Metal

Metal is a genre the developed in the 1960's and 1970's in England and America, developing from Blues-Rocks but turning it into a thick and heavy sound with a lot of distortion turned up on amplifiers and lots of long and complicated Guitar solos and almost all drumming done with double bass pedals.


Early metal bands include Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Motorhead brought a mixture of punk into the genre. Metal was made big in England through the band Iron Maiden. Glam Metal was brought in with the famous band Motley Crue. Then there was Thrash Metal with the most likely the biggest band in metal ever Metallica another sub genre is Nu Metal, Rap Metal, Metalcore and Hardcore punk.


The fashion styles of metalheads (term for people like metal) is usually black and metal spikes, many tattoos and piercings. They have long hair so that they can head bang.


Recent successful metal bands are SlipknoT, Disturbed and Avenged Sevenfold. Metal Concerts tend to be very energetic with ruff Mosh pits and many stage-dives and crowd-surfing. SlipknoTs shows have been rated the most energetic shows in metal


SlipknoT - The Blister Excists Music Video

Alternative

Alternative rock came along during the 1980's and only really became famous in the 1990's. It was mostly all done on Independent record label until the 1990's because along came Nirvana with they're sub-genre of alternative.... Grunge.This genre became very popular in Manchester, England in 1990's.


In the USA they referred to alternative as college rock in the 1980's because it was constantly played on college radio stations. Alternative was directly connected to the Punk Scene, taking influence from British Punk bands like The Sex Pistols and The Clash


The music can differ from fast and ruff or slow and clean, lyrics often concentrate on drug use, envirment and life. Drums are played usually played in a 4:4 time sequence. The genre also employs a DIY (do it yourself) mentality.


The alternative genre started with bands like R.E.M and The Feelies but it was made famous in the 1990's by bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Red Hot Chili Peppers, but the genre went into decline after the death of Iconic Legend Kurt Cobain.


In the UK alternative received air time on BBC1 which gained them a lot of interest and in the US there was areas referred to as the Alternative Nation. in Europe they took a more heavy approach to alternative with bands like Rammsteine and The Crash test dummies
Kirt Cobain - Important in Grunge and Founding member on Nirvana



Cant Stop Video by The Red Hot Chili Peppers a breack through video in Funk

Celtic Punk

Celtic Punk is a Sub genre of Punk which combines Punk Rock and Traditional Celtic Irish music. The Genre arose in the 1980's in the London Underground Punk Scene with the band "The Pogues", they started the band to celebrate their Irish culture and play they're kind of music.


Celtic Punk band often cover old Traditional Irish Songs, examples are Flogging Molly Covered "Whats Left of the Flag" and Dropkick Murphys covered "Fields of Athenry". These songs are often more uptempo then the original versions and may have different lyrics slipped in.

The Main Themes of Celtic Punk are "the Irish diaspora, drinking, and working class pride. It is also used very often to spread political views.

The types of instruments used are Drums, Guitar and Bass, but along with that they use Acoustic Guitars, Violins, Banjo's, Acordians, Tin Wistle and fiddels. This style is very similar to Folk Punk.

Famous Celtic Punk Bands Include "Flogging Molly" from Los Angeles and Dublin, "Dropkick Murphys from Boston, Massachusetts, "For Blood and Wiskey" from Kildare, Ireland and "The Real Mckenzies" from Vancouver

The New Album Cover By Dropkick Murphys



Flogging Molly - Music Video

Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, Its origins comes from Reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American Jazz and rhythm and blues. Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the original Jamaican ska scene of the 1960s, the 2-tone ska revival that started in England in the late 1970s, and the third-wave ska movement, which started in the 1980s.

The origins of the word ska is believe to come from the sound the guitar makes when playing ska chords which sounds like "Skat, Skat, Skat". The music style often sounds happy and upbeat. Drums are played in a 4/4 time sequence. The guitar and drums are played off-beat to create a really unique sound. The dance style associated with ska is called "Skanking".

Skanking originated in Jamacian Dance Halls, The punk version features a sharp striking out look with the arms, and is sometimes used in moshing to knock around others doing the same.

2-Tone Ska arrived in Britain in the 1970's, bands like "The Specials" and "The Madness" raised interest in Ska and raise awareness to racial unity. The ska symbol was developed during this period which is a black and white checkerboard design.

Famous Ska Bands Include "Less Than Jake", "Rell Big Fish" and "Catch 22"

This is Streetlight Manifesto Live

Punk Rock!!!

Punk is a rock genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the UK and Australia. Punk embraces a DIY ethic, with many bands self-producing their recordings and distributing them through informal channels. In America an influential band was "The Ramones" from New York, In the U.K. "The Sex Pistols" became a huge success because of they're famous CD "Never Mind the Bollocks" which included songs such as "God Save the Queen" and "Anarchy in the U.K".

People who refer to themselves as "Punk Rockers" usually dress in Skate Clothing Brands or Leather Jackets and Straight leg Jeans, they usually have spiked or a Mohawk hairstyle that is often dyed different colours, they often have chains, studded belts and piercings and various band t-shirts are common.

In later years punk began to spread out into Sub-Genres such as Hardcore Punk, Skate Punk, Pop Punk, Ska Punk and Celtic Punk, Most of these developed in The U.S. When Punk Bands began to sign to Major Record Labels many bands disagreed stating that Punk was suppose to be independent an not enter mainstream in America, the most well know band to refuse to sign to a major label in NoFX who's lead singer, Fat Mike, started him own independent label "Fat Wreck Chords".

After "The Sex Pistols" came "The Clash" who again increased interest in punk in England which brought logos like this: (look Right).






A few years later punk went into decline and with the death of Sid Vicious (Bassist of the Sex Pistols)




Punk Revival began when albums like "...And Out Comes The Wolves by Rancid", "Punk in Drublic by NoFx" and "Smash by The Offspring".
NoFx Playing in 2002, they are still a very influential Independent Punk Act

Rancid - Root Radicals Live - an influential punk band

Introduction

This Blog has been created for my school environmental studies project.
it's based on different music genre's and will provide information about each genre, I will be updating it every week and anyone who happens to come by this blog ENJOY!!!!