Who Invented Metal?
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00:00 Intro
00:56 Title Card
01:03 Blues
02:24 Surf Rock
03:04 Classic Rock
04:48 Summertime Blues
05:38 Born to be Wild
06:15 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
06:53 Led Zeppelin
07:37 Black Sabbath
08:39 Creating Subgenres
09:26 Deep Purple
09:48 Other Bands
09:59 Conclusion - เพลง
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How is this even a question ? The machine that cut off Tony Iommi’s fingers created heavy metal.
Lol I was just watching a video from loudwire that had steel Panthers guitarist telling a satirical story about that
Technically this is a pun haha
KJER ERRT What do you mean it was his wife ?
KJER ERRT Oh don’t be an idiot. That never happened.
Dude just went as far back as he thought he could get away with. I’m seven minutes in and it’s almost all punk influences. I believe punk that no one really heard, unlike the bands in this video, is really what led to metal music. Motörhead is a punk band.
Punk rock gave us Slayer. Slayer... the most metal band ever.
Ah yes. My favourite song: Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath from their album Black Sabbath.
My favorite song: Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden from their album Iron Maiden
My fav. Song :lil pump from lil pump from album lil pump
Oh wait 🤪
My favorite song: Angelwitch by Angelwitch on the album Angelwitch
My favourite song: I Should Be So Lucky by Kylie Minogue from her album Kylie.
Damn, wrong thread.
I like motorhead by Motörhead on the album motorhead
The Who: **Makes one of the heaviest songs in the 60's**
Paul McCartney: *no.*
"Helter Skelter" is great. The correct answer is Deep Purple. Everyone had to sing like Gillan later (not Ozzy, not McCartney, not...) because that was the sound.
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The Nile Song easily takes this title
I see what your thinking..but sabbath influence was 5 to 7 years after Paul whom influenced George's power chords post Hard days night but mid Help era. Yes the real dark sound started with those trying to go dark after the beatles..like sabbath but inventing and bringing into mainstream are two diff things
blue cheer: no
Paul McCartney you better get the Helter Skelter out of here
Rock became metal the first time we heard Ozzy sing "What is this, that stands before me?"
Cen Blackwell yep, that was the turning point
No
Not at all, do your homework.
yep, I was there as a kid. Saw the Kinks on TV, had The Yardbirds singles, Cream albums and LZ I. None of this was as dark as Black Sabbath.
Black Sabbath - without a doubt. I lived through and loved it all!!
If you don't wanna watch the whole video, here's a short summary.
Black Sabbath.
We know.
Bout what I expected
Yes
Reddit Gold!
Only when Ronnie James Dio entered the band. Ronnie James Dio is the only ambassador of "Metal" music.
It began when the vikings took northen scotland.
Tom Pow ...brutal...
"We come from the land of the ice and snow..."
True DD
Dam , this guy is ain't joking
Swedish Pagans begins playing in the distance
The Beatles’ “she’s so heavy” was certainly influential for the creation of doom metal, especially the outro.
Yup. Anyone who thinks the beatles never touched metal needs to hear that song.
Helter skelter was the very start of it
Helter skelter actually
@@ksasidhar2980 Nope. Led Zeppelin were playing Dazed and Confused and Communication Breakdown live to the public before the Beatles recorded Helter Skelter. Zeppelin first played those songs to the public September 7th 1968. And The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page did Stroll On in 1966, and Page, Beck and John Paul Jones did Becks Belero also in 1966.
Hettler sckelter
The Who: makes a heavy song
Paul McCartney: and I took that personally...
Always wonder why Jimi Hendrix was often forgotten when speaking about metal. He pushed guitar to it's technical limits, play louder and faster than the most, taking the rock blues formula to higher point.
+I'm sure many, if not every heavy metal guitarist claims Hendrix as an influence. So where is he in all this? Surely he heard those blues guitarist you mentioned. This deserves a rethinking, a reevaluation, a revision, and a rewrite. Give jimi his due.
The sloppy intro to Hey Joe from the Lulu Show (BBC sessions) is an excellent example of this
he wasn't that good, he is alright. I really don't see the hype for him.
@@juungakagi4262 Nothin against u man but you got the right to ur opinion but have u really given him a chance or listened to one of his albums? Check out Little wing, voodoo child slight return, castles made of sand, or red house if u ever got the time
@@kidus9069 I already did bro, his chords are beautiful but they aren't all that good. his singing is like 6 out 10. he was great for his time but he is not the best of all time in my opinion.
When Tony iommi played a distorted tritone on the song black Sabbath. Rock music became metal.
Cody McCormick Jimi Hendrix was playing distorted tri tones way before Black Sabbath
@@danielkeller8910 But it (subjectively) didn't become metal until Sabbath did it.
Yeah and Jimi definitely bordered on metal all the time. He was so extreme, but I think the way Sabbath did it was definitely the point when it became metal. The riffs, the darkness of the lyrical content, I definitely think that was the fork in the road when metal became a thing.
Sabbath IS NOT Metal, they were a loud psychedelic hippie jam band. Metal Began with MOTORHEAD.
I agree
"What is the exact point when red becomes orange?" I love that question. This treatment of the subject is awesome. Thanks. I lived through all of this.
Nah I like to think of it more like this
All metal is rock but not all rock is metal
@@theccarbiter I agree but the video was talking about the origin of metal and that’s where the analogy makes sense because it’s difficult/near impossible exactly where metal began, like how it’s near impossible to find exactly where orange becomes red
That exact point is actually neither color. It's black. As in, Black Sabbath. That's when metal began. The Who were loud. Zeppelin and Deep Purple were heavy. Jimi had his own category. Sabbath is metal.
