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Monarchy is one of the oldest forms of government, with echoes in the leadership of tribal chiefs.
Since 1800, several monarchies have been abolished, due to the great influence of the ideas brought by the French Revolution and the invasions that occurred in the Napoleonic Wars, and, most of the nations that maintain it, are constitutional monarchies. Among the few states that maintain aspects of absolute monarchy are Brunei, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Essuatini and the Vatican. The monarch also maintains considerable power in Jordan and Morocco. The most recent nation to abolish its monarchy was Nepal, which became a republic in 2008.
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Monarchies existed among the indigenous peoples of the Americas, long before European colonization.
Titles used in the New World included Cacique (in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico) Tlatoani (in the Aztec Empire), Ajaw (in the Mayan Empire), Inca (in the Inca Empire), Morubixaba (in the ancient Tupi language to designate the "Chief") and many others.
The Age of Discovery and European colonization brought extensive territory to European monarchs. Some colonies broke with their empires and declared independence (such as the United States in the American Revolution and the Spanish-American wars of independence in Latin America). Canada and other British colonies in America became autonomous, remaining under the British monarchy in the domain of the British Commonwealth or as overseas territories until the 1931 edition of the Westminster Statute, a fact that united the former colonies with the United Kingdom via Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Other monarchical states have also emerged. Agustín de Iturbide declared himself Emperor of Mexico, in 1822, after the independence of New Spain. Maximiliano of Mexico ruled as Mexican emperor from 1863 to 1867 until he was executed by a military coup.
Two members of the Casa de Bragança, Pedro I and Pedro II, governed Brazil as emperors, from 1822 to 1889, separating themselves from the Portuguese Empire, until the Military Coup of 15 November 1889 that implanted the Republic of Brazil.
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Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a rock genre that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock (psychedelic, in European Portuguese), the bands that created heavy metal developed a massive and full-bodied sound, characterized by a saturated and distorted timbre of the amplifiers, by the bass guitar strings for the creation riffs and the exploration of sonorities in minor tones, giving a somber air to the compositions. Allmusic claims that "of all rock 'n' roll formats, heavy metal is the most extreme form in terms of volume and theatricality". The first heavy metal bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath attracted a great public, although they are often scorned by critics, a common fact throughout the history of the genre. In the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped drive the evolution of the genre by suppressing much of the influence of the existing blues; Motörhead introduced the sensibility of punk rock and an increasing emphasis on speed. New Wave bands of British Heavy Metal like Iron Maiden and Saxon followed suit.
During the 1980s, glam metal became a commercial force with groups like Mötley Crüe and Poison. The underground produced more extreme scenes and aggressive styles: thrash metal invaded the mainstream bringing bands like Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer to light, while other even heavier styles like death metal and black metal remained as phenomena of the metal subculture . Since the mid-1990s, popular styles like metal groove (eg Pantera) combining extreme metal with hardcore punk, and nu metal (eg Korn), which incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop, have helped to expand the definition of gender.
While the typical guitar style of heavy metal, built around heavy and distorted riffs and chords, may have its origins found in the instrumentals of the American Link Wray, in the late 1950s, the direct lineage of the genre begins in the middle of following decade. American blues became a major influence for the early musicians of the genre in Britain, and bands like the Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds developed blues-rock, recording covers of many classic blues songs, often speeding up their tempo. As they experimented with music, these British bands influenced by the blues - and the American bands they influenced as a result - developed what would later become the hallmark of heavy metal, especially the loud and distorted sound of the guitar. Kinks played a crucial role in popularizing this sound in their 1964 hit, "You Really Got Me". A significant contribution to this emerging guitar sound was feedback, a phenomenon facilitated by a new generation of amplifiers that was emerging. In addition to Dave Davies of Kinks, other guitarists, such as Pete Townshend (The Who) and Jeff Beck (Tridents), experimented with feedback. While the blues-rock drum style consisted, in most bands, of simple beats, shuffle, in small kits, the drummers gradually began to use more vigorous, complex and amplified techniques, to match and be heard before the louder and louder guitar sound. The vocalists also started to modify, in the same way, their technique, increasing their dependence on amplification, and often making their performance more stylized and dramatic. In terms of volume, especially in live performances, the posture of the British band The Who and their "Marshalls wall" was seminal. Simultaneous advances in amplification and recording technology have made it possible to successfully capture the weight of this emerging approach on disk. The combination of blues-rock and psychedelic rock formed much of the original base of heavy metal. One of the most influential bands in this genre fusion was the power trio Cream, which formed a characteristic, heavy and massive sound, through unison riffs played by guitarist Eric Clapton and bassist Jack Bruce, as well as the extensive use of Ginger drums. Baker. His first two LPs, Fresh Cream (1966) and Disraeli Gears (1967), are considered essential prototypes of the future style. Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut album, Are You Experienced (1967), was also extremely influential. Hendrix's virtuosic technique would be emulated by many metal guitarists, and the album's most successful single, "Purple Haze", is identified by many as the first hit of the genre. Acid rock bands, a strand of psychedelic rock, helped define heavy metal; and the bands of the genre that did not cease to exist ended up becoming heavy metal bands, such as Blue Cheer and Steppenwolf.
