What is neoclassical metal?
neoclassical metal is a form of hard rock music focused on guitar, which uses many elements derived from traditional classical music, especially the works of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and several others. The style had its most basic beginnings in the late 1960s and generally reached the peak in the middle to the end of the 80s before becoming less popular. Neoclassical metal had a great influence on hard rock music as a whole, and although its popularity eventually dropped, many echoes of its influence remain in the genre of metal music and elsewhere.
The origin of the neoclassical metal can actually be tracked until the end of the 1960s, the time when heavy metal develops. During this period, the progressive rock movement began to become a popular, musical style that integrated elements of jazz and classical music and combined them with hard rock sound. Some of the more popular bands in this style included groups such as Genesis, Yes and King Crimson, along with artists like Frank Zappa. This music, which was still until the end of the 70s. 20.century, it was known to be a technically demanding and complicated composition. Some sounds from this musical style were eventually influenced by many heavy metal artists, either directly or indirectly.
Most music experts agree that the first serious integration of classical music and heavy metal was in some works a pioneering group Heavy Metal Deep Purple. The guitarist of Ritchie Blackmore and the organist, Jon Lord, were interested in classical music, which they incorporated into many of their songs, often as a way of creating a dark and melodic atmosphere filled with Doom. Deep Purple was popular and eventually very influence on many other groups. As the 1970s continued, groups like Iron Maiden and Scorpions continued to create heavy metal music with infusion of classic elements.
Technical exploitation of guitarists such as Ritchie Blackmore, and Michael Schenker have already made neoclassical metal very focusedThe guitar, and it happened in the 80s even more true. The work of guitarist Randy Rhoads with Ozzy Osbourne, along with the pioneering work of Swedish metal guitarist Yngwie Malmsten, eventually helped bring neoclassical movement of metals to new heights of technical perfection. In some respects, we can say that the most influential aspect of neoclassical metal movement came in the guitar area. Many technical successes and stylistic elements of neoclassical guitarists in the 80s eventually became a standard part of the repertoire of a hard and strong metal guitar. Several groups in the following decades continued to push aspects of neoclassical metal and echoes of style can be heard in music with a diverse range of acts, including progressive metal group such as Dream Theater and other severe actions such as Avenged Sevenfold.