I wouldn't call Child in Time mellow of the ten minutes maybe the two verse sections are mellow which would total around 3 minutes, the rest is heavy as hell for 1970 anyway.
“Child in Time” is mellow in parts but intensifies in dynamics and gets heavy in parts. So did “Beyond the Realms of Death,” “We’ll Burn the Sky,” “Fade to Black” and so many other ballad like metal songs. If anything, “Child in Time” helped establish a metal template.
The Sir Lord Baltimore debut is heavy and rowdy as hell! Everyone into metal should definitely check it out, very heavy tones. I Don't see why Martin is so sour about it.
Heavy doesn't mean good. Kingdom Come is not by any means close to the quality of the top 5 albums in the list. Moreover, maybe because the drummer is also the singer, there is some weird/awkward, not exactly good tight drum playing there (something that I find distracting and annoying). I realize that the album deserves to be checked (as a curiosity at least) since it's an interesting example of early heavy sounding music, but it's not kind of a neglected gem or anything like that (just my opinion, don't take offense).
Pete Canthropus, I agree with you. I respect Sir Lord Baltimore only as being heavy for their time, but the singing and songwriting simply isn’t there to my ears. A historical curiosity, I can name a lot of bands, even obscure ones, who were better at the time.
This is one of my favorite periods in rock history. The English blues and Psychedelic rock movements were slowly evolving into metal and prog rock and the transition made for a great many fantastic albums that tend to get overlooked because they don't fit nice and neatly into any of those genres.
Love seeing Purple getting their props. I punched the air and said "yeah!" when you gave In Rock 5 skulls. I agree Paranoid isn't my favourite Black Sabbath album either. My favourite Sabbath album is Master of Reality.
Iron Butterfly:In A Gadda Da Vida,Heavy (Iron Butterfly’s Debut) Both from 1968, Jimi Hendrix:Are You Expirienced,From 1967,Cream:Tales Of Brave Ulysses 1967,Cream:Wheels Of Fire,1968, Steppenwolf,Magic Carpet Ride,1968,Grand Funk Railroad Two Albums From 1969,On Time,The Red Album which had a song called “Paranoid” one year before Black Sabbath’s in 1970.
Such a good year! Some of my favourites are: Deep Purple - Fireball Black Sabbath - Master of Reality Flower Travellin' Band - Satori Uriah Heep - Salisbury & Look at Yourself Bang - Bang Jethro Tull - Aqualung Leaf Hound - Growers of Mushroom Blues Creation - Demon & 11 Children Toad - Toad Budgie - Budgie Groundhogs - Split Alice Cooper - Love It to Death & Killer Three Man Army - A Third of a Lifetime Atomic Rooster - In Hearing Of... Hawkwind - In Search of Space Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride Maybe not all metal albums, but great hard rock anyway. And there are still more I need to listen to!
@Foxbody Boogie Rock is better than metal and Zep is strong evidence. Music didn't get better since then , it's gotten worse. Unless you're some teeny bopper into horror comics.
Agree 100 % with your comments about these albums. I'd only like to remember a few more albums from that year that probably could've deserved a mention : Edgar Broughton Band - Sing Brother Sing Free - Fire and Water Frijid Pink - Frijid Pink Golden Earring - Golden Earring Grand Funk - Grand Funk / Closer to Home Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb Josefus - Dead Man May Blitz - May Blitz Steppenwolf - Seven Warhorse - Warhorse
In addition to those bands that deserve honorable mention for releasing scorching albums in 1970: Power of Zeus Trapeze Stray Bloodrock Not sure how Martin didn't mention Grand Funk and his dismissal of Kingdom Come is distressing.
People mostly vote for the most popular thing, because they don't know anything else. That happens every year, and sometimes it produces some weird choices like this one
It's a symbolic / obligatory vote. We're talking about the beginning of metal so I think people just feel Zeppelin have to be mentioned, as a rule. And maybe Immigrant Song is enough to qualify the album for some people.
@@uuuuu1111 If that is the case, maybe we should start with Elvis, or with whatever 20s and 30s blues homeless musician. Being influential on a certain musical genre does not imply that you actually played that kind of music. That's what most people fail to deduce. This incessant need to label Led Zeppelin as early metal is just ridiculous if not insane. Their 'heaviest' records came right after LZ4, but even those ones wasn't metal.
One of the few things I rarely see get mentioned is how the vocals of King Diamond were totally inspired by David Byron and the other guys providing harmony in Uriah Heep. I heard Heep much later than King and was shocked when I heard those falsetto vocals in Heep. I don’t hear metal fans mention this often, but King does. He named his son Byron.
I recommend the album "En Ny Tid Är Här" by the Swedish band November, which is considered as the first Swedish hard rock band. Heavy, blues-based heavy rock in the vein of early Fleetwood Mac, Mountain, Led Zeppelin, and not least, Cream.
To me, album wise Sabbath will always be the beginning of metal... BUT, Zep has it song wise. Communication Breakdown is, by far, to me the first REAL heavy metal song.
Cool list. Thank you all the voters for choosing cleverly! And Martin, Keep being yourself! I mostly agree with what you are saying and even when I don’t, you make a good point. Please keep making these lists until you have covered every year from 1970 till today.
When they review something like Thy Art is Murder, I try skip to the skull rating and that's it... When Martin is on, I literally listen and watch every single word and sometimes rewind to make sure I gathered all the information!
