so who/what DID “invent” metal anyway? comment below!
@vietangbui874210 ай бұрын
Sabbath invent metal. But Judas Priest made metal gain popularity.
@alanclayton927710 ай бұрын
Dunno but I was listening to vol 4 this very morning and there's a track so very like While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Just my opinion. I think of Sabbath as the prime instigators of the genre as we know it I must say.
@walterfechter808010 ай бұрын
The Kinks, Blue Cheer. Some say Link Wray ("Rumble")
@troubadour72310 ай бұрын
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal. (They also invented a couple of other genres.) They were the first heavy rock group to break lyrically and musically from the blues.
@Austin-3155710 ай бұрын
I’ve Always Though That In - A - Gadda - Da - Vida Started Metal With That Killer Fuzz Tone
@dennismason374010 ай бұрын
I did childcare for A.A. meetings from 1982 to 2009. One Sunday morning in 1993 I was at the Pan Pacific Park meeting room quad (grassy patch outside) waiting for kids and their parents to arrive and I saw a guy in a blue track suit standing, slouching, looking to the south. "That dude looks like Ozzy!" I thought. "That is Ozzie", I thought. The kids arrived, we went to the playground on the other side of the building. Later that year I stood behind David Bowie in the coffee line, same meeting. When he had filled his cup and turned around we made eye contact and I said "thanks for everything" and he smiled and nodded.
@Spooky_51510 ай бұрын
I’m not sure any one band created metal but Sabbath most certainly put it on the map
@stoneyboyd4 ай бұрын
Many artists contributed to the sound, but Black Sabbath managed to take all of the elements, combine them all together and while they didn’t create the genre, they certainly refined it and made it popular. It’s kinda like how John Carpenter’s Halloween popularized the Slasher Film genre but it didn’t invent the genre. Other films like Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Black Christmas, and a few others certainly contributed to the creation of the Slasher genre, but Halloween was the film that perfected the formula and certainly popularized it, which spawned many imitators.
@danmayberry118510 ай бұрын
The north and midlands of England are to blame for a disproportionate amount of grit in rock. It's the soundtrack to their lot in life, as an outlet for their rage, and ultimate kindness. Best people on earth (no I'm not from there).
@Adam-kn3tv10 ай бұрын
The boring answer is nobody invented metal. Many people contributed to its development over a period of time, same with every other genre or art form.
@Dragonflyer7410 ай бұрын
yup, and genres are almost completely arbitrary too. we can’t really agree on what music is either. it’s all just good vibrations
@pacoelizalde849110 ай бұрын
It’s like fire. It just happened
@bongodave1310 ай бұрын
This. Lots of people were playing with distortion, and the newer technical improvements meant that it could be played louder, and that brought out even more innovation as bands played within the new parameters. Metal was born of big amps, big wattage, and effects that could bring out that heavy sound.
@paullynn47310 ай бұрын
Yeah but Black Sabbath is such a heavy metal name 😅 🖤
@electricwizard300010 ай бұрын
I always say it was the will of the people.
@miniflem110 ай бұрын
From now on, I'm calling it 'Iron Bloke'.
@abigaildevoe10 ай бұрын
i fully endorse this
@blackmichael7510 ай бұрын
They were on Top of the Pops in 1978 as well. They used to have all sorts of people on, even Judas Priest and Motorhead.
@__-vr8xj5 ай бұрын
Yes, Never Say Die, or was that 1979? Osborne was dressed and posing to appeal to his 13 year old fans, ie the ones that had grown out of Gary Glitter. The two of them had a similar kind of charisma in their Top of the Pops performances.
@pattheplanter4 ай бұрын
Don't forget Girlschool.
@chrislaustin10 ай бұрын
Great outfit today, as it goes perfectly with the album in question.
@karlschumaker6 күн бұрын
This album was the only Sabbath record(besides a few Ozzy solo albums) that I ever listened to and owned.Believe it or not, I had bought my copy used(and scratched up)at a yard sale across the street from where my family once lived!Good video as usual Abby!!!
