@raponte1955 Sabbath was indeed an early catalyst for established Heavy Metal but stuff like this, Coven, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple are the kind of groups whose sound laid the groundwork for what would evolve into Heavy Metal standards.
I think you could say it's one of the early heavy rock songs but heavy metal probably came in 1970 with Black Sabbath. Check out Yardbirds - Stroll On (as featured in Blow Up, 1966). Also check out Cromagnon - Caledonia (1969). High Tide - Futilist's Lament (1969). Sabanna Breeze - Slave (1968). Blue Cheer 1st 2 LPs (1968). The Litter - Blue Ice (1969). Brainticket - Brainticket (1971) (yeah, this last 1 is post Sabbath, but still ahead of time, very intense vocals)...
@cometothesabbat The problem is that "metal" music came together with "modern" guitar rock music (around 1967 - 1970)..also let's ask what is that magical difference..and i think the answer should be that feeling is what matter -also check the "kraut" rock bands, which were really close to what we understand as metal...difficult task to find "first" metal song...
@forgottensewers It's also only a coincidence that the term "heavy metal" decided to click with people's minds so that became the name in the first place. Also, the borders between genres are not set in stone, and genres themselves are only abstract concepts. Especially the last minutes of Amon Düül II's Phallus Dei track is almost goth metal in its atmosphere. It's not really important where we set the limit for "first heavy metal", only thing that matters is good music:)
@cometothesabbat Yeah that's true, music is what matters, and the genres are mainly just for fun. But it's interesting when you try to "dig" the very first one heavy metal, althrough it's almost impossible to find something like "first song" - that would probably be some test records of guitar effect or guitar rehealsals from studio..
Eddie Trump brought me here he said Iron Maiden was the first metayl band and noyt just because their nam,e buyt the UFO Band perfected Metal if ya wanna geyt technical.
this song rocks and whoever posted it should be praised. Where on earth can I buy this recording and how did you find it OR is this a ruse made by someone trying to find a band more obscure than Blue Cheer for the invention of heavy psych rock, come clean!
@fickifickmaster I got it off a compilation called "Psychedelic States in the 60s" for Georgia. There must be a B Side recording but I have never acquired it.
Psychedelic. Not Metal IMHO. Sorry I'm not buying your revision of rock history. Though many bands that did play psychedelic later played metal, the two styles are distinctly different. This, IMO, is Psychedelic, not Metal.
@TheSentientParadox I completely agree with you on this. There is a strong attraction for peoples own personal reasons to re-write music history afterwards and turn it into something it never was or never did. Just look at what's going on with Michael Jackson...its only a matter of time before he sold 3 billion records, always looked the way he did and his 'Moonwalk' step was a secret method for walking on water. It's fans being fans and 'fixing' it afterwards.
Yes but again, don't confuse Heavy Metal with Heavy Rock. They are two different styles from two different roots. Only later in the 80's did they start to blend the lines between the two. Led Zepplin, Deep Purple or Cream for example would never have described themselves as a 'metal' band and would see themselves as a natural progression from the old bluesmen like Elmore James, Mississippi John Hurt and so on. I would still say the first proper focussed 'metal' band was Black Sabbath.
@NotMe2776 And I would agree with the band's feelings about this, but it isn't the bands that decide. It's the fans. And fans did indeed start calling Zeppelin and Deep Purple Heavy Metal, in the Seventies. Almost everyone I knew did by the time I graduated from high school, in 1978. In the Eighties, the definition became quite a bit more refined and specific. By then, DP was losing it's acceptance as metal, at least by many fans. Not all though.
The whole thing is a progression. One band hears another and tries to outdo them. A lot of people mix up heavy metal and heavy rock. As in Black Sabbath (the first metal band) and Led Zep who come from a bluesy psychedelic roots as do Blue Cheer and Bitter Creek and don't forget Cream but they aren't metal bands even if they are a heavy sound. The first metal song written deliberately with the idea of writing a dirty, loud in your face song? Helter Skelter. It even freaked out a serial killer.
Correct. But "heavy metal thunder" was about his motorcycle. Not his music style. I meant that "heavy metal" did not exist as a "genre of music" until at least 1980. I ought to know... I grew up in the 60s and 70s, was an avid hard-rock fan, and never heard it mentioned at all as a type of rock music until the 80s
@CleanAirMeister You are correct I think. The first time I heard the term was in reference to AC/DC and that would fit in with your time line and that was in the early 1980's.
@NotMe2776 I heard it in reference to ACDC as well, but years before the 80's. Don't forget they were formed in '73. Trust me, I and many fellow students at school used the term for years before the Eighties.
@CleanAirMeister I did. A couple of years before the Eighties. Heavy metal thunder was in reference to a bike, but it WAS being used within a few years after the song came out that I first began to hear the term Heavy Metal, in reference usually to both Zeppelin and Sabbath, but to quite a few other bands as well. in 1977, Scorpions released Taken by Force, and we all called it Heavy Metal the moment we heard it.
I don't doubt that the term was not ever used at all in the 1970s by A FEW people. It was just not common parlance, though. "Hard Rock" was the term used for Sabbath, etc, back then. As for "Heavy Metal" I did not hear it in WIDE USAGE until the 80s (that's my own perception of it)
@CleanAirMeister Well, from my perspective, which included quite a lot of musicians, it was what I would consider widely used long before the Eighties. In fact, I distinctly remember discussing with quite a lot of musicians and fellow fans how the term Metal was becoming redefined during the Eighties. That may not have been happening in your circles at the time, but it sure was in mine. Also, look up Todd Rundgren's Heavy Metal Kids. You may be surprised. That was from 1972.
@TheSentientParadox I don't doubt your word. If you were in the music business, you probably did hear that. I am just saying that it was not so much widely-used at first. By the way, Born To Be Wild - I meant to say "Heavy Metal Thunder" as being his loud 'thundering' exhaust pipes on his bike.
@TheSentientParadox Like you say heavy rock and metal became more defined. I think Budgie were one of the earliest real heavy metal sounds as opposed to some of the more heavy rock being called metal.
This is exactly what Mudhoney did around 25 tears later. They met with equal popularity and failure... but influenced a generation. What can you say about that? They didnt get paid for the value, is all you can say. That sucks. Rock on Blue Cheer.
The Who 'I can see for miles' is really organized heavy rock but the Count Five Psychotic Reaction and a buncha bands from 66' will give metal-ers head aches and problems ,..plus Jimi hendrix in 67' really had a heavy sound,...that was oddly ahead of it's time but then again no ,...this here song reminds me a bit of janis Joplin, Country Joe and the Fish,...and a buncha those bands from the time,...it's good stuff - the jefferson airplane really had heavy ideas,..
