Dude just went as far back as he thought he could get away with. I’m seven minutes in and it’s almost all punk influences. I believe punk that no one really heard, unlike the bands in this video, is really what led to metal music. Motörhead is a punk band. Punk rock gave us Slayer. Slayer... the most metal band ever.
"Helter Skelter" is great. The correct answer is Deep Purple. Everyone had to sing like Gillan later (not Ozzy, not McCartney, not...) because that was the sound. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sDvxueiv66I.html
I see what your thinking..but sabbath influence was 5 to 7 years after Paul whom influenced George's power chords post Hard days night but mid Help era. Yes the real dark sound started with those trying to go dark after the beatles..like sabbath but inventing and bringing into mainstream are two diff things
@@ksasidhar2980 Nope. Led Zeppelin were playing Dazed and Confused and Communication Breakdown live to the public before the Beatles recorded Helter Skelter. Zeppelin first played those songs to the public September 7th 1968. And The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page did Stroll On in 1966, and Page, Beck and John Paul Jones did Becks Belero also in 1966.
‘’Tony Iommi is the real father of heavy metal, a constantly evolving genius, a master of riffs and one of the greatest people in the world!’’ Brian May
"What is the exact point when red becomes orange?" I love that question. This treatment of the subject is awesome. Thanks. I lived through all of this.
@@theccarbiter I agree but the video was talking about the origin of metal and that’s where the analogy makes sense because it’s difficult/near impossible exactly where metal began, like how it’s near impossible to find exactly where orange becomes red
That exact point is actually neither color. It's black. As in, Black Sabbath. That's when metal began. The Who were loud. Zeppelin and Deep Purple were heavy. Jimi had his own category. Sabbath is metal.
Even Lemmy himself would disagree. He hated it when people referred to Motorhead as "heavy metal". They were more like Chuck Berry meets Hawkwind meets The Damned on a month long speed bender and at volume 11.
They aren't a metal band and he never said they are lol. They do however have multiple songs that can be credited as an influence to the birth of metal
Helter Skelter was definitely a predecessor to metal. One of my favourite Beatle song, with its screaming lyrics and heavy distortion. In addition it also has a violent and infamous legacy due to its association with the Manson murders. Definitely a heavy tune that left a mark on history
I really cant stand the beatles. Someone said Beatles created metal before Sabbath and i wanted to disagree but i gave them the benefit of the doubt. I hate to say it but helter skelter is metal as fuck
The “Unholy Trinity” (Sabbath, Purple, and Zeppelin) are credited as the inventors of metal, and they all brought different influences to the table. Sabbath was influenced by blues, Purple was heavily influenced by classical, and Zeppelin was influenced by folk and 1950’s rock & roll. All three made their own unique sound, and all three invented the genre we know now as heavy metal.
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 Not true. The yardbirds were already doing some pretty heavy stuff in 66-67. The two biggest influences for metal were the blues and distortion, also known as Jimi hendrix. Led Zeppelin basically is the perfect combination of rock and its parent genre, the blues. Add distortion to it and you get Sabbath which basically is heavy metal. Helter Skelter didn't do a whole lot to push the concept. Many bands were trying to make songs that rocked harder than any song released before. The Who were trying to top themselves and the beatles were trying to top them. But all this probably led to creation of hard rock, not metal. The origins of heavy metal can be summed up in the following manner : The blues Jimi hendrix The Unholy Trinity : Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath
What I take from this is that Black Sabbath are the creators of metal as a genre. The previous artists all created or built on top of the key components that make metal the genre what it is. Black Sabbath perfectly combined all of these components. They created songs that no other artists ever had before and their sound is the only one that sends shivers down my spine everytime I hear it, listening since I was born since my dad loved them and I do too, to this very day.
the reason why it's sabbath is that was the first band that everyone immediately called heavy metal. "Heavy metal" is a phrase more than a style of music. If lawrence welk was called "heavy metal" then it would be him.
@Heroin Bob it isnt, its hard rock pure and simple, it doesnt have the drive in the drums that metal does and if you dont believe me, even the band dont thing their metal.
UwU dan dude, its very easy to tell that Black Sabbath is different from Led Zeppelin, much heavier. Black sabbath uses heavy, slow riffing (ie Black Sabbath off of their debut), whereas Led zeppelin, has light hearted rock riffs. if eletric wizard, dopesmoker, and sleep are metal, you can not say black sabbath isnt
They're oft credited with creating the first heavy metal song..I tend to agree. Also, Jimmy Hendrix 's music was once described as "sounding like heavy metal falling from the sky". The way he shredded surely influenced most every metal guitarist along their journey.
