why the word "metal" is a way to label the music we listen to?

[Ecto]

better, i would like to know why we all know this recipe (distorted guitars, bass, drums...) as "metal". Why metal (from heavy metal and other metals: back, power, melodic...)? What's is the point, the deal with this word? Why this kind of music is labeled as metal? Who came up with this?

 

[veil the sky]

i know

a music journalist (a famous one apparently but i forgot his name) once described the guitar work of jimmy page, after having seen a led zepplin concert, as sounding like heavy metal falling from the skies.

it's true you know

 

[enigma_nocurnus]

I heard once that the term comes loosley from describing the equipment one has to lug around from gig to gig when you play in such a band. i.e, guitar rigs e.t.c.

 

[veil the sky]

hehe true

 

[Lion in a Cage]

It hits you hard and it doesnt break...

 

[Russell]

Originally posted by veil the sky
i know

a music journalist (a famous one apparently but i forgot his name) once described the guitar work of jimmy page, after having seen a led zepplin concert, as sounding like heavy metal falling from the skies.

it's true you know

I heard exactly the same, except that it was said about Jimmi Hendrix Whether I'm right or not is another matter

 

[Izzy Junior]

Cause it is, heh. Why do they call blues blues? Why do they call jazz jazz? Why do they call funk funk? It just sounds like the right word to describe it I guess. It doesn't matter. Just listen, and bang your head!

 

[DigestingGandhi]

Originally posted by veil the sky
i know

a music journalist (a famous one apparently but i forgot his name) once described the guitar work of jimmy page, after having seen a led zepplin concert, as sounding like heavy metal falling from the skies.

it's true you know

His name was Allan Freed. Oneof my college courses is the history and sociology of rock music, we just talked about that last week.

 

[IanDork107]

It's just metal. There's more than likely some way that it came to be, but to me, it's just metal. I mean, I don't think we'd all have been so inclined to check it out were it called butt noise. lol...my favorite is black butt noise, but I'm also quite fond of melodic butt noise, and death butt noise isnt bad either....

 

[Ecto]

THANKS DUDES FOR THE ANSWERS!

 

[Draconamis]

If I remeber correctly, they (whoever they are....Judas Priest people on the Metal Works tape I believe) say the term Metal came from the fact that the sounds from the Metal Foundries in the Midlands in Britian were the inspiration for the style of music.
Loud, Heavy, and screaming...or something to that effect.

 

[Mosh Kosh]

black butt noise? Nah man, pregressive butt is teh best!

 

[Cows on million man march]

i tend to favor the melodic black butt, but that thrash butt is also really cool.