@GreenhouseEffectGE Jefferson airplane had heavy stuff really? I don't know i grew up listening to Kiss when they were fading out 79 80, Then MTV the worst never played anything heavy or psychedelic very rarely and MTV had access to all 60s 70s videos from great bands. Stupid shit was on MTV most of it useless nowadays people still like older music before 80s.
When I was a kid, we all thought of Led Zeppelin as the first heavy metal band. Cream, Hendrix and Iron Butterfly all influenced them, but we didn't call them "Heavy Metal". Now, in hindsight, I don't really think of Zeppelin as being "heavy metal" anymore. Like their predecessors, they have elements of it, but let's face it: What's considered metal today doesn't include them or this tune. The earliest band to still fit the name is Sabbath.
@sex6cult9revolution Ledzeppelin could have been the first metal but they had variety not every song was heavy. Almost everything was heavy in blacksabbath toni iommi's big and stupid primitive neanderthalic riffs with cut off fingers takes the cake 'master reality' and vol 4' are embarrassing' like one time in 68 police raided earths practice room and iommie is the one they took to jail !aH Big stupid always in and out of jail through the years? I love it! I read toni iommies wiki.
@MattL.883 - RELEVANCYNESS??? NALEDGE??? HAHAHAHA The first metal song is definitely a matter of opinion, but let's not forget that without Chuck Berry there's no Rock&Roll and therefore no British Metal.
This isn't much different than what Cream was doing. I'm thinking it's more like hard rock a-la MC5, etc.
Two early 'metal' sounding songs each from very unlikely sources: Helter Skelter from The Beatles (Paul McCartney wrote THAT?!?! Amazing!!!); The Nile Song from Pink Floyd (yes, that Pink Floyd...)
Hey Guys, In the decline of the western civilization anthology on Rock Music. The authors say that the first metal song was "born to be wild" and first punk song was "my generation".
This may of preceded Helter Skelter, but it's not nearly as intense & the headbanger that Helter is. I mean cmon, let's admit it. Skelter takes you on one fucking hellacious ride.
Nice heavy psych! check these other heavy metal psych songs: watch?v=mg5t7T5_rR8 pretty things old man going. watch?v=uKL_wDJf52I iron butterfly 67' bootleg . sound of imker -see those girls watch?v=wk261u1DQdo alot of this sound is early punk what has more edge raw punk rock or post psych bands like what deep purple turned into? if you don't know check out captin beyond the original deep purple lead man. watch?v=pe5BlpR1Wjk&feature=related here's some ultra underground raw punk rock sound
@stashproductions there have been alot bands paving the way for our now existing heavy metal, Budgie, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, Cream, Sir Lord Baltimore, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, and so on ...
@stashproductions did I say something against it ? actually Sabbath is the greates band ever for me, i just wanted to name a few bands that helped developing the genre \m/
Sorry but "Purple Haze" and "Sunshine Of Your Love" are both just as "heavy metal" sounding as this. The guitar here is just a tad more fuzzy but then a lot of psyche bands were stepping on fuzz boxes before this...and this does sound pretty psychedelic! Now if ALL of Bitter Creek's material sounded just like this then they (aside from Blue Cheer) might be the first heavy metal "band" in existance. As far as recordings go, one song does not prove anything unless recorded in 1965 or earlier.
@kirakaito666 You're damn right I don't know nothing about music. I know that "You Really Got Me" (and this) aren't exactly heavy metal. It's been called "arguably the first punk song" and "arguably the first heavy metal song". So I made my statement. Assholes like you should pay more attention to the context of a comment. How Many More Times? By the T-Bones. Wait, I thought I didn't know anything about music.
@NeverAloneForever YOU'RE A COMPLETE MORON AND AN IDIOT...FIRST OF ALL DEATHCORE ISN'T DEATH METAL PLUS HARDCORE....DEATHCORE IS DEATH METAL + RAP METAL, ARGUABLY THE FIRST DEATH-RAP METAL GENRE..HE GROWL RAPS IT'S HEAVY AND GHETTO AT THE SAME TIME, SO YEA ESSENTIALLY YOU DON'T KNOW JACK ABOUT MUSIC, AND YOU REALLY GOT ME NOW IT MORE GRUNGE THAN ANYTHING.
@MattL883 With over 100 albums I don't need identification. So I haven't heard any crap from a convaluted subgenre of a subgenre combined with an assimilar genre? That means I have no brains all of a sudden. You're either a troll or just some rude trick. Or both. Who gives an airfucker?
Not grunge. Just timeless out of control '60's rock.
lol You had to put essentially in there. What an annoying caps-lock overusing douchenozzle. Go fly a cow and blow your brains out or something.
@NeverAloneForever YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO PUT WORDS TO GETHER YOU MAKE NO CENTS...FIRST OF ALL MOST GENRES WERE PRECURSORS TO RAP METAL, YOU HAVE TO LOOK BACK AND BANDS LIKE THIS AND BLACK SABBATH, THESE GUYS WERE THE PRECURSORS TO "NU METAL", WHICH IS THE SAME THING AS RAP METAL, SO ESSENTIALLY YES MOST THINGS WERE A PRECURSOR TO RAP, YOU IDIOT-OCRITY OF LIFE MAN
@MattL883 If you didn't understand than you're ignorant. Plain and simple. You're the one who can't spell.
Yes, everyone who knows Sabbath knows they were the first alleged Heavy Metal band. Rap Metal? For some reason I'm getting too many signals from that. I'm pretty rap isn't a subgenre of everything. Of course, you're probably speaking of the cultivation of what came to be known as rapcore.
Indeed, this is a precursor to mallcore but I'm sure the 2+ decades down the line added to that.
@MattL883 The same state The Doors came from. I know what state you're in. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the frame on this video. Dounle entendres FTW. I feel like I have to say so or you won't get it.
P.S. Thanks for giving me every reason to believe you are a troll.
@NeverAloneForever OK ASSHOLE....I'LL PUT IT TO YOU THIS WAY. TROLL = SOMEONE WHO POSTS SHIT THAT IS IRRELEVANT TO THE VIDEO, EVERYTHING I SAID HAS HAD RELEVANCYNESS TO THIS VIDEO SO U CAN TAKE YOUR NALEDGE OF MUSIC AND SHUV IT
@NeverAloneForever This music is only rock...is 60's, psichodelia. They're the precursors to the heavy metal, but never punk or heavy metal. Deathcore = deathmetal + hardcore!! ohh! you know all about music...is obvious...is in the name. But...Do you know about the psichoacoustics elements in the music for example? ...I don't believe it...Sorry for my english...i'm from a spanish-speaking country and I don't like use the google traductor 'couse I wanna learn well this lenguage with the practique
@kirakaito666 Psycho acoustics is the study of sound so what were doing is altering the bla bla bla whatever. I have no idea i heard that from electronic psychedelic psytrance DJ's that use 'frutyloops' and real guitars drums on stage, Psy raves' 4 day marathons full moon partys, not here in america though they have shit house Dj music for raves colorless boring.
