Hard Rock

Music genre typically confused with Heavy Metal. The general difference between it is with speed and type of singer. Some Heavy Metal bands will sometimes produce Hard Rock, and Hard Rock, Rock and Heavy Metal can get confused between each other by fans from time to time. Bands like Linkin Park fall into Hard Rock, while mainstream people may call it Metal. Hard Rock generally consists of an overdriven guitar, lyrics often addressing sorrow or hate (maybe relating to real events), drums, bass guitar and sometimes a second singer. A feature which seperates Hard Rock from metal is screaming. Hard Rock rarely uses the typical screaming we think of when we think "Metal". Instead Hard Rock will often have more of a growling sound on words to emphasise - a loud one, though.