Best Heavy Metal Albums of the 1970's

[RotnRoll77]

Scorpions' In Trance album's art is probably up there among my favorites. The tunes are killer, too, but something about that art... it's just saucy. Probably something to do with the girl suggestively positioned above the electric guitar.

Also, your record collection has to be the stuff of legends, Beckonor.

[zkombroz1]

Dark!!very good one!

[Corleonetone]

larks tongue metal? no dreamer deceiver/deceiver nor beyond the realms of death?

[Balddi7]

Wishbone Ash and Led Zeppelin weren't heavy metal but hard rock bands

[ozzy8145]

BLACK SABBATH FIRST 4EVER DUDE YOU ARE AWESWAME

[rake4466]

KISS IS THE BEST

[Suchahama11]

Killer From Alice Cooper is better than Love It To Death

[metaljay18]

interesting but i say for me best metal albums of the 70's would be the first six black sabbath albums let me think judas priest sad wings of of desitny, sin after sin, stained class which are my favorite judas preist albums and hell bent for leather i really feel most of the stuff on here is hard rock or progessive rock not metal sabbath and preist are metal you'd have a better chance doing best metal album's the 80's more metal bands in that decade and more metal music in my opinion.

[andersoncouncilpf]

@metaljay18

Totally correct. Very little of this is metal, certainly including Led Zeppelin, which was far and away the best group of the 70's musically overall. Still, an incredibly imaginative list!

Thanks for the listen, Beckonor! Very interesting and enjoyable!!

[Patriot1776ization]

Id call them rock,not heavy metal...iron maiden is heavy metal

[holydiver73]

top list mate! I would have put Rainbow's long live Rock N Roll MUCH higher and crowbarred Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Fuzzy Duck in there somewhere, but good choices all the same.

[Patriot1776ization]

i don't consider Queen and Aerosmith to be heavy metal,good video though

[CentraCross]

@Patriot1776ization They had Metal songs.

[Patriot1776ization]

@CentraCross yeah but not all metal songs they had teeni bopper tunes mostly

[shariotoflove]

@Patriot1776ization Queen did not have teeny bopper music. 

[Patriot1776ization]

@shariotoflove ok more like broadway music,Freddie and his leather ball hugger shorts ,lmao

[shariotoflove]

@Patriot1776ization nope, still wrong.

[kkostas21925]

overkill only at 51st?

[kkostas21925]

it seems a great job

[NinnageshB]

top ten...Black sabbath, eleven, 4 zeppelin, twelve machine head deep purpple

[MultiCuordileone]

very good job.from italy.

[zkombroz1]

@MultiCuordileone si, muy buen trabajo.Pero extraño algo de Queen II de 1974.some songs from that album can break some songs from this collection.

saludos desde Chile.

[zkombroz1]

@zkombroz1 i mistake.sorry REAL GOOD JOB!

[VitalSigns1]

What's the very first song that's being played in the beginning?

[Beckonor]

@VitalSigns1 "Snowshit" by Sorcery

[emaleo87]

Great countdown selection!! Obviously the #1 is "Paranoid"!!

PS: Aerosmith: Puaj!!

[SuperCarlosbg]

Led Zeppelin II?

[CraiggyOats]

I used to do music lists...but I took all the videos down. I must say your list(s) are waayy better than mine were. Great job!

[wrestlingcircuit1995]

Rush?  Really??? They were a talented band, but definitely not metal.

[CraiggyOats]

@wrestlingcircuit1995 For the 70s some of Rush's material can be considered metal, and the keyword is for the 70s

[CannibaLouiST]

You should just put the first six Sabbath albums into the video lol

[xwhite2020]

Great list - well done. 

[kh888ni]

At 21:01 the first heavy metal album

[hovogliadileggere]

the stooges wasn't metal!

[That667Guy]

Lucifer's Friend should be way higher- they were doing fast paced metal before it was really popular and the album as a whole was really well done

[wrestlingcircuit1995]

@That667Guy Plus, they didn't only do metal, they explored pretty much every genre of music in their first 5 years of existence, showing how much talent they really had.

[Danimal300zx]

@That667Guy

I agree

[nekoninaritaisu31]

great

[DottorVinz]

very interesting material, thanks!



[frontsquats]

amazing list

[Lookinatluckyest]

great list....but no wicked lady?

[khagman]

Iron Maiden - The Soundhouse Tapes (1979)

[MultiCuordileone]

the king crimson for two times(red)?

[MrChristopheFrance]

THXX U MAN..!!!!

[dsfsdfsdfsdf80]

whats the name of the sorcery song ?

[Beckonor]

@dsfsdfsdfsdf80

"Schizoid"

[VirtualDynamite]

How is Rush heavy metal. Sure maybe cygnus x1 part 1on farewell to kings is more epic and heavy than most albums on here, but hemispheres is prog, not heavy metal.

[TheErnie41]

this is great list man.

[CrGiRLAzy]

Give this post a reward!

[TheOnlyInsaneacyde]

from the tribal beats of Africa that the slaves in America shaped into Blues, that shaped Jimi and the flower age that was broken by Sabbath and made pompous by Motley Crue and is now being given new life by bands like Clutch ROCK IS ROCK, record companies may have nervous breakdowns about genres but we should just enjoy the rock ps. really nice compilation, even including SUCK :)

[Serpico1914]

fucking good compilation

[WishmasterTheDark]

THE ONLY 70's band which invented and played Heavy Metal music was Black Sabbath. Not prototype, but pure Heavy Metal.