Origins: late 1960s and early 1970s
In 1968 the sound that would become known as heavy metal started to coalesce. In January of that year Blue Cheer, a band from San Francisco, California, released a cover of Eddie Cochran's classic, "Summertime Blues", taken from their debut album, Vincebus Eruptum - a song that many consider the first legitimate heavy metal recording. . That same month another American band, Steppenwolf, released their debut album, which contained the classic "Born to Be Wild", whose lyrics refer to and the term "heavy metal". In July of that year, two other epoch-making recordings were released: "Think About It", by Yardbirds - side B of the band's last single - with a performance by guitarist Jimmy Page that anticipated the metal style that would make him famous; and Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, with its 17-minute title track, one of the main contenders for the title of first heavy metal album. In August, the single version of The Beatles' "Revolution", with its reverberating drums and guitar, took these new distortion patterns into a high-selling context.
The Jeff Beck Group, whose leader had been Page's predecessor in the Yardbirds, released their debut album that same month; Truth contained some of the "most melted, barbed and absolutely fun noises of all time", paving the way for generations of guitarists of the genre. In October Page's new band, Led Zeppelin, played for the first time live. In November, Love Sculpture, by guitarist Dave Edmunds, released Blues Helping, where they interpreted an aggressive and pulsating version of "Saber Dance", by Armenian classical music composer Aram Khachaturian. The so-called White Album of the Beatles came out in the same month, and contained "Helter Skelter", one of the heaviest songs ever released by a band so far. The rock opera S.F. Sorrow, by the English band The Pretty Things, was released in December, and featured songs from "proto-heavy metal" such as "Old Man Going."
Robert Plant, lead singer of Led Zeppelin
In January 1969 Led Zeppelin released its eponymous debut album, which reached 10th place on the chart of American Billboard magazine. In July, Led Zeppelin and a power trio inspired by Cream, but with a more raw sound, the Grand Funk Railroad, played at the Atlanta Pop Festival. That same month another trio with roots in Cream, led by Leslie West, released Mountain - an album filled with heavy blues-rock guitars and roaring vocals. In August, the group - now called Mountain - played an hour-long set at the Woodstock Festival. Grand Funk's debut album, On Time, also came out in the same month. In the fall the Led Zeppelin II album reached number one, and their single "Whole Lotta Love" reached number four on the Billboard pop chart.