We used the term Heavy for music like this, but not Heavy Metal until years later. Uriah Heep didn't sound like Deep Purple, they sounded like Uriah Heep. Also, those of us who loved these songs were given a lot of grief for not sticking with CSN and other really good rock that wasn't heavy. We didn't know that Heavy Metal would be a genre in the future.
Grand Funk’s second album could be mentioned as GFR were called heavy metal back in the day. Though it is very blues based. The song “Paranoid” is perhaps closest to heavy metal.
Grand Funk had some seriously heavy songs, check out "Sin's a Good Man's Brother" but they never put together a heavy album, too much drawn out "jamming". Then after a few good albums they totally sold out.... "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Loco-Motion" ... come on.
@@warpig4942 +1 for Sin's A Good Man's Brother. Really, though, it's the heaviest song on the record. Closer To Home is a damn good album, but you'd have to squint your ears pretty hard to call most of it metal.
GFR were heavy metal for that time same as Black Sabbath both bands were very bluesy. GFR were the loudest band in early 70' and they were much more heavy metal then Led Zeppelin.
Awesome! Love how you went into a bit of the music theory of (some) Heavy Metal moving away from the strict blues into other areas--doom, classical, psychedelia and I would add "literary." (Or some people might say layering that other stuff onto the foundation of blues/r&b/rock.) Please do a 1971... and every other year of the 70s for that matter. Budgie's coming!
Never found Lucifer's Friend particularly interesting, Sir Lord Baltimore should be in there place. And Zeppelin III come on guys that's folk rock album, it's great but doesn't belong here.
Thoughts: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE expand these to top 10 or top 15. I have most of your books on heavy metal and I've discovered so many great albums and bands through them. I love the honorable mentions part, but definitely want to see more than just top 5.
@Martin Popoff Yeah but...even you lament in your books how predictable the top stuff is. Anyway, keep up the good work. Any chance of a reprint or omnibus for the decade books? They're rare and expensive.
I also found Zeppelin III a weird choice although I love that album. Agree otherwise with the list. Should have mentioned Iron Claw in the last batch of bands though!
1970' I was 14 and got my first electric guitar, now I own 18 electric guitars and one acoustic/electric,one bass,6 amps,more pedals than I need Metal till death!
Fantastic video but really surprised that t2-it'all work out in boomland didn't get a shoutout. I do know that it's more psych/prog and garage but no more white horses is I think one of the heaviest songs outside sabbath territory.
I 100% agree man, f-ing love that album, found it on my search for the heaviest albums of the 70's. Do you use any form of social media, we could recommend each other obscure albums/bands we find
Child in time - the screams front and center as the chorus along with the subject of War- all metal! And Sabbath likely wrote homage to this in the greatest metal song of all time- the progression to the song Black Sabbath and it’s own sub genre in my opinion being dark gospel metal- “Disturbing the priest “
Thanks. So many interesting comments and points from you. It cleared up some things for me (I was a little surprised you put MC5 in the Metal pocket, first time I've heard that. They're usually referenced as Punk) Yeah, this time period for me is huge. I was five and I remember the songs of this period on the radio, but like you it was toward the end of the seventies when I really started to investigate it. 1970 was the music of my two older brothers and I remember them and their friends making cases for which were the best bands. We had moved to Maine from Connecticut in late '71 and in '72 a new station called Top of Sugarloaf (WTOS) started playing all this heavy stuff. It was the mainstay in the area for all of us who liked the heavy stuff, and became a go to place for decades to come. I became familiar with Nugent and Ozzy solo and all the stuff as it came along down through the years up till about ten years ago. Great video. Thanks again. This really takes me down memory lane. 🤘
High Time / MC5 was heavy, maybe not heavy metal. Great record , my favourite of theirs. Definitely had an influence as did The Stooges classic Funhouse. It is always cited as the the birth of punk rock but I hear the influence on heavy metal all over that record. Both albums released in 1970 to little acclaim, but both albums are now classics.
Check out Dionysos “Le Grand Jeu” and the song “Agneau de Dieu”. The album is more heavy psych heavy blues but that last track is killer, especially the last two minutes!
LIVE AT LEEDS deserves a mention if being a live album is not a cheat. Especially the original mix 37 minute version. In terms of rhythm section, Moon and Entwistle are on fire and the latter influenced Lemmy’s sound. That said, can’t argue with what’s included. DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK is especially a masterpiece.
He's right. 1970's choices will be predictable. I don't know that 5 good metal albums came out in '70 though. I never liked the two albums Sabbath came out with in 1970. Awesome to see Lucifer's Friend make the list; they are so unknown. Top 4 of 1970: 1. Deep Purple in Rock by Deep Purple 2. Very 'Eavy...Very "Umble by Uriah Heep 3. Lucifer's Friend by Lucifer's Friend 4. Kingdom Come by Sir Lord Baltimore Skimpy metal year, but that should be expected since it was the beginning of metal.
@@rintojulian2680 Aha! So Deep Purple gave metal its speed, Black Sabbath contributed the heaviness, and Led Zeppelin delivered the groove? I'm sure all these points could be (and probably will be) argued, but I kinda love it. 👍
@Martin Popoff DP have heavy songs indeed, but as far as tone concern I believe in my ear that Sabbath have heavier tone...about speed which Sabbath song that has speed tempo as Speed King, Highway Star , Burn etc...then about grooviness, I agree Sabbath also have some groovy songs like NIB, Iron Man, Sweet Leave, DP have Never Before, Lazy, Flight of the Rat etc...but LZ have most groovy songs than Sabbath & DP
That fckng Hammond Organ through an overdriven HiWatt amp intro to Gypsy is brutal to this day. The Hammond is more aggressive than the guitar. Love it.
