:As far as most people's usage of the term goes, "heavy metal" refers to all brands of metal. The whole concept of restricting it to mean classic metal is absurd and confusing, and seems like a fairly modern development to me (I may be wrong here, but that's what it seems like). How is death metal not "heavy"? It sounds pretty heavy to me. As far as I'm concerned, there is simply no debate here - either "Metal music" is merged into this article or deleted.  00:11, 19 January 2006