Led Zeppelin defined central aspects of the emerging genre, with Page's highly distorted guitar style, and Robert Plant's dramatic and whining vocals. According to Allmusic, Led Zeppelin was the definitive band of the genre, not only for its aggressive and heavy interpretation of the blues, but also for incorporating mythology, mysticism and a variety of other genres into its sound. In doing so, they would have established the dominant format of the genre. Other bands, with a more "pure" metal sound, more consistently heavy, would also prove to be equally important in the genre's coding. The 1970 releases of Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath and Paranoid) and Deep Purple (In Rock) were crucial at this point. Black Sabbath had developed a particularly heavy sound, partly due to an industrial accident that guitarist Tony Iommi had suffered before he co-founded the band, and injured his hand; unable to play his instrument normally, Iommi had to use lower pitches on his guitar, so that his fingers could reach the desired notes, and used power chords, which required simpler fingering. Deep Purple, which had fluctuated between different styles at the beginning, was taken to heavy metal, with the entry, in 1969, of vocalist Ian Gillan and guitarist Richie Blackmore. In 1970 Black Sabbath and Deep Purple achieved great success on the British charts with "Paranoid" and "Black Night", respectively. That same year, three other British bands released debut albums in the style: Uriah Heep, with Very 'eavy… Very' umble, UFO, with UFO 1, and Black Widow, with Sacrifice. Wishbone Ash, while not commonly identified as metal, introduced a double guitar-solo / base-guitar style that many metal bands from later generations would adopt, while the band Budgie brought the new metal sound into a power trio context. . The occult lyrics and imagery employed by bands like Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep and Black Widow would prove to be particularly influential; Led Zeppelin also started experimenting with these elements on its fourth album, released in 1971. On the other side of the Atlantic, the Grand Funk Railroad was the driving force, "the most successful heavy metal band in the United States from 1970 until its end, in 1976, [they] established the success formula of the 1970s: continuous tours. " Other bands identified with metal appeared in the United States, such as Dust (first LP in 1971), Blue Öyster Cult (1972), and Kiss (1974). In Germany, the Scorpions debuted with Lonesome Crow in 1972. Richie Blackmore, who had emerged as a virtuoso soloist in Deep Purple's Machine Head (1972), he left the group in 1975 to form Rainbow. These bands have built their audience through constant tours, and increasingly elaborate shows. As mentioned earlier, however, there is still a lot of debate about which bands really deserve the "heavy metal" label, and which only fall into the "hard rock" category. Those who are closer to the roots of the style, in the blues, or who place greater emphasis on the melody, usually receive the second categorization. AC / DC, which debuted with High Voltage in 1976, is an example; his entry in Rolling Stone's 1983 encyclopedia begins with "Australian heavy metal band AC / DC ..." Rock historian Clinton Walker wrote that "calling AC / DC a heavy metal band in the 1970s was so little accurate as it is today .... [They] were a rock 'n' roll band that just happened to be heavy enough for metal. The issue involves not only constantly changing definitions, but also a permanent distinction between style musical and audience identification; Ian Christe describes how the band "became the ladder that led large numbers of hard rock fans to the downfall of heavy metal." In certain cases, there is already greater agreement. After Black Sabbath, the main An example is the British band Judas Priest, who debuted with Rocka Rolla in 1974 and would become one of the most influential bands in the genre.
“Black Sabbath's audience was… watching ships, looking for sounds with a similar impact. In the mid-1970s, the aesthetics of heavy metal could be identified, as a mythical creature, in the temperamental bass and complex double guitars of Thin Lizzy, in Alice Cooper's theatricality, in the strident guitars and on Queen's displayed vocals, and on Rainbow's thunderous medieval issues .... Judas Priest has arrived to unify and amplify all these different characteristics of the hard rock sound palette. For the first time heavy metal became a real genre in itself. "
Although Judas Priest was unable to put an album in the United States' Top 40 until 1980, for many it was the definitive post-Sabbath heavy metal band; his double attack on the guitar, with fast movements and a metallic sound, cleaner and without influences from the blues, became a great influence on the artists who followed the band. As heavy metal grew in popularity, most critics did not seem to have fallen in love with music; raised objections to the style's adoption of visual spectacles and other commercial artifices, but the main offense seemed to be its supposed musical void, and in its lyrics: when criticizing a Black Sabbath album in the early 1970s, leading critic Robert Christgau described it as "an amoral, foolish ... boring and decadent exploration".
Mainstream: late 1970s and 1980s
Iron Maiden, one of the central bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement
Sales of heavy metal records declined dramatically in the late 1970s, losing space to punk rock, disco and other types of rock. With the major record labels set on punk, many new British heavy metal bands were influenced by aggressive movements, high energy sounds and a low fidelity and "do it yourself" trend. Underground metal bands began to emerge with recordings made independently and cheaply for small audiences. Motörhead, founded in 1975, was the first major band to be in an intermediate position between punk and metal. With the explosion of punk in 1977, other bands followed the same line. It didn't take long before British music newspapers like NME and Sounds became aware of what was named by Geoff Barton as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement (NWOBHM, which included bands like Iron Maiden, Saxon and Def Leppard, gave a new energy load to the genre. Following the example of Judas Priest and Motörhead, the heavy metal bands have hardened their sounds, reducing the elements of the blues and putting tempo faster and faster. In 1980, NWOBHM invaded the mainstream, with albums from Iron Maiden and Saxon, as well as Motörhead, reaching the top 10 of the British charts. Although less commercially successful, other NWOBHM bands such as Venom and Diamond Head, also had a significant influence on the development of the metal. In 1981, Motörhead became the first band of this new generation to reach the top of the UK charts with No Sleep 'til Hammersmith.
