Heavy Metal History/Evolution Chart

Whoa! When googling for more information on Blue Cheer after seeing Mudhoney the other night, I found this crazy heavy metal history/evolution chart on this Turkish? message board site. Hmm….I wonder who made this? It’s sort of like the world history timeline posters but for heavy metal! Oh, I just found out, I guess it’s a chart from a film “Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey”!

Here’s some of the text on the site from the chart:

Early metal (1966 - 1971) - Jimi Hendrix - Blue Cheer - Deep Purple - Iron Butterfly - Led Zeppelin - MC5 - Mountain - The Stooges - Black Sabbath

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Power metal (1976 - Present)
- Scorpions - Judas Priest - Rainbow - Accept - Manowar - Dio - Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Helloween - Blind Guardian - HammerFall - Primal Fear

New Wave of British Heavy Metal (1979 - 1983) - Motörhead - Saxon - Iron Maiden - Angel Witch - Girlschool - Tygers of Pan Tang - Diamond Head

Progressive metal (1970 - Present) - Uriah Heep - Rush - Queensrÿche - Savatage - Fates Warning - Voivod - Dream Theater - Meshuggah - Symphony X - Evergrey - Tool

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Death metal (1985 - Present)
- Possessed - Sodom - Death - Morbid Angel - Obituary - Deicide - Cannibal Corpse - Immolation - Autopsy - Nile

This calls for some…Def Leppard!!!

Def Leppard: Foolin

I wonder what category Def Leppard is in, pop metal? Yep! How many Bud Lights total do you think people have drunk to this song since it came out?

I thought I’d throw in this picture from the movie Clash of the Titans, that’s pretty metal looking, and Def Leppard-era, right?

My favorite vote for the best early metal song is the Troggs: Come Now.