Well, 1969, considering Sabbath had recorded their entire first album in 1969 and had been playing the songs live since at least then, if not 1968. Same thing with Deep Purple. Child in Time is from 1969.
@@Danimal77 I said 1967 because things started getting really heavy at that time especially when Jimi Hendrix experience came out it's one thing to be loud but it's another thing to be happy then Loki we get talk about Iron Butterfly's have the hour as well but it was not the same way as when the Hendrix experience came up with Their 1st album which was really have every saved a lot with cream vanilla fides and at slew of other bands that came after that . Hendrix playing the guitar with himself really did a lot for him smell it's not set as much as it was when I was coming up what I'm still proclaiming that because There would be a lot of things in heavy metal if he wasn't on the see that are in heavy metal right Now. 67 was a magical year things just started to come up even a little bit more but it got heavier in that time and the rest is history 66 was loud 67 What's the year of head 68 things got darker and 69 things became more abrupt 70 things exploded with horrific things in apocalyptic themes And set its foot down with the foundations of what is heavy metal today but it would not be anything without those previous bands or years of thinking of it in a historical context of also things that went on around whether it be the ghettos of Birmingham England or even protest stuff that was going on in America all that stuff mattered at that time the Vietnam war especially I can tell you of things that are non metal or considered non metals that were just as heavy in music especially in 1970 and even the years coming up to that that if you are into heavy metal back then you would have been into
Nice one again Banger. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath is the right answer, but great video nonetheless. P.S. Although Stooges - FunHouse is one of my favorite albums ever (came to metal through punk/hardcore), it isn't metal at all. Definitely proto-punk.
Nice to see Lucifer's friend up there! Another oddball recommendation for 1972 (when it's time for that video) in a similar vein: Night Sun - Mournin' .... Check that out!
YES! American release of Very Eavy ftw!! The earlier alternative Bird of Prey version there is super cool. Not as power-metal-y, but makes both albums better.
In Rock features what I believe to be the earliest speed metal songs with Hard Lovin’ Man, Speed King and Flight of the Rat. Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were creating something new in 1970.
What another obscure band from Forth Worth TX Bloodrock albums 1-2 that came out that year they across between Grand funk a little Deep Purple and Sabbath mix .
Surprised Deep Purple In Rock wasn't a hit in America upon it's release. It's such an epic, no nonsense hard rock masterpiece imo and was a landmark album. It reached No.4 in the UK and stayed on the charts for over a year.
Surprised that Bloodrock’s debut didn’t even get an honorable mention. Pretty heavy stuff that predates everything on this list except Sabbath’s debut. I hope that you guys get around to doing 1971 soon. Monumental year for heavy metal.
I heard a lot of info on which year was heavy metal invented and who were the first heavy metal bands, but what I'm really interested in, and can't find the answer to is this: Does anyone know when exactly did the term "heavy metal" started catching traction among the fans of heavier rock music? By this I mean when did the people started answering with "heavy metal" to the question: "what type of music do you listen to"?
@Martin Popoff Thanks for the answer, man. I know that the term itself originates from the reviews of the early heavy metal albums written by the rock critics such as Mike Saunders, but to my knowledge none of the proto-metal and early heavy metal bands embraced the label, though, and there doesn't seem to be much info on at what point did the fans started embracing the term "heavy metal" as well as who were the first bands that openly self-described their music as heavy metal. Even if it's an approximation it would be more than interesting to find out when did heavy metal became a movement of the people who wittingly embraced the label instead of being labeled by the outside observers.
@@Grindermetalhead My guess is that fans started to embrace heavy metal as a musical genre during the late 70s and early 80s with Judas Priest and early NWOBHM. That is also when heavy metal actually started to reach the top charts. And yes, I know Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and a few others had commercial success, but they never actually labeled themselves as heavy metal. Deep Purple labeled itself as hard rock, Black Sabbath as heavy rock or something like that. Judas Priest was among the first bands who actually embraced the term 'heavy metal' to describe their music.
@@Kalimdor199Menegroth I also think it might have started with Judas Priest around 78, when they released Stained Class. I was hoping someone could point to some earlier examples but I guess heavy metal truly became a thing with the advent of NWOBHM, almost a decade later than the historians can trace it's origins retrospectively.
@@Kalimdor199Menegroth Thats not entirely true actually, I love Priest one of my all time favorites but they never used the term Heavy metal until 1980. athough as far back as 76 they were being labeled with the term in the music press. they thought they were more than that , as Heavy Metal was seen as a derogatory term. The NWOBHM that's when both Priest and Sabbath finally embraced being called Heavy Metal. Although both were seen as a big influence on the NWOBHM scene to my knowledge Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin never accepted the term to describe their music.
@@jayjaytee9944 It was around the 80s that heavy metal was really established as a musical genre anyway, so that may be true. But Sabbath never really considered themselves heavy metal. They are considered as such by fans, critics and press, but if you ask Iommi, Ward, Geezer or Ozzy, they will tell ya that they play a heavy rock or hard rock. Deep Purple, as per the members who composed this band did not accept the heavy metal label either. They still deem their music hard rock. But at least they can get away with it. They never really were metal, with maybe the exception of their Burn album. Blackmore moved to heavy metal with Rainbow, particularly the second album. Led Zeppelin never was metal. Not even close.