@Oddaudiblemadness I commented about that like 5 months ago. Steppenwolf was referring to motorcycles when they used the term heavy metal thunder.The first time heavy metal was to refer to an actual music genre was Sir Lord Baltimore's "Kingdom come". Damn I got deja vu.
this is NOT heavy metal, ...at that time it was known as "garage punk", later refered to as "freak beat", ...even zeppelin & sabbath were not known as metal when they first formed, they were heavy or hard rock. ...the first bands to be known as heavy metal were saxon, judas priest, iron maiden and the heavy metal kids etc.
@projektor4 I think people are just noticing the influences these early bands had on the development of the heavy metal genre. Of course they weren't considered heavy metal because there wasn't a word for it until later on. The heavy metal genre was a result of these earlier bands.
@tsvc2010 I was responding to the attention seeking claim of this videos title & description. ...yes HM has meny influences, but i doubt the drug fuzzed guitar & drone drum beats of psychedelic garage punk is one of them, ...i´m not knocking it, i´m a freak beat fan. ...HM as i know it is more an image thing. black studded leather, head bangging, fast cars, booze & loose women, boogying power chords and battling against all odds ! ...and a far cry from the pseudo cgi trippy visuals shown above.
@tsvc2010 I was responding to the attention seeking claim of this videos title & description. ...yes HM has meny influences, but i doubt the drug fuzzed guitar & drone drum beats of psychedelic garage punk is one of them, ...i´m not knocking it, i´m a freak beat fan. ...HM as i know it is more an image thing. black studded leather, head bangging, fast cars, booze & loose women, boogying power chords and battling against all odds ! ...and a far cry from the pseudo cgi trippy visuals shown above.
Bitter Creek Was one of the first heavy medal bands,But in a different way The Yardbirds,where like the first heavy hard rock blues band.But it is like putting a round peg in a square hole?
I would not call this the first heavy metal song. Metal came form many elements combined. This is a fairly typical psychedelic era song. You need to be exposed to bands like the 13th Floor Elevators, Bubble Puppy, and the really strange stuff like Cromagnon, etc. The San Francisco sound.
@Misterioso I beg your pardon for my low level, please show me some expertice in your comments, so i can learn from a music master. And please forgiveme for use an "empty head reference"
These are proto metal bands, not metal bands so it was one of the first songs that INFLUENCED metal which is why its called proto-metal this would fall into Led Zeppelin's genre heavy rock which people forget about as well that falls between metal and hard rock. Black Sabbath is the first metal band to glue everything together which is why they are declared the first, bands like these are proto-metal as they are some of the heaviest influences for it. But not a bad guess but its not spot on.
@valdyrgramr I think what actually made Sabbath the first "heavy metal" band was the use of horror and evil images coupled with this style of music. Led Zeppelin fell right in there when they were acused of dabbling with the occult. Other bands before them may have adressed the aggression of a cranked fuzz guitar sound but the first to feature an inverted cross on their cover was Sabbath (even if it was a management decision, not the band's).
@voxsoundpro Sabbath was also the first to accept it though it happened by accident due to Iommi's finger problem, Led didn't want the title and they yell at people who call them that they say you can call us a rock band, you can call us hard rock, you can say we started HEAVY ROCK, but do not call us METAL....their own words lol....but yeah you are right as well.
@voxsoundpro Sabbaths first recording had some interesting points;
- mix a de-tuned SG and P-bass, add a nasal wah and you've got a screaming thick mixture
- the engineers brilliantly eq'd Wards kick drum to have the first use of the "thud-snap' heard in all modern rock recordings.
- Osbourne was at the ass end of his late teens/early 20's voice change causing a raspy yet baritone edge to his vocals, combined with his gutteral Birmingham accent certain words became downright freaky
@TheLizardRox You sir. Have good taste in music. Sonics spawned punk and garage rock in my opinion. As did Love, but Love just innovated so many different things.
you want heavy? go listen to 'surfing bird'-total mosh,bottom end crankin' hardcore.or for speed bill haley rock arond the clock with the smoking ass shreder solo on a old ass amp with sick ass natural overdriven sound.its kinda rock a blly but you get the idea that the old dude was a tharshmaster/metalgod!!!!
definitely very heavy for it's time but really overly distorted psychadelic blues...when I think metal I think more Sabbath first (minor keys, droning down-tuned guitar and bass, spooky/dark subject matter)...that's the blue print sort of...Zep was thunderously heavy, especially live, but did so many other things they can't really be definitively labelled....it all leads from someone to someone, from then to now
Heavy, fuzzy psychdelic rock, much like blue cheer but without the shrilling vocals. Heavy metal wasn't even a phrase to describe music back in them days; the first time I heard the phrase "heavy metal" in referance to music was in 1980 thanks to blue oyster cult and some animated movie called Heavy Metal; of course I could be way off here but even the members of Sabbath seem to grimace at that term, especially iommi.
I wouldn't call this full on heavy metal but it's very heavy and one of the heaviest songs from '67 for sure. Thanks for posting it! Great song! I love the heavy psychedelic stuff from this era.
to say black sabbath was the first 'real' heavy metal band is a misleading, yes true they influenced heavy metal, but if you listen to their first 9 albums you notice the music sounds typical to the period it was release,remember they started as a jazz blues outfit who progressed onto heavy psychedelic rock (as in there 1969 debut) and ive always regarded sabbath as a progressive rock band albiet a progressive rock band who wanted to be heavier than the other prog. rock outfits of the time.
