Led Zepplin

By the end of the 1970’s, the harbingers of Heavy Metal were gone due to their own substance abuse from their respective tours. John “Ozzy” Osbourne, the lead singer of Black Sabbath cut away from the band because of differences occurring due to the band’s musical inconsistency resulting from drug use. Drummer John Bonham of Led Zeppelin died from years of alcoholism and the band immediately called it quits.

The 1980’s had soon begun. And with it came the birth of a new era in Heavy Metal. Some of the music was very heavy and fast, like Motorhead, Judas Priest, and

Iron Maiden, but some was very different. Perhaps no one had ever expected heavy metal music to ever appear onto pop charts. But the 1980’s glam rock metal movement did just that. And invasion of almost identically sounding rock bands all dove for a piece of the pie in the 80’s. Such bands included Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, the Scorpions, Poison, and Motely Crue. These bands wrote sappy love ballads and wore clothing that appealed to a wider audience, especially a female audience. Their success spanned a wide variety of popular music fans, ultimately leaving most to believe that they were more of the pop genre than a crossover heavy metal genre.

At the beginning of the 21st century, heavy metal is still a real form of music, but it is found mostly in clubs with the birth of hardcore music, which resulted from punk and metal. But hardcore, does display the simple format created in the 1970’s. Metal is also still alive in large capacity shows, but these bands are veteran rocks acts who have gained years worth of fans in order to fill the arenas. Bands like Tool, which consists of four instrumental virtuosos, and Pantera are the newest metal bands filling arenas. But with continuing tours of Slayer, Megadeth, and Sepulutura, along with the recent reformation of Black Sabbath, heavy metal is alive and well. Over a tremendous span of over thirty years, bands like Black Sabbath can see what they created in new heavy metal bands today. Like the name of a song from the great Led Zeppelin, “The Song Remains the Same.”

At the beginning of the 1990’s, metal was going down th

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