@@theccarbiter wdym Chuck Berry is clearly proto-doom-speed
Yep, black sabbath thinks of themselves as hard rock. Metal has screamy unintelligible vocals, which is def not black sabbath
What I take from this is that Black Sabbath are the creators of metal as a genre. The previous artists all created or built on top of the key components that make metal the genre what it is. Black Sabbath perfectly combined all of these components. They created songs that no other artists ever had before and their sound is the only one that sends shivers down my spine everytime I hear it, listening since I was born since my dad loved them and I do too, to this very day.
I still love Black Sabbath. It’s their sound that gets me!
the reason why it's sabbath is that was the first band that everyone immediately called heavy metal. "Heavy metal" is a phrase more than a style of music. If lawrence welk was called "heavy metal" then it would be him.
‘’Tony Iommi is the real father of heavy metal, a constantly evolving genius, a master of riffs and one of the greatest people in the world!’’
Brian May
Exactly
@Ice Man Blackmore happens to be my favorite guitarist ever but...he did not invent heavy metal and I bet even he would acknowledge this.
@Ice Man I don't think Tony Iommi would be offended anyway. Yes, many of the songs from the In Rock album have those similar heavy riff sounds.
Then Brian May went on to invent thrash metal
@@jamesovenden3833 fucking excuse me?
Any polyphonic video is a treat. A polyphonic video about metal truly makes my day
Hell yeah, as soon as I saw the title I instantly clicked the link
My satisfaction is immeasurable my day is excellent
Oops wrong channel
Jeremy Hayes indeed
Except he forgets Deep Purple. One of the most influential bands ever. Period.
Doedsjarl He did mention deep purple. Actually watch the video before commenting next time
The “Unholy Trinity” (Sabbath, Purple, and Zeppelin) are credited as the inventors of metal, and they all brought different influences to the table. Sabbath was influenced by blues, Purple was heavily influenced by classical, and Zeppelin was influenced by folk and 1950’s rock & roll. All three made their own unique sound, and all three invented the genre we know now as heavy metal.
"The Unholy Trinity" sickest title you could ever give to the OGs
@@n3nt2nd464 yes
And none of those guys would have been possible if Paul McCartney had not made Helter Skelter
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 Not true. The yardbirds were already doing some pretty heavy stuff in 66-67. The two biggest influences for metal were the blues and distortion, also known as Jimi hendrix. Led Zeppelin basically is the perfect combination of rock and its parent genre, the blues. Add distortion to it and you get Sabbath which basically is heavy metal. Helter Skelter didn't do a whole lot to push the concept. Many bands were trying to make songs that rocked harder than any song released before. The Who were trying to top themselves and the beatles were trying to top them. But all this probably led to creation of hard rock, not metal. The origins of heavy metal can be summed up in the following manner :
The blues
Jimi hendrix
The Unholy Trinity : Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath
@@GladeSwope Nope. Pink Floyd's a pretty shit band. No one cares if a group is experimental or not, if that experimenting leads to shit music.
Black Sabbath gave it a sound
Ronnie James Dio gave it a sign
Iron maiden gave it a mascot..
Manowar gave it a punchline
Well Lemmy's voice is so heavy it can be considered metal in itself
Even Lemmy himself would disagree. He hated it when people referred to Motorhead as "heavy metal". They were more like Chuck Berry meets Hawkwind meets The Damned on a month long speed bender and at volume 11.
He invented Thrash Metal. Hence why Metallica thanks them and British Punk for creating them.
@Cory Britton jeez, did his warts freak you out bro?
@Cory Britton Ok
True. Whenever he spoke, and whatever he said, that was the sound of heavy metal :)
Helter Skelter seems much heavier to me than Summertime Blues, since McCartney really leaned into the sing-shouting that seems like a core element of the genre.
I love the sound and energy of HS, but for me it's more like hard rock or something like that. It has the sound, but not the feeling. After all, musically it's not that complex, it has a pretty basic structure.
Please listen to Who Are the Brain Police by Frank Zappa, 1966, and pay particular attention from min 1:25, that is the first proto metal song. Not Helter Skelter, that was late.
The chorus of I Want You (She's So Heavy) is another great example.
Yes.
Summertime Blues has drums that are metal as fuck
John Lennon screaming in exhausted illness in Twist and Shout and the Davies brothers slashing their amps in You Really Got Me are fairly glaring exclusions to my mind.
I forgot about Lennon's rendition of Twist and Shout. Good point👉👍.
@@vicky8867 True enough but I think as far as vocals go that McCartney's vocal on 'I'm Down' is even more metal.
@@blackmore4 hmm... I've never heard of it I'll have to check it out.
@@blackmore4 just listened and yes both songs have that metal music like scream 😲 that could have influenced the heavy metal sound.
If we are talking about screaming then screaming jay hawkins deserves to be mentioned too.
"The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)" by Fleetwood Mac is another key moment in the early stages.
Judas Priest has an awesome cover of the song.
In the same category, spooky tooths spooky two album was also quite influential. Better by you, better than me was also covered by judas priest
lots of proto-metal...but Sabbath moved from blues to minor and harmonic minor keys...that is when true metal was born..imo. NIB, Iron man, War pigs, Children of the grave..just a few examples.
Alot of their stuff was still bluesy. It wasnt until Judas Priest I think that that Blues element was discarded
@@rocknroll_jezus9233 Priest is way more bluesy than Sabbath.
@@1985cactus Not at all. I wouldn't consider Sabbath especially bluesy, but Priest was faster, had double guitars, and the operatic tenor vocals.
LZ brought the show, the riffing, the distortion and the tenor singing. BS brought the minor scale, the dark lyrics/image and the downtuning. Deep Purple brought the very important classical influences (especially in soloing), the screaming, and the speed (Speed King and Highway Star are faster than anything by BS or LZ). But putting all the puzzle pieces together, getting rid of the last remnants of the blues, and adding a second guitar, that was Judas Priest. The other NWOBHM and 80s metal bands followed in their footsteps.
