heavy metal
Metal developed from hard rock and blues-rock. This topic is part of Genres within Music. This page currently draws on 10 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
heavy metal trivia questions
Heavy metal is a style of rock known for loud distorted guitars and what?
Answer: Powerful rhythms
Bonus fact: Metal developed from hard rock and blues-rock.
Which British band is widely regarded as a foundational heavy-metal group?
Answer: Black Sabbath
Bonus fact: Black Sabbath's dark riffs helped define early metal.
What guitar interval known as the tritone contributed to the ominous sound of Black Sabbath's title track?
Answer: Augmented fourth or diminished fifth
Bonus fact: The tritone has long been associated with tension.
What throwing event uses a heavy metal ball?
Answer: Shot put
Bonus fact: Shot put athletes push a heavy spherical shot.
Bismuth is a metal often noted for having relatively low what compared with many heavy metals?
Answer: Toxicity
Bonus fact: Bismuth compounds are used in some medicines.
Why did paper money become useful compared with heavy metal coinage?
Answer: It was easier to transport large values
Bonus fact: Notes reduced the burden of moving large quantities of coins.
"Vol. 4" was released by which heavy metal band?
Answer: Black Sabbath
Bonus fact: The 1972 album followed "Master of Reality."
Who wrote "You Really Got Me"?
Answer: Ray Davies
Bonus fact: Ray Davies built the song around a blunt two-chord riff that influenced garage rock, hard rock, and later heavy metal.
"Master of Reality" was released by which band?
Answer: Black Sabbath
Bonus fact: The 1971 album became hugely influential on heavy metal and later doom metal.
In shot put, athletes throw what object?
Answer: Heavy metal ball
Bonus fact: The shot is pushed from the neck area.