heavy metal music

Heavy metal music is a genre of rock music characterized by loud, distorted electric guitars, emphatic rhythms, and aggressive vocals.

It emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s with bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.

The genre has spawned numerous subgenres—thrash metal, death metal, black metal—each with distinctive sounds and aesthetics.

She grew up listening to heavy metal.

Often shortened to heavy metal or simply metal.