I can agree that the stripping down of the over emphasis on blues was a good thing and the inclusion of classical elements was a good thing; But how does metal aquire enough Doom to be influenced by it prior to Sabbath? I also disagree with the assertion that metal comes more into it's own genre the farther it goes from Psych. Psych gave metal it's depth just as the blues gave it it's raw,. Earthiness.
I have to agree with Martin on In Rock. I love the Paranoid album but Planet Caravan just stops the thing dead in its tracks. Wait....how the hell do you not like Child In Time? It's mellow for maybe 90 seconds before Ian GIllan comes ripping everyone's throat out!
You made no mention of warhorse. This band featured original deep purple bassist Nick Simper. Very uriah heep sounding. If you've never heard it, check it out.
Normally I agree with the prof on just about everything, but downplaying sir lord baltimore like that was just criminal. My only gripe tho, solid list.
While watching this and seeing Black Sabbath come in at number 3 my brain is racking trying to figure out who could be number one. Then I see Black Sabbath again with Paranoid. I was pleasantly surprised. I should've seen it coming.
I would almost take away a half of a skull for the "In Rock" artwork. Great album, though. Also, I see that the Exciter magnet that was missing in Blayne's last video is back! Did Dekay steal it for the tour??
It's funny -- Cactus, Sir Lord Baltimore and Mountain were three of my favorite groups at that time. lol And the second Black Sabbath, as good as it is, is nowhere as good as their first.
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10:21 "it only has one mellow song on it, unfortunately, it's the longest one, 'Child in Time', I don't like it very much".
BLASPHEMY!
Popoff has some strong and controversial opinions, and I respect him for that
Just listened to Bombay Calling and you’re right. Did that come out pre 1970?
I wouldn't call Child in Time mellow of the ten minutes maybe the two verse sections are mellow which would total around 3 minutes, the rest is heavy as hell for 1970 anyway.
“Child in Time” is mellow in parts but intensifies in dynamics and gets heavy in parts. So did “Beyond the Realms of Death,” “We’ll Burn the Sky,” “Fade to Black” and so many other ballad like metal songs. If anything, “Child in Time” helped establish a metal template.
@Foxbody Boogie I'd also like to see reactors get acquainted with some Black Night, Hush, My Woman from Tokyo and Fireball... amongst others. 🤘
Love Behind the Wall of Sleep from Black Sabbath. Underrated song
So do I. One of my favourites!
nice to see Atomic Rooster get a mention, that's a good record, great guitarplaying on there
The Sir Lord Baltimore debut is heavy and rowdy as hell! Everyone into metal should definitely check it out, very heavy tones. I Don't see why Martin is so sour about it.
That album is very good, I have it as original us pressing!🤘🤘
Yea that record kills, should've been in the top 5, Atomic Rooster as well
Heavy doesn't mean good. Kingdom Come is not by any means close to the quality of the top 5 albums in the list. Moreover, maybe because the drummer is also the singer, there is some weird/awkward, not exactly good tight drum playing there (something that I find distracting and annoying). I realize that the album deserves to be checked (as a curiosity at least) since it's an interesting example of early heavy sounding music, but it's not kind of a neglected gem or anything like that (just my opinion, don't take offense).
Pete Canthropus, I agree with you. I respect Sir Lord Baltimore only as being heavy for their time, but the singing and songwriting simply isn’t there to my ears. A historical curiosity, I can name a lot of bands, even obscure ones, who were better at the time.
scruggscorp exactly! Martin knows his stuff but he left me scratching my head at his comment about it.
This is one of my favorite periods in rock history. The English blues and Psychedelic rock movements were slowly evolving into metal and prog rock and the transition made for a great many fantastic albums that tend to get overlooked because they don't fit nice and neatly into any of those genres.
Love seeing Purple getting their props. I punched the air and said "yeah!" when you gave In Rock 5 skulls.
I agree Paranoid isn't my favourite Black Sabbath album either. My favourite Sabbath album is Master of Reality.
Iron Butterfly:In A Gadda Da Vida,Heavy (Iron Butterfly’s Debut) Both from 1968, Jimi Hendrix:Are You Expirienced,From 1967,Cream:Tales Of Brave Ulysses 1967,Cream:Wheels Of Fire,1968, Steppenwolf,Magic Carpet Ride,1968,Grand Funk Railroad Two Albums From 1969,On Time,The Red Album which had a song called “Paranoid” one year before Black Sabbath’s in 1970.
I really love that Sir Lord Baltimore album - it is very rowdy, got some thrashy elements and the guitar solos are slayeresque, they are pretty nuts!
Sorry Doctor Popoff but I’m going to contest that Child In Time by Deep Purple is heavy as BALLS
Gotta do 1971 so we can show some love to Budgie-Budgie and Mountain-Nantucket Sleighride
That was a great year.
BUDGIE!!!!!!!!!!!
Three man army third of a lifetime killer album
Such a good year! Some of my favourites are:
Deep Purple - Fireball
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
Uriah Heep - Salisbury & Look at Yourself
Bang - Bang
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Leaf Hound - Growers of Mushroom
Blues Creation - Demon & 11 Children
Toad - Toad
Budgie - Budgie
Groundhogs - Split
Alice Cooper - Love It to Death & Killer
Three Man Army - A Third of a Lifetime
Atomic Rooster - In Hearing Of...
