Metal Roots - History of Heavy Metal. Metal Roots - History of Heavy Metal. The Metal Archives. Metal-Rules.com presents: the 100 best metal albums of all time! Top 25 Metal Albums - Music Feature at IGN. The origins of the term "heavy metal" have been contested for years, at least in respect to its relationship to modern music.
The term itself is of both chemical and metallurgical nature, used by chemists and the like for centuries. Those with strong literary ties will no doubt proffer up the indomitable William S. Burroughs who named a character in his cult classic The Soft Machine "Uranian Willy, the Heavy Metal Kid. " He furthered the term in Nova Express. Both books came out in the early '60s.
Top 200 albums. 25 Albums at the roots of Heavy Metal... See the definitive guide about Heavy Metal. History of Heavy Metal Music and the Metal Subculture. "Certain individuals I like, but people as a whole suck!
Nothing but talking monkeys with car keys. " - Kam Lee, Massacre Death metal existed without a name for many years, being influenced by both the extremes of speed metal (Destruction) and Thrash (Cryptic Slaughter), as well as carrying forward influences from hardcore (The Exploited) and Gothic influences to original heavy metal and industrial. Map of Metal.