Hard rock made rock heavier and louder: at its centre is the powerful riff of an overdriven electric guitar, a dense rhythm section, and energetic, at times strained vocals. This is the music of great concerts, stadiums, and guitar solos.
Its classics are Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple (Smoke on the Water), Black Sabbath, and later AC/DC and Queen. It was from hard rock, at the turn of the 1970s, that heavy metal grew. In Ukraine this tradition nourished the powerful rock scene of the independence era (the Chervona Ruta festival of 1989, the bands Vopli Vidopliassova and Braty Hadiukiny).