They invented 2 Heavy Metal music sub-genres: Classic Heavy Metal and Doom Metal.

Other bands from this video are Rock music bands. Motorhead and Judas Priest started making Heavy Metal music in 80's(Classic Heavy Metal), before that, they were Classic Rock bands.

[hovogliadileggere]

@WishmasterTheDark judas priest was metal in 70' too. they looked to sabbath because they are from birmingham as sabbath.

[WishmasterTheDark]

@hovogliadileggere

I don't give a fuck where are they from, or who the fuck they looked to, 'cause when I play one of their songs until 1981, it doesn't say that crap, but it says something else.

It says that it's Rock sound, not Heavy Metal.

Their Heavy Metal sound began with Screaming For Vengeance.

[hovogliadileggere]

@WishmasterTheDark well, heavy metal sound began when blues went out from melody, when voices began screaming and rithmic section began to follow an own way during a song. all these things you have in jp, and they are metal. but if you think that nwobhm is the first kind of metal, well screaming for vengeance is their first metal album. cheers and stay rock !

[WishmasterTheDark]

@hovogliadileggere

Black Sabbath was first Heavy Metal band, and they made two Heavy Metal sub-genres: Classic Heavy and Doom Metal.

Motorhead nor Judas Priest had that kind of Heaviness in 70's, but later in 80's.

In 70' BS was the only Heavy Metal band, and later Manowar, Venom, Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate and others appeared.

[Danimal300zx]

@WishmasterTheDark

You have NO idea what you are talking about? Sabbath influenced MANY sub-genres of metal. As for Judas Priest NOT being a metal band in the 70's? WTF are you talking about? The Ripper? Victim of Changes? Dissident Aggressor? I can keep going, but you would have a hard time following, so I'm not going to bother.

[WishmasterTheDark]

@Danimal300zx

Yeah right, their Blues/Rock music era is Heavy Metal to you.

You are really impressive man.

[macunaima]

Though I would've preferred chronological order instead.

[macunaima]

Educational.

[johnakni]

According to Rolling Stone magazine,the first record review in which they used the term "heavy metal" was for Humble Pie.Humble is not in this list. Also,I have seen early heavy metal collections include Soft Machine from 1970. Soft Machine was not a guitar band at that time,but the distorted bass and distorted organ were pretty heavy. They toured with Hendrix two years earlier,so they knew how to be heavy.

[johnakni]

The (proposed?) videos for the top heavy metal bands of the 2000's and 2010's will show how heavy metal has devolved into a conformity contest to be generic as possible. Thanks Beckonor for showing us there used to be individuality and creativity in heavy metal.

[stringchild1]

Awesome list dude! I kept seeing a lot of my favorites pop up and some others I need to check into. Nice job.

[sbaptism]

motorhead in my opinion should be much higher on the list very heavy when compared to some of the others you have listed, but i wont argue you compiled a very good selection,...doom on brother

[stomp919]

Black Sabbath Paranoid Led Zeppelin ZOSO and Machine Head...hard to argue there. Lucifers Friend first LP rules and it's what brought me here.

[mikexlong]

most of the albums in the top half aren't really that heavy, even when compared to the rest of the list.

[hotcarlcade]

This is a great list/mix. I personally the order is a good one which makes a lot of sense. Thank you!

[corm1000]

Buffalo is a band more people need to hear. They were the black sabbath of down under.

[corm1000]

wow, great stuff some of these albums I have been trying to for a long time.

[megadethrules1991]

Umm no Black sabbath was the first true metal band!

[megadethrules1991]

Umm BLACK SABBATH????????

[HeavyIronMetalMaiden]

Every thing is accurate, started in 66' for sure, but the first definitive, true heavy metal album was Black Sabbath. Even Judas Priest's Rob Halford professes that Black Sabbath started it all. Listen to Black Sabbath. It's the heaviest, truest heavy metal to date.

[AnthemsToTheWelkin]

I live in the 70's forever!

[JumpinJohnny74]

AC/DC...........Bon Scott

[quinn407]

and as far as obscure proto metal atomic rooster death walks behind you, in the hearing of, cwt the hundredweight fanny adams s/t, frantic conception, freedoms children galactic vibe, haystacks balboa s/t, help s/t and the second coming, iota s/t, masters apprentices s/t and toast to panama red, may blitz s/t and second coming, power of zeus gospel according to zeus last but not least steppenwolf 7, monster and for ladies only thats just a few of course theres more to be discovered

[quinn407]

theres so many more obvious heavy metal albums and obscure proto metal albums for example acdc dirty deeds done dirt cheap aerosmith draw the line, night in the ruts black sabbath sabbath bloody sabbath, sabotage deep purple burn, who do you think we are free highway, fire and water grand funk closer to home judas priest rocka rolla nazareth razamanaz, hair of the dog, expect no mercy and no mean city the first two new york dolls album sweet desolation boulevard sladewhatever happened to slade

[qclegg]

The early days of hard rock and heavy metal are the best! More certainly the ''Golden Age Of Metal''.