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Old 12-04-2014, 01:06 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Heavy metal to me is NWBHM, the old school metal. It's a subgenre of the mother genre of Metal.
Just like Melodic death metal, folk metal, etc.
I wouldn't describe the NWOBHM as a sub-genre, as it encompassed too many bands and two many diverse types of music within some of those bands. The ten years or so before the NWOBHM bands had displayed elements of what was metal, some more so than others, whereas in the NWOBHM everything came together and finally created a metal genre. It was after the fall of the NWOBHM around 1983 that all these metal sub-genres started to pop up and everything became more specialized.
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