Music Magazine | The Story of Metal Volume 1 Third Revised Edition
Welcome to the The Old Testament, the first in a two-part history of metal, in all its complicated, daft and terrifying glory. Complicated? Well, metal you see, all started with Eddie Cochran, but it didn’t really exist until NWOBHM. Hot Chocolate made one of the early metal classics, but punk helped
define it. Bon Jovi and Ratt stretched the definition of genre to breaking point – and made millions doing so. Grunge didn’t kill metal – it saved it. Goth was a key influence on metal’s future – and so was hip-hop. The story of metal has taken many twists
and turns over the years. This first volume takes us from metal’s beginnings up to its mainstream peak around 1984. Volume 2 will pick up the story from the backlash to that mainstream success – thrash metal, Guns N’ Roses – via alt.metal, nu metal and the many amazing sub-genres that make up the metal scene today. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Here are metal’s first thrilling footsteps…
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Music Magazine The Story of Metal Volume 1 Third Revised Edition.