Where did it originate from?: Mid 1960's Worldwide, alot of inspiration taken from Garage rock, Rock N Roll and Psych rock.
Main Bands / Musicians: Led Zepplin, Cream, Kiss, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Acadaca (AC/DC, Cold Chisel, Jimmy Barnes, The Angels, Ozzy Osbourne, GNR (Guns N Roses), Wolfmother, Foo Fighters, Creed, Deep Purple, Van Halen, Bon Jovi + millions more
Related genres: Garage Rock, Rock N Roll, Psych Rock, Southern Rock, Proggressive Rock
Basic Overview / History:
Many rock bands from the mid 60's started using a heavyer tone / use of guitar not seen in rock music before, they also had the Garage rock additude to play louder then the average rock band, the Garage music would see bands such as Iggy & The Stooges (Basically Invented Punk) while bands like MC5 while being Garage played more hard rock.
Some of the first Hard Rock bands that did not preform in the Garage era were Deep Purple, Led Zep, Whitesnake, while other bands such as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Wolf [UK] (Later renamed and relocated to Newcastle as Black Axe) would go more of the Heavy Metal way while first starting out as Hard Rock bands, they created a whole scene and over 10000 genres of Metal+ with nearly each day a new sub sub sub genre being created.
Getting back onto hard rock, while the 60's foundation was set the 70's had a massive expansion with many fans loving Hard Rock this would bring out more bands such as Bad Company, Queen, Alice Cooper, Kiss, ZZ Top (Some is Blues while other songs are Hard Blues and Southern Rock), Boston and Lynyrd Skynyrd who changed there style of music to adapt with the Hard Rock scene while also having that Southern Rock sound.
Many other bands would form in the 70's many adapting there old style's while also experimenting playing louder like many Southern Rock bands, In Australia Hard Rock was refered too as Pub Rock this was also the underground scene of Hard Rock bands preforming in Pubs as well we didn't have mass / big stages for unknown bands
, who emerged from this scene was Acdaca (AC/DC), Cold Chisel, The Angels, Devinyals and after Cold Chisel changed singers Jimmy Barnes went solo along with forming many other bands.The 80's came around and Glam Rock / Hair Rock and Glam Metal was the craze (I will cover Glam Metal in another fourm), however some bands like Thin Lizzy, Styx, Poison, Whitesnake and many others would still perform Hard Rock while singing about women and other things people do... in the bed... that was the main topic for Glam rock.
The 90's was overcome by Grunge, this ment people stopped talking about Hard Rock bands until the passing away or many Grunge bands breaking up, this also helped the 2000's out with many bands reforming and heaps new bands getting created like Foo Fighters, WOlfmother and millions more, to this day Hard Rock is a big genre and millions of bands still perform it.
Since the 2010's many new genres which are hard rock related have been created with many current underground bands performing these genres, these genres are Desert Rock (Started in Arizona / New Mexico with bands performing Psych rock while there lyrics are Desert inspired), Acid Rock, started in the 70's but was forgotten about until recently, Heavy Fuzz, (Heavy Fuzz basically means a Heavy fuzzy sound after the guitar is played this is orintated with Hard Rock and Heavy Psych), for more info on these related bands there is a podcast known as The FuzzHeavy they play the whole hard rock underground from 2010's up too current, they also release free song packs per month so check em out.
Hand Of Glory - Till The End Of Time (Forgotten Texas Southern Rock Band)
I forgot haha.