@glennandadriansrocktalk10 ай бұрын
Going to check out Power of Zeus today. Appreciate this album getting the Abby treatment!
@TheStrongBoyz1910 ай бұрын
I am a Brummie and a Black Sabbath fanatic. I would say they created a heavier sound that grew to a distinction of newer originality that no one did achieve something like it before besides others who are involved in an earlier sound of the genre like Blue Cheer with their first two albums, yet they sound like blues type/psychedelic with lots of distortion/fuzz. Some people think Zeppelin did it earlier and Deep Purple, but Sabbath were one of the first bands to develop darker and unapologetic sounds, which was a new thing at the time. Awesome video Abby and your channel is inspiring and well documented. I've been a new subscriber for a few weeks and was blown away with your awesome dedication and passion for your videos. Also, I do recommend Geezer Butler's brilliant biography from his early beginnings to his time with Sabbath and he details a lot of great stuff.
@ericsierra-franco780210 ай бұрын
Sabbath was the first to embrace occult themes and imagery. Those things became synonymous with metal. I think that's Sabbath's greatest contribution to the creation of Heavy Metal.
@williamberger217810 ай бұрын
In my experience "at that time" this WAS the heavy metal album that changed music. I was so inspired I used Electric Funeral for an English multi media project. I took photos of headstone at sunset and played Sabbath. After the show the audiance was absolutely silent and so was the teacher. I still consider that as a success. Some students never looked at me the same way afterwards. Another success.
@robfilardo10 ай бұрын
Ha ha you are the best. Black Sabbath is one of my top 4 favorite bands! Mondays are now my favorite day!
@gilesglossop507110 ай бұрын
I think you seriously underestimate Deep Purple Abigail, "In Rock" and "Machine Head" are early 70's hard rock masterpieces, easily the match of their famous contemporaries. They simply cannot be dismissed and must be investigated when exploring this genre of rock.
@olliepops112410 ай бұрын
One of my favorite of the genre and era, but I can clearly understand what Ozzie Dash fronted Sabbath could do for someone that they don’t pick up in MK2 or MK3 Deep Purple music. I am pretty worn out on both currently. If I were to grab a deep purple album from my rack right now it may be a Rod Evans one honestly. Just because I am currently over saturated with early day is heavy metal or proto metal or whatever you prefer.
@lucone29379 ай бұрын
I prefer the theory about the Unholy Trinity of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal: Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. The heaviest rock bands that I care to listen are probably AC/DC and Metallica, I'm not really interested in black metal or death metal because of deep growling vocals. I think nowadays "metal" means far more extreme music that it was in the 1970s and 1980s.
@bluewavechris10 ай бұрын
There is actually a band named "Gang Green" they were part of the '80's hardcore scene in Boston....and one of the fastest band of the era.... The song "Paranoid" had a big influence on the hardcore scene that would develop in the very late '70's and into the '80's.....
@barrymoore447010 ай бұрын
"Planet Caravan" is a timeless, beautiful track, my favorite song by Black Sabbath, though not their most typical. "War Pigs" is as timeless in its own right, tragically, though the song is a masterpiece.
@MarcosElMalo210 ай бұрын
The tune didn’t originate with Django Reinhardt, although he does a great version. Duke Ellington composed it in the 1930s. My favorite version is on Money Jungle, the collaboration between Ellington, Charlie Mingus, and Max Roach (which is a fantastic album). But I can totally see how Sabbath was influenced by the Django Reinhardt cover. It’s got a super thick sound.
@barrymoore447010 ай бұрын
@@MarcosElMalo2 I'm sorry, I think you must have meant to reply to another poster, as I made no mention in my comment of Django Reinhardt or the other jazz greats you cited.
@konowd10 ай бұрын
One of their best deep cuts
@barrymoore447010 ай бұрын
@@konowd It was covered very well by Pantera in 1994, this version also promoted by a stellar music video, one of the most interesting specimens of that often dubious genre I've seen.
