Baroque
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Oh noes TB's shit list because I don't like DP and I said he does this too. Well you do, and far more often than I do.
JP in the same time frame.
Pantera spawned groove metal, Korn spawned nu metal. Hate them or not, they were influential to whole subgenres.
But, why encourage anyone to listen to them? That's like saying people should check out Hitler because he created an influential. way of thinking.
But, why encourage anyone to listen to them? That's like saying people should check out Hitler because he created an influential. way of thinking.
Yeah I was actually trying to remain objective. Hitler could be interesting and influential from a truly objective perspective. Otherwise I wouldn't have listed the black metal influences and many other bands. It wasn't just bands I like.
Just to get my feet wet I got into Black Sabbath today.
I found a recording on youtube of a live performance in 1970, which seems to have the songs from their album "Black Sabbath."
The momentum of these guys on stage was amazing, and their drive was powerful. Almost as if they were pushing through the songs with some kind of dark energy. That probably sounds dumb, but I can't think of any other analogy for what I felt.
The only two words I can think of to sum up my listening experience are: Fucking. Brilliant.
Nice that you guys not only introduced the OP to the origins of heavy metal but also the online world of metalheads, where fuckwits incoherently bicker about trivial details.
Just listen to Bathory.
Sabbath are the true originators of metal and to be completely honest almost nothing else from the 70's is worth your time. It wasn't until the 80's that any band clearly surpassed sabbath in terms of metalness. Rainbow and Motörhead in the late 70's maybe.
1970s Judas Priest would like a word with you.