1970s style of heavy metal most notably represented by Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Motorhead (you could include Venom here, but everything they did was done by Motorhead except the explicit and repetitive occult imagery). Consequently, it erabraced dark imagery, with Iron Maiden taking on occult topics, Motorhead wearing Iron Crosses (a syrabol of the defeated National Socialist regime in Germany). Alone this would be cause enough to say metal was divergent from rock of the time.
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