@ChicagoPadre5 ай бұрын
Another nicely put together outfit! And bangs work for you !!!
@lucaspeixesanto510510 ай бұрын
"Old Man Going" by The Pretty Things is from 1968 and sounds very proto-metal
@timetraveler877710 ай бұрын
Great song that
@trainman56989 ай бұрын
Defecting Grey too!
@spellman0079 ай бұрын
Yes it’s a nice song but not metal at all.
@trainman56989 ай бұрын
@spellman007 Yes, not metal. Hence "proto-metal"
@walterfechter808010 ай бұрын
"Back then," I was listening to bands like Chickenshack and The Groundhogs. My relatives and friends in Birmingham (UK) hooked me up with Black Sabbath. "War Pigs" is a definite slam on "the military/industrial complex." Thanks, Abigail.
@alanclayton927710 ай бұрын
Take a bow Birmingham. Wow is this the first time I've heard the 'hogs' mentioned in these pages. Thank Christ for the Bomb is a 10.
@kNeczpal10 ай бұрын
Good show, I really enjoyed this one 🤟
@williambarry801510 ай бұрын
Excellent video Young Lady. And i never been much of a Black Sabbath listener. Good job.
@will420high49 ай бұрын
Electric Funeral is mind blowing!!! I was born in the 90's where heavy/doom metal was very commom yet this song hits just as the same, so dark and industrial and diabolical...again, those dudes are time travellers hahah people were dancing Disco and Sabbath was doing THIS!
@millivinilli10 ай бұрын
I like your Ozzy impression.
@EmmanuelPehau10 ай бұрын
I am ready. I AM so ready. It won't even take me one second to decide, brothers and sisters.
@jasonnewby10 ай бұрын
I played this album to death in my teens. Still do today! They really cemented their image (and guitar tone) with songs like Iron Man and Paranoid but there are great 'deep cuts' like Hand Of Doom, Fairies Wear Boots. The album is front to back killer material. My favorite Sabbath album along with Masters.
@almishti4 ай бұрын
Abbie you make me fall in love with music all over again. Thanks for all you do! I hope I'm not remiss in saying after 5 days of watching your channel I have such a parasocial crush on you. :)
@elchananyanovsky423010 ай бұрын
I just thought you would film it and here you are! Love Paranoid!
@stereo99910 ай бұрын
Power of Zeus rocks. I found a re-press of that thing in the early 2000s. Lots of interesting records came out on Rare Earth label. Pretty Things SF Sorrow and UFO's debut were released on Rare Earth in the US for example. Thanks for another great Vinyl Monday.
@DetroitRockCitizen10 ай бұрын
Abby, speaking of S.F Sorrow.
@SteveJones37910 ай бұрын
Sounds like Warner Bros was "Paranoid," not Black Sabbath. Great deep dive Abby! Always. 🤘☮
@ashleygeisler100310 ай бұрын
Abbie is so cool ❤
@malcshone440910 ай бұрын
Great job Abby. I’m very old and bought this album with cash I should have used to buy my school lunches with. There’s no obvious single winner of the “ Who Invented Heavy Metal” award in my opinion. You could even make a case for Cream, Hendrix or Zep in terms of riffs and high volume but certainly Sabbaff had the “ sound / tonality” we all recognise as typical of the genre. Stay safe, stay happy, stay you. Best wishes from England 🏴.
@williamlangan59023 ай бұрын
I’ll have to check out Power Of Zeus’s someday. Not sure where heavy metal began. But it became obvious with Black Sabbath’s debut. “Oh noooooooooooooooo!”
