For heavy metal newcomers, or non-metal listeners, here are three muscular anthems from the 1970s everyone should know.

HAVE LOCAL MUSIC LOVERS MAKING PLANS. JULIE CORNELL IS ON THE LIVE DESK. HEY, JULIE. THANKS, QUANECIA. THESE ARE FOR THE BABY BOOMERS AND GEN X, THOSE WHO APPRECIATE MUSIC FROM THE 70S AND 80S. STEVIE ...

The blues scale is one of the most important guitar scales to learn, whether in rock, metal or – naturally – blues. This scale is a hexatonic scale, which means it has six notes. Essentially, it’s a ...

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham influenced heavy metal music when Page continued the heavy blues he’d begun with The Yardbirds. They certainly had aspects of what became ...

However, as the heavy metal genre continued to evolve during that decade, Roth's style veered to a melodically heavier, neoclassical vibe. That, in turn, became another subgenre of metal, further ...