Editing Heavy metal music (section)

===Image and fashion===
{{Main|Heavy metal fashion}}
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For many artists and bands, visual imagery plays a large role in heavy metal. In addition to its sound and lyrics, a heavy metal band's image is expressed in album cover art, logos, stage sets, clothing, design of instruments and [[music video]]s.<ref>Weinstein (2000), p. 27</ref>

Down-the-back long hair is the "most crucial distinguishing feature of metal fashion".<ref>Weinstein (2000), p. 129</ref> Originally adopted from the hippie subculture, by the 1980s and 1990s, heavy metal hair "symbolised the hate, angst and disenchantment of a generation that seemingly never felt at home", according to journalist Nader Rahman. Long hair gave members of the metal community "the power they needed to rebel against nothing in general".<ref>Rahman, Nader. [http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2006/07/04/musings.htm "Hair Today Gone Tomorrow"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071206171850/http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2006/07/04/musings.htm |date=6 December 2007 }}. ''Star Weekend Magazine'', 28 July 2006. Retrieved 20 November 2007</ref>

The classic uniform of heavy metal fans consists of light-colored, ripped, frayed or torn blue jeans, black T-shirts, boots, and black leather or denim jackets. [[Deena Weinstein]] wrote, "T-shirts are generally emblazoned with the logos or other visual representations of favorite metal bands."<ref>Weinstein (2000), p. 127</ref> In the 1980s, a range of sources – from punk rock and [[goth music]] to horror films – influenced metal fashion.<ref name=Umelec>Pospiszyl, Tomáš. [http://www.divus.cz/umelec/en/pages/umelec.php?id=13&roc=2001&cis=1 "Heavy Metal".] ''Umelec'', January 2001. Retrieved on 20 November 2007. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080603034818/http://www.divus.cz/umelec/en/pages/umelec.php?id=13&roc=2001&cis=1 |date=3 June 2008 }}</ref> Many metal performers of the 1970s and 1980s used radically shaped and brightly colored instruments to enhance their stage appearance.<ref name="Thompson (2007), p. 135">Thompson (2007), p. 135</ref><ref name="Blush">{{cite web|first=Steven|last=Blush|author-link=Steven Blush|title=American Hair Metal – Excerpts: Selected Images and Quotes|date=11 November 2007|publisher=[[Feral House]]|url=http://feralhouse.com/press/mini_sites/american_hair_metal/excerpts.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111141800/http://feralhouse.com/press/mini_sites/american_hair_metal/excerpts.php|archive-date=11 November 2007|access-date=25 November 2007}}</ref>

Fashion and personal style was especially important for glam metal bands of the era. Performers typically wore long, dyed, hairspray-teased hair (hence the nickname "hair metal"); makeup such as lipstick and eyeliner; gaudy clothing, including leopard-skin-printed shirts or vests and tight denim, leather or spandex pants; and accessories such as headbands and jewelry.<ref name="Thompson (2007), p. 135"/> Pioneered by the heavy metal act [[X Japan]] in the late 1980s, bands in the Japanese movement known as [[visual kei]], which includes many non-metal groups, emphasize elaborate costumes, hair and makeup.<ref>{{cite web|author=Strauss, Neil|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00EFD7103DF93BA25755C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title=The Pop Life: End of a Life, End of an Era|date=18 June 1998|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=9 May 2008}}</ref>