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Hey Metalheads, Do you consider Led Zeppelin a true pioneer for heavy metal or not? I mean Black Sabbath certainly is one. If you look at it this way, Their third album is like 50 % acoustic, most of their songs are heavy but perhaps not metal heavy, they did a bit of everything like orchestral stuff in kashmir, piano and electric piano in no quarter (that lick is a bit jazzy too). And to top if off i belive robert plant said in some interview that he dismissed the idea of led zeppelin being heavy metal.

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Re: Led Zeppelin At least on their debut album, yes. They settled down over time and wrote less energetic numbers that felt more like standard (but still great) 70's bluesy hard rock, but songs like Communication Breakdown and Dazed and Confused can't be denied metal status. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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I would definitely consider Zeppelin as one of the precursors to metal along with Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep along with plenty of lesser known bands that brought heaviness into the mainstream and influenced later bands.

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I would definitely consider Zeppelin as one of the precursors to metal along with Sabbath' date=' Deep Purple, Uriah Heep along with plenty of lesser known bands that brought heaviness into the mainstream and influenced later bands.[/quote'] It's crazy how many "proto metal" bands there were in the 70's, I'm glad they're becoming more acknowledged, as people like to think that Black Sabbath existed in a vacuum and there were simply no other bands anywhere making heavy music. Uriah Heep's debut is one of my favorites though, awesome album. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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and let´s not forget Blue Cheer, probably the very first Metal act. Anyway yes, Led Zeppelin are definitely amongst the pioneers, although I still consider them the greatest (Black sabbath aside) lately I found out about all the plagiarism and I had somehow to "reassess my appreciation" apologies for my contorted writing but I have feaver right now

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Let me put it this way: In Ozzy's autobio, he spoke multiple times of being introduced to Robert Plant by Geezer long before Zepp or Sabbath (conceived as Earth) began, Plant was at the time working with some band called Hobstwaddle (ozzy jokingly called them Hobbollocks). Years later when they were doing one of their first gigs under Earth, the dj played a song that Ozzy immediately recognized the voice of. When he went to ask the dj if this was Hobbollocks, that he knew this singer was Robert Plant the dj replied this is Plant but they're called Led Zeppelin now. On the ride home Ozzy made a point to mention to Geezer that "that Led Zeppelin track is the heaviest thing I've ever heard" and Geezer's reply was "We'll be heavier then." SO yeah. I think they're pretty fucking important to the development of metal, as to have such an influence on arguably the most important metal band of all time.

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not metal in my book, but they did influence a lot of people so they are pioneers. Although not metal heavy, but listening to songs like communication breakdown on their first album, Kashmir on Physical graffiti and when the levee breaks on IV you can easily see where this influence came from. Robert Plant has to be one of the best frontmen ever IMO.

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