Heavy metal music is usually about speed or power, or speed and power. It’s an incredibly diverse genre of music: two metal fans can have a conversation at a bar about music and quickly realize that there aren’t any bands that they both like. The lines between metal and hard rock and roll are blurry – Encyclopedia Britannica says Aerosmith is a heavy metal band. Do they belong in the same category as Slayer or Sabbath? 

There’s no simple definition of what heavy metal is but wethink those rock and roll scholars Beavis and Butthead defined it best when they said it just kicks ass. 

In this denim-jacket-wearing, air guitar playing, horns up episode of Prisoners of Rock and Roll, we’re looking at the history and evolution of heavy metal. 

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