Well i have to write a paper on the top ten metal moments in my own words. I consider myself a fan of metal but i am 19 so i missed out on most everything that made metal what it is today. I have tried doing some research but keep drawing blanks. I know vh1 had a special about top 100 most metal moments but i am unable to find it on their website.
The paper is supposed to include theatrical (on and off stage) and musical moments that were very influential to metal.
Top ten? Seems like a lot if it’s only limited to metal instead of rock too.
Dimebag Darrell getting his face shot off. RIP
Metallica’s bus crash killing Cliff Burton. RIP
James Hetfield getting burned I guess.
Ozzy biting the bat. Of course.
Edit: NVM, it says “very influential”, these are just tragic or dumb.
Pretty dumb list though. I would say most influential modern moment would be Metallica’s One video receiving airplay and subsequently the Black Album’s video and Billboard success.
Faith No More’s video for “Epic” getting tons of criticism for having a live fish flopping around on the ground at the end. Not sure if they were fined or not, but I remember it making the news.
All of this does help actually. With these “moments” i could argue the point on how they have giving metal a bad reputation. Now i just have to find some others to argue the exact opposite point lol.
Thanks everyone.
I really like the metallic album going to number one, that was when they were still young and new right??
Cannibal Corpse being banned/prevented from playing certain songs and selling certain albums in Germany.
Anything on Norwegian Black Metal, just youtube that and you’ll have enough for 3 papers. Including the murder/suicide with Mayhem, Gaahl from Gorgoroth (probably the scariest person I’ve seen). Century old churches being torched.
…And Justice for All was their 4th album, had been around for about 5-6 years at that time. Black Album was after that. So they had established themselves very well at that time with “Kill em All”, “Ride the Lightning” and “Master of Puppets”.
Cliff Burton’s death and how they bounced back afterward with the addition of Jason Newsted is something worth mentioning about the bands success.
from everything i find, Black Sabbath is the cause of distorted guitars.
This was because there guitarist had a finger injury so they slowed the tempo down and he slide his fingers more creating the distorted sound.
Metallica was one of the leading bands to bring Speed/Thrash metal to the forefront of the 80’s tho i believe.