• Metal Evolution is a 2011 documentary series directed by anthropologist and filmmaker Sam Dunn and director, producer and music supervisor Scot McFadyen...
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  • Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult is a book by Dayal Patterson, a British author, music journalist and founder of publishing house, Cult Never Dies. The...
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  • The early Norwegian black metal scene of the 1990s is credited with shaping the modern black metal genre and producing some of the most acclaimed and influential...
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  • June 2008. Dunn has also elaborated upon his "Heavy Metal Family Tree" in the VH1 series Metal Evolution, which focuses on one subgenre per episode. The film...
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    power metal. In his 2011 documentary series Metal Evolution, Dunn further explained how Rob Halford of Judas Priest created a blueprint for power metal vocal...
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  • November 2013). Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult. Feral House. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-936239-76-4. Lahtinen, Luxi (8 April 2021). "The Metal Crypt presents.....
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    Sam Dunn (category Canadian heavy metal bass guitarists)
    co-directed and hosted the biggest-ever TV series on the history of heavy metal, Metal Evolution, which reached #1 on VH1 Classic (USA) and M3 (Canada), and most-recently...
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  • Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than...
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  • Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States...
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    Mayhem (band) (category Norwegian black metal musical groups)
    Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in Oslo in 1984. They were one of the pioneers of the Norwegian black metal scene, and their music has profoundly...
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  • Socialist black metal scene. National Socialist black metal (usually shortened to NSBM, and also known as neo-Nazi black metal or Aryan black metal) is a political...
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  • Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played...
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  • National Socialist black metal (also known as NSBM or Nazi black metal) is a small movement within the black metal music genre that promotes neo-Nazism...
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    of Clothing Styles In The Development of Metal – Part I – Metal Storm Patterson, Dayal: Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult; 2013, Feral House, Port Townsend...
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    Crust punk (redirect from Crust metal)
    and extreme metal that originated in the early to mid-1980s in England. Originally, the genre was primarily mid-tempo, making use of metal riffs in a stripped-down...
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  • Ozz mystery". YouTube. Channel 33 RPM. Retrieved 11 December 2021. Metal Evolution – S01E04; Produced by Banger Films – Directed by Sam Dunn and Scot...
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  • 2011, p. 274. Shapiro 1993, page 111. Patterson, Dayal (2013). Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult. Cult Never Dies. p. 75. While Venom, Mercyful Fate, Bathory...
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    his book Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult, the early works of these four bands are often considered part of the first wave of black metal. Possessed, from...
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    Dayal. Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult. Feral House, 2013. p.156 Lords of Chaos (2003 edition), p. 65. "What drove this black-metal star to stab his bandmate...
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  • Deathcrush (category Black metal EPs)
    Bazillion Points Books 2011, p. 221. Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult, Dayal Patterson, p. 135. Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult, Dayal Patterson, p. 136...
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    Till Lindemann (category German heavy metal singers)
    along with Flake, was interviewed by heavy metal anthropologist Sam Dunn for the VH1 Classic series Metal Evolution, on the topic of shock rock. In 2021, Lindemann...
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    Christian Lorenz (category Heavy metal keyboardists)
    with Lindemann, was interviewed by heavy metal anthropologist Sam Dunn for the VH1 Classic series Metal Evolution, on the topic of shock rock. Lorenz has...
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  • Blood Fire Death (category Black metal albums by Swedish artists)
    metal, includes some of the first examples of Viking metal. According to the book Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult by Dayal Patterson, Blood Fire Death...
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  • Nu metal (sometimes stylized as nü-metal, with a metal umlaut) is a subgenre of alternative metal that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements...
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    Def Leppard (category English glam metal musical groups)
    Volumes 1–6. p. 1118. Metal Evolution, Season 1 Director Sam Dunn Daniel Bukszpan, Ronnie James Dio (2003) The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Robert Walser. "Def...
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    Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...
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  • September 2012. Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult (2013), p. 202-203 "Rolling Stone Share Their Choices For 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time'"...
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  • Metal Gear (Japanese: METAL GEAR(メタルギア), Hepburn: Metaru Gia) is a franchise of stealth games created by Hideo Kojima. Developed and published by Konami...
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    Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult (2013), p. 73 Moynihan, Michael; Søderlind, Didrik (1998). Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground...
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  • TV Movie documentary 2011 : Pearl Jam Twenty, documentary 2012 : Metal Evolution, TV Series documentary : Grunge 2021 : Loudwire: 30 Years of Grunge...
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