Saturday, November 14, 2009

Introduction

Greetings.

My name (For now) is M. Blayde and I'm the blogger of 'Lucifer's Gold,' which specializes in power, thrash, and speed metal. There will be updates at least once a week, which will feature metal in these fusions, and surely it'll be joyful (At least to me).

Heavy metal has come a long way. Its roots come from various sources, including blues music from artists such as Muddy Waters. With this, areas like England created pioneer "metal" bands such as Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, and the like coming with American "metal" bands such as Led Zeppelin.

In the '80s, heavy metal was limited to the mainstream audiences with glam-rock like Motley Crüe and surely New-Wave-of-British-Heavy-Metal (We'll get to that) and punk rock seemed to fit like peas and carrots and thrash born was basically born out of rebellion. Still popular today, thrash metal is fast, relentless, "good friendly violent fun" dealing with politics, issues in life, and various other subjects.

New-Wave-of-British-Heavy-Metal (NWOBHM) seemed to have a powerful impact in the Germany scene of metal, which led to the birth of power metal. With melody and lyrics pertaining to struggles, hopes, and often positive messages (Which generally weren't related to Christianity, however) this fusion has been around for quite sometime and doesn't seem to be leaving anytime soon either.

With NWOBHM in the scene creating these fusions, surely speed metal came in the picture with precision. Actually, this was in formation at the same time as thrash. But regardless, speed metal was easily extremely popular in the '80s and doesn't seem to be as active in this decade as the other two fusions (Heavily thrash).

Hopefully, you'll be able to find a gem you might like out of these three fusions when this blog becomes up-and-running. If not, well . . . you're on your own.

Thanks for reading!

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