Hawkwind - In Search of Space
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride
Maybe not all metal albums, but great hard rock anyway. And there are still more I need to listen to!
Thank you to THE metal history professor Mr Martin Popoff! Such a good breakdown of these choices 🤘🤓
led zeppelin 3?...from my view, kind of a folk rock album
@Foxbody Boogie Rock is better than metal and Zep is strong evidence. Music didn't get better since then , it's gotten worse. Unless you're some teeny bopper into horror comics.
It still has 3 of the heaviest things of the year
Immigrant song alone is worth the album
@@presence9745 damn straight!
Agree 100 % with your comments about these albums. I'd only like to remember a few more albums from that year that probably could've deserved a mention :
Edgar Broughton Band - Sing Brother Sing
Free - Fire and Water
Frijid Pink - Frijid Pink
Golden Earring - Golden Earring
Grand Funk - Grand Funk / Closer to Home
Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb
Josefus - Dead Man
May Blitz - May Blitz
Steppenwolf - Seven
Warhorse - Warhorse
In addition to those bands that deserve honorable mention for releasing scorching albums in 1970:
Power of Zeus
Trapeze
Stray
Bloodrock
Not sure how Martin didn't mention Grand Funk and his dismissal of Kingdom Come is distressing.
Grand Funk Railroad’s red album from 1969 is really heavy,Iron Butterfly In A Gadda Da Vida From 1968 is great proto Metal.
Who voted on Led Zeppelin 3 wtf people...
People mostly vote for the most popular thing, because they don't know anything else. That happens every year, and sometimes it produces some weird choices like this one
Great album, my fav Zep, but yea it's basically a folk rock record
It's really just for Immigrant song like Martin said. Just shows that people don't know the whole album. They voted for one song
It's a symbolic / obligatory vote. We're talking about the beginning of metal so I think people just feel Zeppelin have to be mentioned, as a rule. And maybe Immigrant Song is enough to qualify the album for some people.
@@uuuuu1111 If that is the case, maybe we should start with Elvis, or with whatever 20s and 30s blues homeless musician. Being influential on a certain musical genre does not imply that you actually played that kind of music. That's what most people fail to deduce. This incessant need to label Led Zeppelin as early metal is just ridiculous if not insane. Their 'heaviest' records came right after LZ4, but even those ones wasn't metal.
One of the few things I rarely see get mentioned is how the vocals of King Diamond were totally inspired by David Byron and the other guys providing harmony in Uriah Heep. I heard Heep much later than King and was shocked when I heard those falsetto vocals in Heep. I don’t hear metal fans mention this often, but King does. He named his son Byron.
Child in time is so dark ,so heavy at the same time beautiful
So somehow I've never heard of Sir Lord Baltimore. I just gave my first listen. WTF it's like Clutch but heavier, and in 1970. It rules.
Polygram actually reissued this on CD in the US back in the mid 90s
Grand funk railroad should be on this list.
You Don't like Child in Time!!!!!
atomic rooster - death walks behind you
One of the best drinkings songs ever😁
Love that song
Deep Purple's In Rock is probably the golden standard against which every hard rock/heavy metal album ever released since should be measured.
Koss That good, eh?
@@frostythesasquatch definitely
Spot on.
Loved this episode Martin
I recommend the album "En Ny Tid Är Här" by the Swedish band November, which is considered as the first Swedish hard rock band. Heavy, blues-based heavy rock in the vein of early Fleetwood Mac, Mountain, Led Zeppelin, and not least, Cream.
To me, album wise Sabbath will always be the beginning of metal... BUT, Zep has it song wise. Communication Breakdown is, by far, to me the first REAL heavy metal song.
Cactus deserves more of a mention because of the Drumming. Carmine Appice invented metal drumming.
Love Cactus, but no way a metal band.
@@rancid216 Never said they were. Carmine invented that style of drumming in Vanilla Fudge and Cactus.
Cool list. Thank you all the voters for choosing cleverly! And Martin, Keep being yourself! I mostly agree with what you are saying and even when I don’t, you make a good point. Please keep making these lists until you have covered every year from 1970 till today.
When they review something like Thy Art is Murder, I try skip to the skull rating and that's it... When Martin is on, I literally listen and watch every single word and sometimes rewind to make sure I gathered all the information!
You're not the only one :)
Love how you mention Stooges and Atomic Rooster! 1970 is a good year to start:)
We used the term Heavy for music like this, but not Heavy Metal until years later. Uriah Heep didn't sound like Deep Purple, they sounded like Uriah Heep. Also, those of us who loved these songs were given a lot of grief for not sticking with CSN and other really good rock that wasn't heavy. We didn't know that Heavy Metal would be a genre in the future.
Love seeing these posted- Marty has single-handedly made me rejoin patreon again
And I agree Physical Graffiti is the best Zep album
There is no "best", there is only your "favourite".
Grand Funk’s second album could be mentioned as GFR were called heavy metal back in the day. Though it is very blues based. The song “Paranoid” is perhaps closest to heavy metal.
Grand Funk had some seriously heavy songs, check out "Sin's a Good Man's Brother" but they never put together a heavy album, too much drawn out "jamming". Then after a few good albums they totally sold out.... "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Loco-Motion" ... come on.