Cronos with the band Venom, that had great influence on the extreme metal
Meanwhile, the first heavy metal bands were losing the limelight. Deep Purple had ended Ritchie Blackmore's departure in 1975, and Led Zeppelin dissolved after the death of aviator John Bonham in 1980. Black Sabbath was constantly overshadowed by the band that opened their shows, Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen has established himself as one of the best guitarists of his time - his solo on "Eruption" on the Van Halen album is considered a milestone. Randy Rhoads and Yngwie Malmsteen were also noted guitarists for their skill, associated with what would be known as neoclassical metal. The insertion of an element of classical music had started with Blackmore and Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth; this new generation occasionally made use of the classical guitar (acoustic guitar), as Rhoads did on Blizzard of Ozz's "Dee" (1980), the first solo album by former Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne.
Inspired by the success of Van Halen, another strand of metal began to develop in Southern California in the late 1970s. Coming from the Sunset Strip clubs in Los Angeles, bands like Quiet Riot, Ratt, Mötley Crüe and W.A.S.P. were influenced by traditional heavy metal from the early 1970s, incorporating the glam rock theatrical performances (sometimes with makeup) of bands like Alice Cooper and Kiss. The lyrics of these glam rock bands usually emphasized hedonism and wild behavior. Musically, the style was distinguished by the fast shred guitar solos and a relatively pop melodic approach. The movement of glam metal - along with similar styles, like that of the New York band Twisted Sister - has become a major force on the rock spectrum.
Along the lines of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, Judas Priest launched British Steel (1980) while heavy metal became increasingly popular in the early 1980s. Many artists of the genre have benefited from MTV exposure since 1981 - the sales often skyrocketed when the bands' music videos were shown on the channel. Def Leppard's videos for the album Pyromania (1983) helped the band achieve superstars status in the United States and Quiet Riot became the first national heavy metal band to top the Billboard chart with Metal Health (1983) . The metal's popularity already allowed participation in large events, such as the 1983 US Festival in California, which featured Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen, Scorpions, Mötley Crüe and Judas Priest, on the so-called "metal day". In Brazil, Rock in Rio in 1985, had several important names of the metal of the time. Between 1983 and 1984, heavy metal went from 8% to a 20% share of all recordings sold in the United States. Several professional magazines dedicated to the genre have been launched, such as Kerrang! (in 1981) and Metal Hammer (in 1984), as well as a number of fan publications. In 1985, Billboard stated: "Metal has broadened its audience base. Metal music is no longer the exclusive domain of male teenagers. The metal audience has grown older (in college age), young (pre adolescent) and more feminine.
In the mid-1980s, glam metal was a dominant presence on US charts, on music channels and on concert hall programming. New bands, such as Warrant Californians and East Coast bands like Poison and Cinderella, were hugely successful, while Mötley Crüe and Ratt remained popular. Filling the gap between hard rock and glam metal, New Jersey's Bon Jovi achieved enormous success with their third album, Slippery When Wet (1986). The similar style of the Swedish band Europe made them reach the top of the international charts, with the album The Final Countdown (1986). Their title track became a number 1 hit in 25 countries. In 1987, the program Headbangers Ball premiered on MTV, dedicated exclusively to heavy metal music videos. However, the metal audience began to divide and many began to favor more underground and heavy styles, discrediting the most popular styles such as "light metal" or "hair metal". One band that reached several audiences was Guns N ' Roses. In contrast to their Los Angeles glam metal counterparts, they were seen as a cruder and heavier band. With the release of their debut album, Appetite for Destruction (1987) they managed to reinvent the Sunset Strip style almost alone for several years. The following year, Jane's Addiction emerged from the same scene as the Los Angeles hard rock clubs, with their famous album Nothing's Shocking. In reviewing the album, Rolling Stone stated: "Jane's Addiction are the true heirs of Led Zeppelin." The group was the first to be identified as "alternative metal", a trend that would surface in the next decade. Meanwhile, new bands such as New York's Winger and New Jersey's Skid Row supported the popularity of glam metal.