@@JohannesWiberg But Priest's solos and just guitar sound overall, sounded way more electric blues oriented than Sabbath's slow doomy downtuned sludge that sounded nothing like bluesy at all.
Agree with the rest. I guess JP did bring all the elements that make me hate 99% of heavy metal music.
@@1985cactus It different from song to song, I'd say, especially Sabbath experimented a lot with guitar tone. Sweet Leaf certainly doesn't sound bluesy, but Paranoid is not too far from, both the tone and the riff. The second, faster part of Iron Man is close to blues rock á la Cream.
Oh and I agree when it comes to JP. Historically important, but I don't like it at all. While the double guitars can certainly be used for good, the rest of it spawned everything from Iron Maiden to Motley Crue, and I don't care for any of it. I'm back in the game when Soundgarden came around. :D
Helter Skelter was definitely a predecessor to metal. One of my favourite Beatle song, with its screaming lyrics and heavy distortion. In addition it also has a violent and infamous legacy due to its association with the Manson murders. Definitely a heavy tune that left a mark on history
I really cant stand the beatles. Someone said Beatles created metal before Sabbath and i wanted to disagree but i gave them the benefit of the doubt. I hate to say it but helter skelter is metal as fuck
@@alexscheuerman8899 It isn't because nobody called it that at the time. "Metal" is a word. Metal music didn't exist until somebody called it that.
Who Invented metal?
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH!!!!!!!
Bach had nothing to do with metal.
@@piijay14 dude he made sweet leaf first, and then black sabbath recreated it
I would argue for Wagner as well.
@@billy6220
Well, if we're putting together a list of metal's "founding fathers," then we should also include Stravinsky.☺
You folks are delusional. This video doesn't even mention anything about Bach or any European classical artist. Metal comes from exactly where the video say's it's from. Sorry to disappoint y'all!
Metal was invented in 1670 when sir john metalingus played his lute in a fast and dark matter with growls
Real
Ahh the Beatles my favorite metal band
They were no metal band but versatile as fuck, if you want, go check songs like "I want you (she's so heavy)" "Revolution" "The End"
They aren't a metal band and he never said they are lol. They do however have multiple songs that can be credited as an influence to the birth of metal
Your a wanker dude for that.lol
@@GandalfGreyhame Jimmy Page did it before The Beatles.
Helter Skelter unironically birthed punk, metal, nu and all heavy music
The Kinks you really got me, released in 1964, they sliced up the speaker cones to get the distortion sound
Absolutely, The Kinks deserved to be mentioned rather than the who
I agree Trevor. 1964, and followed by their ' All Day and all of the Night.' They were rough but melodic, and still sound exciting.
They're oft credited with creating the first heavy metal song..I tend to agree. Also, Jimmy Hendrix 's music was once described as "sounding like heavy metal falling from the sky". The way he shredded surely influenced most every metal guitarist along their journey.
@KJER ERRT No, mono is fine. It's Dubly you're thinking of.
@@Mark_Ocain The Kinks and Hendrix, no question.
My boyfriend mentioned that he felt that Hendrix should have got at least a mention because he was incredible.
This clip focuses more on blues and other such nonsense.
Helter skelter came out in 1968 but they had 9 or 10 albums before helter skelter before there album with helter skelter and back in the U.S.S.R before there was howlin wolf mostly know for smokestack lightin which came out in 1958 and after that in 1966 he made sitting on top of the world which is now most know by its cover by cream aka Eric Clapton , ginger baker and jack bruce , Bo diddly I’m a man came out in 1958 . Jimi Hendrix Are you experienced came out in 1967 which has fire , purple haze , I don’t live today and highway Chile and in the SAME year he made the bold as live album which had Spanish castle magic , she’s so fine and castles made of sand. CREAM in 1966 had their first album fresh cream with N.S.U , Toad and I feel free which are all bangers . The kinks 1964 the kinks album included beautiful Delilah , you really got me , all day all of night and Louie Louie . 1964 the yardbirds who had artist like Eric Clapton , Jimmy page and Jeff beck all of which are legendary. Helter skelter did influence metal with it’s gain driven sound and futuristic screams but without the previous artist and many others helter skelter wouldn’t even exist :)
Agreed. Jimi Hendrix was an important person in the evolution of Heavy Metal.
Pink Floyd is often overlooked when discussing the evolution of Heavy Metal sounds. 1967 "Interstellar Overdrive", crosses genre between psychedelic and bombastic blues. In 1969 Pink Floyd released "The Nile Song", on the album "More", a musical piece that is easily more Heavy Metal than psychedelic.
Heavy Metal is as influenced by Jazz and Baroque era music as it is American Blues, and I would argue early Psychedelic music were experiments that constructed melodic works by combining these genres... Heavy Metal does this with a bit more angst.
The Nile Song sounds more like Punk which is ironic considering that for a time, Pink Floyd were the enemy of Punk.
Black Sabbath nailed the true sound of Heavy Metal!
look at who invented metal on TH-cam
@@trojanhorse5906 I already know I was there. It was sabbath NOT because of the sound, but because they were the first band that everyone called heavy metal. Nobody called the Kinks or the Who or the Stones or the Beatles or Steppenwolf or any of the others metal until AFTER sabbath. That is when the term "heavy metal" became connected to a type of music.
Black Sabbath weren't called metal until the late '70s, what are you on about? Iommi claimed that they played heavy rock, Ozzy called their music "stoner blues rock". The first heavy metal band was Sir Lord Baltimore.@@scambammer6102
I believe metal was officially born with the first Black Sabbath album.
Black Sabbath, N.I.B. Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep, Warning
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I disagree because their music isnt metal
@Heroin Bob it isnt, its hard rock pure and simple, it doesnt have the drive in the drums that metal does and if you dont believe me, even the band dont thing their metal.
