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Originally Posted by Wpnfire
EDIT: Why we're talking about this, I still don't understand why people use 'heavy metal' exclusively to describe 'classic,' or 'proto' metal like Black Sabbath or NWOBHM bands, and if it were up to me, we would just call those traditional metal bands (or NWOBHM) and 'heavy metal' could return to being used for the entire genre.
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Because "NWOBHM" doesn't describe all "heavy metal". It certainly doesn't describe Black Sabbath. It's just a "word" used to describe one single movement in one single part of the world during one short time. It doesn't even technically describe a musical genre, just the movement.