Recent content by Ron Schaub Studios

Hello all... New member here and just wanted to say hello. Growing up in the 80s, I was a huge fan of the hard rock and heavy metal we now refer to as hair metal, glam, 80s rock, etc. Great White, Ratt, Scorpions, Whitesnake, Motley Crue, Guns n Roses, Ozzy, and more. We called it all metal...

Today we have black metal, death metal, and all sorts of offshoots of the 80s speed metal and thrash I mentioned, none of which is melodic or anything remotely close to 70s and 80s rock or what we all called Heavy Metal back then. It's just screaming and growling and guttural sounds and noise...

70s metal in my opinion would be Deep Purple, Led Zepplin, Kiss, Aerosmith, and Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, though some of those are sometimes considered classic rock or hard rock by others. These were the forerunners to 80s metal though, including hair metal and glam and harder rock / heavy...