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    Posted: November 15 2017 at 17:30
In your opinion what was it?

I'm going with Paranoid by Sabbath. 
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Paranoid? Why not the debut?
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Black Sabbath...Debut album Evil Smile
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Originally posted by Larkstongue41 Larkstongue41 wrote:

Paranoid? Why not the debut?


I'm probably making this more complicated than it is but to me the debut is Heavy not Metal but Paranoid is both. What do I know? LOL
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Since the OP put 'heavy metal' in quotes it would have to be the debut, a blueprint that still gets used to this day.   Throw in the devil worship and unfashionable preoccupation with death and the deed was done.   Considering it was recorded in the fall of '69 and that Sabbath was gigging well before, one does wonder how influenced or not the boys were by a little act called the New Yardbirds and their wacky first record, Led Zeppelin.
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^ If you were listening to rock music back then, you would know that nothing sounded like Led Zep I when it came out, ... nothing. It was absolutely shocking the first time you heard it, like what the hell is this.    A lot of hippies hated it too.


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^ Oh 'Good Times,Bad Times' must've been a revelation.   In fact it still is.
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And somewhere right in there, a little ditty called 21st Century Schizoid Man...

Of course, the rest of THAT album was NOT!...

(But that track ALSO must have come as a shock

The unforgettable line,"...neurosurgeons scream for more..."

...sounding prophetic then...
...And being so, now...)
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Originally posted by Larkstongue41 Larkstongue41 wrote:

Paranoid? Why not the debut?

Because their debut has only TWO songs that could be considered metal: Black Sabbath and The Wizard.
NIB is hard rock and others are blues rock. 
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I've not heard them but I've often read it was something by this lot.
 
 
Blue Cheer is often credited as one of the very earliest pioneers of heavy metal and their version of "Summertime Blues" has been cited as the first heavy metal song.[6] According to Tim Hills in his book, The Many Lives of the Crystal Ballroom,[32] "Blue Cheer was the epitome of San Francisco psychedelia." Jim Morrison of The Doors characterized the group as "the single most powerful band I've ever seen"[33] and Eric Clapton defined them as "probably the originators of heavy metal".[34] Blue Cheer influenced such late 1970s bands as East-European psychedelic hardcore band Galloping Coroners.[35]


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Blue Cheer's Vincebus Eruptum is like a garage stoner rock album. You could trace its influence to heavy metal due to the guitar tone and furious drumming, but the rest of the band's output is mostly "average" psych/hard rock.
Other than Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, I'd say the first self conscious heavy metal album is probably Sad Wings of Destiny.
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For me it's Led Zep 1.....the first time I heard that it was like nothing I had heard before .(and I was familiar with Blue Cheer.)
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