@ALLHAILSUNSETYOUTH210 ай бұрын
I actually listened to the first four Black Sabbath albums for the first time this month for Halloween
@travislauderbaugh150710 ай бұрын
Cool to see im not the only younger person in to that era of music. Always found the very early years of heavy metal to be the most interesting and sabbath is my all time favorite band. If you havent heard it id reccomend Skullcrusher by Iron claw 1970. Very sabbathy, very cool cheers
@TheBFN9 ай бұрын
Thank you abigal for turning me on to a new band ive never heard of from my fav era of music... Power of zues...🤘😈🍀
@dabhidhm409310 ай бұрын
Paranoid is special as it is so many things: Sabbath's best album, Sabbath's signature album, and Sabbath's most successful album. And they hit a commercial peak without dumbing down anything about their style, message or attitude. These things rarely intersect. Truly a charmed work. I maintain that if Sabbath didn't actually "invent" heavy metal, they were the first band to consistently produce heavy metal. Unlike their peers like Led Zeppelin, they never really play the blues. They took the tools that Cream used and created a unique style of heavy rock that didn't refer directly back to the blues. It's a couple of steps removed. Other bands did this occasionally but Sabbath made a career of it.
@starshiptrooper767010 ай бұрын
I agree. Paranoid, then Vol.4 for me.
@edlawn548110 ай бұрын
I wonder how much different Black Sabbath would have been if Iommi didn't spend time in Jethro Tull. Iommi said that he learned a lot from being with them, because Ian Anderson was so demanding.
@rushmore392710 ай бұрын
Tony's fingertip severing accident was a driver of their power chord dominated sound. Less need for more intricate chords. He adapted through time though and added chord intricacies as well. Added: The Groundhogs actually inspired a lot of groups.
@sosmra10 ай бұрын
Great review loved the insight on the heavy metal , great job . This still one of my favorites!
@dignan410 ай бұрын
GREAT Vinyl Monday, Abby! I can’t believe this was made in 30 hours! Dayum. ‘War Pigs’ is such a beast- the live version from Paris 1970 is a massive banger. Thanks for doing what you do! Dignan in Bellingham
@bdc2010 ай бұрын
Just an FYI, Django Reinhardt also had a crippled fretting hand. It was disfigured in a fire.
@bradjbourgeois7310 ай бұрын
I just happened to stumble on this video, so glad I did! This was great! War Pigs is one of my favorite songs of all time. Pink Floyd's "Time" is my top song though!
@robertoarsenal904410 ай бұрын
Hand of doom is such a great song .
@TheJustinside10 ай бұрын
one of my favorite all time albums for sure.
@rickstahl683910 ай бұрын
If you haven't seen the live version of War Pigs in Paris from 1970 that one everyone should check out. Its better than the album version, and is early Sabbath.
@jamesireland1584Ай бұрын
"Sabbath just took us by the hand and led us to the monolith." FOOK YEAH!
@jamesnock557210 ай бұрын
Yet another entertaining review, looking forward to the next one!. Thank you.🦂
@johnnydoomsday16659 ай бұрын
sir lord baltmore and dust , both deserve a mention here
@9999bigb10 ай бұрын
Black Sabbath was a fine tuned machine during the first album and this one. They cut their teeth in Hamburg in the same clubs the Beatles played in. Same as the Beatles, they played 8 hour sets, 6 days a week. This is one of the main reasons they took so little time to record. They had it all down already, pretty much, and were masters at creating together.
@DannerPlace10 ай бұрын
Enjoyed this review.
@troubadour72310 ай бұрын
I think the cover works better for Paranoid. If you're suffering from extreme (possibly drug-induced) paranoia, that's the kind of guy you'd expect to jump out of the bushes at you in the middle of the night. I own an oscillator. It belonged to my dad so I have a sentimental attachment to it. It makes the quiet bloopy noises on Planet Caravan (which for a long time I though was a flute). Ozzy's voice on the beginning of Iron Man was actually filtered through a ring modulator (same as Tony's guitar solo on Paranoid). And that's my nerd-out for the day. I'll show myself out.
@LANCSKID10 ай бұрын
I own an orgone accumulator if that helps? 💀
@TerenceShortman10 ай бұрын
Have to set up a sonic attack then @@LANCSKID
@LANCSKID9 ай бұрын
@@TerenceShortman Yes, perhaps so. Unfortunately, my Android Replica is playing up again … oh, it’s no joke … 💀
@ZX-zw3ge10 ай бұрын
Someone I knew from that time period, said he never really heard the term "Heavy Metal" until late 1970's and early 80's.