This was heavy before there was heavy
nholt 1 day ago
Neither Iron Butterfly nor Bitter Creek qualify as heavy metal. They were just "hard rock". The closer to heavy metal pioneer was Black Sabbath.
raponte1955 1 day ago
@raponte1955 Sabbath was indeed an early catalyst for established Heavy Metal but stuff like this, Coven, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple are the kind of groups whose sound laid the groundwork for what would evolve into Heavy Metal standards.
robinkom 14 hours ago
I think you could say it's one of the early heavy rock songs but heavy metal probably came in 1970 with Black Sabbath. Check out Yardbirds - Stroll On (as featured in Blow Up, 1966). Also check out Cromagnon - Caledonia (1969). High Tide - Futilist's Lament (1969). Sabanna Breeze - Slave (1968). Blue Cheer 1st 2 LPs (1968). The Litter - Blue Ice (1969). Brainticket - Brainticket (1971) (yeah, this last 1 is post Sabbath, but still ahead of time, very intense vocals)...
cometothesabbat 2 days ago
@cometothesabbat The problem is that "metal" music came together with "modern" guitar rock music (around 1967 - 1970)..also let's ask what is that magical difference..and i think the answer should be that feeling is what matter -also check the "kraut" rock bands, which were really close to what we understand as metal...difficult task to find "first" metal song...
forgottensewers 2 days ago
@forgottensewers It's also only a coincidence that the term "heavy metal" decided to click with people's minds so that became the name in the first place. Also, the borders between genres are not set in stone, and genres themselves are only abstract concepts. Especially the last minutes of Amon Düül II's Phallus Dei track is almost goth metal in its atmosphere. It's not really important where we set the limit for "first heavy metal", only thing that matters is good music:)
cometothesabbat 2 days ago
@cometothesabbat Yeah that's true, music is what matters, and the genres are mainly just for fun. But it's interesting when you try to "dig" the very first one heavy metal, althrough it's almost impossible to find something like "first song" - that would probably be some test records of guitar effect or guitar rehealsals from studio..
forgottensewers 2 days ago
Great song - great sound - great vibe - thanks for the upload - Long Live the Sound of the Yardbirds!!!
CrazyRayHimself 4 days ago
Eddie Trump brought me here he said Iron Maiden was the first metayl band and noyt just because their nam,e buyt the UFO Band perfected Metal if ya wanna geyt technical.
pettibonnotginn 4 days ago
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The Beatles' Helter Skelter-the first heavy metal song
ilian75 5 days ago
Great song. This is the San Francisco sound. Big Brother without Janis.
clarkewi 6 days ago
Still the best HM: "White Light White Heat" album by Velvet Underground, recorded 1967.
jimivu 1 week ago
1:33 ..sounds like purple haze by jimi hendrix ..which was also released in 1967 ...nd heavy too..
abhikoolblue 1 week ago
this song rocks and whoever posted it should be praised. Where on earth can I buy this recording and how did you find it OR is this a ruse made by someone trying to find a band more obscure than Blue Cheer for the invention of heavy psych rock, come clean!
fickifickmaster 1 week ago
@fickifickmaster I got it off a compilation called "Psychedelic States in the 60s" for Georgia. There must be a B Side recording but I have never acquired it.
Styxhexenhammer666 1 week ago
@Styxhexenhammer666 thanks! I'll try to seek out the compilation and if I find the single I'll let you know!
fickifickmaster 1 week ago
@fickifickmaster
Try looking at some Janis Joplin w/ Big Brother and the Holding Company........
Dragonaught77 3 days ago
Psychedelic. Not Metal IMHO. Sorry I'm not buying your revision of rock history. Though many bands that did play psychedelic later played metal, the two styles are distinctly different. This, IMO, is Psychedelic, not Metal.
TheSentientParadox 1 week ago
@TheSentientParadox I completely agree with you on this. There is a strong attraction for peoples own personal reasons to re-write music history afterwards and turn it into something it never was or never did. Just look at what's going on with Michael Jackson...its only a matter of time before he sold 3 billion records, always looked the way he did and his 'Moonwalk' step was a secret method for walking on water. It's fans being fans and 'fixing' it afterwards.
NotMe2776 1 week ago
and it's pretty fucking heavy
huqmierocketlauncher 1 week ago
I love Black Sabbath.But this was 2 years before them.
huqmierocketlauncher 1 week ago
Black Sabbath was the first heavy metal band. Period.
suitcase4343 2 weeks ago 2
Yes but again, don't confuse Heavy Metal with Heavy Rock. They are two different styles from two different roots. Only later in the 80's did they start to blend the lines between the two. Led Zepplin, Deep Purple or Cream for example would never have described themselves as a 'metal' band and would see themselves as a natural progression from the old bluesmen like Elmore James, Mississippi John Hurt and so on. I would still say the first proper focussed 'metal' band was Black Sabbath.
NotMe2776 2 weeks ago
@NotMe2776 And I would agree with the band's feelings about this, but it isn't the bands that decide. It's the fans. And fans did indeed start calling Zeppelin and Deep Purple Heavy Metal, in the Seventies. Almost everyone I knew did by the time I graduated from high school, in 1978. In the Eighties, the definition became quite a bit more refined and specific. By then, DP was losing it's acceptance as metal, at least by many fans. Not all though.
TheSentientParadox 1 week ago
what the fuck is going on in the background
DanGilmrtin 2 weeks ago
Blue Cheer
crackerjacks0011 2 weeks ago
The whole thing is a progression. One band hears another and tries to outdo them. A lot of people mix up heavy metal and heavy rock. As in Black Sabbath (the first metal band) and Led Zep who come from a bluesy psychedelic roots as do Blue Cheer and Bitter Creek and don't forget Cream but they aren't metal bands even if they are a heavy sound. The first metal song written deliberately with the idea of writing a dirty, loud in your face song? Helter Skelter. It even freaked out a serial killer.
NotMe2776 2 weeks ago
@NotMe2776 Well stated
Way2manydoses 2 weeks ago
The term "Heavy Metal" did not exist in the 1960s. "Heavy Metal" did not come into use until the early 1980s.
CleanAirMeister 2 weeks ago
@CleanAirMeister
Wrong - The phrase "heavy metal" was in the lyrics to "Born to be Wild" by Steppenwolf, 1969. A hard rock (or heavy metal) classic song.
DancingElephantVideo 2 weeks ago
@DancingElephantVideo
Correct. But "heavy metal thunder" was about his motorcycle. Not his music style. I meant that "heavy metal" did not exist as a "genre of music" until at least 1980. I ought to know... I grew up in the 60s and 70s, was an avid hard-rock fan, and never heard it mentioned at all as a type of rock music until the 80s
CleanAirMeister 2 weeks ago
@CleanAirMeister You are correct I think. The first time I heard the term was in reference to AC/DC and that would fit in with your time line and that was in the early 1980's.
NotMe2776 2 weeks ago
@NotMe2776 I heard it in reference to ACDC as well, but years before the 80's. Don't forget they were formed in '73. Trust me, I and many fellow students at school used the term for years before the Eighties.
TheSentientParadox 1 week ago
@CleanAirMeister I did. A couple of years before the Eighties. Heavy metal thunder was in reference to a bike, but it WAS being used within a few years after the song came out that I first began to hear the term Heavy Metal, in reference usually to both Zeppelin and Sabbath, but to quite a few other bands as well. in 1977, Scorpions released Taken by Force, and we all called it Heavy Metal the moment we heard it.
