I don't know about metal but def a link or root to what would become metal.
While everyone wants to credit Sabbath as the birth of metal, I think Deep Purple did just as much if not more to help mold the sound. Double bass drums, screaming vocals over the top guitar solos.
by the way....
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, stayed on the charts for 140 weeks, with 81 weeks in the Top Ten. To date the album has sold in excess of 30 million copies and remains an undisputed classic in the archives of rock with DJ's and audiophiles worldwide.
pretty fucking great for a 17 minute song, this album has probably out sold everything else on that list
I don't know what's funnier the fact that vh1 is running yet another list show or, that people are actually on here bitching about it. only a couple more years and we get "I love the 2000's"
![Stick Out Tongue :P :P](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png)
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