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Originally Posted by VocalsBass
Good insight! ^, Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, or crossing between, the genres. Hard Rock is a derivative to Heavy Metal.
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Anybody into 80`s metal, would probably like all of those above groups, as they were all pretty much influential on the metal scene at that time.
Another way of looking at it is the British and American models of what was heavy metal as they were very different:
British-Leather, chains, denim, satanic messages, sword & scorcery etc and shaking your fist at the audience (Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Rainbow despite having an American vocalist)
American- Glam, make-up, theatrical, glamouros as opposed to glam and more open to pop elements (Kiss, Alice Cooper, Van Halen)
Even the so called American version of Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult were really just in essence a hard rock biker band, but because they sang about dark musings etc they got labelled metal or proto-metal.