@MichaelLantz10 ай бұрын
I would say that Blue Cheer Album "Vincebus Eruptum" in 1968 was the first Heavy Metal album.The Second album was "Iron Butterfly "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" in 1968. They were both from California and they both had an effect on the Metal Gene in the 1970's and 1980's Wiki on the influence of Iron Butterfly Their music has found a significant impact on the international rock scenes, influencing numerous acts such as Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Rush, Alice Cooper, Mountain, Uriah Heep, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots and Queens of the Stone Age.
@natemendsen162910 ай бұрын
Ever really listen to the whole In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida lp? There is like one other heavy track, the rest is flowers and beads and "are you happy!" :)
@MichaelLantz10 ай бұрын
@@natemendsen1629 I used to own the LP back in the 1980's.I got it at a used record store.
@Leo_ofRedKeep10 ай бұрын
Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly are hard rock or heavy rock, not metal. Metal is when the singer plays second fiddle to the guitar riffs.
@philshorten322110 ай бұрын
Even Pink Floyd (yes I know... PINK FLOYD) had "The Nile Song" 3 months before Black Sabbaths Black Sabbath Definitely not "heavy metal" but definitely part of the rising wave😉
@doscwolny222110 ай бұрын
Now I know that you know Astronomy Domine, careful with that axe Eugene, set the controls and saucerful of secrets To my mind they were heavy as f!?K for the times. But have you heard one in a million by floyd from 1967. Never released, But played in their jam band era. Listen to it and then compare it to electric funeral by Sabbath. I reckon Floyd beat Sabbath to metal by 3 years.
@olliepops112410 ай бұрын
If Melvins can cover it in the early 90s and make little to no adjustments, the song is probably quite heavy. Let’s not pretend it sounds anything like another tune by then, possibly ever but definitely not on the More soundtrack soon after…
@Balonious_Crunk10 ай бұрын
I love the B-side!
@GabrieLCAlmeida8 ай бұрын
Abby, your chanell is one of the best, if not the best music chanell on youtube. You are amazing!
@5118eman10 ай бұрын
Love Planet Caravan...Black Sabbath was a band that was wayyy better than I thought.
@barrymoore447010 ай бұрын
It's my favorite Black Sabbath track. Pantera did a wonderful cover of the song in 1994 (great music video to accompany that one as well).
@Gary-qq7og10 ай бұрын
Great, now i wont be able to sleep just thinking about this !
@k.d.kelley28309 ай бұрын
Great content!! Would love for you to do Vol 4.
@coolusername58810 ай бұрын
that mc5 video is gonna be awesome
@miguelcruz268210 ай бұрын
The mighty BLACK SABBATH ALWAYS 🤘
@daveoutdoors494910 ай бұрын
I find it absolutely unbelievable that 3 of the greatest songs of all time are all on the same album. War Pigs, Iron Man, and Paranoid.
@denniswinters254110 ай бұрын
War Pigs sounds like something written by a 6th grader.
@DarrenHughes-Hybrid9 ай бұрын
You’ve earned real respect in this review. I mean you know what you’re talking about! War Pigs is the best song Sabbath ever did and that is saying a lot!
