Since The Beatles composed Helter Skelter, a song in 1968 that in some ways foreshadowed heavy metal, much has happened. One of the original and founding milestones of the genre was the Black Sabbath album by the band of the same name, published in 1970, without forgetting the hard rock influence of Led Zeppelin.

Since then, metal music has had, in its more than half-century of history, multiple trends and developments, from the classic heavy metal of bands like Iron Maiden or Judas Priest to more recent trends such as black metal, death metal, doom and progressive metal, which mark the most avant-garde lines. In its beginnings, this style did not have it easy. It was born in humble environments and critics were hard on it, branding the genre as monotonous and with a tendency to repeat itself. However, time has proven these tenacious and innovative creators right, who have sown our culture with classic records.

On the other hand, the various variants of the genre have given birth to bands as sophisticated in composition as Opeth, Dream Theater, Jute Gyte, Gojira, Meshuggah or Schammash, to name just a few, with music that openly explores dissonance, alternative tunings and even microtonality.

This activity will focus on the sounds of heavy metal and extreme metal, reviewing the history of the movement, the compositional techniques, the instruments and equipment and also the lyrics and poetry of metal. But above all we will talk about the heroic, mythical and spiritual link of heavy metal, always in the abyss that goes from light to darkness.