common throughout the history of heavy metal music. In the mid-1970s Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence. Motorhead in the other hand introduced a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. Bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Iron Maiden and Saxon followed in a similar vein. Before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as "metalheads" or "headbangers".
Heavy metal is traditionally characterized by loud distorted guitars, emphatic rhythms, dense bass-and-drum sound, and vigorous vocals. The electric guitar and the sonic power that it projects through amplification has historically been the key element in heavy metal. The essence of metal drumming is creating a loud, constant beat for the band.. The prominent role of the bass is also key to the metal