The New Metal

Metal was nearly declared dead in the late 1980s.It was then when it all started again.Metal had lost its popularity.There were still a few metal bands that were doing really well but they still couldn't uplift its popularity among the people like those olden times.The band that actually saved  metal was Pantera.Pantera was something that really drove people crazy.They were the best of their generation.They were somehow unstoppable.People really seemed to like them.Their tracks are considered to be some of the best in Metal History.The band was originally named Pantera's Metal Magic and was consisted of Donnie Hart on vocals, Dimebag Darrell (then known as Diamond Darell) and Pat on guitar, Tommy Bradford on bass, and Vinnie Paul on drums. In 1982, the band was renamed Pantera in order to shorten the name and to settle an agreement between all band members. Hart left the band because he didnt agree with the bands' ethics and Glaze became the group's vocalist, leaving Darrell as the sole guitarist. Later that year Bradford also departed and was replaced by Rex Brown (then known as Rexx Rocker). Pantera became an underground favorite, though its regional tours in this era never took them beyond Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana

The Old Metal

Olden metal music had got popular thanks to some old bands like Led Zeppelin,Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath.These bands were really making people bang their heads.People seemed to enjoy listening to their music a lot.Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in 1968, consisting of Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals, harmonica), John Paul Jones (bass guitar, keyboards, mandolin), and John Bonham (drums). With their heavy, guitar-driven blues-rock sound, Led Zeppelin are regularly cited as one of the progenitors of heavy metal and hard rock. However, the band's individualistic style drew from many sources and transcends any one music genre.The amazing vocal of Robert Plant and the charismatic guitar playing of Jimmy Page seemed to attract people a lot.Led Zeppelin was one of the most popular metal bands in those olden times.
                    Black Sabbath are an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne (lead vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass guitar), and Bill Ward (drums). The band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of twenty-two musicians have at one time been members of Black Sabbath. Originally formed as a heavy blues-rock band named Earth, the band began incorporating occult- and horror-inspired lyrics with tuned-down guitars, changing their name to Black Sabbath and achieving multiple platinum records in the 1970s. Despite an association with occult and horror themes, Black Sabbath also composed songs dealing with social and political issues such as drugs and war.


As one of the first and most influential heavy metal bands of all time, Black Sabbath helped define the genre with releases such as quadruple-platinum Paranoid, released in 1970. They were ranked by MTV as the "Greatest Metal Band" of all time,and placed second in VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" list, behind Led Zeppelin.They have sold over 15 million records in the United States alone.Rolling Stone has posited the band as 'the heavy-metal kings of the '70s'.They have sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

Metal Music

Metal is a genre of rock music that was developed in the late 1960s.Those days it was mostly popular in the United States and in the United Kingdom.Unlike before,these days it is popular in many places around the world.Metal has created its seperate identity in music as a "Headbanger's Music".When you are into metal then all you know is shredding your guitar and banging your heads irrespective of what others may think about your behaviour.The sound of the heavily distorted guitars,the double bass drums and the lion's roar-like vocals just makes you shake terribly.Its the kind of music which just proves the other genres of music "lame"and "slow" ahead of it.The early bands which made metal popular are Led Zeppelin,Black Sabbath and Deep Purple.Since then metal has made its way through the hearts and minds of many peoples in a couple of decades.Even now metal continues to reign as people bang their heads on the tracks of Pantera,Metallica,Megadeth,Children of Bodom and many more.Metal music has rocked the concert stadiums like nothing else has.When you are in a metal concert then all you know is to bang your heads and throw yourselves into others.Broken noses,swollen eyes and some crazy pushings are what you get in a metal concert.If you are a parent then you definitely don't want your children to go to a metal concert.Despite all these things that seem violent,insane and "not human",metal has still been able to maintain its identity as a popular music.