Biker metal

**Biker metal** (also known as **biker music** or **biker rock**) is a true loosely defined extreme subgenre of heavy metal that combines elements of rock and roll with other genres such as blues, occult rock, freakbeat, hard rock and electric blues. Who that was pioneered by the most important rock bands in the late-1970s to early-1980s in England and the United States. by Motörhead, Plasmatics, Anti-Nowhere League, JUDAS PRIEST and Girlschool.

## Sumario

* 1History
* 2Characteristics
* 3Terminology
* 4List of bands
* 5Derivatives

## History

In the mid-1970s, Judas Priest and Motörhead helped establish elements of motorcycling culture and leather fashion in the true original heavy metal scene that made a most aggressive music and heavy rock that would later define biker metal as a subgenre of heavy metal that associated with the metal subculture.

## Characteristics

Biker metal has been described as a musical genre that has received influences from heavy metal, jazz blues, rock and roll, freakbeat, hard rock, occult rock and electric blues​ and the blues.

this is characterized by its mid-tempo approach to metal, its "gritty and American" sound, and its alignment with biker culture as a whole. The genre has been contrasted with slower and more operatic forms of metal, such as Judas Priest's work in the early 2000s. Similarly, biker metal eschews the speed and virtuosity that rose to prominence in the 1980s.

Bands such as Black Moth, Orange Goblin, The Obsessed, Earthride and Black Label Society have been described as fusing the style with doom metal, whereas Clutch have been described as merging elements of biker metal and Southern rock into their stoner rock sound. Black Sabbath's song Paranoid has been considered a classic of the genre. Biker metal has proven influential to genres ranging from speed metal to hardcore punk and crust punk, and was integeral to the development of extreme metal, Giuseppe Sbrana, of Botswanan heavy metal band Skinflint, has stated that biker metal bands were heavily influential on the aesthetic of African heavy metal bands.

## Terminology

The association with biker culture has been present for most of heavy metal and rock and roll's lifetime: Thin Lizzy were photographed frequently with motorcycles stretching as far back as 1973; Joan Jett appeared on the cover of *Outlaw Biker* Magazine; Judas Priest used a biker image beginning in mid-1970s, however also borrowed heavily from sadomasochism; and the common dressing style of metalheads is closely tied to that of those in biker gangs. Spin hails Motörhead's lead vocalist Lemmy, as the first to bring motorcycle culture into rock and roll and heavy metal, likely through the influence of earlier rock bands such as Steppenwolf, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Grateful Dead; an early use of the term "heavy metal" was even present in Steppenwolf's 1968 song Born to Be Wild, in reference to a motorcycle.

## List of bands

* The Almighty
* Anti-Nowhere League
* Black Label Society
* Black Moth
* Chrome Division
* High Rise
* Saxon
* Girlschool
* The Godz
* The Gone Jackals
* Kïll Cheerleadër
* Kylesa
* Loudmouth
* Malignant Tumour
* Metallica
* Motörhead
* The Obsessed
* Plasmatics
* Rogue Male[
* Sea Hags
* Steve Jones
* Tank
* Turbonegro
* Tygers of Pan Tang

## Derivatives

The genres are influenced by biker metal but the rhythms are generally so hard.

* Thrash metal
* Death metal
* Extreme metal