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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9646390" data-attributes="member: 19675">Personally, I see “steampunk” much like you do, a 1980s-spawned genre inspired by writers like Verne & Wells, akin to how “neoclassical” art, music and architecture aren’t quite the same as classical.  But labels on social trends can be pretty muddy.According to people who study such things, “Heavy Metal” as a distinct genre arose in 1968 with Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, with Sabbath considered the real fathers.  Zep & Purple would get called “proto-metal”.  But its use in music journalism predates any of those bands by years, and was first used lyrically by Steppenwolf.And the thing is, most modern metalheads don’t consider Zep, Purple or Sabbath to be real metal bands these days.  And within those bands, even the members don’t agree about whether they were or not.  Ozzy routinely refers to his band as “heavy blues” instead of metal.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷🏾" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fe.png" title="Person shrugging: medium-dark skin tone    :person_shrugging_tone4:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging_tone4:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />I’m not saying it was a popular opinion, but people have espoused it, right or wrong.</blockquote>