1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010
Most of the heavy metal subgenres developed in the 1980s, outside the commercial mainstream. Critic Garry Sharpe-Young, author of a multivolume encyclopedia about metal, separates the underground genre into five major categories: thrash metal, death metal, black metal, power metal and the subgenres related to doom and gothic metal.
Thrash metal
The thrash metal band Slayer, playing live in 2007
Thrash metal emerged in the early 1980s, influenced by hardcore punk and New Wave of British Heavy Metal, particularly in the more fast-paced songs known as speed metal. The movement started in the United States with the Bay Area trash metal. The sound developed by the thrash groups was faster and more aggressive than that of the original metal bands, the low riffs are typically accompanied by shred conductions. The lyrics often express nihilistic views or deal with social issues, using visceral and aggressive language. Thrash is sometimes described as "the music of urban decay. The subgenre was popularized by the" Big Four of Thrash ": Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer. Three German bands, Kreator, Sodom and Destruction, played a crucial role in the genre for Europe. Others, like the Californians from the San Francisco do Testament and Exodus region, the New Jersey Overkill and the Minas Gerais Sepultura, also had a significant impact. Even though thrash started as an underground scene - and remained so for the most part for almost a decade - the main bands of the movement were already beginning to reach a wider audience.Metallica reached the top 40 of the Billboard charts with Master of Puppets (1986); two years later, the album ... And Justice for All reached sixth place, while Megadeth and Anthrax managed to reach the top 40.
Although less commercially successful than the rest of the Big Four, Slayer was responsible for the album considered the definitive genre: Reign in Blood (1986). Kerrang! described it as "the heaviest album of all time". Two decades later, Metal Hammer named it "the best album of the last twenty years". The album, which was better produced than its predecessors, took Slayer to a new level within the metal scene, helping to popularize the subgenre and influencing future groups of extreme metal. In the early 1990s, thrash reached its peak of success, challenging and redefining the metal mainstream. In 1991, Metallica with its self-titled album (known to many as Black Album), reached the top of the Billboard charts, due to their departure from thrash and approaching more classic heavy metal. Megadeth with Countdown to Extinction (1992) reached the second position, and Anthrax and Slayer reached the top 10. More regional bands, such as Testament and Sepultura managed to reach the top 100.
Death metal
Chuck Schuldiner of the band Death is "widely recognized as the father of death metal".
Thrash has evolved and divided into other types of extreme metal. According to MTV News, "Slayer's music was directly responsible for the rise of death metal." NWOBHM's Venom band was also an important parent. The death metal movement in North America and Europe adopted elements of blasphemy and diabolism. The band Death of Florida and Possessed of the Bay Area are recognized as the seminal bands of the style, both are credited as inspiration for the creation of the name of this subgenre, Death by its name itself and Possessed by the song called "Death Metal" from Seven Churches album (1986).
Death metal uses the speed and aggressiveness of thrash and hardcore, fused with lyrics inspired by slasher films, violence and Satanism. Vocals are generally somber, involving guttural vocals, shrill screams and other unusual techniques. Complementing the aggressive vocals, highly distorted guitars and extremely fast percussions are used, often in the metranca pattern. Frequent changes of tempo and time signature are also widely used.
Death metal fans and groups, as well as thrash metal fans, generally reject the theatricality of previous metal styles. But this rule has exceptions, like Glen Benton of Deicide who used to wear an inverted cross on his forehead and armor during his performances.
Deicide, Morbid Angel, Death and Obituary were the greatest precursors to the death metal scene that emerged in Florida in the mid-1980s. In the UK, the related style known as grindcore was led by bands such as Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror , emerging from anarcopunk.
