by Shiju Varghese » Tue Jan 29, 2002 12:30 am
hmm, I don\'t know the kind of music I listen to is dark but I am definitely sure it is heavy metal. It is very wrong to make heavy metal synonymous to dark music. To be very sure I did some research and found out that there are other kinds of music which can be put under heavy metal. For instance general metal, glam metal, death metal and .... To me heavy metal is some kind of hard rock which I think is a style of rock n\' roll characterized by amplified sound and other electronic modulations. And this is what it makes heavy metal and we guys dies for it. If few rock groups have used this music to symbolise death then we have the right to call them death metal but it is just one of the taxonomy of heavy metal, not heavy metal in itself. Hence darkness and death is not the ideology behind heavy metal.