TheSentientParadox 1 week ago
@TheSentientParadox
I don't doubt that the term was not ever used at all in the 1970s by A FEW people. It was just not common parlance, though. "Hard Rock" was the term used for Sabbath, etc, back then. As for "Heavy Metal" I did not hear it in WIDE USAGE until the 80s (that's my own perception of it)
CleanAirMeister 1 week ago
@CleanAirMeister Well, from my perspective, which included quite a lot of musicians, it was what I would consider widely used long before the Eighties. In fact, I distinctly remember discussing with quite a lot of musicians and fellow fans how the term Metal was becoming redefined during the Eighties. That may not have been happening in your circles at the time, but it sure was in mine. Also, look up Todd Rundgren's Heavy Metal Kids. You may be surprised. That was from 1972.
TheSentientParadox 1 week ago
@TheSentientParadox I don't doubt your word. If you were in the music business, you probably did hear that. I am just saying that it was not so much widely-used at first. By the way, Born To Be Wild - I meant to say "Heavy Metal Thunder" as being his loud 'thundering' exhaust pipes on his bike.
CleanAirMeister 1 week ago
@TheSentientParadox Like you say heavy rock and metal became more defined. I think Budgie were one of the earliest real heavy metal sounds as opposed to some of the more heavy rock being called metal.
Honeysucklebommie 1 week ago
Wrong again! Dick Dale recorded the first Heavy Metal music in 1960!!
SheledUmlal 2 weeks ago
I think I heard this was vermont's first heavy metal band.
goldeneggg5 2 weeks ago
@goldeneggg5 Bitter Creek, as far as I know, was from the south.
Styxhexenhammer666 2 weeks ago
BIGGFOOT MATING CALL!
goldeneggg5 2 weeks ago
This is exactly what Mudhoney did around 25 tears later. They met with equal popularity and failure... but influenced a generation. What can you say about that? They didnt get paid for the value, is all you can say. That sucks. Rock on Blue Cheer.
IPushHard 2 weeks ago
No Black Sabbath is without a doubt the first heavy metal band and you cannot argue with that
loler621 2 weeks ago
Blue Cheer anyone?
longhorn2615 2 weeks ago
@longhorn2615 Yes BLUE CHEER was badass! Heavy Heavy Heavy!
nanosec111 2 weeks ago
nice psychedelic rock but not heavy metal
Joselo1693 3 weeks ago
Sir Lord Baltimore was the first band to use the term Heavy Metal with their music.
uglyguido 3 weeks ago
This is definitely heavy metal, or atleast proto-metal like Black Sabbath.
DaveElectric 3 weeks ago
This is a good shout. Mega heavy for the time.
WolfgangVonPoserkila 3 weeks ago
try Blue Cheer - Second Time Around , recorded in 67 :-)
4AdamKane1 3 weeks ago
The Who 'I can see for miles' is really organized heavy rock but the Count Five Psychotic Reaction and a buncha bands from 66' will give metal-ers head aches and problems ,..plus Jimi hendrix in 67' really had a heavy sound,...that was oddly ahead of it's time but then again no ,...this here song reminds me a bit of janis Joplin, Country Joe and the Fish,...and a buncha those bands from the time,...it's good stuff - the jefferson airplane really had heavy ideas,..
GreenhouseEffectGE 3 weeks ago
@GreenhouseEffectGE Jefferson airplane had heavy stuff really? I don't know i grew up listening to Kiss when they were fading out 79 80, Then MTV the worst never played anything heavy or psychedelic very rarely and MTV had access to all 60s 70s videos from great bands. Stupid shit was on MTV most of it useless nowadays people still like older music before 80s.
dannyhood66 3 weeks ago
fuck those fuckin labels! this is ROCK N ROLL dudes
senhorcavador 3 weeks ago
The1bassfreak is right.
When I was a kid, we all thought of Led Zeppelin as the first heavy metal band. Cream, Hendrix and Iron Butterfly all influenced them, but we didn't call them "Heavy Metal". Now, in hindsight, I don't really think of Zeppelin as being "heavy metal" anymore. Like their predecessors, they have elements of it, but let's face it: What's considered metal today doesn't include them or this tune. The earliest band to still fit the name is Sabbath.
The parameters have changed.
sex6cult9revolution 3 weeks ago
@sex6cult9revolution Ledzeppelin could have been the first metal but they had variety not every song was heavy. Almost everything was heavy in blacksabbath toni iommi's big and stupid primitive neanderthalic riffs with cut off fingers takes the cake 'master reality' and vol 4' are embarrassing' like one time in 68 police raided earths practice room and iommie is the one they took to jail !aH Big stupid always in and out of jail through the years? I love it! I read toni iommies wiki.
dannyhood66 3 weeks ago
Clear Light - Street Singer (1967)
ThrashNWOBHManiac 3 weeks ago
all a bunch of morons the true forst heavy metal song was black sabbath by black sabbath
The1bassfreak 3 weeks ago
@The1bassfreak Yeah, and the earth is flat.
raceyboy 3 weeks ago
@MattL.883 - RELEVANCYNESS??? NALEDGE??? HAHAHAHA The first metal song is definitely a matter of opinion, but let's not forget that without Chuck Berry there's no Rock&Roll and therefore no British Metal.
ultimatemetalfreak 4 weeks ago
...and thanks for posting this. Very interesting!
andersoncouncilpf 4 weeks ago
This isn't much different than what Cream was doing. I'm thinking it's more like hard rock a-la MC5, etc.
Two early 'metal' sounding songs each from very unlikely sources: Helter Skelter from The Beatles (Paul McCartney wrote THAT?!?! Amazing!!!); The Nile Song from Pink Floyd (yes, that Pink Floyd...)
andersoncouncilpf 4 weeks ago
The first heavy metal song was Helter Skelter - The Bealtes
themasterofmovies 4 weeks ago
1- Watch the video for 1-3 minutes
2- Watch the coments
Einvestigator96 4 weeks ago
Pure 25 is the best.
Endisnigh666 4 weeks ago
@Endisnigh666 no doubt man. great shit
Xivilaii1 4 weeks ago
I don't know but the video is awesome.
Endisnigh666 4 weeks ago
Hey Guys, In the decline of the western civilization anthology on Rock Music. The authors say that the first metal song was "born to be wild" and first punk song was "my generation".
But who cares the first is, huh.
The music is great. just enjoy it!!!!
piastte 1 month ago
Skeptical as hell about this.