@@warpig4942 +1 for Sin's A Good Man's Brother. Really, though, it's the heaviest song on the record. Closer To Home is a damn good album, but you'd have to squint your ears pretty hard to call most of it metal.
GFR were heavy metal for that time same as Black Sabbath both bands were very bluesy. GFR were the loudest band in early 70' and they were much more heavy metal then Led Zeppelin.
“How smart you all are” - Mr Popoff, flattery will get you everywhere 😁
100% agree with this one, good stuff. Looking forward to 1971!
Awesome! Love how you went into a bit of the music theory of (some) Heavy Metal moving away from the strict blues into other areas--doom, classical, psychedelia and I would add "literary." (Or some people might say layering that other stuff onto the foundation of blues/r&b/rock.) Please do a 1971... and every other year of the 70s for that matter. Budgie's coming!
Never found Lucifer's Friend particularly interesting, Sir Lord Baltimore should be in there place. And Zeppelin III come on guys that's folk rock album, it's great but doesn't belong here.
Thoughts: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE expand these to top 10 or top 15. I have most of your books on heavy metal and I've discovered so many great albums and bands through them. I love the honorable mentions part, but definitely want to see more than just top 5.
@Martin Popoff Yeah but...even you lament in your books how predictable the top stuff is. Anyway, keep up the good work. Any chance of a reprint or omnibus for the decade books? They're rare and expensive.
Big ups Uriah Heep.
Bird of Prey is thrash metal to me.
@@benjilee329 Bird of Prey had a big influence on Iron Maiden's sound (Salisbury is Steve Harris' favorite Heep album)
I also found Zeppelin III a weird choice although I love that album. Agree otherwise with the list. Should have mentioned Iron Claw in the last batch of bands though!
sir lord baltimore and cactus both are awesome!
1970' I was 14 and got my first electric guitar, now I own 18 electric guitars and one acoustic/electric,one bass,6 amps,more pedals than I need Metal till death!
Fantastic video but really surprised that t2-it'all work out in boomland didn't get a shoutout. I do know that it's more psych/prog and garage but no more white horses is I think one of the heaviest songs outside sabbath territory.
I 100% agree man, f-ing love that album, found it on my search for the heaviest albums of the 70's. Do you use any form of social media, we could recommend each other obscure albums/bands we find
Sure man. Messenger is cool
What's your messenger?
@@joking7520 same as my username here
Child in time - the screams front and center as the chorus along with the subject of War- all metal! And Sabbath likely wrote homage to this in the greatest metal song of all time- the progression to the song Black Sabbath and it’s own sub genre in my opinion being dark gospel metal- “Disturbing the priest “
Thanks. So many interesting comments and points from you. It cleared up some things for me (I was a little surprised you put MC5 in the Metal pocket, first time I've heard that. They're usually referenced as Punk)
Yeah, this time period for me is huge. I was five and I remember the songs of this period on the radio, but like you it was toward the end of the seventies when I really started to investigate it. 1970 was the music of my two older brothers and I remember them and their friends making cases for which were the best bands. We had moved to Maine from Connecticut in late '71 and in '72 a new station called Top of Sugarloaf (WTOS) started playing all this heavy stuff. It was the mainstay in the area for all of us who liked the heavy stuff, and became a go to place for decades to come. I became familiar with Nugent and Ozzy solo and all the stuff as it came along down through the years up till about ten years ago.
Great video. Thanks again. This really takes me down memory lane. 🤘
High Time / MC5 was heavy, maybe not heavy metal. Great record , my favourite of theirs. Definitely had an influence as did The Stooges classic Funhouse. It is always cited as the the birth of punk rock but I hear the influence on heavy metal all over that record. Both albums released in 1970 to little acclaim, but both albums are now classics.
Paranoid the best heavy metal song of the seventies????? That's a joke right?
What's your pick?
Check out Dionysos “Le Grand Jeu” and the song “Agneau de Dieu”. The album is more heavy psych heavy blues but that last track is killer, especially the last two minutes!
Lucifers friend kicks ass
LIVE AT LEEDS deserves a mention if being a live album is not a cheat. Especially the original mix 37 minute version. In terms of rhythm section, Moon and Entwistle are on fire and the latter influenced Lemmy’s sound.
That said, can’t argue with what’s included. DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK is especially a masterpiece.
Agreed
Gallows Pole is one badass heavy song!!
He's right. 1970's choices will be predictable. I don't know that 5 good metal albums came out in '70 though. I never liked the two albums Sabbath came out with in 1970. Awesome to see Lucifer's Friend make the list; they are so unknown. Top 4 of 1970:
1. Deep Purple in Rock by Deep Purple
2. Very 'Eavy...Very "Umble by Uriah Heep
3. Lucifer's Friend by Lucifer's Friend
4. Kingdom Come by Sir Lord Baltimore
Skimpy metal year, but that should be expected since it was the beginning of metal.
Sabbath is always number 1 no matter what
I'd have put Uriah Heep at at least 4th and the Black Sabbath s/t first, but this is still pretty satisfying.
I'm happy UFO 1 got there as an HM, great album!
and Martin, don't need to be so hard on those HMs, they didn't make the top 5, no need to shit on them. hahaha
Uriah Heep Bird of Prey. This was a great episode.
It's an incredible piece for sure.
