Top 10 Similarities Between Hard Rock and Heavy Metal
This comparison is based on the most typical cases in these genres and most obvious tendencies. I know that there are exceptions but I’m not interested in them now.Currently I am a metal fan but before metal I was into hard rock.
Hard rock bands: AC/DC, Queen, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Whitesnake, and many more.
I also made a list “Top 10 Differences Between Hard Rock And Heavy Metal”.
Hard Rock and Heavy Metal are different but similar - one of the reasons metal fans usually like hard rock, too.
Electric guitars, bass, drums and sometimes a keyboard instrument (hence - similar sound). If you don’t know that hard rock is blues based and metal - classical based, you can easily confuse these 2 genres.
Some classic rock bands are hard rock bands
Aerosmith and AC/DC are certainly louder than The Beatles. Metal is louder, too.
In this regard Deep Purple is a very unique early band - they experimented in both genres. They wrote faster and heavier songs based on classical (metal) and songs based on blues (hard rock).
Usually 4-5 members.
Screams in metal are part of the artform and singers’ vocal skills. There are even Top Ten lists about the best and longest screams in metal. But Steven Tyler and Robert Plant are hard rock singers who also scream a lot. Ian Gillan of Deep Purple is known for his crafted screams on both metal and hard rock songs.
You can have complex guitar solos in Hard Rock, they're not really like metal guitar solos, but if you look at the right guitarists, there is some gold.
This is not really a good item some lyrics from hard rock or metal are not meaningful and some from other genres are also things like long hair and leather are kind of silly. If a bands members don't do this it does not make the band any less a metal or hard rock band.
It's pretty nice how much thoughts
are given to the lyrics. Here's a tip:
Just don't listen to the magical music
which is given you also take the booklet
&read the lyrics. They are most of the
time well thought.
From "the visitor"
In metal Judas Priest and Manowar are the most typical cases. I don’t think Metallica, Megadeth and Iron Maiden can be associated with that. Currently I listen to metal bands that never wore leather. Probably things in metal changed a lot since the 70s-80s.
Same opinion.
Metallica was more into denim.
Early Slayer into leather.
No. Breakdowns are only in some metal subgenres.
Usually from 1.0 mm to 1.5 mm. I started with 0.8 mm pick. And it seemed quite thick to me, moved back to.67 mm pick. The fact is that thinner picks sound more gentle than thicker picks. Maybe that the reason why a lot of hard rock and heavy metal guitarists use thick picks.
What qualifies as "Hard Rock"? What qualifies as "Metal"? Was Nirvana Hard Rock? Was Motorhead metal? What was the first metal song? Is The Who an early Hard Rock band? Where do we draw the line? Is there overlapping?
I think Metal_Treasure will have to agree that both genre spark long-drawn arguments when you try to categorize a band. It seems to be something that definitely matters to you.