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I never figured out what subgenre of metal Celtic Frost (To Mega Therion) belongs to? Is it doomy thrash, is it proto-black? Hard to categorize.

How about High Tide, from 1969? To me this sounds like heavy psychedelic rock turning into heavy metal. This was proto-metal at least.

And Black Sabbath was musically indebted to Cream, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Beatles and Blue Cheer. BS was not something 100% original. So we can say that heavy metal is indirectly influenced by those bands?

I just can't trace European power metal back to the 70's Sabbath, it's a vastly different form of metal music. For example Helloween's "Eagle Fly Free" has zero music elements from early BS. Black Sabbath definitely heavily influenced the darker, heavier and more extreme forms of metal, but the...

Linkin Park labeled as metal is silly. Their style is just not metal, their main influences are not from the metal world, their music background is not related to metal. I could accept Slipknot and System of a Down being labeled as metal because their background is somewhat metal-related, but...

Do you believe in the premise that all metal music (with all subgenres) is influenced by early Black Sabbath? Personally I don't, because I think power metal is not influenced by Black Sabbath at all. Also prog metal is generally not influenced by BS.

70s Black Sabbath had plenty of non-metal moments. At least the half of their debut's stuff is not metal, at least the half of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" stuff is not metal and "Technical Ecstacy" and "Never Say Die" are generally unmetal.

In your opinion what is a primary subgenre of metal for this album? This album is considered a significant influence on black and death metal and it's even labeled as black metal by some Internet pages but to me it doesn't sound like black metal musically or vocally. I'd say it's a hybrid metal...

Nope, I didn't mean that. I mean generally the vast majority of metal that came after Sabbath, in the next decade (Priest, Maiden, Accept, Dio, Metallica, Slayer, Helloween, Savatage, Celtic Frost, Death, Bathory, etc.) had no blues/acid rock roots in metal and that's a big difference compared...

Judas Priest are the ones who discarded blues and acid rock elements from heavy metal and they did it on "Stained Class". So I think they gave a pure definition to heavy metal with that album. Heavy metal became its own thing separated from blues roots that Sabbath had. Compare Judas Priest...

Venom is not black metal by any means despite being very influential on black metal. Same goes for Celtic Frost. Bathory is the first true black metal band.

Doom metal bands Trouble, Saint Vitus and even Candlemass sound right-hand path, but Pentagram sounds kinda Satanic.

You consider early Black Sabbath HEAVY metal in the same way that Judas Priest and Iron Maiden are heavy metal? For example compare "Killers" and "Stained Class" with "Paranoid" and you will see those two albums are stylistically vastly different than Paranoid and despite that you'd put all...

Nope. Title track Black Sabbath is just doom metal and it cannot be associated with any other style/subgenre of metal besides doom. It's not HEAVY metal but doom metal. It's quite influential on the 80's doom metal, but not on the other forms of metal from the 80's (NWOBHM, thrash, speed, power...