@josemaria817710 ай бұрын
A bit beside the point of the video, but I hate how relevant War Pigs still is. You look at the world in 1970 and then at the world in 2023 and we're still killing each other while the war pigs grow ever fatter. I'll save the next of my rant for a future Animals review
@fivedayweekattack42489 ай бұрын
Just discovered your channel and great video! One of my favorite proto-metal bands that I recommend you give a listen to is Andromeda. They only released one album which was self-titled in 1969. Their song "Return To Sanity" opens with a riff that's very similar to the riff that plays throughout Sabbath's self-titled track. Sabbath actually opened for Andromeda in early 1970. Lead singer/guitarist John Du Cann is probably one of the greatest guitarist you've never heard of. After the disbanding of Andromeda, John joined Atomic Rooster. Atomic Rooster member Vincent Crane was also the organist for Arthur Brown. I also recommend checking out John Du Cann's bands prior to Andromeda, The Attack and The Five Day Week Straw People. They're more psych than metal, but still really good and I cannot recommend them enough! Other proto-metal bands I'll recommend are Wicked Lady (who recorded a number of songs from 1969-1972 but remained unreleased until the 90s), Iron Claw (who recorded a number of songs from 1970-1974 but remained unreleased until 2009), Bedemon (who recorded a number of songs from 1973-1974 but remained unreleased until 2005), and Pinnacle (who released one album called "Assassin" in 1974).
@BlueSky...10 ай бұрын
Just when I thought you couldn't top yourself with outfits, you kick it up another notch. 🤣
@frankkorzeniewski3003 ай бұрын
a favorite comment i made years age about black sabbath was "Who knew there were that many bass lines?"
@CMI201710 ай бұрын
The phrase, heavy metal, in terms of music was applied to Hendrix. It my have been in a review of his Star Spangled Banner and Machine Gun where the metaphorical metal of bombs and bullet is overt. Worth verifying.
@shspurs134210 ай бұрын
Yes. Invented in Birmingham, England. To be exact Aston. Which is about 2 hours away from me.
@metalheadgamer8010 ай бұрын
Besides Black Sabbath, there were other artists from that time who were also early practitioners of Heavy Metal such as Deep Purple (Mk. II era), Uriah Heep, Sir Lord Baltimore, Randy Holden (ex-Blue Cheer guitarist), Lucifer's Friend, Wicked Lady, Iron Claw, Budgie, Pentagram, Flower Travellin' Band, Bang, Dust and others! You can debate all you want but Black Sabbath was definitely the first TRUE Metal band in terms of sound and imagery. They are the textbook definition of what a Heavy Metal band is! I used to be in a 70s Heavy Rock/Metal/NWOBHM phase from the age of 15 to 19 so I was absolutely OBSESSED with this era of heavy music. My music taste has gotten A LOT more diverse since then but I still love this era of Rock and Metal very much! My Metal journey wouldn't have started if it weren't for Sabbath.
@hollovvist10 ай бұрын
you should do twin fantasy!! ik its not that old only like 12 years old, but its great and imo it has had a huge influence on 2010's underground indie rock
@abigaildevoe10 ай бұрын
i have a soft spot for car seat headrest, i unironically think drunk drivers killer whales and the ballad of the costa concordia are 2 of the best songs ever written. there’s always a chance for a modern month feature!
@doscwolny222110 ай бұрын
Blue cheer, the beatles, Pink floyd and Iron butterfly all had metal songs that were definitely precursors to black sabbath.
@leslittle911210 ай бұрын
Don't forget the "Father of metal" Dick Dale, the Beach Boys, and "Pipeline" with surf rock's shredding guitar solos and 120 beats per minute. The only thing missing was distortion which hadn't been invented yet.
@konowd10 ай бұрын
Zeppelins infamous tour manager Richard Cole once said that Sabbath in a sense were more original than Zeppelin because you could trace where Zeppelin’s music came from where a sound like Sabbath practically came out of nowhere
@jc2k1639 ай бұрын
Just found you .amazing content
@scottflowe287510 ай бұрын
I agree . Rat Salad is Moby Dick . But Moby Dick is Cream's Jam called Toad. Also I think Black Sabbath invented Doom Metal but Judas Priest and Iron Maiden added all the bells and whistles that we recognize as metal today
@robertoarsenal904410 ай бұрын
1:58 Great Ozzy impression by Abbie 😂
@abigaildevoe10 ай бұрын
thank you i really channeled my inner ozz for that one
@brianbingham75248 ай бұрын
The Uriah Heep album with their songs Gypsy and Real Turned On was issued in June 1970, many months after Black Sabbath.