I dont care what anyone says, metal would not be the dark, gloomy heaviness it is today without sabbath. They set the tone for what a metal band should be
All of these bands played major parts in metal. But people you will never know about played parts in it as well. Musical genres don't just grow on trees, they have taken many millennia to become what they are today. Music history predates even written history. Black Sabbath (although I agree they are a major, if not the most major, turning point), would never have existed without the blues, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Chuck Berry, J.S. Bach, and all of their influences combined.
It might be a push, but if blue cheer wins it’s because the disjunction of a cover and it’s ‘heavier’ version. May be a moot point anyway as the steppenwolf dude is apparently adamant that he invent the genre via his lyric
Yeah, honestly, Helter Skelter has always been where I really heard a lot of the elements start to come together. That song's vocals are a lot more metal-like than most of the other songs listed here, imo.
The first time I heard that song you could've told it was straight out of the 90s. This ecstatic singing and chaotic instrumental is something I didn't find in any of the other early "metal" songs which makes it feel more like the classic punk attitude. I love that rawness and it's the main reason why I lost my interest in metal after a relatively short time. Just feels... too calculated from time to time
@@Dracula616-u5g I already know I was there. It was sabbath NOT because of the sound, but because they were the first band that everyone called heavy metal. Nobody called the Kinks or the Who or the Stones or the Beatles or Steppenwolf or any of the others metal until AFTER sabbath. That is when the term "heavy metal" became connected to a type of music.
Black Sabbath weren't called metal until the late '70s, what are you on about? Iommi claimed that they played heavy rock, Ozzy called their music "stoner blues rock". The first heavy metal band was Sir Lord Baltimore.@@scambammer6102
@@nevillebowden4948 Punk is an idea, not a sound. It's lyrics are rather meaningless (I love the song anyway), but it's not punk. The sound is more reminiscent of hardcore, which to be honest is pretty much punk without the political/social commentary
You folks are delusional. This video doesn't even mention anything about Bach or any European classical artist. Metal comes from exactly where the video say's it's from. Sorry to disappoint y'all!
Helter skelter came out in 1968 but they had 9 or 10 albums before helter skelter before there album with helter skelter and back in the U.S.S.R before there was howlin wolf mostly know for smokestack lightin which came out in 1958 and after that in 1966 he made sitting on top of the world which is now most know by its cover by cream aka Eric Clapton , ginger baker and jack bruce , Bo diddly I’m a man came out in 1958 . Jimi Hendrix Are you experienced came out in 1967 which has fire , purple haze , I don’t live today and highway Chile and in the SAME year he made the bold as live album which had Spanish castle magic , she’s so fine and castles made of sand. CREAM in 1966 had their first album fresh cream with N.S.U , Toad and I feel free which are all bangers . The kinks 1964 the kinks album included beautiful Delilah , you really got me , all day all of night and Louie Louie . 1964 the yardbirds who had artist like Eric Clapton , Jimmy page and Jeff beck all of which are legendary. Helter skelter did influence metal with it’s gain driven sound and futuristic screams but without the previous artist and many others helter skelter wouldn’t even exist :)
I was just about to mention Crimson if nobody else did. I've been getting into them recently and some of their early stuff is straight up sinister psych metal, way ahead of its time.
Classical music from the 1910s and earlier played a huge role in metal as well. Black Sabbath wrote their first song because they played Holst’s Mars on the bass, and then modified it a bit. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring was a huge influence as well.
Black Sabbath is the only correct answer. There's no one single thing that makes something "metal". It's a combination of factors and Sabbath has them all. Riffs, lyrical content, energy, atmosphere, controversy and probably many more.
@@karlkuttup For 1966 ( I was 11 years young ) it was about as close to heavy metal as You could get ..... IMO , of course ...... But I see Your point with the acid rock reference .....
The gods made heavy metal and they saw that it was good. They tought to play it louder than hell and we promised that we would. When losers say it's over with, we know that it's a lie. The gods made heavy metal, and it will never gonna die!
Sabbath launched the first fully evolved debut which defined the genre. Their choral structures down tuning and lyrics established the template. They are Heavy Metal and that's all there is to it. Zeppelin's music was amplified blues, not metal.
