First of all, Def Leppard started as heavy metal not too dissimilar from Iron Maiden, but already by the early eighties, their sound was turning softer and lighter, and by the time of their Hysteria album, their music had become poppy arena rock comparable to that of Toto, Survivor and Journey. Personally, though, I like both heavy metal and AOR.
Anyhow, by the mid seventies, most heavy metal acts that sprung up at the beginning of the decade had changed into prog or pop rock bands, or called it quits. Black Sabbath's best days were in the past and they were now limping on in a debilitating mist of drug and alcohol problems. However, future heavy metal star Judas Priest had established itself... as a competent but unimpressive blues/hard rock band whose debut album was a flop. Heavy metal was... dying. Meanwhile, the artistic pinnacle that was prog rock was becoming a banal parody of itself. Enter punk rock, a simple, fast, aggressive, raw, DIY type of rock. "That's a nice history lesson and all, but what has this got to do with heavy metal?" I hear you asking. Well, suffice to say, many small UK bands who performed in pubs (incidentally, taking cues from country, hard rock, and rock & roll to create a stripped-down genre known as pub rock), picked up this new "punk" sound and incorporated it into their own. However, pub rockers with one foot in heavy metal turned the slow and ponderous metal into fast and pounding metal. Thus, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal had begun!
This sounds an awful lot like the soliloquy that goes with the documentary titled A Metalhead's Journey. A fascinating documentary on the origins of metal, and all of its regional offspring.
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