Desafio: About the Heavy Metal

The Heavy Metal started in the end of the 60s and in the start of the 70s at the Uk and in the USA. Having as roots the blues-rock and the psychedelic rock, the bands that started with the genre developed a thick sound characterized for high distortions, long guitar soils and emphatics beats.

Judas Priest in a show                                                            Black Sabbath

The first bands of heavy metal, like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple attracted big audience, a commom atribute in all history of the genre. In the middle of the 70s, the band Judas Priest helped to boost the evolution of the genre suppressing much of the influence of the blues, presence in the first generation of the british metal. The Motörhead introduced aggressiviness and fury on the vocals, influenced by the punk rock. Bands of the "New Wave of British Heavy Metal", like Iron Maiden,followed the same line.

Iron Maiden in a show

Here is the video of the music Breaking The Law by Judas Priest: