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Certif1ed
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 08:36 | ||
Blue Cheer are top of my list - although they really invented the whole "Goes to 11" thing. Spooky Tooth are worthy pre-Zeppelin contenders, as are, possibly, Vanilla Fudge, Cream and - even earlier - the Kinks effectively brought the riff to its potential. Motorhead's style can be heard in The Pink Fairies (and Twink before them), and also MC5 and the Stooges to some extent - and yes, the Beatles.
Pink Floyd also appear in the proto-metal roll-call, especially with tracks like "Careful with That Axe Eugene", Beck/Yardbirds has already been mentioned, and there are stylistic similarites in the music of the Small Faces, The Troggs and the Zombies.
High Tide are an obvious case, as are Bakerloo, Warhorse, Focus and a number of other early heavy prog bands.
For me, though, the great overlooked are the Scorpions. What M Schenker and UJR particularly brought to metal is immeasurable.
It'd be cool to investigate this area thoroughly - the above is just top-of-the-head stuff, so may be incomplete and, gulp, inaccurate
Not really - the self-titled "Black Album" is a very worthy if extremely (and surprisingly) commercial collection of very good metal songs. Everything after that is rubbish, IMO, but obviously, the stuff before that is pure Prog Metal in the truest sense.
Here's an article that I used many moons ago for research - I haven't read it for a while, but it's extremely good: http://www.anus.com/metal/about/history.html
Watch out for inaccuracies and red herrings
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rushfan4
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 09:44 | ||
I thought that Steppenwolf invented "heavy metal" with "heavy metal thunder". Actually though, I've personally considered the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" to be the first metal song, although there are probably other earlier songs that would fit the bill.
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Certif1ed
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 17:25 | ||
^Born To Be Wild was released in 1968, wasn't it? I'm not sure that Steppenwolf were referring to the music when they wrote that... Helter Skelter certainly has a good riff - but the Kinks, Cream, Troggs and Hendrix were all riffing before that.
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rushfan4
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 17:32 | ||
^ Yes. Born to Be Wild was released in 1968. Same year as Helter Skelter.
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 19:11 | ||
DIO i guess.. I love is voice.
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Jshutt64
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 20:39 | ||
Well of the mentioned bands, I went with Zeppelin. One of my favorite bands of all time. I don't really consider them metal, though.
In actual metal, I really enjoy female-fronted. Interests include Nightwish, After Forever, Epica, Aghora, and Visions of Atlantis. Four of those are in the archives, even though I don't think they should be (except Aghora and maybe Epica).
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Atavachron
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Posted: January 10 2008 at 04:05 | ||
that guitar tech discussion you had last year was great, and it touched on much of this... I agree about Uli and Mike.. |
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micky
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Posted: January 10 2008 at 17:21 | ||
agree with Cert... I think they were refer to motorcycles... not music |
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Jared
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Posted: January 10 2008 at 17:43 | ||
Zep, followed by Sabbath, rather predictably...
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ProgBagel
Prog Reviewer Joined: May 13 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2819 |
Posted: January 10 2008 at 17:43 | ||
Megadeth?
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King Crimson776
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 01:41 | ||
Are you saying Thought Chamber owns Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Metallica? |
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Nuke
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 02:11 | ||
Lots of metalheads don't consider Sabbath to be metal, but rather hard rock. These types are likely to consider Judas priest the first metal band. Priest invented a lot of the concepts we take for granted in any metal after them, such as the dual guitar attack, or the lack of blues in their sound. Edited by Nuke - January 11 2008 at 02:15 |
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Petrovsk Mizinski
Prog Reviewer Joined: December 24 2007 Location: Ukraine Status: Offline Points: 25210 |
Posted: January 11 2008 at 03:02 | ||
Not really - the self-titled "Black Album" is a very worthy if extremely (and surprisingly) commercial collection of very good metal songs. Everything after that is rubbish, IMO, but obviously, the stuff before that is pure Prog Metal in the truest sense.
Here's an article that I used many moons ago for research - I haven't read it for a while, but it's extremely good: http://www.anus.com/metal/about/history.html
Watch out for inaccuracies and red herrings
Even though i was born in 1988, i was actaully exposed to the early metallica records first, such as Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, , Master Of Puppets and ...And Justice For All. The problem was with the Black Album, was that is was not bad (ironic i know, but i will explain). The fact it was not bad, compared to RTL or MOP, which were excellent, left me feeling rather disappointed, particularly after metallica had only just begun an outing in almost prog metal with AJFA, it was a big shame they had started to cut down on technicality and make the compositions more sparse.
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