Yes, but Page's heavy contribution to the the way he played those blues is as important as Clapton's (Cream) and most importantly JIMI FUCKING HENDRIX!!! See my other post on this.
@@larrymagee8758 Hendrix was heavy blues psychedelic and jazz. Nothing whatsoever to do with metal. Page had nothing to do with metal either, it was all rooted in blues. Some of Bonham's drumming was maybe an influence, but even then. Sabbath laid it out in it's complete form and that's all there is to it.
@wayward_wyn I am aware of Blue Cheer. They were an excellent and powerful band. But Sabbath were the complete template. There was a darkness about their music unlike anything else at that point too.
No "bluesman " ever sounded like Led Zeppelin. When LZ's first album came out, no one F.M. listening hipster had heard anything like it, and then when they hit A.M. radio with Whole Lotta Love in 1969 kids like me were blown away. Then the next thing you hear from the F.M. listening hipsters in 1970 is the name Black Sabbath and I was intrigued by the name alone , not having heard their music at that time. Little did we know(except for music press reading hipsters) that music media had just coined a new term to describe this heavy distorted acid rock. A review of American group Sir Lord Baltimore's first album, 1970s Kingdom Come , labeled their sound as "heavy metal". This is the first time the term heavy metal is used to describe a groups sound. Listen to that record and you will see why. By the end of Black Sabbaths first American tour the press started labeling them as heavy metal. As for being the first to have that sound we now call heavy metal, Black Sabbath is the winner. Check out the early Iron Claw (Scottish band 1970) recordings to see how much they loved early Black Sabbath. The music press by 1974/75 often had the big three of Heavy Metal on the cover, Led Zeppelin ,Deep Purple and Black Sabbath.
I'm from Detroit (blow the reveille)! *HEAVY METAL:* Stretching Blues/R&B/Pop/Classical/(almost anything) concepts out to the farthest degree possible. - (Insert 'ominous' here) -Loud, plodding drums. -Loud, 12-bar bass bottom. -Loud, 'machismo' vocals trying to reach high. -Loud, thundering crunch-chords that sound 'gargantuan' & (at the same time) 'dark' or 'ominous'. - (insert tritone here) -Screeching guitar lead with a _'metallic'_ edge. This 'stretching' creates a desirable sort of 'drone' or 'sludge' quality. *Note:* Some say Heavy Metal is _"defined"_ by the _'muted-E'_ or _'diminished-5ths'_ or the _'required'_ presence of the _'tritone'._ (As a musician) I respect someone trying to break it down to pure musical language. *IMHO* You get lost in the weeds that way. You forget the 'dis-affected adolescent'/rebel-against-the-established-order'/ *Culture Shock* goals at play. _By any means necessary!_ Kinda like trying to explain R&R. *LYRICS:* Anyone using 'lyrics' to define a genre should take a musical theory course. Do HM lyrics require _Witches?_ _Spaceships?_ _Norse Gods?_ _Mystical stuff?_ _Murder?_ et al? Of course not. Almost any example could probably be found (to some degree) in another genre ('Gimme Shelter', for instance). While I feel there have been some great HM lyricists; *This ain't exactly Dylan/Morrison territory.* fugedaboudit! *TERMINOLOGY:* Tricky. Forget metallurgy, William Burroughs & Steppenwolf. The term 'Heavy' was used in music going back to the '50s. Contrary to popular belief, the term "Heavy Metal" WAS used in the late '60s by Journalists, Radio DJs, & during interviews, if clumsily. I Heard It Used & said it myself. *-* *Lester Bangs* used _"Heavy Metal"_ to describe a Love concert. - (unknown origin) *-* A Hendrix concert was described as _"...Heavy_ _Metal falling from the sky."_ - (unknown origin) *-* (re: Guess Who’s 'Canned Wheat') _“With a_ _fine hit single, ‘Undun,’ behind them, they’re_ _quite refreshing in the wake of all the heavy_ _metal robots of the year past.”_ - (Rolling Stone-Feb.1970-Lester Bangs) *-* _"....Humble Pie is a noisy, unmelodic, heavy_ _metal-leaden shit-rock band, with the loud_ _and noisy parts beyond doubt.”_ - (Rolling Stone-Sept.1970-Mike Saunders) *-* _"....Grand Funk sludge, because Sir Lord_ _Baltimore seems to have down pat most_ _all the best heavy metal tricks in the book."_ - (Creem Magazine-May 1971-Mike Saunders) Not much documentation. But, enough to suggest my 'organic usage' claim is real. As you see, it wasn't very _accurate_ usage. Cream/Blue Cheer/Vanilla Fudge/Iron Butterfly/Led Zeppelin/Deep Purple/Mountain were not referred to as _'Heavy Metal'_ (yet). So, the _'terminology-origin-story'_ begins AND ends with *Lester Bangs.