Tomorrow, May 16, the world heavy metal day a genre that was born in the 1960s in the UK. The relevant groups in spain how Red Baron y Howitzercaused a great repercussion in the 80s. In ‘Finally it’s not Monday’ we have invited Mariano Muniesa, music journalistto tell us about this musical genre and also about his book ‘Historia del Heavy Metal’.
For those who think that heavy metal has an uncertain future, Muniesa clearly does not. “The generational change is constant” he has said, even though he does not have a presence in the media.
The journalist admits that in Spain there are certain prejudices with this genre, Mariano Muniesa explained that “heavy metal is a genre that has always had a certain degree of stigmatization, fundamentally because a stereotype has been created that does not fully correspond to reality”. An example of this is the false myth that if you heard the song ‘Stairway to Heaven’ de Led Zeppelin upside down you could hear praises to the devil in Latin.
Mariano Muniesa wonders “how much feverish imagination there is to imagine such a thing”. In addition, he has recalled that the letter of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is actually a praise to the arrival of spring.
In its book ‘History of Heavy Metal’ Muniesa explains the journey of this musical genre for all types of audiences, whether they are fans or not. “It is not a book with encyclopedic pretensions, it tries to explain the story with very simple examples and to tell things that have not been told in other books” she has pointed out.
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