| Saif 13.02.2010 10:14 |
On this fateful day in the year nineteen-hundred and seventy(1970), Black Sabbath released their groundbreaking debut album "Black Sabbath". And thus Metal was born. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE HEAVIEST GENRE ON EARTH! |
| The Fairy King 13.02.2010 10:32 |
42nd :in June :P In 1968 with Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild saw the birth of "Heavy Metal". |
| its_a_hard_life 26994 13.02.2010 11:11 |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEAVY METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you lots. Hahaha. :D [img=/images/smiley/msn/heart.gif][/img] |
| PauloPanucci 13.02.2010 11:50 |
Let's celebrate ! happy b- day Heavy Metal! Uhu |
| catqueen 13.02.2010 12:04 |
hahahahaha! Happy Birthday rofl. Glad you were born the world would be quiet without you. |
| pittrek 13.02.2010 15:07 |
It's 40 years already ? Who would then say Ozzy would live this long ? :-) |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 13.02.2010 15:23 |
The Fairy King wrote: 42nd :in June :P In 1968 with Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild saw the birth of "Heavy Metal".glad it wasnt just me who thought it :-p |
| ilikefreddyguy 13.02.2010 17:35 |
Oh great. Happy birthday cunt-shitting awful music. |
| Saif 14.02.2010 00:57 |
The Fairy King wrote:
42nd :in June :P
In 1968 with Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild saw the birth of "Heavy Metal".
Nah. That song is not metal. It's hard rock. Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" is the first true metal song. Sure "Born to be Wild" has the lyric "heavy metal thunder" but even the Beatles' Helter Skelter is heavier than that song. IMO, heavy metal band Lizzy Borden's cover of BTBW on "Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years" is pretty good, and the lead singer sounds like Freddie in parts. The Ozzy cover is hilarious too. Goldmine, glad to know you feel that way. :P Metal just wouldn't be metal if it didn't offend anyone at all. ;) |
| The Fairy King 14.02.2010 05:35 |
Saif wrote: The Fairy King wrote: 42nd :in June :P In 1968 with Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild saw the birth of "Heavy Metal".Nah. That song is not metal. It's hard rock. Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" is the first true metal song. Sure "Born to be Wild" has the lyric "heavy metal thunder" but even the Beatles' Helter Skelter is heavier than that song. IMO, heavy metal band Lizzy Borden's cover of BTBW on "Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years" is pretty good, and the lead singer sounds like Freddie in parts. The Ozzy cover is hilarious too. Goldmine, glad to know you feel that way. :P Metal just wouldn't be metal if it didn't offend anyone at all. ;) The phrase Heavy Metal came from that song and it was heavy in those days. Your own taste or opinion aside, it is internationally acclaimed as the first metal song. |
| dragon-fly 14.02.2010 05:58 |
Agr, doesn't matter! Great to have you around Heavy Metal! :) |
| Micrówave 14.02.2010 14:04 |
The phrase Heavy Metal came from that song and it was heavy in those days. Your own taste or opinion aside, it is internationally acclaimed as the first metal song. And rumour has it that John Kay was talking about listening to Hendrix, so it's either Steppenwolf or Hendrix. Listening to that old tripe now, Black Sabbath is something I would have a tough time calling "Hard" rock. Their early music videos certainly don't reflect them being hard rockers or metal. Just a 4 piece that looks down at the floor and plays power chords. |
| ParisNair 14.02.2010 14:21 |
If Born To Be Wild is considered the first heavy metal song, then this genre would have dissolved into plain hard rock if Tony Iommi had not met with that accident in the factory. @Saif - don't see you much around here lately...kahaan ho aaj kal bhai? |
| «¤~Mrš. BÃD GÛŸ~¤» 14.02.2010 19:17 |
Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are generally associated with masculinity and machismo. The first heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple attracted large audiences, though they were often critically reviled, a status common throughout the history of the genre. In the mid-1970s Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence; Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. Bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Iron Maiden followed in a similar vein. Before the end of the decade, heavy metal had attracted a worldwide following of fans known as "metalheads" or "headbangers". |
| Saif 15.02.2010 00:59 |
Micrówave wrote:I'm not a big fan of Sabbath, I only really like the Dio albums but their song "Black Sabbath" shows the beginnings of 'doom metal'. When Dio came in, BS went from being an ambiguously metal band to an unambiguously metal one.The phrase Heavy Metal came from that song and it was heavy in those days. Your own taste or opinion aside, it is internationally acclaimed as the first metal song.And rumour has it that John Kay was talking about listening to Hendrix, so it's either Steppenwolf or Hendrix. Listening to that old tripe now, Black Sabbath is something I would have a tough time calling "Hard" rock. Their early music videos certainly don't reflect them being hard rockers or metal. Just a 4 piece that looks down at the floor and plays power chords. @ParisNair: Medical ka akhri semester chal raha hain, no time. :( |
| Micrówave 15.02.2010 01:09 |
Nice cut-and-paste, Mrs. Bad Guy, but you failed to dig deeper. Wikipedia is good, but you have to understand ANYBODY can type that information in.
If you must really know, Hendrix was doing that to the guitar BEFORE Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple.
