latin metal
{{short description|Genre of heavy metal with Latin music themes}}
{{Infobox music genre
| name = Latin metal
| stylistic_origins = *Heavy metal
- Pop rock
- Latin rock
- Latin music
- rock en español
- Latin American music
- Spanish rock
- World music
- Latin jazz
| cultural_origins = Late 1970s, Latin America
| other_topics = * Folk metal
}}
Latin metal ({{Langx|es|metal latino}}, {{Langx|pt|metal latino-americano}}) is a subgenre of heavy metal music with Latin origins, influences, and instrumentation, such as Spanish vocals, Latin percussion and rhythm such as Salsa rhythm. Some South American bands also add influences and instrumentations borrowed from world music and ethnic music, relating to musical traditions of the indigenous people of America.
History
An early mention of the term comes from critic Robert Christgau, who referred to Carlos Santana's music from the 1970s as "Latin-metal pop," making it a possible forerunner in the genre.{{cite book
| last = Christgau
| first = Robert
| author-link = Robert Christgau
| title = Rock albums of the '70s: a critical guide
| publisher = Da Capo
| year = 1990
| page = 342
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=M_WYoRHmwJEC&pg=PA342
| isbn = 978-0-306-80409-0}}
Latin metal started in the 1970s and 1980s, originating in many countries of Latin America, thanks to the increasing worldwide popularity of heavy metal and heavy rock from Europe (obviously including Spain, with bands such as Baron Rojo and Angeles del Infierno singing in Spanish and reaching international success in the 1980s) and United States, with Argentina having an important scene as well (Rata Blanca, V8). It may also have profited from the "Latin explosion" in the United States of the 1990s, though some critics contend that the gap between Ricky Martin-style pop and metal is too great for Latin metal to have profited greatly.{{cite magazine
| last = Burr
| first = Ramiro
| title = Are You Ready to Rock Pesado? Latinos Struggle to Prove their Metal
| magazine = Billboard
| pages = 52–54
| date = 2000-06-24
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rg8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52
| access-date = 2009-08-11}} Still, record companies in the 1990s sought to profit from the rise of Latin pop, as evidenced from the Metalo compilation of Latin metal bands by the Grita! Records label, which included songs by Ill Niño and Puya,{{cite news
| title = Puya, Armored Saint Lead Latin Metal Surge On Metalo
| publisher = MTV
| date = 1999-06-25
| url = http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1425005/19990625/armored_saint.jhtml
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100425215720/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1425005/19990625/armored_saint.jhtml
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = April 25, 2010
| access-date = 2009-08-11}} and bands from the 1990s such as Sepultura and Soulfly are cited as predecessors in the genre.{{cite news
| last = Peiken
| first = Matt
| title = Bang Your Head: Latin Metal is Next 'Revolucion'
| work = Sun Herald
| date = 2001-07-31
| url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BX&s_site=sunherald&p_multi=BX&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF77BB8D5C2628C&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
| access-date = 2009-08-11}} In the United States, Ill Niño is probably the best-known exponent of the genre; their first two albums (with "philosophical and bilingual lyrics" about such topics as growing up fatherless) were commercially successful and got them strong radio play in for instance the San Antonio area.{{cite news
| last = Burr
| first = Ramiro
| title = Latin Notes: Ill Nino's confessional Latin metal band rages about missing fathers, betrayals, and loving and hating
| work = San Antonio Express-News
| page = J.8
| date = 2003-11-30
}}
Latin metal bands
=Argentina=
=Mexico=
=United States=
- Ankla
- Brujeria A death metal band from Los Angeles
- Ill Niño - A heavy metal band from New Jersey whose 2001 debut album Revolution Revolución was seminal in the development of the genre.{{cite book
| last = Sharpe-Young
| first = Garry
| title = New Wave of American Heavy Metal
| publisher = Zonda Books
| year = 2005
| page = 242
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uIIf03bGyAAC&pg=PA242
| isbn = 978-0-9582684-0-0}}{{cite web
| title = Ill Niño: Overview
| publisher = Allmusic
| url = {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p484562|pure_url=yes}}
| access-date = 2009-08-11}}
==Puerto Rico==
References
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{{Portal bar|Latin music|Music}}
{{heavymetal}}
{{Music in Spanish}}