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Heavy metal is a form of rock music characterised by aggressive, driving rhythms, highly amplified guitars, and often dark thematic elements. Heavy metal is an evolutionary product of pop, blues and classical music. Its first wave, between 1967 and 1974, was a product of pop and blues, while the classical element came to the fore in the later 1970s. By approximately 1991 most heavy metal had evolved into other hard rock genres, notably grunge.
Reign in Blood was ranked number 29 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine's list of the greatest 100 guitar albums of all time, and is considered to be one of the best thrash metal albums ever to be recorded.[1]
Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band formed in 1996 in the town of Kitee. Nightwish composes songs that are often classified as either symphonic metal or power metal, and sometimes as variants of the genre called opera metal and epic metal. Nightwish is considered one of the main developers of the symphonic metal genre, which encompasses similar bands such as Epica, After Forever and Visions of Atlantis.
...That Cradle of Filth have been labeled by critics, at one time or another, melodic black metal, satanic metal, vampyric metal, speed metal, death metal, brutal death metal, melodic death metal and horror metal?
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