1. History of Metal Music
The 1970s ushered in a new wave of counterculture with the rise of harder rock and heavy metal music. ... Rock bands like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin had already gained airplay on the radio, and were considered innovators in the movement of hard rock, as well as towards heavy metal. ... Hardcore punk gained traction as it was ironically perceived that punk music at that time was becoming too mainstream, and broke off as it own subgenre and subculture, in a direct response to the direction of punk, as well as the socially conservative political climate that dominated the 1980s in both the Unit...
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