* By 1972-73, Lester (& others who followed his lead) were referring to the: *"Heavy Metal Triumvirate"* (Zep/Sab/Purple). By the time BOC & Priest arrived, the genre was codified. When folks say Black Sabbath was the first *Fully-Formed Heavy Metal* (FFHM); It's usually followed by saying previous bands were: _"Hard Rock",_ or _"Psychedelic Rock',_ or _"Proto-Metal",_ or _'Acid Rock',_ whatever. Actually, those previous bands had FFHM songs in their repertoire. But, it was just PART of their set. *Black Sabbath* WAS the 1st to make an entire album of Heavy Metal. THAT was their pioneering concept (ALL Metal)! They also played everything in 'Drop-D'. (Again) not the first. But, the first to feature it prominently in ALL songs. Geezer, Tony, or Bill would be the 1st to admit they continued what Cream (& Jimi, & Blu Chr, & Deep Purple, & Led Zep, & Van Fudge, & Jeff Beck Group, & many others.) had begun. (Ozzie liked _"The Beatles"._ LoL~°) Sabbath also began the process of sifting out the 'blues' aspects (but not entirely). (IMHO) Priest finished THAT job! I submit: Cream - *'Deserted Cities of the Heart'* (1968) Album: *'Live Cream-Vol.2'* (Not 2005 version) It is: *Fully Formed Heavy Metal!* If you still don't hear it; I dunno, man. Peace. Stay Healthy! - Dave B..
Could The Rolling Stones also technically count as an influence on Metal? I mean, wouldn't songs like Sympathy for The Devil and Gimme Shelter warrant an influence on Metal?
They werent metal though, they may have influenced metal artists but they dont play metal, the true original metal artists would technically be mötorhead as phill taylor was the originator of heavy metal drumming
@@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 Yeah, and Paint it Black, too. But, they said they hated the (then emerging) Metal genre, and that their music was something completely different. lol
i've been a metalhead my whole life, being raised on a mix of the 00s nu metal of my childhood and the 80s heavy metal of my dad's teenage years, and while i knew that Black Sabbath was the "first" heavy metal band, i never bothered to trace how we got from blues and rock to metal, let alone where the term "heavy metal" even came from. great video man! :) edit: comments have informed my Jimi Hendrix should've been mentioned, and based on my knowledge of Hendrix...yeah he probably should've been mentioned.
@@uncleal7635 It's more a joke, but plenty of metal bands do have the long hair. Especially in the early metal. Hell, there's technically even a genre for it, hair metal.
@Umbra Don't entirely disagree with you, Black Sabbath were one of the first. Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin I would argue started the hard rock/heavy metal genre. I do think Sabbath and Judas Priest both truly defined metal, however. Deep Purple were the loudest band in the world for a long time, even though they don't claim to be Heavy Metal, nor do Led Zep.
The Beatles released four songs that could be considered metal. Revolution - Hey Jude B-Side Yer Blues - The White Album Helter Skelter - The White Album And then in 1969 I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Abbey Road
DP is one of the most underestimated/forgotten bands in America. If one wanted to sum up a theory about what the present metal is, he'd say that it's a mixture of the Black Sabbath and Deep Purple sounds
I love how today when we hear this distortion in blues it sound normal to us because of how much we’ve heard it around in other music. But when people in the 60s heard distortion thought it to be incredibly heavy, just shows how we’ve grown
Helier Skelter, to me, is undeniably heavier than any other song of the time and the key to the start of metal. The White Album is so incredibly and vastly varied, and Helter Skelter being the start of metal makes the album all that more special. It deserves that recognition.
If you want to look at the Who's influence on Hard Rock and the Metal, look at Live at Leeds and their live work. They take many of their more standard 60s songs and turned the volume to 11. John Entwistle's basslines add a much greater depth and heaviness to the sound, as well as Pete Townshend's use of stacked amps to give greater volume and variation in tones meant he could get incredible distortion out of his SG. The Who live in their prime were hard rock gods.
