The Original Heavy Metal Pioneers
 

Let's talk about the original hard rock groups that played a big role on the influence of heavy metal. You know, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Uriah Heep, Scorpions, etc. The earliest of the early. Proto-metal. The Pioneers. Let's talk about how it went on to influence all metal. That's what this whole thread is for.

So, I'll start a topic.who do you say is the first band to really start the sound? I'd say Led Zeppelin for their 1969 albums I & II. And if Immigrant SOng from III ain't heavy metal...

Not hard rock but stuff if it weren't for stuff like this, metal wouldn't have come about.



Another good answer would be The Stooges' Funhouse for popularizing that brand of chaos.

Possibly. I don't see the majority of it popularizing "heavy metal," but maybe other kinds of metal? I can see more orchestral and dramatic kinds.

I'm lowkey super into ptoto-metal.

Some relatively unknown and underrated stuff



Not that unknown but a great album



If you'd call them proto metal, although they're right there on the cusp, Deep Purple is the best. Just a rocking and shredding album here

Proto-metal was intended to be a joke, really.

All great stuff. Cream and Hendrix kinda set the table. LZ1 was truly the first heavy metal album IMO. I mean, come on? This is January of 1969.

That's 47 ****ing years ago!

so all these bands are just parodies playing nonsense huh

... The joke was that proto-metal isn't a common term, let alone enough to qualify as a popular descriptor like "proto-punk."

You don't think so? Man and here I am seeing it all over the place for years, describing all these bands.

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PROTO-METAL, a metal music subgenre

Only term I ever used.

http://i.imgur.com/TY4vyEp.png

Weird, I'm the first person I've ever known who's used it. I guess I'm wrong.

I remember hearing this as a kid on early MTV and thinking it was pretty heavy for 1968. I remember a few years later tripping out when I saw they had been signed and released an album under Megaforce

Proto-metal is a very old and common term, it's just a way of conveniently grouping together a whole load of pioneer and early bands.

Nearly all these bands that are being mentioned, I covered in the first dozen or so pages of my main journal, which seems like years ago now.

Definitely "The Stooges" and "In Rock". Deep Purple had on of the most pissed off sound I've ever heard.

Actually, I take my original statement back. I think heavy psych had influence on metal. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly was a 68 album, so I'd say tey were setting the ground work for the sound before Zeppelin.

Dude, you started that journal in September of 2012. It has been years.

After blues rock, psychedelic rock is the second biggest influence on metal.

How time flies.

How about The Yardbirds?

Gotta enjoy this stoner metal from 1973

Same here.

How about something that actually *is* early metal