Is there a difference between hard rock and heavy metal?
Yes but I suspect that each of us would draw the dividing line somewhere different.
Wikipedia defines hard rock as:
“Hard rock (or heavy rock) is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock. It is typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with pianos and keyboards.”
Wikipedia defines heavy metal as:
“Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. With roots in blues rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are often associated with masculinity, aggression, and machismo.”
As far as I’m concerned this category ranges from excellent to unbearable with plenty of ordinary rock and metal that’s acceptable but not special. It can be too heavy and too loud and the category includes bands that I think are disgusting. Mind you, I like blues rock and even singer songwriters so what do I know?
Heavy Metal And Hard Rock Live Albums Recorded In The 1990s
AC/DC Live 1990 1991
Aerosmith A Little South of Sanity
Anthrax Live The Island Years 1991 1992
Bad Company What You Hear Is What You Get 1992
Black ‘n’ Blue One Night Only Live 1997
Black Sabbath Cross Purposes Live 1995
Black Sabbath Reunion 1997
Children of Bodom Tokyo Warhearts 1999
Cinderella Authorized Bootleg Live at the Tokyo Dome 1990
Cinderella In Concert 1998 1991
Cinderella Live at the Key Club 1998
Deep Purple Come Hell Or High Water 1993
Deep Purple On Tour Live in Europe 1993
Deep Purple Live At The Olympia 96
Deep Purple Live at Montreux 1996
Deep Purple Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1999
Dio Live In London Hammersmith Apollo 1993
Dream Theater Live At The Marquee 1993
Dream Theater Once in a LIVEtime 1998
Faith No More Live At The Brixton Academy 1990
Fields Of The Nephilim Earth Inferno 1990
Grand Funk Railroad Bosnia 1997
Guns N Roses Live Era 87–93
Helloween High Live 1996
Glenn Hughes Burning Japan Live 1994
Iced Earth Alive in Athens 1999
Judas Priest 98 Live Meltdown 1998
Mayhem Live in Leipzig 1990
Metallica S&M 1999
Metallica Live Shit Binge And Purge 1993
Motley Crue Live Entertainment Or Death
Nirvana From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah 1989 to 1994
Ozzy Osbourne Live & Loud 1991 1992
Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes Live At The Greek 1999
Pantera Official Live 101 Proof 1996 1997
Iggy Pop Roadkill Rising The Bootleg Collection 1977–2009
Poison Swallow This Live 1991
Poison Seven Days Live 1993
Queensryche Operation Livecrime 1991
The Quireboys Live 1990
Rammstein Live aus Berlin 1998
Rush Different Stages 1978 & 1997
Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and Steve Vai G3 Live in Concert 1996
Sepultura Under A Pale Grey Sky 1996
Slayer Decade Of Aggression 1991
Soundgarden Live on I-5 1996
Thin Lizzy One Night Only 1996
Tin Machine Live Oy Vey Baby 1991 – 1992
UFO Lights Out in Tokyo Live 1992
Van Halen Live Right Here Right Now 1992
WASP Double Live Assassins 1997
The Who Blues To The Bush 1999
Y&T Yesterday & Today Live 1990
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Weld 1991
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The All Time Best Hard Rock And Heavy Metal Live Albums
I don’t have a readers poll to find the best hard, heavy rock albums from this decade but I do have a poll to find the all time best live albums that is a great guide.
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The Live Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Albums By Decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s
In Concert With The London Symphony Orchestra Conducted By Paul Mann Live at the Royal Albert Hall is a live album by Deep Purple.
It was recorded in London on the 25th & 26th September 1999.
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Live & Loud is a live album and DVD by Ozzy Osbourne.
It was recorded on his world tours in 1991 and 1992.
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Once in a LIVEtime is a live album by Dream Theater.
It was recorded at Le Bataclan in Paris, France on June 25th 1998.
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Bosnia is a live album by Grand Funk Railroad.
This benefit concert for the people in Bosnia and Herzegovina was recorded at the Palace Of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan in March 1997.
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Anthrax Live: The Island Years is a live album by Anthrax.
The eight live songs were recorded at Irvine Meadows, California on October 19, 1991 and the other four were recorded live in the studio in front of a small audience on 28 January 1992.
Cinderella In Concert is a live DVD and CD by Cinderella that brings together performances from two venues and years.
The CD is the Live at the Key Club 1998
The DVD is the Live in Detroit 1991
The Swallow This Live album by Posion was mainly recorded live but also included four new studio songs.
The live tracks were recorded in Miami, Orlando, and Tampa in Florida while the band was promoting their Flesh & Blood studio album in 1991.
The album has been released a number of times. In America there were 16 live songs and four studio songs. In the UK, there were 13 live songs and the four studio tracks.
The latest CD and mp3 release, when it was remastered in 2004, has been cut down to the 16 live songs with the guitar solo and drum solos edited out together with some of the swearing.
Live At The Key Club is a live album by hard rock band, Cinderella.
It was recorded in Los Angeles on October 2 and 3, 1998.
Roadkill Rising: The Bootleg Collection 1977–2009 is a live album compilation by Iggy Pop spread over four CDs.
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Burning Japan Live is a live album by ex Deep Purple Mark III and IV bass player Glenn Hughes.
It was recorded in Kawasaki city, Japan on the 24th and 25th of May 1994 while Hughes was promoting the From Now On studio album.
