HamburgerBoy
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Because the music evolved. Priest, Maiden, and Motörhead among others all exerted their influences on the music, altering and evolving it beyond its initial state. They fused them, not all of them I might add, but not in the way Sabbath did. The nature of its riffs is certainly a part of it as well.
So why is it that virtually no other metal bands involved in the evolution of metal tried taking after the jazz aspect until the early/mid-80s at the absolute earliest (and that's limited to basically just Megadeth and Watchtower)? I mean you could mention Simon Phillips but ultimately he was a session drummer and it wasn't his jazz chops that defined Priest. Even the occult thing was limited for Sabbath themselves, let alone bands like Priest and Motorhead with barely a trace of it.