Heavy metal? It's maybe hard rock at the very best, to me.
Also, hate the emphasis on weed, personally, since I'm so adamant about it.
Not saying this is bad, at all, it just doesn't really with my tastes haha
TheAudioInjection 1 month ago
This may of preceded Helter Skelter, but it's not nearly as intense & the headbanger that Helter is. I mean cmon, let's admit it. Skelter takes you on one fucking hellacious ride.
garydemaio 1 month ago
Nice heavy psych! check these other heavy metal psych songs: watch?v=mg5t7T5_rR8 pretty things old man going. watch?v=uKL_wDJf52I iron butterfly 67' bootleg . sound of imker -see those girls watch?v=wk261u1DQdo alot of this sound is early punk what has more edge raw punk rock or post psych bands like what deep purple turned into? if you don't know check out captin beyond the original deep purple lead man. watch?v=pe5BlpR1Wjk&feature=related here's some ultra underground raw punk rock sound
resetpattern 1 month ago
This song dates from 1968 according to the Psychedelic States: Georgia liner notes.
TheMagmagoblin 1 month ago
This is nice polka song
UbuntuLIVES20 1 month ago
Am I really the only one here going to say Sabbath was the first heavy metal band, and created the first heavy metal tune
stashproductions 1 month ago 10
@stashproductions, I agree with you! Black Sabbath were the first. Number One!
TIMOTHYSAARINEN 1 month ago 14
@TIMOTHYSAARINEN no! the first metal band was the spice girls. just kidding it was the wutang clan.
taintedegotrip 1 week ago
@stashproductions Only people who are ignorant to the history of heavy metal think that.
adamrothraisdead 2 weeks ago
@stashproductions there have been alot bands paving the way for our now existing heavy metal, Budgie, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, Cream, Sir Lord Baltimore, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, and so on ...
hardcoreoma 2 weeks ago
@hardcoreoma Paving the way and actually doing something are two whole different things my one track mind friend
stashproductions 2 weeks ago
@stashproductions did I say something against it ? actually Sabbath is the greates band ever for me, i just wanted to name a few bands that helped developing the genre \m/
hardcoreoma 2 weeks ago
Thanks Styxhexen for posting this great garage rock song. Excellent visuals as well.
marcfedak 1 month ago
Sorry but "Purple Haze" and "Sunshine Of Your Love" are both just as "heavy metal" sounding as this. The guitar here is just a tad more fuzzy but then a lot of psyche bands were stepping on fuzz boxes before this...and this does sound pretty psychedelic! Now if ALL of Bitter Creek's material sounded just like this then they (aside from Blue Cheer) might be the first heavy metal "band" in existance. As far as recordings go, one song does not prove anything unless recorded in 1965 or earlier.
deathmetaldouglas69 1 month ago
are there more songs of them on youtube?
Kostas4e 1 month ago
Cool track! Reminds me of Blue Cheer.
JLWing77 1 month ago
First feedback , " I Feel Fine" Beatles,
maltlqrdan 1 month ago
@gombagod Really, I always thought Steppenwolf was the first. Either way, I'm just glad heavy metal came into existence.
Oddaudiblemadness 1 month ago
Sorry, this isn't the first one either. First heavy metal song according to experts was "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks, 1964.
2gryphon 1 month ago
@2gryphon First punk song too.
NeverAloneForever 1 month ago
you don't know nothing about music eh! that isn't punk...you listen deathcore and thing is death metal..jackass...
kirakaito666 1 month ago
@kirakaito666 You're damn right I don't know nothing about music. I know that "You Really Got Me" (and this) aren't exactly heavy metal. It's been called "arguably the first punk song" and "arguably the first heavy metal song". So I made my statement. Assholes like you should pay more attention to the context of a comment. How Many More Times? By the T-Bones. Wait, I thought I didn't know anything about music.
Deathcore=Death metal + hardcore. Eh?
P.S. Learn to spell.
NeverAloneForever 1 month ago
@NeverAloneForever YOU'RE A COMPLETE MORON AND AN IDIOT...FIRST OF ALL DEATHCORE ISN'T DEATH METAL PLUS HARDCORE....DEATHCORE IS DEATH METAL + RAP METAL, ARGUABLY THE FIRST DEATH-RAP METAL GENRE..HE GROWL RAPS IT'S HEAVY AND GHETTO AT THE SAME TIME, SO YEA ESSENTIALLY YOU DON'T KNOW JACK ABOUT MUSIC, AND YOU REALLY GOT ME NOW IT MORE GRUNGE THAN ANYTHING.
MattL883 1 month ago
@MattL883 With over 100 albums I don't need identification. So I haven't heard any crap from a convaluted subgenre of a subgenre combined with an assimilar genre? That means I have no brains all of a sudden. You're either a troll or just some rude trick. Or both. Who gives an airfucker?
Not grunge. Just timeless out of control '60's rock.
lol You had to put essentially in there. What an annoying caps-lock overusing douchenozzle. Go fly a cow and blow your brains out or something.
NeverAloneForever 1 month ago
@NeverAloneForever YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO PUT WORDS TO GETHER YOU MAKE NO CENTS...FIRST OF ALL MOST GENRES WERE PRECURSORS TO RAP METAL, YOU HAVE TO LOOK BACK AND BANDS LIKE THIS AND BLACK SABBATH, THESE GUYS WERE THE PRECURSORS TO "NU METAL", WHICH IS THE SAME THING AS RAP METAL, SO ESSENTIALLY YES MOST THINGS WERE A PRECURSOR TO RAP, YOU IDIOT-OCRITY OF LIFE MAN
MattL883 1 month ago
@MattL883 If you didn't understand than you're ignorant. Plain and simple. You're the one who can't spell.
Yes, everyone who knows Sabbath knows they were the first alleged Heavy Metal band. Rap Metal? For some reason I'm getting too many signals from that. I'm pretty rap isn't a subgenre of everything. Of course, you're probably speaking of the cultivation of what came to be known as rapcore.
Indeed, this is a precursor to mallcore but I'm sure the 2+ decades down the line added to that.
NeverAloneForever 1 month ago
@MattL883 There. I used the cultivation. Apparently, I know possibly a few things, you incoherent mispelling piece of crap.
NeverAloneForever 1 month ago
@NeverAloneForever WHAT STATE ARE YOU IN??? U WANNA MEET SOMEWHERE AND SETTLE THIS??? U HAVE NO IDEA!!!
MattL883 1 month ago
@MattL883 The same state The Doors came from. I know what state you're in. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the frame on this video. Dounle entendres FTW. I feel like I have to say so or you won't get it.
P.S. Thanks for giving me every reason to believe you are a troll.