@GhostShip influence is not the same as the real thing, led zepplin werent heavy metal
UwU dan dude, its very easy to tell that Black Sabbath is different from Led Zeppelin, much heavier. Black sabbath uses heavy, slow riffing (ie Black Sabbath off of their debut), whereas Led zeppelin, has light hearted rock riffs. if eletric wizard, dopesmoker, and sleep are metal, you can not say black sabbath isnt
Brian May and Queen on all their earliest albums had created a sound for metal and speed metal that no one else had. If you don't know Queen - Son and Daughter, Ogre Battle, Stone Cold Crazy, Death on Two Legs, White Man, Sheer Heart Attack. One from each of the first 6 albums. The list goes on. They created many genres of music. Worth a listen.
Yes
well, the Queen I album was out there in 73
we are talking about the late 60s here, so yeah
I agree..Brian May playing monster riffs.
The only thing I think to be missing from this is a mention of Link Wray's "Rumble". It still hits the spot today. Otherwise a great summary!
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Online Lessons that Don't Suck. But Skillshare is a joke - it's a company created to give other companies validity in their employee training requirements by abstracting the actual responsibility of filling the requirements through semi-plausible web portals that are maintained by armies of middleware developers who code like mad but those skills will never transfer as every tool is not only unique but frequently randomly assembled out abandoned open source projects.
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lmao who knows maybe a metal band taught themselves through skillshare haha
haha
I'd say Helter Skelter is heavier than Summertime Blues.
@@ironhammer8935 The covered version is what I was talking about.
I think it's pretty close if you listen to the full version, but it's true that its vocals and lyrics tone it down a lot.
It might be a push, but if blue cheer wins it’s because the disjunction of a cover and it’s ‘heavier’ version. May be a moot point anyway as the steppenwolf dude is apparently adamant that he invent the genre via his lyric
Yeah, honestly, Helter Skelter has always been where I really heard a lot of the elements start to come together. That song's vocals are a lot more metal-like than most of the other songs listed here, imo.
The first time I heard that song you could've told it was straight out of the 90s. This ecstatic singing and chaotic instrumental is something I didn't find in any of the other early "metal" songs which makes it feel more like the classic punk attitude. I love that rawness and it's the main reason why I lost my interest in metal after a relatively short time. Just feels... too calculated from time to time
Classical music from the 1910s and earlier played a huge role in metal as well. Black Sabbath wrote their first song because they played Holst’s Mars on the bass, and then modified it a bit. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring was a huge influence as well.
I'm from Detroit (blow the reveille)!
*HEAVY METAL:*
Stretching Blues/R&B/Pop/Classical/(almost anything) concepts out to the farthest degree possible. - (Insert 'ominous' here)
-Loud, plodding drums.
-Loud, 12-bar bass bottom.
-Loud, 'machismo' vocals trying to reach high.
-Loud, thundering crunch-chords that sound
'gargantuan' & (at the same time) 'dark'
or 'ominous'. - (insert tritone here)
-Screeching guitar lead with a _'metallic'_ edge.
This 'stretching' creates a desirable sort of 'drone' or 'sludge' quality.
*Note:* Some say Heavy Metal is _"defined"_ by the _'muted-E'_ or _'diminished-5ths'_ or the _'required'_ presence of the _'tritone'._
(As a musician) I respect someone trying to break it down to pure musical language.
*IMHO* You get lost in the weeds that way.
You forget the 'dis-affected adolescent'/rebel-against-the-established-order'/
*Culture Shock* goals at play.
_By any means necessary!_
Kinda like trying to explain R&R.
*LYRICS:*
Anyone using 'lyrics' to define a genre should take a musical theory course.
Do HM lyrics require _Witches?_ _Spaceships?_ _Norse Gods?_ _Mystical stuff?_ _Murder?_ et al?
Of course not. Almost any example could probably be found (to some degree) in another genre ('Gimme Shelter', for instance). While I feel there have been some great HM lyricists; *This ain't exactly Dylan/Morrison territory.* fugedaboudit!
*TERMINOLOGY:*
Tricky.
Forget metallurgy, William Burroughs & Steppenwolf.
The term 'Heavy' was used in music going back to the '50s.
Contrary to popular belief, the term "Heavy Metal" WAS used in the late '60s by Journalists, Radio DJs, & during interviews, if clumsily.
I Heard It Used & said it myself.
*-* *Lester Bangs* used _"Heavy Metal"_ to describe
a Love concert. - (unknown origin)
*-* A Hendrix concert was described as _"...Heavy_
_Metal falling from the sky."_ - (unknown origin)
*-* (re: Guess Who’s 'Canned Wheat') _“With a_
_fine hit single, ‘Undun,’ behind them, they’re_
_quite refreshing in the wake of all the heavy_
_metal robots of the year past.”_
- (Rolling Stone-Feb.1970-Lester Bangs)
*-* _"....Humble Pie is a noisy, unmelodic, heavy_
_metal-leaden shit-rock band, with the loud_
_and noisy parts beyond doubt.”_
- (Rolling Stone-Sept.1970-Mike Saunders)
*-* _"....Grand Funk sludge, because Sir Lord_
_Baltimore seems to have down pat most_
_all the best heavy metal tricks in the book."_
- (Creem Magazine-May 1971-Mike Saunders)
Not much documentation. But, enough to suggest my 'organic usage' claim is real.
As you see, it wasn't very _accurate_ usage.
Cream/Blue Cheer/Vanilla Fudge/Iron Butterfly/Led Zeppelin/Deep Purple/Mountain were not referred to as _'Heavy Metal'_ (yet).
So, the _'terminology-origin-story'_ begins AND ends with *Lester Bangs.*
By 1972-73, Lester (& others who followed his lead) were referring to the:
*"Heavy Metal Triumvirate"* (Zep/Sab/Purple).
By the time BOC & Priest arrived, the genre was codified.
When folks say Black Sabbath was the first *Fully-Formed Heavy Metal* (FFHM); It's usually followed by saying previous bands were:
_"Hard Rock",_ or _"Psychedelic Rock',_ or
_"Proto-Metal",_ or _'Acid Rock',_ whatever.