I was always told 2 possible songs “started” metal. One was The Beatles - Helter Skelter and the other was The Troggs - Wild Thing. I felt Helter Skelter was “heavier” then Wild Thing was, so in this case I’d go with Helter Skelter. Even McCartney said at the time he wanted to make the hardest raunchiest song ever.
The inventor of Heavy Metal music is Toni Iommi with the title track to Black Sabbath's 1st album Black Sabbath released on Friday Feb. 13th 1970, exactly one week before my birth. It didn't use tritone chords but it did use the interval of a tritone from its tonic root. It's in G minor, so the tonic root is the of the OG version of the song Black Sabbath is in G and the tritone to it is a D Flat, and that chord relationship had never before been used as the frontal chord progression for a piece of music in the genre of rock (or any genre near it) until then. It was inspired by Gustav Holst's Mars: Planet of War from The Planets. Mars also inspired The Emperor Theme from The Empire Strikes Back written by John Williams in 1979and Am I Evil by Diamondhead in 1980. Did I get anything wrong? As always: Thanks for posting!
Good analysis, I think Black Sabbath was the first band that made that dark, heavy music! They separated the style from psichodelic like cream or iron butterfly!
HOWEVER, no one knows that Sabbath went DARK / DOOMY / HEAVIER after Geezer heard King Crimson cover Holst's infamous devil's tritone of "Mars: Bringer Of wars". THAT was the moment BS was born, after wanting to be CREAM until Geezer heard KC. Even KC's NAME means satan!!!
@@jollyjakelovell4787 You're so stupid, if Sabbath is just hippie Jam, then Motorhead is a pop band. Suck on this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q0C2rZeJvZo.html This shit is pure evil.
Like I said, it depends on what year you're talking about. During the 1970's (long before bands like Mushroomhead) BOC was considered Metal. Back then, there weren't as many wacky sub-genres of music; back when you could call a spade a spade.
Esther 'Jinx' Dawson's vocals on the album Witchcraft are amazing. The first woman of metal! Thank you for making this video. Sabbath, Deep Purple....you're taking me back to my childhood of metal gigs, snakebite, Newcastle Brown ale, leather jackets & throwing up in the gutter after a hard night's headbanging! The best times
I think that the whole of In Rock is very metal, and Child in Time was mentioned for the vocals alone since it started the trend of high screams in metal music. Speed King, Bloodsucker and Hard Lovin' Man all come to mind as more typically "metal" but the influence of Child in Time is undeniable.
Personally I’d say that had a strong jazz influence, and would be better described as a stepping stone for prog rather than metal. Still a great song though 🤟🤟
I think Blue Oyster Cult diserved a mention here. Many of their songs, not just The Reaper, went on to be staples in the genre and were covered by artists like Metallica, who sited them as a main source of inspiration.
It was my understanding, Sandy Perlman coined the term "Heavy Metal" to describe BOC's music. If that's the case, wouldn't that make BOC the 1st metal band?
@@fhqwhgads1670 My thinking is if your the first person to describe your music with a certain term, wouldn't that make you the first? Sure you had Sabbath and Zeppelin before them, but their music isn't quite the same as theirs and I as far as I know they were the first to call their music Heavy Metal.
@@SBJitney That's one way to classify it that seems legit to me. I would suggest that they are NOT the first to play heavy metal music... but there is really no agreement on what is and is not Heavy Metal... (see the above arguments on Black Sabbath, who IMHO were DEFINITELY a metal band from the off). There are SO many offshoots of the genre and there were so many influences that came together to form (Metal, acid, punk, hardcore, Hard rock, screamo, whatever the fuck Loudness was, Christian Metal, Baby Metal, Death metal, speed metal, funk metal, etc. etc. etc)
You've left out Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore's band. One of the best 70's metal bands. Also you gotta talk about Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix. Holy shit that's a heavy song.
@@unclebruncle Exactly, Voodoo Child and Manic Depression aren't metal but considering that the narrator spent half the vid talking about "heavy" rock songs, Voodoo Child and Manic Depression are both heavier than just about all of them, hell even Purple Haze is heavier than many of the songs provided before the video mentioned Sabbath.
@@EngineeringTechnikcom Sabbath only became heavy when Ronnie James Dio entered the band. Rainbow is the first heavy band before Sabbath. Ronnie James Dio is the only ambassador of "Metal" music.
