Texas King Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 In your opinion what is a first heavy metal tune? I think this is it:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5uDozoSSM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraroc Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 To me, the very first true metal song was Born To Be Wild. With the advent of genres like extreme metal and death metal, Born To Be Wild might sound wimpy by those standards, but it truly laid down some serious groundwork for heavy metal and hard rock. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 You Really Got Me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 In your opinion what is a first heavy metal tune? I think this is it:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5uDozoSSM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 What do you think makes a song heavy metal? I'm asking because this song came out in 1967 and surely there must have been earlier songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eel Yddeg Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 "You Really Got Me" isn't heavy in the slightest, and "Born To Be Wild" and "Summertime Blues" are just noisy psychedelic rock, if those are metal than so is Jimi Hendrix and Cream. I think the first "metal" song is "Helter Skelter", followed by "Dazed And Confused" and "21st Century Schizoid Man". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 What do you think makes a song heavy metal? I'm asking because this song came out in 1967 and surely there must have been earlier songs. What makes a song heavy metal is whether or not treeduck considers it one Born To Be Wild and You Really Got Me are probably the two main ones. Summertime Blues has a metal toning to the guitar but the riff really isn't as prominent or in your face like on the other two songs. Then of course there's Black Sabbath's debut that come out in 1970 and that marked the true birth of the genre. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Treeduck was here, but ran off. Modest little guy. Giving others a chance to answer before he gives the definitive answer. Probably went to answer another boxing question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Ways Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Not helter skelter but I'm good with born to be wild or you really got me. They obviously aren't metal as we understand it but they have enough ingredients with the riff oriented songs and implied attitude. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YYZumbi Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Ehm... Black Sabbath was first with heavy metal. There was no such thing as heavy metal before Black Sabbath. So the answer is Black Sabbath! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianice Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Alfred E. Neuman-------------------------------------It,s a gas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Ehm... Black Sabbath was first with heavy metal. There was no such thing as heavy metal before Black Sabbath. So the answer is Black Sabbath! Yes, Sabbath was the first metal band. But they were not the first band to use heavy metal style guitar tones and riffs. Which is the purpose of the discussion in this thread. To say that nothing metal came before Sabbath is just being plain ignorant about music. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. Backer Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 I've always thought The Beatles' Revolution was a heavy metal song. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMCXII Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 To me, the very first true metal song was Born To Be Wild. With the advent of genres like extreme metal and death metal, Born To Be Wild might sound wimpy by those standards, but it truly laid down some serious groundwork for heavy metal and hard rock. did the line "heavy metal thunder" inspire you to build a case for this song?? He's talking about bikes or cars, NOT the genre of the song he's singing (who does that?). It's a cool song about the freedom of the road but it truly didn't lay down any groundwork for anything.. Especially when you consider the screaming vocals and distorted guitar riffs of the Kinks' 'You Really Got me' which came out about 4 years earlier!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 In a Gadda da Vida by Iron Butterfly I reckon (1968) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarizeMe Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 Eh...I'm gonna have to go with Blue Cheer's version of Summertime Blues and You Really Got Me but would Boris The Spider being the first song with death growls suffice also? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraroc Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 (edited) To me, the very first true metal song was Born To Be Wild. With the advent of genres like extreme metal and death metal, Born To Be Wild might sound wimpy by those standards, but it truly laid down some serious groundwork for heavy metal and hard rock. did the line "heavy metal thunder" inspire you to build a case for this song?? He's talking about bikes or cars, NOT the genre of the song he's singing (who does that?). It's a cool song about the freedom of the road but it truly didn't lay down any groundwork for anything.. Especially when you consider the screaming vocals and distorted guitar riffs of the Kinks' 'You Really Got me' which came out about 4 years earlier!! The utterance of the phrase before it became a genre builds a case for it, but I'm talking about the overall composition of the song. Edited May 6, 2017 by fraroc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 (edited) A band called Bitter Creek had a 45 out in 1967 called Plastic Thunder .. There was no full album, but Plastic Thunder pre dates In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida which I would consider one of the first influential metal songs .. I don't consider You Really Got Me metal at all, or Helter Skelter .. Blues guys like Pat Hare ( I;m Gonna Murder My Baby ) James Cotton and were doing stuff like that with distorted guitars in the 1950s, as was Link Wray .. . Edited May 6, 2017 by Lucas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 I like smoking lightning... Impossible to say who was first but i think the attitude that born to be wild brings is the essence of metal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 Black Sabbath...the song. Makes Born To Be Wild and Summertime Blues and You Really Got Me sound downright "cute" by comparison. Black Sabbath is the first metal band. Period. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianice Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 I like smoking lightning... Impossible to say who was first but i think the attitude that born to be wild brings is the essence of metal. Yeah, and they are not in the Hall of fame? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djflex Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 Black sabbath - black sabbath 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMCXII Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 To me, the very first true metal song was Born To Be Wild. With the advent of genres like extreme metal and death metal, Born To Be Wild might sound wimpy by those standards, but it truly laid down some serious groundwork for heavy metal and hard rock. did the line "heavy metal thunder" inspire you to build a case for this song?? He's talking about bikes or cars, NOT the genre of the song he's singing (who does that?). It's a cool song about the freedom of the road but it truly didn't lay down any groundwork for anything.. Especially when you consider the screaming vocals and distorted guitar riffs of the Kinks' 'You Really Got me' which came out about 4 years earlier!! The utterance of the phrase before it became a genre builds a case for it, but I'm talking about the overall composition of the song. Well if there's anything I've learned about Metal it's that everyone has their own definition of what it is so all answers are valid.. But you're still wrong! ;) ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMCXII Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 Black sabbath - black sabbath This might be the best answer. Lots of music came out before Sabbath that influenced metal but then Sabbath came along and clearly defined it. The first true metal album 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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