I wonder who was the first band that invented True Metal Music .
Some say that was OZZY or ACDC and others would say LED or even Metallica.
Better leave to you this decision
Honestly I think it was probably a series of bands who really started true metal. You could defenitely credit black sabbath or AC/DC for it and you'd be right more then less to do so. I know that some bands like the kinks started the real hard rock leading into more metal but there defenitely wasn't one distonct band who led the overal hard rock/ metal movement.
Maybe it was Johann Sebastian Bach who invented a basis of "metal".... Toccata and Fugue in D minor. It's heavy. It's awesome. He just used an organ instead of a guitar. If you think about it, Metal is more closely related to classical music than any other modern genre of music (scales, skips, arpeggios, technical passages, etc.). It's tough to say though where metal really came from.
The band called MC5 released their first album "Kick Out the Jams" in 1968. Check out this song for example: http://grooveshark.com/#/artist/Mc5/405442
The whole album is very good by the way.
Apparently, that was before Black Sabbath (which can't be called inventors - see next band), before Led Zeppelin, and King Crimson. I'm not saying that MC5 invented metal, but they did come before those mentioned the most.
I would say MC5 are proto punk... seriously, I said King Crimson because that riff is pretty much heavy for 1969, but overall, in terms of philosophy and attitude, it must be Black Sabbath.
The band called MC5 released their first album "Kick Out the Jams" in 1968. Check out this song for example: http://grooveshark.com/#/artist/Mc5/405442
The whole album is very good by the way.
Apparently, that was before Black Sabbath (which can't be called inventors - see next band), before Led Zeppelin, and King Crimson. I'm not saying that MC5 invented metal, but they did come before those mentioned the most.
In 1967 Blue Cheer released "Summertime Blues". It was both earlier and heavier than MC5
And they didn't
The term was already used in a magazine and a book as well before Steppenwolf sung about it and when they did it did not refer to the music at all
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Probably the defining moment in heavy metal was when Tony Iommi cut the tips of his fingers off in the sheet metal cutter. This led to him using heavier strings and down tuning his guitar, thus creating the "heavy" chords.
I wonder where the machine is now?
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In my opinion, i would say Venom or Motorhead, sure bands like Black Sabbath, Diamond Head, or Iron Maiden were pioneers in the NWOBHM, but i dont think they created metal, none of them were just heavy enough, but Venom and Motorhead take the cake for the first metal bands, in my opinion.