Posted on 12/31/2021 9:15:33 AM PST by DoodleBob
The first Black Sabbath album was the first heavy metal album.
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Here’s an interesting video on the history of guitar distortion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYU90XajYmU
Black Sabbath’s first album came out in 1970.
Blue Cheer’s Vincebus Eruptum came out in 1968.
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Yup. Most of the pre-Sabbath songs listed on this thread can be described as proto-metal, at most. Sabbath invented the real deal.
I thought he invented The Muppets?
Hendrix, of course, famously used these amplifiers, and eventually, so did almost everyone else.
Was that before or after he ran the wrong way?
There are quite a few Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest albums that would be considered better Heavy Metal than Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’.
Vincibus Eruptum is a great album, but it is more protometal, much like the MC5’s “Kick out the Jams.” Sabbath were the first to use an album entirely dependent on power chords, rhythms, etc.
I'm not exactly certain how the Catholic Church stole Gregorian Chant from Africans but PBS and Rolling Stone mag need to look into that.
By the time Metallica came on the scene, Metal had branched out.
Will agree that Sin after Sin and Stained Class can vie for the title as #2. Can’t think of a Maiden album that has the consistency of MOP. “Number of the Beast” is the only Maiden album I can listen to all the way through.
Dave Davies of the Kinks is often credited with “inventing” the sound. He was the first to slash the paper speaker cone in order to produce a distorted “fuzz” tone.
“You Really Got Me”
I’m with you on this. Dave Davies doesn’t get nearly the credit he deserves for changing the sound of R&R forever.
Motorhead essentially created what is now known as "metal. The volume and bass of bands like Sabbath with traditional rock (Lemmy was a massive Buddy Holly fan) and the speed and energy of punk.
"Speed metal started with guys in their garages trying to play faster than Motorhead." --Scott Ian
Some suggest Jimmy Page played on it, and Dave. Jimmy was a one-man "Wrecking Crew" in the 60s before joining the Yardbirds and Zeppelin, he played on a lot of tracks.
Ace of Spades by Motorhead to this day is one of the loudest, fastest, most completely obnoxious records ever made. And I love that record.
You are right. No one did it or does it like Black Sabbath. I can still hear the rain & thunder from the start of the first album.
Agreed...listening to that album and when it came out astounds me.
The first Heavy Metal masterpiece.
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