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Did Black Sabbath invent heavy metal?
Yes! 89%  89%  [ 24 ]
No! 11%  11%  [ 3 ]
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Rhys
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I don't think any single bands can invent a genre, it's usually more of a gradual trend or progression. Sabbath probably recorded the first full album/song that could be considered "heavy metal" though.
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I want to mention Deep Purple bit voted yes.
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If any band can make that claim, it is Sabbath.
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noodles wrote:
I don't think any single bands can invent a genre, it's usually more of a gradual trend or progression. Sabbath probably recorded the first full album/song that could be considered "heavy metal" though.


This.
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noodles wrote:
Sabbath probably recorded the first full album/song that could be considered "heavy metal" though.


That's why I voted yes. Sabbath just took what was there and got something new out of it. In a way, that's invention, no?
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Steppenwolf coined the phrase "heavy metal thunder", though...
it was a build up, beginning in the mid-late 60s, certainly, but Sabbath took it to a place hitherto untrod.
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Of course they did. They're Black Sabbath. BLACK SABBATH.

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noodles wrote:
I don't think any single bands can invent a genre, it's usually more of a gradual trend or progression. Sabbath probably recorded the first full album/song that could be considered "heavy metal" though.


I agree with this but voted yes anyway, for the reasons pointed out in your second paragraph.
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Really, it's a progression; before Black Sabbath were Led Zep, Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, Helter Skelter (The beatles, yes, one the first real metal songs) and a lot more... But a catalyst was needed, and Black Sabbath was this catalyst. So yes, they invented Metal as a milestone in a logical musical evolution process.


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cry of the banshee wrote:
If any band can make that claim, it is Sabbath.


+1

Though I think what we call Heavy Metal today is the brainchild of Judas Priest.
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Lucifer's Son wrote:
cry of the banshee wrote:
If any band can make that claim, it is Sabbath.


+1

Though I think what we call Heavy Metal today is the brainchild of Judas Priest.


Yes. Like the clever people have been saying, it's not down to just one band, but a few bands setting the stone rolling. Heck, you could just as easily give Led Zeppelin the honour, and I'm sure an argument could be made for Chuck Berry. Priest and Sabbath are the main reasons Metal is like it is, and all the other bands add flavour to the subgenres (I'm contractually obliged to mention Rush here).
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Elvis started metal you retards come on get your history corrected ok :rolleyes: :lol:
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Bullshit. It was Beethoven.

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I don't think Elvis started anything, let alone metal...
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Sabbath brought it to the mainstream. They sure as hell weren't the first to play the style.
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FrigidSymphony wrote:
Bullshit. It was Beethoven.


Beethoven was a hardcore motherfucker. They say he shook his fist at the stormy sky the moment before he died. That's pretty badass.
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FrigidSymphony wrote:
Bullshit. It was Beethoven.


Beethoven was a hardcore motherfucker. They say he shook his fist at the stormy sky the moment before he died. That's pretty badass.


When an aristocratic elderly woman got down on her knees and cried while begging him to play, Beethoven laughed at her and answered, "Composers do not cry! Composers are made of fire!"

Beethoven is my all-time favourite classical musician/composer, maybe even all-time favourite musical figure.

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Prince, what you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am of myself. There are and there will be thousands of princes. There is only one Beethoven


Letter from LVB to Prince Karl Lichnowsky of Vienna :D

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