Strange to think about tbqh. And when pic rel came out it was the heaviest album in the world for about a decade.

Heavy rock*

>>126854989
Tony Iommi always called Sabbath 'heavy rock' so yeah

Heveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee mannnnnnnnn

Led Zep 1 is heavy though

>>126855556
not to the level of Sabbath, the only ones from that era that have some heavy metal songs other than them are Deep Purple
>>126855152
thinking this is heavy is in the same level to thinking helter skelter is the first metal song of all time

>>126855130
what they called it matters not, it matters what it became/was later known as,which is metal

>>126855587
Is Helter Skelter the first metal song of all time?

Don't shoot any school children, Ok?

>>126856213
No, not remotely. And it came out over a year after cream and hendrix had recorded stuff that were much closer to 'heavy metal'.

>>126856305
Then why type it.

>>126856368
I didn't.

Deep Purple is better

Free jazz is and was heavier you lame rockist

JOHN BROWN
BRING HIM DOWN
PULL HIS BODY
TO THE GROUND

Master of Reality [Warner Bros., 1971]
As an increasingly regretful spearhead of the great Grand Funk switch, in which critics redefined GFR as a 1971 good old-fashioned rock and roll band even though I've never met a critic (myself included) who actually played the records, I feel entitled to put this in its place. Grand Funk is like an American white blues band of three years ago--dull. Black Sabbath is English--dull and decadent. I don't care how many rebels and incipient groovies are buying. I don't even care if the band members believe in their own Christian/satanist/liberal murk. This is a dim-witted, amoral exploitation. C-

>>126854981 (OP)
Wrong
https://youtu.be/HXRBLyLQtiM?si=Yd58GdfEgonLxcDa

>>126857190
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjaHU8iuhmI&list=RDbjaHU8iuhmI&start_radio=1

>>126855587
For clarification, you unironically have levels of thinking?

>incipient groovies

holy shit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCtbLXNS9PY

>>126857141
No they weren't, but they are still all time.

What's with the schizo making Black Sabbath threads?

>>126859270
/mu/ is improving

>>126855587
The heaviest parts of Led Zeppelin I are as heavy as Black Sabbath and they came before them.
Zeppelin just had more range.

>>126857181
Is that Fantano's granddad? I see his face here all the time. We can listen to any song we want when we want. Music critics literally serve no purpose for music now.

>>126854981 (OP)
Meh, bunch of fucking hippies had that for a while. Too bad no one knew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8jOhqOsouM

>>126856213
>>126856305
>>126855556
The Yardbirds- Stroll On (1966) and Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (1968) already had some heavy riffage in the rhythm section.
But they still had some bluesy fillers.

Punk first came out with this idea of killing all the bluesy flourishing shit in rock. So they did mostly boneheaded riffage with some occasional Chuck Berry-style licks.

Basically what Sabbath did was slowed down punk. They took the heavy riffage part but played it at downtempo speed with ominous doomy vocals.

>>126863227
delusion

>>126854981 (OP)
i wonder why there was such a huge gap between sabbath's s/t and sad wings of destiny in continuing heavy metal as a genre

likewise, why was there a gap between black sabbath's self-titled and whatever motorhead/venom made in terms of heaviness

>>126854981 (OP)
Beethoven invented heavy music.

>>126863227
>The heaviest parts of Led Zeppelin I are as heavy as Black Sabbath
Not true btw

>>126857181
Critics and their opinions are absolutely worthless

>>126854981 (OP)
A decade? More like half and not even that and the Scorpions and Judas Priest had records out by 1975.

>>126865299
>i wonder why there was such a huge gap between sabbath's s/t and sad wings of destiny in continuing heavy metal as a genre
what do you mean gap? in terms of time?

>>126857141
Fuck horses

>>126857141
somepony?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jnHYW8Er2E

>>126865299
Motorhead and venom are basically punk. Their sound directly derives from ramones, the cramps, the dictators, and garage rock in general. They were based on fast power chords and a danceable upbeat groove. Black sabbath were based on riffs, so not power chords but a catchy melodic idea based around a root note. The big evolution in metal came with early iron maiden, who took the riffs, solos, and long-winded strucure from sabbath and other proto-metal bands but removed the blues inspired aspect almost entirely.

>>126867724
>The big evolution in metal came with early iron maiden,
It came with Motorhead and venom

Beethoven and Wagner were heavier than any 20th century shit. Let's be real.

>>126863227
>The heaviest parts of Led Zeppelin I are as heavy as Black Sabbath
I don't hear it. There's a good amount of crossover but the a lot Sabbath immediately sounded 'heavy' to me, even back in the day before I even really got into them I thought this.

>>126868263
Not a chance.

Illuminations by Britten,

>>126867724
>Motorhead and venom are basically punk.
This