The document discusses the genre of music that mixes metal and electronic dance music (EDM). It explores the history of both genres from their origins in the 1960s to modern artists that blend the two styles. The metal/EDM genre covers subgenres like industrial metal, dubstep-influenced metal, and electrocore. Iconography in music videos may include turntables, vinyl discs, and footage of concerts. The evaluation concludes that metal and EDM have both changed significantly since their origins while retaining core elements, and that fusing the two genres has become increasingly popular.

1. Genre Research – Music Video
Thomas Smith

2. Genre Options
Options:
Metal EDM (Bass Metal/Electronic Dance Music mixed with
Metal)
Electronic
Alternative
Funk/Disco (Daft Punk/Justice style)

3. Metal + Electronic
The genre covers areas such as Industrial Metal, Metalstep, Electronic Rock, Electronicore and
Electropunk or simply blending Metal with electronic music. Metal has also influenced genres such as
Dubstep.
Artists who produce this kind of music:
 Zardonic
 Celldweller
 Blue Stahli
 Voicians
 Esparta

4. Historical Development of Electronic Music and
Metal
Electronic:
 Electronic Instruments – 1960’s
 Synthpop and Disco: Influenced Daft Punk and other people like Giorgio Morodor – 1970’s
 Synth Era: Synthpop/House – 1980’s
 Dance Music: Hard House, Techno, Drum and Bass, Trance – 1990’s
 EDM era: Dubstep, Electro, House, Trance, artists like Skrillex, Wolfgang Gartner and deadmau5 – 2000-Present
Metal:
 Late 1960’s/Early 1970’s – Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Roots of Blues Rock and Psychedelic Rock.
 Mid - Late 1970’s – Iron Maiden, Judas Priest – discarded Blues influence, Motorhead – added punk influences,
Saxon, introduction of metalheads and headbangers.
 1980’s – Glam Metal, Motley Crue, Poison, thrash metal – Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax, death
metal/black metal.
 1990’s – Groove metal, Nu metal – Linkin Park, Slipknot and Korn, incorporated grunge and hip-hop.
 2000-present - Metalcore – extreme metal and hardcore punk fused.

5. Iconography/Narrative Conventions
 Turntables
 Boom box
 Vinyl Discs
 Headphones
 Footage of concerts/DJ sets
 Usually weird music videos (mainly 2007-ish onwards)
 Known genres are House, Electro, Trance, Drum and Bass, Dubstep etc.
 Blending two or more genres have become more popular over the years. Metal mixed with drum
and bass is a good example of this.

6. Evaluation
 During our research, we found out the history of Metal EDM/Electronic Dance Music. We learned
that EDM originated from the 1960’s as electronic instruments to today with production software
and MIDI keyboards.
 For metal, we learned that Metal originated from Blues and Psychedelic Rock in the 1960’s to new
subgenres such as metalcore, extreme metal and punk metal.
 Recently, Metal has fused with EDM to create new subgenres that either have no name yet or
become genres such as Bass Metal. EDM and Metal have changed extensively since the 1960’s
and that modern day rock and electronic music is no longer anything like it used to be but it still
retains the core elements of the genre. Metal and EDM are more popular today compared to the
1960’s-1990’s.