Here's some more wikipedia facts about Jimi:
He was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic and phasing effects for rock recording. Hendrix often favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and helped develop the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback Hendrix was one of the musicians who popularized the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock which he often used to deliver an exaggerated pitch in his solos Hendrix affected popular music with similar profundity; along with earlier bands such as The Who and Cream, he established a sonically heavy yet technically proficient bent to rock music as a whole, significantly furthering the development of hard rock and paving the way for heavy metal. |
| its_a_hard_life 26994 15.02.2010 06:20 |
*headbangs* Oh. Looks like the mosh-pits have already started here..... Haha. |
| Micrówave 15.02.2010 15:02 |
I'm just saying that Black Sabbath didn't do something groundbreaking, as they're acredited to by some. Good band, but certainly no pioneers. |
| ParisNair 16.02.2010 13:26 |
Saif wrote: @ParisNair: Medical ka akhri semester chal raha hain, no time. :(Ah ok! All the best! |
| brENsKi 19.02.2010 15:55 |
i'd have said that the Beatles "helter skelter" it the first true metal/hard rock tune |
| Holly2003 19.02.2010 19:00 |
brENsKi wrote: i'd have said that the Beatles "helter skelter" it the first true metal/hard rock tune I'd say this was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6tsnX42-FM |
| Micrówave 19.02.2010 21:32 |
Holy crap!!! brENsKi lives!!!! |
| brENsKi 20.02.2010 07:40 |
Holly2003 wrote:brENsKi wrote: i'd have said that the Beatles "helter skelter" it the first true metal/hard rock tuneI'd say this was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6tsnX42-FM Holly re: Ten Years After: that's 1969....by which time Zeppelin had released a couple of albums....and Helter Skelter - much more metalish - was released in 68 and yes Mr Microwave, i live...just about.....despite the ravages of Irish Whiskey ;-) |
| Micrówave 20.02.2010 11:20 |
"Heavy Metal" Grammy Winners Jethro Tull released "This Was" in 1968. |
| GratefulFan 20.02.2010 12:33 |
brENsKi wrote:Holly2003 wrote:Holly re: Ten Years After: that's 1969....by which time Zeppelin had released a couple of albums....and Helter Skelter - much more metalish - was released in 68 and yes Mr Microwave, i live...just about.....despite the ravages of Irish Whiskey ;-)brENsKi wrote: i'd have said that the Beatles "helter skelter" it the first true metal/hard rock tuneI'd say this was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6tsnX42-FM The linked performance was '69, but the album 'Coming Home' was on was released in May '68, a couple of months before Helter Skelter was recorded. Whether it's the first metal song or not I can't judge, but it's sure a fine example of how metal was born of the blues. A fantastic lineage that has largely evolved out of modern metal as far as I can hear. |
| Major Tom 20.02.2010 15:02 |
The term "heavy metal" is in my opinion a little blurry. What defines heavy metal? How much gain the guitarist use? How heavy sticks the drummer use? How high the singer goes? Or is it just a matter of opinion? Even though I'd love to say Sabbath gave birth to HM, Led Zeppelin was I think the first ones to play it. The Beatles "Helter Skelter" I saw earlier in this thread, is in my opinion hard-rock. Hendrix aswell. Nowadays when I think of heavy metal, I think of Black Sabbath. So I guess in my house, it's a tie between Led Zep and Sabbath. Anyway, to quote an earlier post: I'm glad to have you around, Heavy Metal! You've gotten me more drunk than expected at times. You've made my ears ring and my neck hurt. But without you, life would be a little more gray. |
| Micrówave 20.02.2010 15:19 |
1955 - Marvin Berry & The Starlighters During a gig, Marvin's guitarist messed up his hand. Luckily, a local high schooler filled in. During a guitar solo, while covering his brother Chuck's song, Marvin, along with the entire high school dance saw the birth of Heavy Metal. His name was McFly. Marty McFly. |
| Holly2003 21.02.2010 05:43 |
Excelsior! |
| queenside 21.02.2010 06:57 |
imo sabbath was the first metal band. zeppelin and purple both had some metalesque songs but sabbath lyrics and very heavy guitar was truly metal (some might say doom metal). i'll copy/paste some stuff from other forums where similar thing is being discussed, this represent my opinion on this matter: Black Sabbath was the first Heavy Metal band. The art of 'Metal' had been indulged for a few years before Sabbath by the likes of Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, a little of the Doors and Beatles. But then Sabbath came along combined all the elements, threw in some distortion for 'Tone Definition'(which is undoubtedly important) and good measure, thus giving birth to Heavy Metal. I think if you are going to draw a line in the sand, so to speak, and say "Metal starts here", it starts with Black Sabbath. The fact that they didn't embrace the the term (at least early on, anyway) is meaningless. When the Ramones started, they thought they were a bubblegum pop band. It doens't make them any less of a punk band. 70's heavy metal is sort of tough thing to define becuase so many of the bands that are called "heavy metal" from that era more or less ride the fence. There's arguments for and against considering bands like Deep Purple, Kiss, Ted Nugent, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, AC/DC, or Blue Oyster Cult (to name a few) "metal". To me, Black Sabbath gathered all the ingredients that make metal (the darkness, the heaviness, the outsider status, the ugliness) and brought them together. Its more than loud guitars and lots of distortion. There are bands that pre-date Sabbath that had some of those qualities, but they were still rooted in the blues and psychedelia of the '60s. |