I believe he made a mistake saying Led Zeppelin 1 and 2 coming out in 1979 LOL, I think he meant 1969 yeah?
both Purple & Sabbath invent metal with two division, Purple invent the speed while Sabbath invent the heaviness
That's an interesting way to look at it. Do you think Led Zeppelin deserves their position in the Unholy Trinity?
@@AGDinCA surely, I think LZ invent the grooviness of metal, metal also need to be groovy as well
@@rintojulian2680 Aha! So Deep Purple gave metal its speed, Black Sabbath contributed the heaviness, and Led Zeppelin delivered the groove? I'm sure all these points could be (and probably will be) argued, but I kinda love it. 👍
@Martin Popoff DP have heavy songs indeed, but as far as tone concern I believe in my ear that Sabbath have heavier tone...about speed which Sabbath song that has speed tempo as Speed King, Highway Star , Burn etc...then about grooviness, I agree Sabbath also have some groovy songs like NIB, Iron Man, Sweet Leave, DP have Never Before, Lazy, Flight of the Rat etc...but LZ have most groovy songs than Sabbath & DP
To me Purple contributed speed and technicality. Whereas Sabbath gives us the riffs, heaviness, the aesthetic and had fast songs.
i agree with 1-4. Stooges- Raw Power & Atomic Rooster- Death Walks Behind You (tie) #5
Went back and listened to Very 'Eavy.... OMG why haven't I listened to this since I was in my 20's!!! Good call Banger fans!
That fckng Hammond Organ through an overdriven HiWatt amp intro to Gypsy is brutal to this day. The Hammond is more aggressive than the guitar. Love it.
Great. More Martin, please: informative, educational, and lacking any of the tired goofyness by his younger colleagues.
Heavy Metal may have been conceived in 1968 but it was born in 1970.
1967
Well, 1969, considering Sabbath had recorded their entire first album in 1969 and had been playing the songs live since at least then, if not 1968. Same thing with Deep Purple. Child in Time is from 1969.
@@Danimal77 I said 1967 because things started getting really heavy at that time especially when Jimi Hendrix experience came out it's one thing to be loud but it's another thing to be happy then Loki we get talk about Iron Butterfly's have the hour as well but it was not the same way as when the Hendrix experience came up with Their 1st album which was really have every saved a lot with cream vanilla fides and at slew of other bands that came after that . Hendrix playing the guitar with himself really did a lot for him smell it's not set as much as it was when I was coming up what I'm still proclaiming that because There would be a lot of things in heavy metal if he wasn't on the see that are in heavy metal right Now. 67 was a magical year things just started to come up even a little bit more but it got heavier in that time and the rest is history 66 was loud 67 What's the year of head 68 things got darker and 69 things became more abrupt 70 things exploded with horrific things in apocalyptic themes And set its foot down with the foundations of what is heavy metal today but it would not be anything without those previous bands or years of thinking of it in a historical context of also things that went on around whether it be the ghettos of Birmingham England or even protest stuff that was going on in America all that stuff mattered at that time the Vietnam war especially I can tell you of things that are non metal or considered non metals that were just as heavy in music especially in 1970 and even the years coming up to that that if you are into heavy metal back then you would have been into
Hell yeah, Lucifer's Friend \m/
I recommend 1983 they were some good ones like iron maiden’s piece of mind and dio’s holy diver
Nice one again Banger. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath is the right answer, but great video nonetheless.
P.S. Although Stooges - FunHouse is one of my favorite albums ever (came to metal through punk/hardcore), it isn't metal at all. Definitely proto-punk.
I love Fun House. But yeah it's proto-punk. Love its dirty, grungy sound.
The Uriah Heap album was called Very 'eavy...'Very 'Umble in the States!!
Also happy Uriah Heep got some love too
Nice to see Lucifer's friend up there! Another oddball recommendation for 1972 (when it's time for that video) in a similar vein: Night Sun - Mournin' .... Check that out!
YES! American release of Very Eavy ftw!! The earlier alternative Bird of Prey version there is super cool. Not as power-metal-y, but makes both albums better.
That Frazetta t-shirt looks nice. Thanks for the idea
In Rock features what I believe to be the earliest speed metal songs with Hard Lovin’ Man, Speed King and Flight of the Rat. Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were creating something new in 1970.
Can’t even find the first Lucifer’s Friend self title debut anywhere, except TH-cam
Amon Dull II - Yeti is really heavy for it's time,shame it isn't mentioned
Great video!
What another obscure band from Forth Worth TX Bloodrock albums 1-2 that came out that year they across between Grand funk a little Deep Purple and Sabbath mix .
Surprised Deep Purple In Rock wasn't a hit in America upon it's release. It's such an epic, no nonsense hard rock masterpiece imo and was a landmark album. It reached No.4 in the UK and stayed on the charts for over a year.
I was 10. Turned 10 day Hendrix died. Already obsessed with music
Sabbath got a lot of criticism, but us younger guys loved it!
Surprised that Bloodrock’s debut didn’t even get an honorable mention. Pretty heavy stuff that predates everything on this list except Sabbath’s debut. I hope that you guys get around to doing 1971 soon. Monumental year for heavy metal.
You have 2 metal albums on here. Both from Black Sabbath.
I heard a lot of info on which year was heavy metal invented and who were the first heavy metal bands, but what I'm really interested in, and can't find the answer to is this: Does anyone know when exactly did the term "heavy metal" started catching traction among the fans of heavier rock music? By this I mean when did the people started answering with "heavy metal" to the question: "what type of music do you listen to"?