NeverAloneForever 1 month ago
@NeverAloneForever OK ASSHOLE....I'LL PUT IT TO YOU THIS WAY. TROLL = SOMEONE WHO POSTS SHIT THAT IS IRRELEVANT TO THE VIDEO, EVERYTHING I SAID HAS HAD RELEVANCYNESS TO THIS VIDEO SO U CAN TAKE YOUR NALEDGE OF MUSIC AND SHUV IT
MattL883 1 month ago
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@MattL883 "YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO PUT WORDS TO GETHER".
The best spelling fail on the internet ever. Do you have any idea how poetic you are??
Far out....
Morgenster 1 month ago
@NeverAloneForever This music is only rock...is 60's, psichodelia. They're the precursors to the heavy metal, but never punk or heavy metal. Deathcore = deathmetal + hardcore!! ohh! you know all about music...is obvious...is in the name. But...Do you know about the psichoacoustics elements in the music for example? ...I don't believe it...Sorry for my english...i'm from a spanish-speaking country and I don't like use the google traductor 'couse I wanna learn well this lenguage with the practique
kirakaito666 3 weeks ago
@kirakaito666 I like psychedelia. It has that "ring" to it.
"ohh! you know all about music...is obvious...is in the name."
I never said I knew all about music. I lost interest in metal subgenres a while ago. True, all I know about genre names is in the name.
P.S. English not so bad.
NeverAloneForever 3 weeks ago
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@NeverAloneForever man, i'm tired to fight, ok I didn't know you aren't interested about subgenres of metal. whatever. that song's good, luck!
(is only exist much people making videos about metal without know, i'm not a expert but i know something)
kirakaito666 3 weeks ago
@kirakaito666 Psycho acoustics is the study of sound so what were doing is altering the bla bla bla whatever. I have no idea i heard that from electronic psychedelic psytrance DJ's that use 'frutyloops' and real guitars drums on stage, Psy raves' 4 day marathons full moon partys, not here in america though they have shit house Dj music for raves colorless boring.
dannyhood66 3 weeks ago
scared people shit straight muffed out onfuzz extra creamola fizz
dannyhood66 1 month ago
The first song to be considered heavy metal was Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild. The term was coined from the lyrics.
Oddaudiblemadness 1 month ago
@Oddaudiblemadness I commented about that like 5 months ago. Steppenwolf was referring to motorcycles when they used the term heavy metal thunder.The first time heavy metal was to refer to an actual music genre was Sir Lord Baltimore's "Kingdom come". Damn I got deja vu.
gombagod 1 month ago
Idiot, everyone knows that 'Fuck me Mother" by the Dead German Soldiers is the first heavy metal song! Suck cock daddio!
entraildivider 1 month ago
maaaaan, the video is trippy
powertothehippiesman 1 month ago
The Yardbirds "Psycho Daisies" (1966) was pretty intense for its time.
MrVicioussss 1 month ago
Don't even remember this song. One of those SF bands I take it?
KTKTRock 1 month ago
this is NOT heavy metal, ...at that time it was known as "garage punk", later refered to as "freak beat", ...even zeppelin & sabbath were not known as metal when they first formed, they were heavy or hard rock. ...the first bands to be known as heavy metal were saxon, judas priest, iron maiden and the heavy metal kids etc.
projektor4 1 month ago
@projektor4 I think people are just noticing the influences these early bands had on the development of the heavy metal genre. Of course they weren't considered heavy metal because there wasn't a word for it until later on. The heavy metal genre was a result of these earlier bands.
tsvc2010 1 month ago
@tsvc2010 I was responding to the attention seeking claim of this videos title & description. ...yes HM has meny influences, but i doubt the drug fuzzed guitar & drone drum beats of psychedelic garage punk is one of them, ...i´m not knocking it, i´m a freak beat fan. ...HM as i know it is more an image thing. black studded leather, head bangging, fast cars, booze & loose women, boogying power chords and battling against all odds ! ...and a far cry from the pseudo cgi trippy visuals shown above.
projektor4 1 month ago
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@tsvc2010 I was responding to the attention seeking claim of this videos title & description. ...yes HM has meny influences, but i doubt the drug fuzzed guitar & drone drum beats of psychedelic garage punk is one of them, ...i´m not knocking it, i´m a freak beat fan. ...HM as i know it is more an image thing. black studded leather, head bangging, fast cars, booze & loose women, boogying power chords and battling against all odds ! ...and a far cry from the pseudo cgi trippy visuals shown above.
projektor4 1 month ago
Bitter Creek Was one of the first heavy medal bands,But in a different way The Yardbirds,where like the first heavy hard rock blues band.But it is like putting a round peg in a square hole?
JLPMGHRS69 1 month ago
Have you ever heard of TRAIN TO DOOMSDAY from SOUND OF IMKER?
Dutch Heavy Psychedelic Shit from 1969. Look it up on Youtube.
For me the first and only Heavy Metal!
qaqaqaws 1 month ago
@qaqaqaws I mean Train OF Doomsday of course
qaqaqaws 1 month ago
THATS PUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT METAL.....
MaddSkilletz911 1 month ago
Well what about The Who's Can't Explain? (for Tom) It's TOUGH to say who's FIRST. IMHO, They ALL deserve credit.
FaiellaBen 1 month ago
helter skelter was more punk than heavy metal
bioticek 1 month ago
Blue Cheer- Summertime Blues
R34LLY3p1cF41l 1 month ago 18
@R34LLY3p1cF41l i think this was released a whole year before summer time blues.
ribinfo 3 weeks ago
Check out Keep on Running by The Misunderstood ('65)
realityfrominsanity 1 month ago
Yes I believe this is the first ,before I thought it was Helter Skelter.
Ms19671 1 month ago
I would not call this the first heavy metal song. Metal came form many elements combined. This is a fairly typical psychedelic era song. You need to be exposed to bands like the 13th Floor Elevators, Bubble Puppy, and the really strange stuff like Cromagnon, etc. The San Francisco sound.
PumaTwoU 1 month ago
I would argue that Slipknot is the first HM band.
LordMorbid5 1 month ago
Who cares if is heavy, or hard??? is both & is great,,,,just get stoned & enjoy, IS REALLY GOOD MUSIC.
Klaus734 1 month ago 8
@Klaus734 The idiot mentality?
Misterioso 1 month ago
@Misterioso about my stoned refference??..or about your ignorance??
Klaus734 1 month ago
@Klaus734 Your empty headed reference.
