Introduction Hi, My name is Deva Winblood. I am known as @dwinblood and I have been using steemit since July 2016. On my @dwinblood account I post about a wide variety of topics. Not everyone that follows

Shock Rock acts have been mentioned in other posts in this series and they are still around today. They however began slightly before and perhaps during the birth of heavy metal and they continue to this

In my series on the evolution of heavy metal and it's sub-genres this is another side jaunt into a style that is NOT heavy metal, but it has a large impact on many sub-genres of heavy metal. That style

This continues my Metal Tree series on early roots of Heavy Metal and likely the first acts that could be considered as Heavy Metal in the United States, but before the term had started being used. These

This post in the series covers things that came before metal and influenced what it would go on to become. This is part of an intended series as I described in this post and I will post no more than one

This is the 2nd Edition of a popular series of posts I wrote last year and early into this year. I enjoyed making the posts and people enjoyed them. I am going to repost these, but they will not be complete

I did a series of posts for more than a month where I was posting almost one a day during the week days. This was back when we couldn't edit posts older than 30 days. I was doing them so quickly because

During the summer I was talking to some people about the sounds that really get to me and move me in metal. I was describing this particularly low and chuggy power rhythms that I said sometimes in old

Taking my own path on the Metal Tree from this point forward, I wanted to focus on a sub-genre called Neoclassical. Now I've been in brief youtube debates where people thought I was nuts for calling some

 They are a Hong Kong thrash metal band formed in 2009.   塵世幻象 The Delusion 1. 愉快植物餅 Happy Cookies @00:00 2. 香夭 The Fragrant Death @05:21 3. 遙遠的牛鈴 The Far Cowbell (Metallica Live Shit 92'

In my journey to cover many sub-genres of metal and things that inspired metal I was following the chart/poster laid out by Sam Dunn for his Metal Evolution documentary series from Banger Films. This branch

Continuing the Metal Tree I am near the end of covering all the nodes on Sam Dunn's Metal Evolution chart. There is only one remaining after this, and then a couple nodes of my own I want to add. This

I heard some new sounds and I was liking the different direction it seemed to be heading. It had that really catchy metal approach I liked, but it often had a mixture of beautiful and even haunting female

Nu Metal is a movement that mostly exploded onto the scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It was a new generation of metal fans who mixed and matched across many of the previous sub-genres of metal

Resuming the exploration of the sub-genres and history of metal, this episode continues with the branch known as Grindcore. I did slow down on publishing these. My rapid posting was me trying to get as

Post Grunge is a sub-genre on the chart by Sam Dunn and I am uncertain why it didn't simply remain in Grunge. It could be a time period thing, or some slight deviations to the sound style. As with the

I am not referring to race or skin color. I am referring to black like darkness, the blackness of the soul, the blackness of the minds of the enraged, and other black things. These are but traits that

That's not metal. Some of the times it is, some of the times it is not. They are still part of the metal evolutionary tree. On the chart by Sam Dunn this branch as shown as being influenced by Grunge and

A fusion of extreme metal and hardcore punk? Using breakdowns which are conducive to moshing? These are the terms wikipedia uses for Metalcore, as I was not quite sure what it was. The breakdowns part