Map of Metal

[MN Dave]

For those four or five other people on GMG. 

Use the navigation map in the upper right corner to move around the big map.

http://www.mapofmetal.com/#/home

[Philoctetes]

So rad. 

[Josquin des Prez]

Fascinating. Never knew Judas Priest were so ahead of their time. I listened to most of their albums in my younger days but i was never aware of the timeline. No Rainbow though, which is a grave omission to the genesis of metal.

[MN Dave]

Rainbow's on the Hard Rock playlist.

[Sergeant Rock]

Rainbow's on the Hard Rock playlist.

Blasphemy!

[MN Dave]

Not in my opinion. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Not in my opinion. 

Andy and I may be paying you a little visit 

[Josquin des Prez]

Rainbow's on the Hard Rock playlist.

Wrong! Its like they classified the entire band based only on Man of a Silver Mountain. They could have at least put this in the metal list:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ZfrCPKEqM

[MN Dave]

I think Priest were really the first band to sound "metallic" by dropping a lot of the blues influence.

[Josquin des Prez]

I think Priest were really the first band to sound "metallic" by dropping a lot of the blues influence.

You mean by dropping the blues as a genre. Blues influences have always been strong in metal, at least until the mid 90s. Significantly, guitar solos started to disappear the moment they took the blues out of the genre.

[MN Dave]

You mean by dropping the blues as a genre. Blues influences have always been strong in metal, at least until the mid 90s.

I guess I mean more drive, less groove.

[MN Dave]

I'm no expert like, say, Andy or Steve, but I consider this to be the first heavy metal album:

[MN Dave]

Nice. Thanks, James.

They group Rainbow with Priest under Power Metal on that one.

[Josquin des Prez]

I guess I mean more drive, less groove.

No, you had it right the first time. The difference is that earlier bands actually played the blues, where as latter bands used the tools of the blues (scales, chord progressions and so forth) to craft their own music. So you are correct in saying metal became true metal when those bands stopped playing the blues, but the influence of blues remained for a long while still.

[MN Dave]

Unlike metalheads, I'm sort of fussy about this stuff. There's basically Priest, then everything else.  So you could say I'm biased.

[MN Dave]

No prob. All those categories are kinda hokey & dumb .. but it has all of the 'big ones' in there. Have you seen the documentary it's from? Check it out if you haven't, even for a guy like me who isn't even into metal much at all i found it pretty entertaining.

Yes, sir. I saw it. Well worth a watch.

The best book on the subject I've read is this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Beast-Complete-Headbanging-History/dp/0380811278/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1292893647&sr=8-7

[greg]

Awesome idea.

Favorite tracks/categories on there (that I am already familiar with):
Neo-classical metal: Malmsteen- Icarus Dream Suite
Avant-garde: Meshuggah- New Millennium Cyanide Christ
Swedish death metal: Opeth- Blackwater Park, Black Rose Immortal
Drone metal: Sunn 0)))- It Took the Night to Believe
Tech Death: Necrophagist- Stabwound

Overall my favorite track of all, if I had to choose one, is probably still the Malmsteen Icarus Dream Suite. So much soul- it's overwhelming!

[Philoctetes]

No prob. All those categories are kinda hokey & dumb .. but it has all of the 'big ones' in there. Have you seen the documentary it's from? Check it out if you haven't, even for a guy like me who isn't even into metal much at all i found it pretty entertaining.

Here's a clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQJqZFUell8

The movie is super entertaining.

[Philoctetes]

Another fun clip from an interview with Varg talking about his muder of Oystein:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ah8sEG9YGo

[snyprrr]

Rainbow= Hard Rock

...runs and hides...
I'm sorry, but at this point in History I have to call Black Sabbath Hard Rock. Yea, I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is. Priest is still Metal because ,...well,...because, right?,...but...

AC/DC= Hard Rock

'80s Hair Band Metal is really just Hard Rock.

Guns'n'Roses= Hard Rock



Transiberian,... now therrre's Metal



Helloween!