Actually, those previous bands had FFHM songs in their repertoire. But, it was just PART of their set.
*Black Sabbath* WAS the 1st to make an entire album of Heavy Metal.
THAT was their pioneering concept (ALL Metal)!
They also played everything in 'Drop-D'.
(Again) not the first. But, the first to feature it prominently in ALL songs.
Geezer, Tony, or Bill would be the 1st to admit they continued what Cream (& Jimi, & Blu Chr, & Deep Purple, & Led Zep, & Van Fudge, &
Jeff Beck Group, & many others.) had begun.
(Ozzie liked _"The Beatles"._ LoL~°)
Sabbath also began the process of sifting out the 'blues' aspects (but not entirely).
(IMHO) Priest finished THAT job!
I submit:
Cream - *'Deserted Cities of the Heart'* (1968)
Album: *'Live Cream-Vol.2'* (Not 2005 version)
It is: *Fully Formed Heavy Metal!*
If you still don't hear it; I dunno, man.
Peace. Stay Healthy!
- Dave B..
Cream, Hendrix, Blue Cheer.
Then, Vanilla Fudge, Iron Butterfly.
Then, Led Zep, Deep Purple.
Then, Black Sabbath.
@@rosea.8894 Yea, that looks like a reasonable progression of HM.
I would add several groups.
Especially *The Jeff Beck Group!*
- Dave B.
I dont care what anyone says, metal would not be the dark, gloomy heaviness it is today without sabbath. They set the tone for what a metal band should be
That dark, gloomy heaviness predated Sabbath, though. It very much originated in the psychedelic "wall of sound" techniques of the mid-late '60s.
Chicken Wang deep purple
Blue Cheer
All of these bands played major parts in metal. But people you will never know about played parts in it as well. Musical genres don't just grow on trees, they have taken many millennia to become what they are today. Music history predates even written history. Black Sabbath (although I agree they are a major, if not the most major, turning point), would never have existed without the blues, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Chuck Berry, J.S. Bach, and all of their influences combined.
@@EphemeralTao look at who invented metal on TH-cam
before Black Sabbath, Helter Skelter was the heaviest song, no doubt
but it's true that HS is more PUNK and Noise than "METAL".
it's NOT just about distortion.
@@umpygoodness2369 But it is about song attitude.For example,motorhead
Helter Skelter is heavier than Oceans Inside me by Stone Garden? Kinda disagree... th-cam.com/video/G8cnS07H_3c/w-d-xo.html
led zeppelin 1, nuff said
Are you deaf?
Esther 'Jinx' Dawson's vocals on the album Witchcraft are amazing. The first woman of metal!
Thank you for making this video. Sabbath, Deep Purple....you're taking me back to my childhood of metal gigs, snakebite, Newcastle Brown ale, leather jackets & throwing up in the gutter after a hard night's headbanging! The best times
Dude your video was very helpful. I got help from it for a presentation for prep class. I talked for 30 mins and nobody stopped me. I could make a very fluent presentation because of this video. Thank you for that.
21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson deserves at least a mention
Starless, kid.
@@cl8804 No dude. Starless was released in 1974. Sabbath was fully established by then. Would make no sense to mention it
Black Sabbaths debut was BEFORE King Crimson
@@mikekoenig6467 King Crimson came out before
Nooooo. Black Sabbath came in 1968. And technically were playing their debut in 67 before the album came out
helter skelter was the first real heavy song, ahead of its time.
Thank you!
NO
In a godda davida, wasn't bad either
True
Agreed
This video was great! Never seen somebody show the progression of metal music like this
The gods made heavy metal
and they saw that it was good.
They tought to play it louder than hell
and we promised that we would.
When losers say it's over with,
we know that it's a lie.
The gods made heavy metal,
and it will never gonna die!
*I GOT BLISTERS ON MAH FINGERS*
Ringo Star!!!!
I have long thought that Helterskelter was the first Punk song. Its post release history/connections add to it.
@@nevillebowden4948 Punk is an idea, not a sound. It's lyrics are rather meaningless (I love the song anyway), but it's not punk. The sound is more reminiscent of hardcore, which to be honest is pretty much punk without the political/social commentary
Bach invented metal.
Bach invented Yngwie.
no shit though
Exactly, he just didn't have electric guitars or distortion.
Don't underestimate Beethoven, he created the most recognisable riff in rock history.
But Ritchie Blackmore played it backwards in Smoke on the water.
Beethoven more than Bach imo
If you want to look at the Who's influence on Hard Rock and the Metal, look at Live at Leeds and their live work. They take many of their more standard 60s songs and turned the volume to 11. John Entwistle's basslines add a much greater depth and heaviness to the sound, as well as Pete Townshend's use of stacked amps to give greater volume and variation in tones meant he could get incredible distortion out of his SG. The Who live in their prime were hard rock gods.
1967 VANILLA FUDGE!! They made covers their own....and were heavy as anything that was before it!
Look at Who invented satanic rite rock
Black Sabbath is the only correct answer. There's no one single thing that makes something "metal". It's a combination of factors and Sabbath has them all. Riffs, lyrical content, energy, atmosphere, controversy and probably many more.
Judge Lazar exactly
But...
Helter Skelter...
Nocturn Vaka and?
Metal isn’t supposed to be satanic
@Nocturn Vaka metal doesn't have to be satanic or dark.
Pentagram goes back just as early as Black Sabbath and they were playing proto-black metal.
Deep Purple "in Rock" was the first album I ever bought. I had no idea what I was in for.
One of my favourite albums. Personally Machine Head is my favourite.
jsmarty Machine Head rocks, but In Rock, for me, is the definitive Deep Purple album.
