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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg
Yeah I know all that but the polished quality is not what makes me not consider Queensryche metal. They just seem like really good hard rock to me.
For that matter, so does Van Halen. And I hate Def Leppard, although I wouldn't consider them metal either.
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I can see where you`re coming from here and I`d say especially in the 70`s heavy metal and hard rock were often synonymous which each other. One still blues influenced and the other supposedly far less so, but I`d say that was a very basic way of assessing it and there were other factors at work here as well.
Van Halen are a great example really of the above, they were metal in demeanour but had real pop sensibilities and a glam approach which put them in the rock camp, which made them very different to their British NWOBHM counterparts of which DEF Leppard were actually one. DEF Leppard just went down the Van Halen path, rather than staying with the rawer metal that they started out with.