@@EngineeringTechnikcom I don't talk shit. I'm serious because I got a good ear. do you?? I don't hate Sabbath because of Ozzy, but they aren't heavy. They are pure acid rock. That's not heavy metal yet. DIO created one in Rainbow. Listen to Stargazer if you're still not convinced. And he came to Sabbath. And that's where Iommi poured his full potential with heavy riffs from Heaven and Hell. Rainbow and Sabbath-DIO line up is the pioneer of Metal. And it's all about Ronnie James Dio. He is Neil Armstrong of Jazz music. The ambassador of metal. I don't talk shit. So, go educate yourself more.
There are many precursors that I would call "pre-metal," but being that metal typically consists of heavy blues with screaming guitar solos, I have to say that the three pioneers of metal (each a different type of metal) are Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath.
You gotta give a nod to Jimi Hendrix.His stage presence was like no other.Listen to Purple Haze or Foxey Lady real loud and check out how he assaults the senses
A cinema across the street from the band's rehearsal room was showing the 1963 horror film Black Sabbath starring Boris Karloff and directed by Mario Bava. While watching people line up to see the film, Butler noted that it was "strange that people spend so much money to see scary movies". Following that, Osbourne and Butler wrote the lyrics for a song called "Black Sabbath", which was inspired by the work of horror and adventure-story writer Dennis Wheatley, along with a vision that Butler had of a black silhouetted figure standing at the foot of his bed. Making use of the musical tritone, also known as "the Devil's Interval",the song's ominous sound and dark lyrics pushed the band in a darker direction, a stark contrast to the popular music of the late 1960s, which was dominated by flower power, folk music, and hippie culture. Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford has called the track "probably the most evil song ever written". Inspired by the new sound, the band changed their name to Black Sabbath in August 1969, and made the decision to focus on writing similar material, in an attempt to create the musical equivalent of horror films.
no one knows that Sabbath went DARK / DOOMY / HEAVIER after Geezer heard King Crimson cover Holst's infamous devil's interval / tritone of "Mars: Bringer Of wars". THAT was the moment BS was born, after wanting to be CREAM until Geezer heard KC. Even KC's NAME means satan!!! KC were HUGE in 1969, and broke up months later! OOF!
Queen, "Stone Cold Crazy". What about that? The strumming and speed all throughout the song is quintessential in the development of thrash metal, speed metal and punk rock 🤘🤘
I'd argue that the first "pure" metal band wasn't even Sabbath - it was Judas Priest. The twin guitars (now a metal staple), the leather and studs, the lack of any discernible blues, the fast tempos, the steady rhythms, the extremely fast, wailing solos - they took heavy blues rock and transformed it into a monstrous beast.
I would qualify it to say that Sabbath was the first band who turned out to be the first metal band, but Judas Priest was the first metal band to realise what they were. They took what Sabbath was doing and formed an identity around it.
@@nwmonk3105 Hmmm, they might have started out that way a bit but by Paranoid/ Master Of Reality they sounded metal supreme to me. Sabbath totally opened the door to metal bands like Priest and others that followed. Btw, saw Priest when they were touring Firepower. Amazing! The last song blasting through the P.A. before the show even began? Black Sabbath - War Pigs. Everyone in the venue singing, chanting and screaming. Kickass ! To me it sounded like the perfect intro to a fantastic evening of metal madness. My 2 cents....
@@nwmonk3105 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0lVdMbUx1_k.html how is this not metal. i believe rob Halford said this was the most haunting song hes heard
You could argue Jimi Hendrix with "Voodoo child slight return" was the first metalish.. song... But Tony Iomi with his missing fingertips and the rest of Black Sabbath started the metal sound and song structure we know today.
The phrase "Heavy Metal" was actually coined by a Rolling Stone writer who described Jimi's playing Purple Haze at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 as "sounding like heavy metal falling from the sky". This concert was also the first time he played Voodoo Child before an audience, and had yet to record it. The article is also where the influence for Steppenwolf's line "heavy metal thunder" came from. But even before Jimi recorded Voodoo Child in 1968, Helter Skelter and King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man were released earlier that year, the Who had a song out called Boris the Spider (released in 1966) which many actually point to as the first death metal song. Of course, much of Cream's earliest stuff is very metallic. I would agree, though, that the first band to really put together the full metal sound and hold that as their primary style was undoubtedly Black Sabbath. Others may have dabbled, experimented, and influenced... but Black Sabbath were the guys who truly crafted it.