Perfect return, Perfect Strangers!
best transition to an add ever! well done
The inventor of Heavy Metal music is Toni Iommi with the title track to Black Sabbath's 1st album Black Sabbath released on Friday Feb. 13th 1970, exactly one week before my birth. It didn't use tritone chords but it did use the interval of a tritone from its tonic root. It's in G minor, so the tonic root is the of the OG version of the song Black Sabbath is in G and the tritone to it is a D Flat, and that chord relationship had never before been used as the frontal chord progression for a piece of music in the genre of rock (or any genre near it) until then. It was inspired by Gustav Holst's Mars: Planet of War from The Planets. Mars also inspired The Emperor Theme from The Empire Strikes Back written by John Williams in 1979and Am I Evil by Diamondhead in 1980. Did I get anything wrong? As always: Thanks for posting!
1968 was an important year and Voodoo Child is totally left out. It crammed so many heavy metal roots into a few minutes.
I'd say Voodoo Child is about as heavy as psychedelic blues rock can ever get but its not metal.
@@m.b.82 lol just because it's not metal doesn't mean it wasn't the roots of metal. Like saying chuck berry is not rock n roll because we have ACDC, Led Zeppelin to look at.
@@bassinblue i disagree. Chuck berry was most definitely rock and roll. Hendrix was definitely not metal.
@@m.b.82 But Hendrix's was still a major stepping stone into the development of Metal. Jimi Hendrix's helped to pioneer & popularize a super heavy style of feedback distortion & fast heavy style of blues guitar playing with it.
Many early pioneers where heavy Hendrix fans that where heavily influenced by Hendrix. Tony Immoi was a major Jimi Hendrix's fan & student that even own & used a left handed white Stratocaster just like Jimi during the recording of there first album in the fall of 1969. What happened was haft way though recording the album Tony's Stratocaster broke so he had to switch to his backup guitar which was a red Gibson SG.
So even if Jimi Hendrix isn't consider Metal, his music definitely had a massive impact on the creation of Metal as many early Metal artist & pioneer's where major fans & students of Jimi Hendrix's & incorporated alot of elements from Jimi's style of Heavy Blues Rock into there styles.
@@MCJosiah Good post. Thanks for the lesson.
ah yes, the black eyed peas.
Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well...
Andy Milonakis invented metal
Almost forgot that they came up in this vid about metal. lol
@aidan's angels it was a joke
aidan's angels - you can’t have it both ways Aidan.
This gave me goosebumps. Thanks for this video.
You've definitely got one of the best channels on TH-cam. If I could change one thing, it would be making the music snippets a little longer. I know you've got a lot of info to cover but I feel like some of them aren't nearly long enough to get an actual feel for the song. Keep it up brother!
The music snippets most likely are not longer in order to avoid copyright issues.
Who invented metal...? What a question... Was not a someone from the Near East, in the Fertile Crescent, around 6th millennium BC?
lmao
nevermind, it was nature.
it could have been discovered by a chinese dude but is unknown to us for years..
I would say that 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson is another early contender
Larks tongues in aspic pt1 also fits that bill
True, that song is just straight metal, but I guess that was '69?
I was about to mention that and was waiting him to mentioned in the video
in-a-gadda-da-vida (the full version, not the shitty radio cut at 3 minutes) is higher on my list than King Crimson and it was before too.
I was just about to mention Crimson if nobody else did. I've been getting into them recently and some of their early stuff is straight up sinister psych metal, way ahead of its time.
i've been a metalhead my whole life, being raised on a mix of the 00s nu metal of my childhood and the 80s heavy metal of my dad's teenage years, and while i knew that Black Sabbath was the "first" heavy metal band, i never bothered to trace how we got from blues and rock to metal, let alone where the term "heavy metal" even came from. great video man! :)
edit: comments have informed my Jimi Hendrix should've been mentioned, and based on my knowledge of Hendrix...yeah he probably should've been mentioned.
i'm quite impressed you credited Pat Hare. He did play with a very heavy tone and not many people think of him anymore.
I always felt Albert King sounded very metal and if Buddy Holly had been a lot less cheerful and efervescent he might have got a mention for fast and hard.
That sponsorship segue was a masterpiece. 10/10
tony iommi
honorable mentioned:
butler
ward
osbourne
look at who invented metal on TH-cam
Butler should be up there with Iommi since he wrote the dark lyrics that are associated with metal.
The Beatles released four songs that could be considered metal.
Revolution - Hey Jude B-Side
Yer Blues - The White Album
Helter Skelter - The White Album
And then in 1969
I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Abbey Road
Man, this channel is really good!
I consider Helter Skelter the first metal song, but the one that really put the definition in the genre was definitely Black Sabbath.
@John Cornell Communication Breakdown & Dazed And Confused came out in 1969, while Helter Skelter was 1968.
"the one that really put the definition in the genre was" Deep Purple In Rock
I would say it's more punk but it definitely has metal in it
It has elements of metal but I definitely wouldnt call it metal
Sacrilege! I would consider Helter Skelter proto-metal, no such thing as metal before sabbath
Link Wray-Rumble. 1958. Some radio stations banned it due to concerns that it could incite violence.
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I have always thought that "Summertime Blues" by Blue Cheer was the first "metal" song. I still love to crank it up when given the chance.
There are many precursors that I would call "pre-metal," but being that metal typically consists of heavy blues with screaming guitar solos, I have to say that the three pioneers of metal (each a different type of metal) are Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath.
Look at Who invented satanic rite rock
Sabbath launched the first fully evolved debut which defined the genre. Their choral structures down tuning and lyrics established the template. They are Heavy Metal and that's all there is to it. Zeppelin's music was amplified blues, not metal.
Yes, but Page's heavy contribution to the the way he played those blues is as important as Clapton's (Cream) and most importantly JIMI FUCKING HENDRIX!!! See my other post on this.
