Cover It Up, Volume 1by Various Artists

Music, as we all know, did not start out as just music. One guy didn't make up a series of notes and call it music. It was evolved through many different tones, and when those tones were played in a specific way, it is calming or any other emotion. The oldest known genre of this music was, for the most part, national folk music. With the primitive instruments that they made, they created the first forms of music. Before the Dark Ages, there was no way to write it down, but as methods became available, the current notation system was invented. Classical composers used this method and listened for those tones in the folk music to write down. The classical composers then made them their own style, including melodies and technical pieces, creating classical music. Over time, that European music evolved and made its way into North America. In addition, when the Africans learned the style of writing music down, they did the same, but rather than note-for-note precision, they used different time signatures, and added a groove and improvised with notes outside of the standard diatonic scales. Thus, jazz was born. That music originated in the United States, and from jazz came blues. Blues spawned rock and roll, which spawned rock music in general. Then, in the late 1960s, a band called Black Sabbath took those rock and roll influences and made it darker, creating heavy metal. The genre then dispersed and created thousands of sub genres, making more subgenres of those subgenres. The most common were Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, and in Europe, Power Metal, Melodic Death Metal, and other genres that were heavily classically influenced. Every band we know today had influences to inspire them to create their style. They each took after another band, and many others to create their style. These bands paid tribute to the bands that inspired them to make music, and they did so in the form of cover songs. Excellent album.