Classic metal
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Traditional heavy metal - also known as classic metal, trad metal - or simply heavy metal, is the seminal subgenre of heavy metal music before the genre "evolved and splintered into many different styles and subgenres."
Heavy metal sound is in many cases similar to that of hard rock, but on the new scale. It is characterized by mid-to-fast-tempo "gallop" riff, guitar solos, usually high-pitched vocals.
Heavy metal bands tend to sing about war, horror fiction and heavy metal music itself. War...
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