Schwermetallanalysen: Die musikalische Sprache des Heavy Metal

The attraction of heavy metal has gone unbroken for 40 years. 'Metal', despite, or perhaps because of, its often ambivalent reputation, represents a global phenomenon, at the heart of which is a love of music.Dietmar Elflein deals intensively with heavy metal as music, and investigates LPs and bands that have shaped the genre, looking for musical commonalities and lines of development - the musical language of heavy metal. The diversity of the musical approaches investigated ranges from Black Sabbath through Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, right up to Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer, but also includes less "metallic" works by AC/DC, Motörhead and Guns N' Roses.