Music lovers also congregate in the Gaysorn area near the Meridien President Hotel, where the Blue Moon (253-7553) offers live jazz and heavy-metal rock by local and visiting musicians.

He and his excellent band rearranged the number as a riproaring parody of heavy-metal rock, which he topped off by executing clownish acrobatic stunts on top of the piano.

The Replacements share some of their subject matter - running wild, feeling enraged and disoriented, despising the adult world - with heavy-metal rock.

Taken literally, the bulk of rap songs (like much heavy-metal rock) reveal adolescent attitudes toward women, who are often presented as either materialistic and cold or easy sexual conquests.

Punishing the Vatican with heavy-metal rock?

Success Stories Although hard- to heavy-metal rock didn't exert as strong an impact this year as last, it remained the most reliable commercial style of pop.

The format of a station determines its audience; for instance, younger men prefer heavy-metal rock 'n' roll, while older women prefer soft-rock vocals from the 1960's and 1970's.

He begins imagining a nightmarish future in which they move to suburbia and bring up resentful children who take drugs and listen to heavy-metal rock.

Mr. Beck, who became the lead guitarist in the Yardbirds in 1965 after replacing Eric Clapton, is regarded as a founding father of heavy-metal rock.

During the Persian Gulf War, troops blasted heavy-metal rock across the border of Kuwait.