@@larrymagee8758 Hendrix was heavy blues psychedelic and jazz. Nothing whatsoever to do with metal. Page had nothing to do with metal either, it was all rooted in blues. Some of Bonham's drumming was maybe an influence, but even then. Sabbath laid it out in it's complete form and that's all there is to it.
true, metal isn't just being loud or heavy, black sabbath sounded not like heavy rock, or amplified blues, they sounded like metal.
@wayward_wyn I am aware of Blue Cheer. They were an excellent and powerful band. But Sabbath were the complete template. There was a darkness about their music unlike anything else at that point too.
No "bluesman " ever sounded like Led Zeppelin. When LZ's first album came out, no one F.M. listening hipster had heard anything like it, and then when they hit A.M. radio with Whole Lotta Love in 1969 kids like me were blown away. Then the next thing you hear from the F.M. listening hipsters in 1970 is the name Black Sabbath and I was intrigued by the name alone , not having heard their music at that time. Little did we know(except for music press reading hipsters) that music media had just coined a new term to describe this heavy distorted acid rock. A review of American group Sir Lord Baltimore's first album, 1970s Kingdom Come , labeled their sound as "heavy metal". This is the first time the term heavy metal is used to describe a groups sound. Listen to that record and you will see why. By the end of Black Sabbaths first American tour the press started labeling them as heavy metal. As for being the first to have that sound we now call heavy metal, Black Sabbath is the winner. Check out the early Iron Claw (Scottish band 1970) recordings to see how much they loved early Black Sabbath. The music press by 1974/75 often had the big three of Heavy Metal on the cover, Led Zeppelin ,Deep Purple and Black Sabbath.
Was just thinking about Motorhead....how sad is it that Lemmy, Phil, Würzel and Eddie are all gone. :(
When we lost Fast Eddie - all the kings were dead . Hail Motorhead ! Long live the kings !
Motörhead was inverted in 1975 and there was metal albums already
In 10 years everyone in this video will be gone.
Motörhead called there music Rock & Roll I.e By Lemme who started Motörhead. Metal fans as well as punk fans loved Motörhead.
28 december 2015... a very silent day at our house😪 R.I.P. LEMMY, ROCK IN POWER
Hendrix and Humble Pie are important to the begining of heavy metal
True.
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Something that should definitely be remembered for its place in early Metal is King Crimsons “21st Century Schizoid Man.”
You missed the Kinks, You really got me, (1964) as the earliest candidate for a metal song.
I agree. I expected to see it here. Especially since Polyphonic channel did cover this song on its video about guitar distortion.
Mephistopheles no...that would be the earliest form of punk ...sorry bud
distorted but nowhere near metal
Mephistopheles earliest candidate for punk to be honest
Mephistopheles Nah
21st century schizoid man was a big inspiration to metal
Sabbath' s Iron Man basically is a massive ripp-off of that song. Anyway, King Crimson did an amazing job with that apocalyptic sax and guitar riff... Man, one of the heaviest things ever recorded.
It also genuinely continues with the later songs like Lark Tongues In Aspic
Actually way more so. Why isn’t that actually mentioned?!?!
King Crimson actually had an influence, with lyrics and actual heavy music. I seriously find it amusing that people ignore them consistently!!!
Completely agree! King Crimson easily was a precursor to metal.
Thanks man very informative
Black Sabbath and Deep Purple just about wraps it up. They represent the branching point for all the glorious madness we love! (I could go on about my days at Berklee in Boston and learning about Jan August influencing Dick Dale with music belly-dancing from the Ottoman Empire post WWI but nah....Sabbath and Purple!)
That was the quickest 11 minutes 38 seconds of my life
no doubt, it actually made me reply to a video.
That’s what she said. Lol
Understandable considering the video is 11:37 long
"Eric Claptons' band Cream"
Come on man, if you had to pick one guy, it was definitely Jack Bruces' band, not Claptons'
Yeah, true, but Clapton is generally more recognizable a name than Bruce, so I understand why he'd say that.
And it was actually Ginger Baker who recruited Clapton and Bruce (again) so it's Baker's band
Ginger Baker dude.
@@TheSlydeathman Goat Hammer True, but Bruce wrote most of the songs, I was referring to that
I'd say Gingers band.
9:42 or y'know when Ian Gillian was in Black Sabbath, or when Ritchie Blackmore started his own band with a young vocalist who would also later sing in Black Sabbath.
It's GILLAN not "Gillian"
Gillan was in deep purple before he went to work with black sabbath
damnit everytine he plays a song i have to go to add it to my playlist
Tony Iommi. Next question.
The Master of Metallurgy
Its Tommi, mate. At least spell his name right
@@laurentiuborza3937 uuhh...no it's not....
Most noted writer in Sabbath is Geezer Butler. So does rhat m ake him the creator
@@thetennesseewalker4025 Geezer wrote the lyrics and some of the music, but Tony developed the sound.
"Hey! You forgot [name of rock band that no metal band has ever cited as an influence], what about them?" - this comment section.
Black Sabbath cited king crimson as an influence
"Time Has Come Today" // Chambers Brothers // 1966
@@stevenattanasso2003 THATS MORE ACID ROCK CROSS PUNK ROCK BEFORE PUNK
@@karlkuttup For 1966 ( I was 11 years young ) it was about as close to heavy metal as You could get ..... IMO , of course ...... But I see Your point with the acid rock reference .....
"People are mentioning bands I don't know because they don't get played on FM radio!" - this comment
Back in the 60s, as a teenager, I was very much caught up into rock music, guitar rock I suppose it is now called. 67 and 68 were the years of rock paradise as far as I was concerned. There was psychedelic rock, blues rock, and a few other types that I just had to listen to over and over. Cream of course, the stones, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, big brother, and on and on and on. But there was one group and one song that I loved the sound of, that was separate from the rest. Blue Cheer- Summertime Blues. It was called hard rock at the time, but, in the progression of rock music I realized it was two or three stops down the line. When I heard the term "metal rock, I thought, "oh yeah, Blue Cheer"! And to me I have always thought of that being the start of Heavy Metal music. These thoughts are just personal and not meant to disagree with anyone else's.
