How is Heavy Metal music different from Hard Core music?

Its a Matter of Musical Traditions

Heavy Metal is based in the hard rock tradition, stemming back to early seventies acts like Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, and Deep Purple. It became more and more popular be the late seventies.

Hardcore is based in punk. Early hardcore acts like The Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, and Minor Threat, amped up the speed inherent in most punk music and tended to fuse it with scathing rejections of popular culture.

The most important difference is that Heavy Metal came from the rock mind-set-- which tended to be more extravagant and grand, and hardcore came from the DIY [do-it-yourself] ethos and stripped down aesthetic of the punk movement.

While both genres feature predominately quick tempos, heavy guitars, and often [depending on the sub-genre] shouted/screamed vocals, its important to remember that Heavy Metal generally focuses on instrumental virtuosity, intricate multi-part song arrangements, and generally more macabre subject matter. Hardcore eshews flashy guitar work for simpler, more direct arrangements, and tend to showcase more political lyrics.

The two can blend together, as many of the early speed-metal bands were influenced by hardcore punk as well as old hard rock. Often the numerous and ever-growing number of sub-genres in both styles causes some confusion and blurring of the line between the two.

To really hear the difference, check out some music by arguably some of the defining bands of both genres. I suggest:

Metal: Judas Priest, Metallica, Iron Maiden

Hardcore: Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys

I also suggest further reading at www.allmusic.com-- click on 'search by genre' and read up on the history of both for a more detailed answer.

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