METAL BANDS HISTORY

Original movement: 1967-1979

In the late 1960s a number of bands began pushing the limits of blues-rock into a new genre which would be called heavy metal.^[1][2] By the early eighties the heavy metal genre began a slow division into various sub-genre categories to better describe the stylistic differences that were growing out of the original heavy metal movement. And by the end of the 1970s many of the earliest heavy metal bands had long since disbanded. Some of the bands included in the original movement were:

• AC/DC
• AEROSMITH
• JEFF BECK
• ALICE CHOPPER
• BLACK SABBATH
• BLACK WIDOW
• BLOOD ROCK
• BLUE CHEER
• BLUE OYSTER CULT
• CACTUS
• DEEP PURPLE
• KISS
• MONTROSE
• UFO
• RUSH
• RAINBOW

Since the 1970s, many subgenres and movements have emerged, playing their own interpretation of "heavy metal", these can vary greatly.