Subcultures - Metalworkers

Metal

Metal, it is one of the biggest "informal" subcultures.
Once upon a time it was heavy music fad a few music fans, the entertainment elite intellectuals ... and even a momentary fad Gopnik. Today, listening to heavy music, almost everything. Now this is a very rich musical seam, some components of which have nothing in common except the typical "overloaded" sound. "Gravity" today - equal, modern, advanced course, is not no underground, no not rebellion, as has happened before.
Where did they come

The history of heavy music - it is primarily the story of "dirty" sound. That gave rise to the modern guitar music rock 'n' roll, they know everything, but it is known that up to about the early 60's supercharged rock guitarists sound was not used. It was believed that the electric guitar should sound like normal - just a louder, brighter and juicier. Any distortion of the background, or perceived as a marriage when you configure the sound.

Gradually, with the development of sound reinforcement and guitar techniques, guitarists innovators are experimenting with handles volume and frequency of their instruments and "amps". This, in turn, led to changes in playing techniques.

Accompanying the groups also began to adjust to the new sounds and techniques, and then the guitar gradually came to the fore, and not very noticeable from the accompanying instrument into a prom queen, pushing sometimes vocalist.
Metal

The term itself, which often represent the whole "gravity" - metal - came from areas of the music quite far. For the first time in a cultural context, the phrase heavy metal used in the novel «Naked Lunch» (1959), the legendary William S. Burroughs. He named as a tough, aggressive, assertive music (the fact that even during World War II on American soldiers' jargon heavy metal meant artillery fire).

In 1968 the guys from the famous American band Steppen Wolf in the song «Born to be wild», too, singing «I like ... heavy metal thunder »- and though the song had in mind the thunder, like the firing of guns, and later it became regarded as a manifesto:" I love when the heavy metal thunder. " And so after a music reviewer for the journal «Creem» Lester Bengz used in the article, the phrase heavy metal, this band definitely has the designation of a new musical direction. Clarification of «heavy» died out in the end, but the essence of something left. All musicians of this style, and their fans began to call themselves metalworkers and soon formed his own musical subculture.

Fans of heavy metal rock music (heavy metal rock), black metal rock music (black metal rock), rock metal speed (speed metal rock) - all of them - metal.

Some metal-professed cult of Satan, calling themselves satanists, but it is rather rare. The current generation of metal-free life is like at your pleasure. They believe that owe nothing to other people, go to concerts, which can drink alcohol, and then arrange fights. The movement of the metal can be divided into two groups: a radical and more calm. To include radical-metal Satanists and particularly aggressive group. They are often adjacent to the punks, because they are impressed by the cult of violence, the spirit of rebellion and denial, as well as the opportunity to make fun of the weak.

To the metal adjacent to a group of teenagers who like rock music, costume Neformal. The older and more experienced do not take them seriously, but these young and old, experienced, metal, aged 35-40 years, crossed the border, are a more steady flow. Among young people, of course, there are metal, which superficially versed in the problems of metallic rock, behave with others is very provocative and aggressive. As a rule, they live, and after them, arrange small disturbances, jump on the stage, throwing the empty cans and bottles of beer.
Appearance

Their external appearance defiantly aggressive: black clothes with lots of metal, depicting skulls, blood, and the words "Satan" in English. Although the clothing is clean, neat. Classic metal wear tight black jeans tucked into high boots, or "Cossacks" leather jacket with zipper slash - "leather jackets", "kosovoroty" earrings in her left ear, rings depicting skulls or other black magic symbols (pentagram, skeleton, etc . etc.), but their external aggression and moodiness are often a means of shocking people around them. Those who are over 25 years, engaged in serious work, usually peaceful, but sometimes can make a row, along with those who are younger.

In a medium metal is true connoisseurs of heavy rock. They are peaceful, are not attracted to attributes, well versed in musical trends, not only modern but also classical music. Most metalworkers are bikers, which will be discussed later.