Black metal
Ruins of the wooden church of Fantoft, cover of EP Aske (1992), from Burzum. Despite denying it, Varg Vikernes is accused of burning three churches in Norway. Other fires are also associated with members of groups or people close to the "black metal" environment
The first wave of black metal started in Europe in the mid-1980s, led by Britons from Venom, Mercyful Fate from Denmark, Hellhammer and Celtic Frost from Switzerland and Bathory from Sweden. At the end of the decade, Norwegian bands like Mayhem and Burzum led the second wave. Black metal varies considerably in style and quality of production, but most bands use high-pitched and guttural vocals, highly distorted guitars played with fast tremolo picking, "dark" atmosphere in songs and recordings in intentional low fidelity, with background noise. Satanic themes are commonly associated with black metal (although many groups deny relationship), many bands are also inspired by ancient paganism, promoting a return to pre-Christian values. Many black metal bands "experience all possible forms of metal, folk, classical, electronic and avant-garde music. Drummer Fenriz of Darkthrone explains:" It had something to do with the production, the lyrics, the way in which they wore and the commitment to make ugly, raw and dark material. It was not a generic sound. "In the 1990s, Mayhem members regularly used corpse paint (" corpse paint ") in their performances; several other black metal bands also adopted this look. Bathory was the leading band in the Viking movements. metal and folk metal, and Immortal was the one who brought blast beats to the fore. Some Scandinavian black metal bands and fans from the early 1990s were associated with major acts of violence, such as the arson attacks on churches in that region. death metal commercials also bothered; according to Gaahl, a former Gorgoroth singer, "black metal was never meant to reach an audience ... [We] had a common enemy, which was Christianity, socialism and everything democracy represents. "
In 1992, the black metal scene began to emerge in areas outside Scandinavia, such as Germany, France and Poland. In 1993, the murder of Euronymous, by Mayhem by Varg Vikernes from Burzum was widely commented on by the media. Around 1996, when many considered that the movement was stagnant, several bands of the style, like Burzum, started to explore ambient music, while bands like Swedes from Tiamat and Swiss from Samael played the so-called melodic black metal. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Dimmu Borgir Norwegians brought black metal closer to the mainstream, as well as Cradle of Filth, which according to Metal Hammer is the most successful English band since Iron Maiden.
Power metal
Helloween, one of the main bands responsible for the development of power metal
The power metal scene emerged during the mid-1980s, largely as a reaction to the harshness of death and black metal. Despite being relatively little known in North America, it is quite popular in Europe, Japan and South America. Power metal focuses on optimistic and epic themes, which "appeal to the listener for the senses of value and beauty." The prototype of the style began in the mid-1980s with the Germans of Helloween, who joined energetic riffs, melodic and strident approach, and "clean" vocals like the bands Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, combined with the energy and speed of thrash metal , "crystallizing the sound ingredients of what is now known as power metal." Traditional power metal bands, such as the Swedes from HammerFall, the English from DragonForce and the Americans from Iced Earth, have a sound clearly inspired by the NWOBHM style. Various power metal bands, such as Kamelot from the United States, Nightwish from Finland and Rhapsody of Fire from Italy, are characterized by the so-called symphonic power metal, which uses the sound of the keyboard as a base and sometimes even orchestral elements.
Power metal has built a strong fan base in Japan and South America, where Brazilian bands, such as São Paulo from Angra and Argentines, such as Rata Blanca from Buenos Aires are quite popular.
Progressive metal is a style related to power metal that takes a complex approach in the compositions of bands like Rush and King Crimson. This style emerged in the United States in the mid-1980s, with bands such as Queensrÿche, Fates Warning and Dream Theater. The mix between power metal and progressive is characterized by the New Jersey band Symphony X, whose guitarist Michael Romeo is one of the most recognized shredders of recent years.
Doom and gothic metal
Candlemass, one of the main bands responsible for the development of doom metal
The doom metal movement emerged in the mid-1980s, with bands such as the Californians from Saint Vitus, The Obsessed from Maryland, Trouble from Chicago and Candlemass from Sweden, rejecting the emphasis on speed (usual in other metal genres) and opting for much slower songs. Doom metal traces its roots to the lyrical themes and musical approach of the beginning of Black Sabbath. The Melvins also had a significant influence on doom metal and countless subgenres. The doom is characterized by times and melody in melancholy rhythm with a sepulchral climate compared to other metal genres.
In 1991, the band Cathedral helped unleash a new wave of doom metal, with their debut album Forest of Equilibrium. During the same period, the death / doom metal fusion genre of British bands Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema, gave rise to European gothic metal, which is characterized by using double vocals. Influential bands of the style include the Theater of Tragedy and Tristania from Norway, and Type O Negative from New York. The latter was responsible for introducing him to the United States.
