Albums of Metal music
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Bullet For My Valentine
Scream Aim Fire '2008 -
Metallica
Death Magnetic (Limited Edition) '2008 -
Judas Priest
Nostradamus '2008 -
Metallica
Master of Puppets (2000 DCC Remastered, 24k Gold Edition) '1986 -
Metallica
The Bridge School Benefit, Mountain View, CA, 10-27 (2 CD) '2007 -
System Of A Down
Toxicity '2001 -
Nightwish
Wishmaster '2000 -
Within Temptation
The Silent Force '2004 -
Nightwish
Highest Hopes: The Best of Nightwish '2005 -
Disturbed
Believe '2002 -
Avantasia
The Scarecrow '2008 -
Bullet For My Valentine
The Poison (Deluxe Edition) '2007 -
Metallica
Ride the Lightning (2000 DCC Remastered, 24k Gold Edition) '1984 -
Manowar
Gods Of War '2007 -
Nightwish
Dark Passion Play (Limited Edition, 2CD) '2007 -
Nightwish
Over the Hills and Far Away [EP] '2001 -
Metallica
Death Magnetic (Guitar Hero III rip) '2008 -
Godsmack
Faceless '2003 -
Nightwish
Once '2004 -
Rage
Black in Mind (2006 Remastered) '1995 -
Motorhead
Motorizer '2008 -
Nightwish
Once (Platin Edition) '2004 -
Anathema
The Silent Enigma '1995 -
Nightwish
Eva [CDS] '2007 -
Nightwish
Wishmastour 2000 '2000 -
Avantasia
Lost In Space(Part I) '2007 -
Metallica
Metallica (2006 Japanese Reissue) '1991 -
Xandria
India '2005 -
Sepultura
Beneath the Remains (Remastered) '1989 -
Nightwish
Amaranth '2007 -
Nightwish
End of an Era '2006 -
Nightwish
Bless the Child [EP] '2002 -
Avantasia
Lost in Space(Part II) '2007 -
Iron Maiden
Powerslave (1998 Digitally Remastered) '1984 -
W.A.S.P
The Last Command (1997 remastered) '1985 -
Metallica
S&M (CD1) (2006 Japanese Reissue) '1999 -
Metallica
Reload (2006 Japanese Reissue) '1997 -
Metallica
Load (2006 Japanese Reissue) '1996 -
After Forever
Invisible Circles '2004 -
Helloween
Better Than Raw '1998 -
Royal Hunt
Collision Course '2008 -
Scorpions
Virgin Killer (Japanese Version, 2007) '1976 -
Helloween
Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I (Expanded Edition) '1987 -
Nightwish
Dark Passion Play (Limited Box Version, 3CD) '2007 -
Helloween
Metal Jukebox '1999 -
Stratovarius
Visions '1997 -
After Forever
Remagine '2005 -
Judas Priest
The Best of Judas Priest (2006 Japanese Remaster) '1978 -
Nine Inch Nails
With Teeth '2005 -
Stratovarius
Polaris '2009 -
24BIT
In Flames
A Sense Of Purpose '2008 -
Metallica
S&M (CD2) (2006 Japanese Reissue) '1999 -
Xandria
Ravenheart '2004 -
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden (1998 Remastered) '1980 -
Stratovarius
Elements Pt.1 '2003 -
Amon Amarth
Versus The World '2002 -
Xandria
Salome The Seventh Veil '2007 -
Testament
The Formation of Damnation '2008 -
Stratovarius
Stratovarius '2005 -
Yngwie Malmsteen
Alchemy '1999 -
Brainstorm
Downburst '2008 -
Manowar
The Kingdom Of Steel '1998 -
Korn
See You On The Other Side '2005 -
Rage
End of All Days (2006 Remastered) '1996
After its emergence in 1970s, this genre has passed a long way of development. In 80s, metal music artists reached peak of their popularity, and then branched into many extreme forms. In 90s, as a result of diffusion with different genres, there appeared nearly a dozen of sub-genres of new metal music, or even more.
Subculture
Metal music singers have created a separate subculture, which went beyond limits of music. Themes of songs, musicians’ philosophy, and style of life in general have become an important phenomenon of rock society.
True fans, who believe that metal is the best music genre, have created a separate culture. Many groups of this genre have achieved great success among a mass audience. The best metal music bands such as Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Rammstein, Nightwish became the winners of different awards, such as the Grammy, and performed in front of thousands of people. Their songs have participated successfully in many charts and their videos are rotated by popular TV channels. Metalheads purchase and download them using various online-stores. They even became leaders of metal music download.
At the same time, metal, as well as the majority of rock directions, ideologically opposes the pop culture. Many fans of this genre condemn commercialization of good metal music and its involvement in the show business. The proportion of representatives of this style in relation to radio and TV broadcast is very low, therefore, admirers of the genre use top metal music websites to get to know necessary information. Some extreme groups deliberately choose to remain underground, refusing awards and sometimes even not playing concerts (e.g., Darkthrone). They reject commercialization and do not want fans to buy their MP3s.
Lyrics and themes
Most metalheads write texts in English. Even foreign (German, Scandinavian) groups, resort to it in order to speak in a common language with fans, who buy metal music releases. There are even some groups that do not sing in English or their native language, but use very "exotic" language. For example, Summoning has a song in the language of Tolkien's Orcs. This song is popular among metal music downloads.
Lyrics differ from subgenre to subgenre. You can see the difference, if you download metal music from flacit.com. Our online store ensures lossless quality of sound in both MP3 and FLAC formats.
Thus, themes of war, violence, and death are typical for the death metal; the theme of melancholy and mystery – for doom and gothic metal, occult themes – for black and heavy metal. Power metal often turns to history and fantasy. So, you can choose any theme you want and download songs in lossless FLAC format. Thus, in creation of their mp3 music metal bands of various genres often appeal to the creativity of science fiction writers, mythology, legends, religious and mystical works.
Clothing and other attributes
Fans of the genre not only buy songs in lossless quality (in FLAC format), but also dress in a proper way. Such bands as Iron Maiden and Manowar used to wear T-shirts without sleeves, and, following the example of rockers and hippies of 1960s-70s, grew their hair long. However, nowadays, metalheads usually buy leather jackets and trousers, chains and rivets, as well as black T-shirts with symbols of the bands, which everyone can purchase in metal music stores. Many groups organize special shows during their tours. Therefore, they often build huge and expensive decorations, use sophisticated pyrotechnics and extras in costumes.