Heavy Metal was invented by Ostrogoths and Visigoths as they rallied themselves for battle. They were just waiting for Rock and Roll and electricity to be invented.
Budgie were also a HUGE metal heavyweight, with their debut in 1970 but being active BEFORE Sabbath. Bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden cite them as one of their biggest influences and every rock or metal fan needs to hear their work from 70-75.
The video also neglected to mention Uriah Heep, who started playing heavy music in '67, and put out the album "...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble" right around the same time the first Sabbath album came out. Their fantastic lyrics were the epitome of early heavy metal. If "Gypsy" isn't heavy metal, I don't know what is.
@@cheshirecynic4524 This is done by someone who prob doesn't listen to metal. Given that so many uber pop bands were listed, as if popularity is the litmus for creation.
@@zykovii1868 ^Real talk. Pretty obvious, considering he didn't even bother to define what makes something "metal" in the first place. Sure, for the most part, it's fairly subjective, but there are basic tenets developed during this period by a slew of unmentioned bands that are still influencing metal musicians today. The Led Zeppelin mention was an especially big slap in the face, considering they didn't even write the songs that made them famous, anyway.
It was Sabbath, 1970. The most convincing 1960’s proto-metal to me is The Beatles (Helter Skelter, specifically the vocal style, descending guitar riffs, and chaos, as well as I Want You She’s So Heavy for predicting doom metal)
the Americans trying to make as if they were the first. Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf and Iron Butterfly were a cute attempt. Nothing compares to Black Sabbath ruthlessness. #1 Black Sabbath easily. (led zeppelin are god-like for me too)
The Beatles are a boy band. Period. They meet all the criteria. 1. All young males. 2. Sing mostly pop or love songs. 3. Most important ....fans are all chicks. They suck and can be considered the most overrated band of all time. The Boomers are to blame for this nonsense. They constantly repeat the lie until it became truth.
I always felt Albert King sounded very metal and if Buddy Holly had been a lot less cheerful and efervescent he might have got a mention for fast and hard.
I love you. I would just mention for a moment that "Miserlou" is actually like a cover of a very old folk Greek song which is in itself based on an Arab-egyptian melody. Then the Dick Dale version brought the surf influence thus giving birth to the sound we all know..... Check out the original if you haven't already... The interesting thing is that it sounds very dark as well... Especially for 1920s standards ;)
I would agree, had not really thought of it although hearing the track umpteen times over the years. Very good point worth hi-lighting. Would be pretty wack if the Beatles had followed that path and established themselves as heavy metal gods. Lol.
Link wray.hands down. He may not have invented anything but he put it all together.PERFECTLY! if youre serriosly into music rumble should bring a tear to your eye due to its chaotic, simplistic,prefection.it. does everything every other song tries to do, with a very basic drum beat, a few power chords, fills that anyone that walks into guitar center for the first time can play,a bassline that follows perfectly along and no wasted effort on lyrics.you still know what the songs about, it still defines rock and roll, and trust me when i say if your gonna open up with a cover song at a bar gig, playing rumble will set the tone for your whole set and get the crowd into what youre laying down.
no one knows that Sabbath went DARK / DOOMY / HEAVIER after Geezer heard King Crimson cover Holst's infamous devil's tritone of "Mars: Bringer Of wars". THAT was the moment BS was born, after wanting to be CREAM until Geezer heard KC. Even KC's NAME means satan!!! (KC took their darkness and heaviosity from Shostakovich, the angry russian composer threatened by Stalin. DIRECT influence on KC who were a DIRECT influence on BS.) THAT SAID, i'd much rather listen to Sabbath than King Crimson, who are very very spotty IMO.
For me, I've always thought that Zeppelin started the heartbeat of Metal with "Good Times Bad Times" in 1968. But it was most likely Black Sabbath which put it into full motion. There were a lot of overlapping tangents at work in the late 60's and early 70's making it impossible to trace an exact line to one source in my opinion.
A year before Black Sabbath made their first album Coven had a song called "Black Sabbath" and a bass player named Oz Osbourne. They weren't heavy metal, but they did do the Satanic rock thing first.
I agree. Listening to metal actually got me into classical music! Iron Maiden and Megadeth definitely opened my mind and got me into stripped down metal or classical music. As bands got more progressive they definitely went in that direction.
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown song "Fire" should get an honorable mention here. It was definitely at the forefront of the theatrics and image of Heavy Metal was back in the 60s.
