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Originally Posted by CHCl3
Wow, I did some extra research online and you're right. I wonder why a lot of places still say that they are a metal band? A band should be classified as it wants to be classified even if others may have a different idea of things.
My bad.  |
1970s style of heavy metal most notably represented by Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Motorhead (you could include Venom here, but everything they did was done by Motorhead except the explicit and repetitive occult imagery). Consequently, it embraced dark imagery, with Iron Maiden taking on occult topics, Motorhead wearing Iron Crosses (a symbol of the defeated National Socialist regime in Germany). Alone this would be cause enough to say metal was divergent from rock of the time.