I'm very glad you mentioned Helter Skelter, because imo this song is very much overlooked in what became the shape of heavy metal. Also their song paperback Writer, the guiter riff is pure metal.
Helter Skelter was waaaaaaaaayyyyyyy heavier than Blue Cheer.
Go listen to "Doctor" by Blue Cheer, a song released in 1968 (but created in 1967 th-cam.com/video/dSdtoGUmpuY/w-d-xo.html ) , and tell me if it was heavier than helter skelter.
No bitch
Helter Skelter doesn't sound so heavy to me as it does Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer
The Beatles are lame bullshit, every shitty song! Also they're bubblegum pop crap not even rock.
@@429supercj Nope. The Beatles made rock what it is today, or at least what it was until Clearchannel decided to snuff it out.
Black Sabbath made metal. The long hair, distorted guitar, dark lyrics.
Hair had nothing to do with it
@@uncleal7635 It's more a joke, but plenty of metal bands do have the long hair. Especially in the early metal. Hell, there's technically even a genre for it, hair metal.
@Umbra
Don't entirely disagree with you, Black Sabbath were one of the first.
Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin I would argue started the hard rock/heavy metal genre.
I do think Sabbath and Judas Priest both truly defined metal, however.
Deep Purple were the loudest band in the world for a long time, even though they don't claim to be Heavy Metal, nor do Led Zep.
I thought Earth did.
black widow came before sabbath imo sabbath were the first to bring metal to the mainstream
My god! This channel is amazing!!! Thanks!
Queen, "Stone Cold Crazy". What about that? The strumming and speed all throughout the song is quintessential in the development of thrash metal, speed metal and punk rock 🤘🤘
Why is it about to take this video eleven minutes to say Black Sabbath
Peter Joseph Palmer because without the bands and songs before it Black Sabbath wouldn’t be who they were. The genre was blossoming and Sabbath took the ideas before them and made it their own. This wasn’t like Dylan going from Folk Rock to Electric, Sabbath needed the foundation and they had it courtesy of these bands. Remove the acts and Sabbath would probably have remained a pure Hard rock band and New Wave of British Metal at best and not Heavy Metal as we know it today.
Because black Sabbath didn't invent metal. There were previous artists who allayed the ground work, also the video is made chronologically.
Guys, it was irony.
STOP being a nerd
Because for a good metalhead any other information is valuable and granted (except for that reference to the black eye piece of shit).
I'm a dinosaur and I would say Black Sabbath is the true genesis of Metal . They took hard rock to another level .
Could The Rolling Stones also technically count as an influence on Metal? I mean, wouldn't songs like Sympathy for The Devil and Gimme Shelter warrant an influence on Metal?
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They werent metal though, they may have influenced metal artists but they dont play metal, the true original metal artists would technically be mötorhead as phill taylor was the originator of heavy metal drumming
@@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 Yeah, and Paint it Black, too. But, they said they hated the (then emerging) Metal genre, and that their music was something completely different. lol
The Kinks 1964 You really got me!
GREAT ROCK INFORMATION...THANKS
I can see the surf rock like I never thought of it like that but it makes so much sense now
Helier Skelter, to me, is undeniably heavier than any other song of the time and the key to the start of metal. The White Album is so incredibly and vastly varied, and Helter Skelter being the start of metal makes the album all that more special. It deserves that recognition.
my son,who is a huge fan of the Beatles, said the same time
Well it did inspire Charles Manson.
Helter Skelter is great but the Velvet Underground White Light / White Heat album released earlier in 1968 is heavier
@@andrewgodsell7830 i disagree completely
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
I recently got “Deep Purple in Rock” on cassette and the whole album is a banger.
Definitely, Speed King, Blood Sucker, Child In time, and living wreck are amazing songs.
Wait. On Cassette?
Victimology is there an issue?
@@davidosorio9427 Yes: CD's and streaming sound better.
DP is one of the most underestimated/forgotten bands in America.
If one wanted to sum up a theory about what the present metal is, he'd say that it's a mixture of the Black Sabbath and Deep Purple sounds
Sir Lord Baltimore should be mentioned as well. Their first album from '70, "Kingdom Come", was hard and heavy throughout the entire LP with the exception of one tune. The album cover from SLB's "Kingdom Come" is pretty awesome as well.
The Kinks - You really got me
I love how today when we hear this distortion in blues it sound normal to us because of how much we’ve heard it around in other music. But when people in the 60s heard distortion thought it to be incredibly heavy, just shows how we’ve grown
Bench Boi Truuuuueee!
Missed a key record...The Kinks' 1964 You Really Got Me. Before The Who and Cream, here was the way forward to Metal through Dave Davies' fuzz heavy uber-riff
Exactly
They were the prequel of all Hard Rock Bands and consequently of all Punk and Metal bands!!!
Bugger! Just composed a comment saying the exact same thing (plus the inclusion of "All Day And All Of The Night"), then read yours!
paul mccartney's HELTER SKELTER
Helter skelter came out in 1968 but they had 9 or 10 albums before helter skelter before there album with helter skelter and back in the U.S.S.R beforethere was howlin wolf mostly know for smokestack lightin which came out in 1958 and after that in 1966 he made sitting on top of the world which is now most know by its cover by cream aka Eric Clapton , ginger baker and jack bruce , Bo diddly I’m a man came out in 1958 . Helter skelter did influence metal with it’s gain driven sound and futuristic screams but without the previous artist and many others helter skelter wouldn’t exist :)
For me, Black Sabbath with Warning. Brought the album home and The TriTone intro to the title track scared me half to death. I was 13 in '70.
Just to be clear, I had Cream albums and LZ I. Sab was a fave right away. man, first electric guitar was bought in '72. Black Sabbath was there.