Hard rock

Hard rock is a vaguely defined subgenre of rock music emerged from the movements of garage, blues and psychedelic rock from the second half of the sixties of the twentieth century.

Within its origins and influences can be mentioned styles and genres as varied as classic rock and roll, blues rock, garage rock, psychedelic rock and folk music but, from different points of view, it was eliminating external elements and It constituted as its own identity. The term hard rock usually includes the derivatives and subgenres of rock heavier and more rugged than the traditional, among which we can mention heavy metal, grunge, glam metal, southern rock, stoner rock, punk rock or even the AOR, among others, which can be considered as subgenres included in hard rock, or genres derived from it.

Although The Kinks was the first artist known to venture into this genre with his 1964 song "You Really Got Me", another legendary rock band like The Jimi Hendrix Experience, with his virtuoso guitarist Jimi Hendrix, would be considered (as of 1966 ) one of the true creators of hard rock as a tangible and concrete entity. Also, during the 60s, other bands practiced primitive variants of this style, being considered as pioneers of the genre, among these artists appear Steppenwolf, Vanilla Fudge, The Amboy Dukes, Iron Butterfly or Blue Cheer.

However, it is commonly considered that those who consolidated hard rock, were the three British bands: Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin.

Then, in the mid and late seventies, the Australian AC / DC, or the glamorous Aerosmith, Kiss, Whitesnake, Queen, Alice Cooper and Van Halen gave continuity to hard rock, along with bands like Bad Company, Rainbow, the progressive Rush, Scorpions, Thin Lizzy, UFO, the Scots Nazareth or the Ian Gillan Band, names that ended up shaping the genre in its entirety.