Traditional metal

Traditional metal, also called classic metal or just metal, is the first musical genre of heavy metal music before it evolved and was subdivided into different subgenres. It emerged in the late 1960s in the United Kingdom and the United States and encompasses various groups born up to the late 1970s.

Although it has several similarities with blues and psychedelia. traditional metal is characterized mainly by moving away from the roots of rock and roll. According to this point of view, classic metal has a riff of medium and fast tempos, a more bass loud and booming, more extended guitar solos, higher-pitched voices and hymn-like choruses. Furthermore, and one of the characteristics of the genre is the use of twin guitars, the concept of which comes from the hard rock band Wishbone Ash, but which Judas Priest and Scorpions —the latter during their early years— swelled and enhanced.8 9