Here are some classifications from the All Music Guide (AMG).
Tool
"Opiate" - Heavy Metal, Alternative Metal
"Undertow" - Heavy Metal, Alternative Metal, Progressive Metal
"Aenima" - Heavy Metal, Alternative Metal, Progressive Metal
"Lateralus" - Heavy Metal, Alternative Metal
"10000 Days" - Heavy Metal, Alternative Metal, Progressive Metal, Experimental Metal,
Experimatal Rock
Question:
Do you see any reference to 'rock' of any kind, eg. hard rock, alt rock, prog rock, ....,
(not counting their last album)?
A Perfect Circle
"Emotive" - Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Metal, Post-Grunge
Soundgarden
"Superunknown" - Alternative Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal, Grunge, Alternative Metal
Scorpions
.... Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Hair Metal, Arena Rock, Album Rock
Dio
"Holy Diver" - Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Pop-Metal
Rainbow
"Long Live rock 'n' Roll" - Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Skid Row
... Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Pop-Metal
Judas Priest
"Priest LIve", "British Steel", ....,
Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal, New Wave British Metal
So, even Judas priest is 'contaminated' with Hard Rock.
This is well-known.
Queensryche
- 'contaminated' with rock -
See my previous post .
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Obviously the AMG is not the bible.
It depends on the ratios, eg: hard rock to heavy metal.
For instance 70% Heavy Metal to 30% Hard Rock
(Of course those are just random numbers -
How would we measure 70% and 30%?)
You will never see Iron Maiden's, Pantera's or Black Sabbath's
(with Dio, but not with Ozzy) music
blended with any kind of rock, eg. hard rock.
So Heavy Metal
purists (compare them to true audiophiles in the audio world)
would say:
The only
pure Heavy Metal bands on the poll are:
Iron Maiden, Pantera and Black Sabbath (with Dio).
Now, if you relax a 'purity' criteria, you (and I) would gladly add Judas Priest
and Queensryche to the list.
Further relaxation of our criterias would also include the Metal Hybrids mentioned above.
Embedded Poll
To what extent is Judas priest a heavy Metal Band?
- 100% Heavy Metal (0% Hard Rock) Pure Heavy Metal
- 90% Heavy Metal & 10% Hard Rock
- 80% Heavy Metal & 20% Hard Rock
- 70% Heavy Metal & 30% Hard Rock
- other
Heavy Metal Purists (eg Extreme metal fans) would never vote "100% Heavy Metal"!
(The numbers above 90%, 80%, ... serve only as an illustration
and should not be taken seriously!)
Anyway, what matters is
music, beer
and
P.S.
I am editing this post today because I forgot to include "Experimatal Rock"
with Tool's "10,000 Days".