In the late 1980s, sludge metal emerged in the United States, mixing doom and hardcore - Eyehategod and Crowbar were the most influential bands in the great sludge scene that took place in Louisiana. In the beginning of the following decade, California's Kyuss and Sleep led the rise of stoner metal, inspired by previous doom metal bands. Meanwhile, in Seattle, Earth helped to develop the metal drone subgenre. In the late 1990s, new bands appeared with the classic stoner / doom sound, such as Los Angeles' Goatsnake and Sunn O))), which also mix doom, drone and dark ambient - a sound that the New York Times compared to "Indian raga in the middle of an earthquake."
1990s and early 2000s
Layne Staley from Alice in Chains, one of the most popular and identifiable bands in alternative metal, photo presentation in 1992
The era of the mainstream metal in North America came to an end with the beginning of the 1990s, giving rise to the emergence of grunge bands, such as Nirvana, signaling the advance in the popularity of alternative rock. Grunge was influenced by the sound of heavy metal, but it rejected the sonorous excesses of the most popular metal bands.
Glam metal has completely lost its popularity not only due to the success of grunge, but also because of the growing popularity of more aggressive sounds, like Metallica, and post-thrash metal groove, with that of Pantera and White Zombie. Contrary to the trend, some metal bands achieved commercial success during the first half of the decade - Pantera's Far Beyond Driven (1994) peaked on the Billboard charts that year - however, "in the boring eyes of the mainstream the metal was dead ". Some bands tried to adapt to the new music scene. Metallica, for example, renewed its image: the band members changed their look and cut their hair, and in 1996 they headed Lollapalooza, an alternative rock festival created by Perry Farrell, lead singer of Jane's Addiction. Despite this provoking a negative reaction from longtime fans, Metallica remained one of the most successful bands in the world during the new century. Like Jane's Addiction, many of the most popular groups of the 1990s with roots in heavy metal were framed under the term "alternative metal". Bands in the Seattle grunge scene, such as Soundgarden, are credited with creating "a place for heavy metal in alternative rock", with Alice in Chains at the center of this movement. This designation was applied to a series of other acts that fused metal with other styles: Faith No More combined its alternative rock with punk, funk, metal and hip hop; Primus brought together elements of funk, punk, thrash metal and experimental music; Tool combined metal with progressive rock; bands like Fear Factory, Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, started to incorporate metal into their industrial sound, and vice versa; Marilyn Manson followed a similar path, while employing features that had already been popularized by Alice Cooper. Alternative metal artists, despite not representing a concrete music scene, had in common the desire to experiment with the metal genre and its rejection of the aesthetics of glam metal (with scenarios such as Marilyn Manson and White Zombie - also identified as metal) alternative - being significant, even with partial exceptions). The combination of styles and sounds of alternative metal represented "the picturesque results of metal opening up to face the outside world."
Slipknot, one of the main and most extreme nu metal bands
From the mid to the late 1990s, a new wave of metal bands emerged in the United States, which took alternative metal and its mix of genres as inspiration. The bare metal of bands like Slipknot, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, P.O.D., Korn and Disturbed, incorporated elements ranging from death metal to hip hop, often including DJ and rap-style vocals. The nu metal gained mainstream through a major rotation on MTV and the introduction of Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzfest in 1996, which prompted the media to comment on a possible resurgence of heavy metal. In 1999, Billboard recorded that there were more than 500 metal radio programs in the US, almost three times more than ten years earlier. But even with the popular nude metal, fans of traditional metal don't embrace totally style. In early 2003, the movement's popularity was already declining despite the fact that several bands, such as System of a Down, continued to accumulate significant numbers of followers.
The metal became popular again in the 2000s, mainly in Continental Europe. In the new millennium, Scandinavia has emerged as an area that produces innovative and successful bands, while Belgium, the Netherlands and especially Germany, were the most important markets. Continental bands were established that placed several albums in the top 20 of the German charts between 2003 and 2008, as the Finnish band Children of Bodom, the Norwegians of Dimmu Borgir, the Germans of the Blind Guardian] and Swedes of HammerFall. In the 2000s there was also a resurgence of the thrash metal scene.