@careycummings999910 ай бұрын
Love when you do heavy albums, and especially Sabbath! For really spooky tunes for the season, Type O Negative is essential listening(yes, I know its not in the VM wheelhouse), but you've turned me on to some great bands, so here's my go to. BOO!
@abigaildevoe10 ай бұрын
lol i listened to so much type O negative in high school
@careycummings999910 ай бұрын
😄 @@abigaildevoe
@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine10 ай бұрын
I bought this album when I was in North Carolina back in 1972. What an eye opener! If Geezer could have his way, he’d retitle Paranoid to Depression! He even said that in an interview once! In that same interview Ozzy said “Ummm yahm ooh ah!”😉 “We spent a whole day making our first album, our second one even took longer” sounds very Spinal Tap! Fab video Abigail! ❤❤❤
@abigaildevoe10 ай бұрын
thanks! LOL gotta love ozz. he saves all his words for the stage, everything else is mumbling at best! i wouldn’t be surprised if that bit in spinal tap was inspired by the way sabbath recorded
@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine10 ай бұрын
I think you’re right!❤
@dennislillie804710 ай бұрын
In depth and detailed, as always.
@scottbivins40519 ай бұрын
Your great cracked me up when you did your wobbleling I am Iron Man.
@fallandbounceКүн бұрын
Nice undertaking and overview. Walpurgis was a predecessor, and had completely different lyrics. I believe they were Ozzy's. The story changed for War Pigs, making it a much more focused song.
@duck1e4210 ай бұрын
The actual term HeavyMetal came from the book naked lunch by William H Burroughs in 1959
@acetheta8 ай бұрын
Also the origin of the name Steely Dan.
@Snapshotbitze10 ай бұрын
Many consider Iron Butterflys”s song a-gadda-da-vida fom 1968 to be the first, Also Steppenwolf is created to the name, with the lyric Heavy Metal thunder in the song Born to be Wild. Led Zep hated to be called a metal band.
@TheVidkid679 ай бұрын
The line 'Heavy metal thunder' is in reference to bikes roaring down the highway, not a music sound.
@Snapshotbitze9 ай бұрын
yes agree however the name was adopted to describe the sound of those early metal bands@@TheVidkid67
@TheVidkid679 ай бұрын
@@Snapshotbitze As Lemmy says, it's all rock and roll.
@petertrotman770810 ай бұрын
Thanks for the heads up on Power Of Zeus, never heard of them but based on your tiny snippets, it was enough for me to order the cd (I've got no more room for vinyl I'm afraid) I look forward to the MC5's album. Do you know of any good books/documentaries on the music of Detroit? So much great music came out of that beat up forgotten city in the 70's. Sabbath in another life could easily have come from there. Cheers..
@spaceshifterstereogunmachine10 ай бұрын
Cool music trivia and vibey video ❤ BTW they only started downtuning from Masters of Reality
@jordanstrang805610 ай бұрын
I know that they didn't invent it but it surprises me that in this debate, the Pink Floyd song The Nile Song from the More Soundtrack album released in 1969 isn't brought up. if you ask me its a lot heavier than Helter Skelter by a long shot and is a crushing song yet no one mentions it
@doscwolny222110 ай бұрын
In 1967 pink Floyd wrote a song called one in a million. It isn't very good, but it is a very early doom metal song. And surprisingly the riff sounds the same as electric funeral from Sabbath over 3 years later. Floyd amongst other early bands has to be talked about as a proto metal.
@abigaildevoe10 ай бұрын
probably because a lot of people totally forget about more (myself included!)
@faithlessfate10 ай бұрын
I really love your sarcastic commentary. I lose it all the time.
