In Heavy Metal: F. A. K. K. ² and Shadow Man, this tactic was developed further, allowing the player to wield two dissimilar weapons at once, firing each one independently.

The musical style was emphasized in many of the episode titles, which were in English, such as: " Asteroid Blues ", " Honky Tonk Woman ", " Ballad of Fallen Angels ", " Heavy Metal Queen ", " Jamming With Edward ", " Jupiter Jazz " and " Mushroom Samba ".

Episodes are called " sessions ", each of which follows a different musical theme, and episode titles are borrowed from notable album or song names ( e. g. " Sympathy for the Devil ", " Bohemian Rhapsody ", " Honky Tonk Women ", " My Funny Valentine ") or make use of a genre name (" Mushroom Samba ", " Heavy Metal Queen ").

In 1981, Devo contributed a cover of " Workin ' in the Coal Mine ," recording during the Freedom of Choice sessions, to the film Heavy Metal.

Gothic fashion is often confused with Heavy Metal fashion and Emo fashion: outsiders often mistake fans of heavy metal for goth, particularly those who wear black trench coats or wear " corpse paint " ( a term associated with the black metal music scene ).

* Heavy Metal ( magazine ), an American fantasy magazine based on the French magazine Métal Hurlant

** Heavy Metal ( film ), a 1981 animated film based on the magazine

*" Heavy Metal " ( Clap Your Hands Say Yeah song ) ( 2005 )

*" Heavy Metal ", a 1981 song by Sammy Hagar from Standing Hampton

*" Heavy Metal ", a 1988 song by Judas Priest from Ram It Down

* Heavy Metal ( computer game ), a 1990 computer game by Access Software

* Heavy Metal: F. A. K. K. ², a 2000 computer game by Gathering of Developers

* Heavy Metal: Geomatrix, a 2001 arcade game for Sega NAOMI and Dreamcast by Capcom

* Heavy Metal: a Tank Company's Battle to Baghdad, a 2005 book about Operation Iraqi Freedom

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* Heavy Metal ( comics ), a group of villains of the Marvel Universe

*" Heavy Metal " ( Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ), a 2008 episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

* Heavy Metal ( wrestler ) ( born 1970 ), Mexican professional wrestler

* Heavy Metal ( cricket ), an incident in a 1979 cricket match involving Dennis Lillee

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* The American Heavy Metal band Virgin Steele take influence from the poem for their 1998 release Invictus ( album ).

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Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal.

Mötley Crüe was ranked tenth on MTV's list " Top 10 Heavy Metal Bands of All-Time " and ninth on " VH1's All Time Top Ten Metal Bands "

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal influenced the UK 82 style of bands like Discharge, and hardcore punk was a primary influence on thrash metal bands such as Metallica and Slayer.

Referred to under a number of names including " U. K. Hardcore ", " UK 82 ", " second wave punk ", " real punk ", and " No Future punk ", it took the previous punk sound and added the incessant, heavy drumbeats and distorted guitar sound of New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands, especially Motörhead.

Heavy metal bands reached their peak in the late ' 80s and many disbanded until the mid 1990s.

This style was later refined and popularised in the mid-1970s by bands like Thin Lizzy and Judas Priest, and later by the emerging New Wave of British Heavy Metal groups such as Iron Maiden and Def Leppard.

Heavy metal's origins lie in the hard rock bands who took blues and rock and created a heavy sound centered around the guitar and drums.

However, even though they were often considered one of the top bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement of the late 1970s, in the mid-1980s the band were associated with the growing glam metal scene, mainly due to their mainstream success and glossy production.

The Gothenburg sound, propelled by both the Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal with cleaner recordings and melded with New Wave of British Heavy Metal guitar lines, was pioneered by bands such as At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity and In Flames for their respective albums Slaughter of the Soul, The Gallery and The Jester Race.

The widespread popularity of the Internet in the late 1990s / early 2000s helped the New Wave of British Heavy Metal fans to communicate again and some NWOBHM bands experienced a minor revival.

Geoff Barton reviewed the show in Sounds magazine using the term New Wave Of British Heavy Metal to coin a common stylistic element of the bands ' music.

Geoff Barton began writing features on the new up and coming metal bands and Sounds even featured a weekly Heavy Metal chart compiled from record requests at “ The Soundhouse ”, a heavy metal ' disco ' in North West London and the spiritual home of the movement.

The extended play consisted entirely of covers of late -' 70s and early -' 80s New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands and hardcore punk music rehearsed in Lars Ulrich's garage and later recorded in a new studio the band had constructed.

Metalcore in Massachusetts started from the Boston hardcore scene and the influence of bands from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

Many other bands too have emerged ever since the 1990s making the Heavy Metal underground much bigger.

In Heavy / Power metal there were bands of great quality such as Diphtheria and later Arryan Path leading the genre.

Dance, Rock, pop, kuduro, zouk, kizomba, Heavy metal, house and Hip Hop are among the most popular musical styles in Portugal ; however, the recent arrival of revivalist folk bands, such as Deolinda, led to a newfound interest in this type of music.

Heavy metal music ( though not recognized as a separate genre from hard rock at the time ) gained a cult following in the 1970s, led by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, with their styles later influencing other bands like Judas Priest and Motörhead, which eventually started the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the 1980s.

Both Hard rock and Heavy metal were extremely popular live genres and bands toured extensively around the globe.

Iron Maiden, one of the central bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal

As one of the notable bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene, they started out with the name Warrior and morphed into Battleaxe sometime in early 1980.

Volition also signed a few indie pop bands such as the Falling Joys, Big Heavy Stuff and Swordfish.

On June 17 Chauncey from Cardboard City posted a picture on his Twitter of a CD-R which is labeled to be the new Glassjaw EP with a tweet following saying " It sounds cliche and all the bands say it BUT the " Heavy " is truly heavier & the melodic stuff is more beautiful than ever.

Townsend stated his main influences for Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing were Napalm Death and Fear Factory, City was influenced by bands such as Foetus and White Noise, and The New Blacks influences were Meshuggah, and " more traditional metal " like Metallica.