>>127054353
>but it is really a label rock journalists gave to thrash before they said thrash
It is, but thrash very quickly became distinct from what speed metal is and calling it speed metal after the very first thrash albums is pretty dumb. Speed metal though is exactly what it says on the tin. It's fast heavy metal, and while this isn't an exact rule of thumb: double bass drumming usually puts a heavy metal song in the speed metal category.
>but I still crave your recommendations and I still love you.
lol gay, also I'm not the speed metal guy
>Rocking out to Warrior right now, thanks
It's fucking awesome, '70s Riot is criminally underrated dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O6h7Pk1XX4&pp=ygUPcmlvdCByb2FkIHJhY2lu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHZpg5aX77c&list=PLX_ZUCaed_xfTLNjk2pQ8ZUFhsz5608B5&index=7&pp=iAQB8AUB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qojx-2xWQk4&list=PLX_ZUCaed_xfTLNjk2pQ8ZUFhsz5608B5&index=4&pp=iAQB8AUB

>>127031794
Ignore everything everyone else has said. Here is where you should start when getting into the genre:

(THE FOUNDATION)
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1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2. Deep Purple - In Rock
3. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
4. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
5. Deep Purple - Machine Head
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With few exceptions, about everything you hear in heavy metal can ultimately be traced back to two bands: Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. If you start with these five albums, you'll understand where the sound comes from and its roots, and have a far greater appreciation for the frankly shocking amount of development this genre got in just its first decade. DP's material at this point in time is particularly important; as songs like "Highway Star" form the groundwork for heavy metal as you'd know it nowadays. (Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Saxon, etc.)

('70s ESSENTIALS)
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1. UFO - Phenomenon
2. Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
3. Scorpions - In Trance
4. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
5. Rainbow - Rising
6. Judas Priest - Sin after Sin
7. Scorpions - Taken By Force
8. Judas Priest - Stained Class
9. Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
10. Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
11. Motorhead - Overkill
12. Scorpions - Lovedrive
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1974-1976 is a period of rapid development in the genre, and by 1977-1978 the intense, riff-driven style of heavy metal that blew up in the 1980s had been more or less finalized. There's other albums by bands like Thin Lizzy, Riot, Van Halen, and Budgie that were instrumental in the development of metal too, but this is more less the basics. This is pretty much how I started once I got serious about the genre, and it increased my love of metal tenfold. :)