Is Van Halen a metal band?
Is Van Halen a metal band?
Henry Cox
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Lincoln Martinez
hard rock
Gavin Barnes
kinda
Jaxson Turner
How exactly?
Alexander Rivera
Their early stuff was pretty heavy for its time, but I wouldn’t exactly call it metal. I’d consider it they heavier end of hard rock
Anthony Clark
hard rock
Ayden Edwards
proto-hair metal
Henry Howard
Early on, for their time they would easily be considered American heavy metal, as all long haired loud higher energy guitar bands were, really they're more of a hard rock band.
Logan Jackson
Rock band, not really metal.
Andrew Ward
they're a rock band that influenced most, if not all glam metal bands of the 80's (who themselves were arguably more rock than metal)
Aiden Bennett
man this song is the SHIT
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Andrew Collins
hard rock
Ryan Collins
LOL no
it's not even hard rock, it's pop with guitar solos
Owen Long
pop doesn't have DEM RIFFS
Jeremiah Gomez
Definitely helped metal but not metal at all. Just made it look gay, but still good music
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Gabriel Turner
For me they are more Rolling Stones thing because metallists wouldn't cover Roy Orbison or Tom Waits. And also their attitude and stage show was too funny for metal
Jonathan Bailey
Zoomer/poseur, is what I smell
Ryan Rivera
Panama called, it tells you to go fuck yourself.
Joshua Brooks
When Sammy came it became this
Levi Long
David Lee Roth always referred to it as "big rock" which I think is appropriate. Van Halen kind of exist in a genre all their own. They may have given LA metal it's look in the 80s but you really couldn't put VH in the same genre as say, Ratt and Dokken, or even Sabbath and Priest. I unironically think they are the most important American rock band of all time.
Luke James
This. Their very first single was a Kinks cover. Another cut from the debut - Ice Cream Man - is straight up 12-bar blues. I guess some of their individual songs could be considered metal, but not really the band as a whole.
Gavin Hughes
They're textbook dadrock.
Dominic Wright
They're definitely the most important one of the late 70's. The whole shredder trend of the 80's began basically because of EVH.
Connor Flores
That would be Michael Jackson - Beat It.
Jason Sanders
Jonathan Wood
they heavily influenced a lot of metal bands but no
kind of like deep purple
i'd argue some songs are but not enough to define the band