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Heavy Metal
Another more popular name for hard rock music. It comes from a
term used in the military for tanks and guns.
After reading this idiom, a reader emailed us. Here are the emails:
email response 1:
We have always loved your site, good work all. We are proud to be bringing
back the legendary CREEM Magazine back and will be hitting the streets
this
summer. It was broguth to Boy Howdy's attention that you credit (and credit
is due) CREEM with assisting in bringing the term Heavy Metal into out
lexicon. Very true indeed, although we are uncertian if it was indeed
used
originally in conjunction with the MC5 (although they too deserve more
credit than they get) but we'll get back to you on that as well. I am
writing
today to simply correct what is a common error, CREEM should be spelled
CREEM, a
piss take as it were on Rolling Stone and of course the band Cream. Just
thought you might like to revise that on your explaination sometime. Also
check out our website CreemMagazine.com
where we are
marking our turf until publication.
Ramalama & cheers! MFIC RM
email response 2:
I was going to write you back and get more specific, it was Mike Saunders
that first used it in the May 1971 issue of CREEM in a review of Sir Lord
Baltimore latest album. We @ http://creemmagazine.com/ plan to archive
the entire review shortly as well. He did however make many comparisons
to both the MC5 and Led Zeppelin in that review. Thanks for getting back
to us and keep up the good work!
Cheers! RM
email response 3:
As to the origin of this phrase, "heavy metals" refer to
a class of metals that includes such elements as lead, mercury of cadmium.
In terms of music, Steppenwolf used the phrase "heavy metal thunder"
in their most famous song, "Born to be Wild", which was released
in 1968.
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