@markfiori651510 ай бұрын
The first metal band debate’s sorta trivial, mostly because before Sabbath,”louder” was indicative of projection but not quite the ending sound. Loudness did give us the happy byproduct of organic distortion but the desire to add more distortion also made it possible to not have to be loud in order to sound “loud”. It definitely set apart the folkier bands from the more rock bands. With that said, while Sabbath is known for being the first to popularize what became known as metal, even Ozzy said Motörhead edges them out by about 3-6 months. Charles Mingus deserves a little more mention being an early catalyst to metal’s foundation w/ the baseline to “Haitian Fight Song”
@natemendsen162910 ай бұрын
Man how awesome someone else gets it. I always think of Mingus as the Sabbath or Beethoven of jazz/bop . Heavy and metal are two separate things really .Heavy began before we even had language when the guys who could not carry a tune as well as others started banging on rocks.
@David-xl9cp10 ай бұрын
I think this was the start of metal, something very different at the time, yet still stands it’s ground today ☠️ Only saw them live once, but what a concert that was, the penultimate show at the O2 👍
@TerenceShortman10 ай бұрын
One thing though you have to listen to their first album Black Sabbath I first heard it on its release it blew me away.
@bryanbailey69639 ай бұрын
Tony's fingers played a major role in creating the sound. Since he could not use his two middle fingers as effectively as his first and fourth fingers due to his accident, he started playing what we now call 'power chords'. He also tuned down to slack the strings a bit - again because of his damaged fingers. Finally, he played LOUD because he wanted to create a wall of sound to compensate for his playing style. He felt that his sound was too thin, so he increased distortion and volume. So, I would argue that Tony Iommi contributed the most towards the heavy metal sound.
@gregoryg325610 ай бұрын
🌠🐻 oooh ABBY BEAR ! Good one !!!
@scotttaylor776710 ай бұрын
Tony losing the tips of his fingers in 1965 in a pressing plant. That’s the start of heavy metal ! Lol. And having to make plastic tips on his fingers to play the guitar. Plus slacking the strings easier to play. Gave him a unique sound no one else had ! I wonder if he sued the plant for negligence and they said to him - “ sorry mate we did you a favour “ ! Lol
@Vince_Tasciotti10 ай бұрын
Rhino recently reissued the Quadraphonic mix of Paranoid on a BluRay Audio disc. I bought a copy, and it spun me around backwards to hear the songs in a four channel separation. What was the very first Heavy Metal song? For me, it's Rumble by Link Wray from 1958. It was supposedly recorded in one take in a bomb shelter. Wray cut slits in his amplifier's speakers with a pocket knife to distort his guitar tones. The bomb shelter's acoustics added some echo to the songs slow heavy riffing.
@michaelmorehead46399 ай бұрын
MC5 - "Looking At You" (original single version; A-Square Records). It's metal. There's no other word that fits as well to describe it.That song is ARSON.
@dianepeel715410 ай бұрын
Hey Abby, fun video as always! Check out "Population II" album by guitarist Randy Holden. It was recorded in 1969 before Black Sabbath's first LP. Randy played in the San Francisco band Blue Cheer in 1968 and early 1969. I attended many concerts back then in SF, LA, NYC, and London, and Blue Cheer were the heaviest bandI heard--certainly the LOUDEST. They never got the recognition they deserve. They were playing heavy psych music in 1966 and even heavier in 1967 when MC5 were still playing Stones-style garage rock, but by late 1968, some of Blue Cheer's live music definitely had the first "heavy metal" sound. In fact, there was no name for it back then. Guitarist Leigh Stephens left Blue Cheer and was replaced by Randy Holden who brought a darker, wicked sound to the band which foreshadowed the '70s metal sounds. You wouldn't know that just by listening to Blue Cheer albums. The LP "Population II" will give you an idea. I just wish the drums were louder in the mix. There was also an obscure early metal band from England but can't remember their name right now.
@Skroskznik10 ай бұрын
I sort of agree the album is front loaded but after just skipping to the side 2 every time recently I think it just makes this album perfect for me, better than any early zeppelin record
@1977raider10 ай бұрын
Great video as always!
@ZX-zw3ge10 ай бұрын
"War Pigs, Electric Funeral, Rat Salad, and Fairies wear boots" are my most favorites, mainly because of the drumming and long instrumentation of the songs.