Misterioso 1 month ago
@Misterioso I beg your pardon for my low level, please show me some expertice in your comments, so i can learn from a music master. And please forgiveme for use an "empty head reference"
Klaus734 1 month ago
@Klaus734 or you can just enjoy good music no drugs needed?
lutbus007 1 month ago
@lutbus007 Well, if you are free, you can do whatever you like. I think this music is better if you enjoy some pleasures of life
Klaus734 1 month ago
The term Heavy Metal was coined to describe Jimi Hendrix. There was also The MC5. But these guys were definitely ahead of the curve.
RossM3838 1 month ago 2
These are proto metal bands, not metal bands so it was one of the first songs that INFLUENCED metal which is why its called proto-metal this would fall into Led Zeppelin's genre heavy rock which people forget about as well that falls between metal and hard rock. Black Sabbath is the first metal band to glue everything together which is why they are declared the first, bands like these are proto-metal as they are some of the heaviest influences for it. But not a bad guess but its not spot on.
valdyrgramr 1 month ago
@valdyrgramr I think what actually made Sabbath the first "heavy metal" band was the use of horror and evil images coupled with this style of music. Led Zeppelin fell right in there when they were acused of dabbling with the occult. Other bands before them may have adressed the aggression of a cranked fuzz guitar sound but the first to feature an inverted cross on their cover was Sabbath (even if it was a management decision, not the band's).
voxsoundpro 1 month ago
@voxsoundpro Sabbath was also the first to accept it though it happened by accident due to Iommi's finger problem, Led didn't want the title and they yell at people who call them that they say you can call us a rock band, you can call us hard rock, you can say we started HEAVY ROCK, but do not call us METAL....their own words lol....but yeah you are right as well.
valdyrgramr 1 month ago
@voxsoundpro Sabbaths first recording had some interesting points;
- mix a de-tuned SG and P-bass, add a nasal wah and you've got a screaming thick mixture
- the engineers brilliantly eq'd Wards kick drum to have the first use of the "thud-snap' heard in all modern rock recordings.
- Osbourne was at the ass end of his late teens/early 20's voice change causing a raspy yet baritone edge to his vocals, combined with his gutteral Birmingham accent certain words became downright freaky
MightySaturn5 1 month ago
Absolutely not metal. Great, though...
beowulven 1 month ago
When you debate heavy metal or hardrock there is always big engagement. That I love. And the music to of course.
MrJeppelin 1 month ago
0:30 looks fuckin awesome thats probaly what you see on acid
HOTFRI3S 1 month ago
I'm going to join in here and suggest that the earliest metal song i can think of would be 1964 The Sonics "The Witch", but this is a great track.
poohen223 1 month ago
Imo this isn't heavy metal, its in the limbo between heavy metal and blues :P
a unique blend, transitional position.
alexicon89 1 month ago
Also check out 7 and 7 is, by Love, and He's Waiting by the Sonics.
TheLizardRox 1 month ago
@TheLizardRox You sir. Have good taste in music. Sonics spawned punk and garage rock in my opinion. As did Love, but Love just innovated so many different things.
R0b1zzle137 1 month ago
BLACK SABBATH BUDDY!
STEEZEMCGEE 1 month ago
Also..I would look up The Mystic Tide's Frustration.
EmeraldFlowsion62 1 month ago
you want heavy? go listen to 'surfing bird'-total mosh,bottom end crankin' hardcore.or for speed bill haley rock arond the clock with the smoking ass shreder solo on a old ass amp with sick ass natural overdriven sound.its kinda rock a blly but you get the idea that the old dude was a tharshmaster/metalgod!!!!
3lullabies 1 month ago
Howlin' Wolf was doing heaby meddle a decade before this...just sayin'
TheMichaelpaul64 1 month ago
definitely very heavy for it's time but really overly distorted psychadelic blues...when I think metal I think more Sabbath first (minor keys, droning down-tuned guitar and bass, spooky/dark subject matter)...that's the blue print sort of...Zep was thunderously heavy, especially live, but did so many other things they can't really be definitively labelled....it all leads from someone to someone, from then to now
sixsixxsixxxx 2 months ago
Rumble - Link Wray
manic depression - Jimi Hendrix
MrKirkenstein 2 months ago
@MrKirkenstein I was gonna say Link Wray- Apache, but Rumble is good too. That's what started it all.
gombagod 1 month ago
Heavy, fuzzy psychdelic rock, much like blue cheer but without the shrilling vocals. Heavy metal wasn't even a phrase to describe music back in them days; the first time I heard the phrase "heavy metal" in referance to music was in 1980 thanks to blue oyster cult and some animated movie called Heavy Metal; of course I could be way off here but even the members of Sabbath seem to grimace at that term, especially iommi.
16penney 2 months ago
Personally I consider Blue Cheer to be a big adding factor into 'heavy metal' sound as well. This is a cool song, though!
XXhurlgurlXX 2 months ago
Two words....Link Wray....
nomadtex 2 months ago
This isn't metal. It's just noisy. Yep, first Sabbath album -- the birth of metal.
plangentmusic 2 months ago
lol is that really what you see on shrooms/acid?
CaptainHurpDurp 2 months ago
@CaptainHurpDurp hell yes bro
metaldemonseanknels 2 months ago
@metaldemonseanknels i need to get some, then.
CaptainHurpDurp 2 months ago
Two words: BLACK fuckin SABBATH. now stfu
NIKKGAGE1994 2 months ago
Heavy metal thunder is a reference to a motorcycle on the highway. Listen to the rest of the lyrics. Its all about the wild "road" biker theme.
disciplex583 2 months ago
Black Sabbath. There can be none other.
RotnRoll77 2 months ago
I mean heavy metal
MrCraigary123 2 months ago
Not really black metal...more like an awesome fuzz pedal and a psychedelic tune
MrCraigary123 2 months ago
Sounds grungy, way before grunge
StoneyHempman 2 months ago
when I saw the image I immediately thought of in-a-gadda-da-vida, one of my favorite songs, and this just became one of my favorite songs
H2OHBOM 2 months ago
I wouldn't call this full on heavy metal but it's very heavy and one of the heaviest songs from '67 for sure. Thanks for posting it! Great song! I love the heavy psychedelic stuff from this era.
walkintotheeye 2 months ago
ah, an early band who found distortion, that's all this is.
bs354207 2 months ago
to say black sabbath was the first 'real' heavy metal band is a misleading, yes true they influenced heavy metal, but if you listen to their first 9 albums you notice the music sounds typical to the period it was release,remember they started as a jazz blues outfit who progressed onto heavy psychedelic rock (as in there 1969 debut) and ive always regarded sabbath as a progressive rock band albiet a progressive rock band who wanted to be heavier than the other prog. rock outfits of the time.
SanAndreasVagos 2 months ago 2