Heavy ≠ metal.
Plenty of hardcore bands have taken influence from metal, but punk and hardcore have influenced metal much more. When punk came around, metal was Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and 70s Judas Priest. Then the punks came along and BOOM! you have Iron Maiden (first two albums, totally), thrash, death metal, etc. All of that evolved because of punk and hardcore. If you hear a metal song played with speed and/or aggression, then dollars to donuts it's because somewhere down the line some yahoo with a mullet in the 80's thought Bad Brains was cool.
So, if you're going to use influence to classify a genre, then most post-70's metal is punk.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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