PUNK ROCK
- Developed between 1976 and 1979 in the United States, and United Kingdom. By Late 1976, bands such as the Ramones, Sex Pistols and The Clash
- Punk rock songs tend to be shorter than those of other popular genres
- Power tab guitar
- Bass guitar lines are often uncomplicated, used pick
- Drums typically sound heavy and dry
- The vocals sound nasal
- Lyrical theme is expressing youthful rebellion and anti-authoritarian ideologies
- They created fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics
- Subgenre :
- Post Punk (1977) England : tended to be less pop and more dark and abrasive sometimes verging on the atonal. -Joy Division, The Fall, and Magazine, Gang of Four, and London's The Raincoats
- Hardcore (1978) United States : A distinctive style of punk, characterized by superfast, aggressive beats, screaming vocals, and often politically aware lyrics. -Middle Class and Black Flag, Bad Brains
- Pop punk : Combine elements of punk rock with pop music
Punk fashion usually dirty and simple clotes, jeans, leather jacket, spiky hairstyles, jewelry, and body modifications of the punk subculture.
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HEAVY METAL
- In the late of 1960s and early 1970 Heavy Metal was born by bands such us Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.
- They carried the music fast
- Loud distorted guitars
- Emphatic rhythms
- Dense bass, tremolo bass
- Dense drum, double beat bass drum
- Vocalist sometime growl, scream, grunt
- Keyboard instruments are sometimes used to enhance the fullness of the sound
- Lyrical theme is about dark, and depression
- Famous subgenres is :
- Thrash Metal (early 1980s) : faster and more aggressive, Low-register guitar riffs are typically, Lyrics often express nihilistic. -Megadeth, Slayer, Exodus, Pantera, and Metallica
- Black Metal (mid-1980s) : shrieked and growled vocals, highly distorted guitars, rapid tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, vocalist is shrieks, growl, screams and snarls. And the lyric theme is Satanism, atheism, and paganism. -Venom, Hellhammer, Bathory
- Death Metal (mid-1980s) : heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, vocals are roars, grunts, snarls. Lyrical theme often violence. -Carnage, God Macabre, Entombed
- Gothic Metal (Early 1990s) : add keyboard to create more of dark atmosphere. , usually have 2 vocalist, the man is growl, and the woman is scream. - Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema
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- Metal songs is heavier than Punk.
- Faster than Punk
- Theme of Metal is about darkness
- Punk is rebellion