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Old 09-23-2009, 04:50 AM   #824 (permalink)
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9. Spooky Tooth(A new addition to my list thanks to Certif1ed)
Aw... thanks

Check back on my History of Metal thread - I finally revealed the Spooky's true place in Metal.


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Originally Posted by Seragon Ripper View Post
No, I just blatantly pointed their flaws out. And yes, Black Sabbath is New Blues.......they have a bluesy approach on everything, listen closely to their music
It's rooted in the Blues fer sure, but it sure ain't the blues.

The solos in Sabbath's early music use the minor pentatonic (commonly known as the Blues scale), but the riffs strongly avoid blues progressions - you won't find many I-IV-V progressions on any Sabbath album, instead, the tritone dominates the riffs - and the tritone typifies the thrash metal sound, from a riff point of view.

You could equally say that Sabbath are New Jazz - listen to Bill Ward and Geezer Butler's jazzy interchanges, of which there are plenty on Sabbath's early albums.

Nah - I don't buy them as New Jazz either - just pointing it out.

Listen to "Children of the Grave" or "Symptom of the Universe" and convince me that's Blues and not Metal, and I'll be just as convinced that (early) Metallica are a Blues band.
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