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Old 11-18-2017, 12:55 PM   #9 (permalink)
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1. Rock - Bill Haley and the Comets. Elvis. Little Richard. Link Wray. Chuck Berry. Jerry Lee Lewis.

2. Hard Rock - Cream. Hendrix. Beck. Zeppelin. Traffic. Mountain. MC5. Grand Funk.

3. Metal - Sabbath. Uriah Heep. Deep Purple.

4. Heavy Metal - Motorhead. Judas Priest. Iron Maiden.
If you're gonna throw all that in then The Stooges bear mention. Fun House is a total metal album by those standards, and if all those early 70s metal bands weren't listening to it then they were missing out on hella inspiration even if it wasn't a metal album.
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