“PURPLE are hard rock; to me, they’re not metal,” he continued. “I’ll probably be killed for saying that, but that’s just the way I feel. SABBATH are exclusively metal, although Tony [Iommi, SABBATH guitarist] has always said SABBATH isn’t metal.”
I agree with Tony. There was no metal in those days just hard rock. One could say some bands were precursors to metal but that’s it.
I consider them (Purple) proto-metal; and they were highly astute and skilled musicians.
>There was no metal in those days just hard rock. “One could say some bands were precursors to metal but that’s it”
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This
The genre was developed by the recording industry, who else?