Bullet for My Valentine, one of the main metalcore bands
Metalcore, a hybrid of extreme metal and hardcore punk, emerged with great commercial strength in the mid-2000s. This style is rooted in a crossed thrash style, developed two decades earlier by bands such as Suicidal Tendencies, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Stormtroopers of Death. In the 1990s, metalcore was mostly an underground phenomenon; early style bands include Earth Crisis, Converge, Hatebreed and Shai Hulud. In 2004, melodic metalcore - influenced by melodic death metal - became popular enough that albums like The End of Heartache by Killswitch Engage and The War Within by Shadows Fall, reached the twenty-first and twenty positions, respectively, in the Billboard charts. Fever, the Welsh band's third studio album Bullet for My Valentine, debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and at number one on the rock and alternative charts of Billboard magazine, becoming the band's record to date. In recent years, metalcore bands have received prominent tracks at Ozzfest and Download Festival.
In the 2000s, metalcore genres such as mathcore were also associated with the scene, which features complex, progressive and technical musical structures, with strong influences from jazz, represented by bands such as Converge, Protest the Hero and The Dillinger Escape Plan, and deathcore, a hybrid of metalcore with death metal and hardcore punk, by bands like Bring Me the Horizon, Carnifex and Suicide Silence.
In 2006, the groove metal band Lamb of God, reached the top 10 of Billboard, with the album Sacrament. The success of these and other bands, such as the Trivium that features thrash characteristics and Mastodon that has a progressive sludge style, inspired a metal revival in the United States that was called by several critics "New Wave of American Metal".
The term "retro-metal" is applied to bands like Australians from Wolfmother and Airbourne. The self-titled debut album released in 2005 by the band Wolfmother has elements clearly inspired by bands such as Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. The song "Woman", track on the album, won the Best Hard Rock Performance award at the 49th Grammy Awards in 2007. In the same year, Slayer won the Best Metal Performance award with "Eyes of the Insane" and the following year won again with "Final Six". Metallica won the award in 2009, with "My Apocalypse".
Decade of 2010
In that decade of 2010 there was the emergence and development of a new genre and a new metal scene, respectively named by Djent. A genre in which it features excessive palm mute riffs that are strongly dissonant and distorted, performed in constant mishap and even in polyrhythm, as well as an ambient sound. In Djent it is common to use guitars with seven, eight, and even nine strings. Among some of the main bands of this emerging genre and scene are After the Burial (currently), Animals as Leaders, Born of Osiris (currently), Meshuggah (currently, this being a precursor band of the genre), Monuments, Periphery (currently), TesseracT (also a precursor of the genre), The Contortionist, Uneven Structure and Vildhjarta.
Originally, epic is the name of a traditional genre of poetry, known as epic poetry. However, nowadays the term is also used in other types of artistic expression, such as novels, plays, music and films, where the story focuses on heroic characters, and the action takes place on a large scale, as in epic poetry. . Epics in this sense are majestic depictions capable of capturing astonishing struggles, such as war stories, adventures, and other far-reaching efforts over extended periods of time. The stories of heroic characters drawn from real life have also been referred to as epics. Examples of notable epics include Ernest Shackleton's adventures in Antarctic exploration and historical novels such as War and Peace.
The term epic is used to designate a sub-genre of progressive rock, epic rock O.
It can also be used for compositions that receive other types of rhythmic influences, and in this case, the concept is subjective, as there are several and different influences, ranging from orchestral, classical and symphonic music; to electronics.
Generally, the so-called epic songs are soundtracks of films and trailers of the same, with original compositions, called, in English, Scores, and in theory, they should convey feelings inserted in the context of the respective scene of the film / trailer. Usually these compositions are signed by a famous composer, with the use of orchestras and musical choirs being common. It is difficult to find a composer who produces both the film's track and the respective trailers, as there are already specific companies and groups to deal with this type of music production.
A note: Not every soundtrack is an original film track, or OST (Original Sound-Track), since there are several films whose tracks are composed of existing songs, and not composed especially for the cinematographic work.
Most of the cinematographic genres which have original and "epic" compositions are those of Adventure, Suspense, Fiction, among others.
While the film tracks are generally commercialized, the trailer compositions are not found in the physical market (stores), but are available for digital download (paid) on the websites of their creators. It is more common, however, to find such soundtracks on music sharing websites. Even so, it is an unusual and singular genre, to say the least, still not widely accessed by the general public.
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By: Roberto Barros