International Day of Heavy Metal

Currently, there is a huge number of different musical genres and trends, each of which has its own fans. Thus, December 12 of each year is a day dedicated to heavy music, thanks to which a huge number of its fans can celebrate this holiday in their own special style. On this day, music lovers can gather in a place and devote time to listening to their favorite tracks. Heavy metal is one of the genres of heavy rock music that appeared more than fifty years ago. Initially, this trend originated in Great Britain, and later also found its fans in the United States of America. This genre emerged on the basis of existing trends such as blues rock and psychedelic rock. This music is distinguished by a more massive and heavier sound, as well as guitar solos and bright drum chords. This genre has certain characteristic features that make it possible to recognize this direction among other similar musical movements common in the modern world: • More aggressive sound. • Accelerated tempo of the music. • The central role belongs to the guitarist. • A large number of guitar solos. • High level of vocals. A genre of music such as heavy metal became the basis for the creation and development of other modern styles of heavy music. They differ from each other in speed, rhythm and level of aggressiveness of sound. Today there are quite a large number of musical groups that have devoted themselves to this particular direction. The festival dedicated to Heavy Metal music was founded in 2012. On this day, musicians get together to share musical news, memories, experiences and new discoveries. Also on such a holiday, it is customary to play your favorite tracks, listen to popular performers, and come up with new works. Quite often on such a day, large concerts dedicated to this trend are organized, which allow all fans to get together and have a good time. Fans of the heavy metal genre are very easy to recognize by their appearance, as they are characterized by a certain style and image. Thus, very often musicians wear leather jackets and pants, various metal jewelry and other items of clothing with the symbols of this movement. The whole species of metalheads is aggressive, defiant and dangerous.