Black Sabbath paved a lot of ground for bands like Maiden, and Maiden took the torch and blazed a trail of their own, but for pure wringing every drop out of the technology available at the time musicianship, you could really not do any better than Black Sabbath. Iommi's simple but effective phrasing cut some deep grooves into the fabric of each tune, and combine that with the solid back bone of Ward and Butler, and Ozzy's pleasingly gritty vocals and you have a sculpted sound that painted some hauntingly beautiful pictures during a time when The Partridge Family, and The Osmonds were regurgitating the corporate success model. They had the artistic integrity to create some extremely ground breaking music that would serve as a launching pad for many artists to come down the sonic assembly line. So, since there can only be one, and I do this with a heavy heart... I have to vote off:
Iron Maiden
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