What? Metal? ( Archived) (147)

Who really knows the roots of true metal? Who really started the Metal decade? Just wanna see if you know.

Or if you have anything you wanna say about the music it's self

African roots.Tribal...The list of pioneers is long...As I go, I'll do more. Got lots of windows open, lol.

I put what I'm listening to in another thread...

Will be interesting

Actually I was talking about the modern roots of 70"s metal...say like Sabbath and AC/DC...Stuff like that

Yeah, I know, sheesh:P

But, it all comes from an origin...beat...as you know...

Stevie Ray Vaughn, T bone, Zeplin, Hedrix(genius)..

KISS,DEEP PURPLE,OZZY and JUDAS PRIEST.BLUE OYSTER CULT,APRIL WINE. the list goes on but i do believe LED ZEP and JIMI HENDRIX set the standard.

The first generation after WWII created early proto-metal in a time when all older knowledge and social order was being overturned in the wake of an impulse to redesign the world to avoid the "evils" of the previous generation. The people of this age, and coming ages, were new in that they could not recall a time of direct experience of nature as necessary; the grocery stores, modern medicine and industrial economies of their time took care of all of their needs, and no unbroken natural world could any longer be found except on specialty tours. Their civilization had become exclusively introspective and was losing contact with the (natural) world beyond its self-defined boundaries.
Early metal bands, in emulation of popular music as a whole, hoped to discover what was real by finding out first what was not. This attitude, over the course of four generations of music, took metal beyond the grounds of "good" versus "evil" into nihilism, where nothing had inherent value or classification, but could be described in terms of experience.

Nihilism is a frightening belief system for those in societies organized by dualistic (heaven versus earth) and liberal (individualistic, egalitarian) societies, as it denies that our values systems are more real than events in natural reality. To a nihilist, truth is a way we describe some things in reality, but there is no eternal life nor eternal truth which exists separate from immortality. Nihilism means accepting mortality, and experience as what we have in place of a religious or moral truth.

Early metal bands, in emulation of popular music as a whole, hoped to discover what was real by finding out first what was not. This attitude, over the course of four generations of music, took metal beyond the grounds of "good" versus "evil" into nihilism, where nothing had inherent value or classification, but could be described in terms of experience.

will that do ???


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