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Crazy that this is a track from 1979.

Not to discredit bands like Metallica for essentially distilling their respective genres into something new, but this is why it bothers me whenever people point to any single band as the "first" of X genre. For every Metallica, you have a lot of other bands that were flirting with their given style years before. This is really interesting to me though, because if there were any album that could be credited for inventing a metal genre, I always thought that would be KEA. Not that it makes a huge difference, but it looks like it may have been released in 1980, but it may have been written and recorded before that. Awesome find though.




This whole album is awesome.
 
I think you're correct, and maybe it wasn't a good example. It's just that I have a pet peeve about people saying stuff like "X band is the first X genre band", and that track kind of supports that.