Mole - Intro + Sky Fall (Live @ ZAKK Düsseldorf)

Mole aus Düsseldorf live im Zakk beim Newcomer Festival 2012 runde 3 our Band "Mole" from Düsseldorf, Germany --- From the late 1960s it became common to divide mainstream rock music into soft and hard rock. Soft rock was often derived from folk rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody and harmonies.[112] Major artists included Carole King, Cat Stevens and James Taylor.[112] It reached its commercial peak in the mid- to late- 70s with acts like Billy Joel, America and the reformed Fleetwood Mac, whose Rumours (1977) was the best selling album of the decade.[113] In contrast, hard rock was more often derived from blues-rock and was played louder and with more intensity.[114] It often emphasised the electric guitar, both as a rhythm instrument using simple repetitive riffs and as a solo lead instrument, and was more likely to be used with distortion and other effects.[114] Key acts included British Invasion bands like The Who and The Kinks, as well as psychedelic era performers like Cream, Jimi Hendrix and The Jeff Beck Group.[114] Hard rock bands that enjoyed international success in the later 1970s included Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith and AC/DC.[114] From the late 1960s the term heavy metal began to be used to describe some hard rock played with even more volume and intensity, first as an adjective and by the early 1970s as a noun.[115] The term was first used in music in Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" (1967) and began to be associated with pioneer bands like Boston's Blue Cheer and Michigan's Grand Funk Railroad.[116] By 1970 three key British bands had developed the characteristic sounds and styles which would help shape the sub-genre. Led Zeppelin added elements of fantasy to their riff laden blues-rock, Deep Purple brought in symphonic and medieval interests from their progressive rock phrase and Black Sabbath introduced facets of the gothic and modal harmony, helping to produce a "darker" sound.[117] These elements were taken up by a "second generation" of heavy metal bands into the late 1970s, including: Judas Priest, Motörhead and Rainbow from Britain; Kiss, Ted Nugent, and Blue Öyster Cult from the US; Rush from Canada and UFO and Scorpions Sex Pistols and The Clash, in London, were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement.[124] The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world. Punk quickly, though briefly, became a major cultural phenomenon in the United Kingdom. For the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized By the latter 1990s, nu metal bands were playing a combination of thrash metal, hip hop, industrial, hardcore punk and grunge.[1] Established artists such as Sepultura,[31] Vanilla Ice[32] and Machine Head[33] released albums which drew from the style. In Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, Ian Christie wrote that the genre demonstrated that "pancultural metal could pay off".[34] However, some fans of old metal did not fully embrace the style.[34] The 30th anniversary of Woodstock featured nu metal bands, notably Korn and Limp Bizkit.[35] Limp Bizkit's 1999 album Significant Other reached number 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 643,874 copies in its first week of release.[36] In its second week of release, the album sold 335,000 copies.[36] In 2000, Limp Bizkit's followup album, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, set a record for highest week-one sales of a rock album with over one million copies sold in the U.S. in its first week of release, with 400,000 of those sales coming on its first day, making it the fastest-selling rock album ever, breaking the world record held for seven years by Pearl Jam's Vs.[37] The same year, Papa Roach's major label debut, Infest became a platinum hit.[38] Late in 2000, Linkin Park released their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which remains both the best-selling debut album by any artist in the 21st century, as well as the best-selling nu metal album of all time.[39] The album was also the best-selling album in all genres in 2001,[40] earning the band a Grammy Award for their second single, Crawling",[41] with the fourth single, In The End, released late in 2001, becoming one of the most recognized songs in the first decade of the 21st century.[42][43]