@Martin Popoff Thanks for the answer, man. I know that the term itself originates from the reviews of the early heavy metal albums written by the rock critics such as Mike Saunders, but to my knowledge none of the proto-metal and early heavy metal bands embraced the label, though, and there doesn't seem to be much info on at what point did the fans started embracing the term "heavy metal" as well as who were the first bands that openly self-described their music as heavy metal. Even if it's an approximation it would be more than interesting to find out when did heavy metal became a movement of the people who wittingly embraced the label instead of being labeled by the outside observers.
@@Grindermetalhead My guess is that fans started to embrace heavy metal as a musical genre during the late 70s and early 80s with Judas Priest and early NWOBHM. That is also when heavy metal actually started to reach the top charts. And yes, I know Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and a few others had commercial success, but they never actually labeled themselves as heavy metal. Deep Purple labeled itself as hard rock, Black Sabbath as heavy rock or something like that. Judas Priest was among the first bands who actually embraced the term 'heavy metal' to describe their music.
@@Kalimdor199Menegroth I also think it might have started with Judas Priest around 78, when they released Stained Class. I was hoping someone could point to some earlier examples but I guess heavy metal truly became a thing with the advent of NWOBHM, almost a decade later than the historians can trace it's origins retrospectively.
@@Kalimdor199Menegroth Thats not entirely true actually, I love Priest one of my all time favorites but they never used the term Heavy metal until 1980. athough as far back as 76 they were being labeled with the term in the music press. they thought they were more than that , as Heavy Metal was seen as a derogatory term. The NWOBHM that's when both Priest and Sabbath finally embraced being called Heavy Metal. Although both were seen as a big influence on the NWOBHM scene to my knowledge Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin never accepted the term to describe their music.
@@jayjaytee9944 It was around the 80s that heavy metal was really established as a musical genre anyway, so that may be true. But Sabbath never really considered themselves heavy metal. They are considered as such by fans, critics and press, but if you ask Iommi, Ward, Geezer or Ozzy, they will tell ya that they play a heavy rock or hard rock.
Deep Purple, as per the members who composed this band did not accept the heavy metal label either. They still deem their music hard rock. But at least they can get away with it. They never really were metal, with maybe the exception of their Burn album. Blackmore moved to heavy metal with Rainbow, particularly the second album. Led Zeppelin never was metal. Not even close.
I can agree that the stripping down of the over emphasis on blues was a good thing and the inclusion of classical elements was a good thing; But how does metal aquire enough Doom to be influenced by it prior to Sabbath? I also disagree with the assertion that metal comes more into it's own genre the farther it goes from Psych. Psych gave metal it's depth just as the blues gave it it's raw,. Earthiness.
I have to agree with Martin on In Rock. I love the Paranoid album but Planet Caravan just stops the thing dead in its tracks.
Wait....how the hell do you not like Child In Time? It's mellow for maybe 90 seconds before Ian GIllan comes ripping everyone's throat out!
Paranoid would be much less of an album without Planet Caravan on it.
You made no mention of warhorse. This band featured original deep purple bassist Nick Simper. Very uriah heep sounding. If you've never heard it, check it out.
The Stooges “Fun House” badly recorded? When did you last check it out Martin? Aside from that, great video.
Maybe a show dealing with late 60’s hard rock is due.
I never dug Machine Head/Deep Purple for decades.... until this introduced me to *In Rock....great* record, especially for 1970!!
Normally I agree with the prof on just about everything, but downplaying sir lord baltimore like that was just criminal. My only gripe tho, solid list.
I would replace Zeppelin III with Hawkwind debut
Both are non-metal records though. Even Deep Purple's In Rock wasn't really metal. Burn is the only truly metal record they did in the 70s.
@NO BODY Nope. At most hard rock. And yes, heard of it. A rock song mostly. Less heavier than Black Sabbath's first few albums. And not dissonant.
NO BODY hardcore punk isn’t heavier then metal.
While watching this and seeing Black Sabbath come in at number 3 my brain is racking trying to figure out who could be number one. Then I see Black Sabbath again with Paranoid. I was pleasantly surprised. I should've seen it coming.
Black Sabbath and Paranoid...in the same year!!!
I would almost take away a half of a skull for the "In Rock" artwork. Great album, though. Also, I see that the Exciter magnet that was missing in Blayne's last video is back! Did Dekay steal it for the tour??
Sorry Martin.l...I disagree with your assessment of Mountain-Climbing. Leslie West’s tone is unbelievably heavy and Never in my Life? C’mon!
Tim Powers exactly.
Mountain played so many different styles its hard to label them.
Can’t argue with your top 3. I agree even though I voted for Black Sabbath’s Black Sabbath lp as my number 1
1-paranoid...2-climbing...3-black sabbath....an ats about it!!!!!
I know, a very late reaction here, but how could you not mention Grand Funk Railroad/ Closer to home.
Now this looks like my list🤘
It's funny -- Cactus, Sir Lord Baltimore and Mountain were three of my favorite groups at that time. lol And the second Black Sabbath, as good as it is, is nowhere as good as their first.
Trapeze's "Medusa" album should have been mentioned in this video.
You know you're metal when you call Child in Time a "mellow song".
Atomic Rooster is my favorite of all of these!