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Re: Metal Forum Top 10 Heavy/Traditional Metal Bands I agree with all these I've heard but just on a thechnicality Sabbath aren't NWOBHM as it stands for New Wave Of British Heavy Metal - but Sabbath invented metal. Nah, the movement started in the early eighties after the original few metal bands, such as Sabbath, had lost their edge and Punk was killing Metal. But then the NWOBHM bands started to emerge, taking some influence from the aggressions and punchiness of the Punk movement and fusing it with Sabbath-style Metal and by doing so save the genre!

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Re: Metal Forum Top 10 Heavy/Traditional Metal Bands NWOBHM was a movement, not a genre, and since the last two initials of it stand for Heavy Metal, they could definitely qualify for this area. My picks are: Accept Deep Purple Judas Priest Satan Motorhead Raven Diamond Head Blitzkrieg Saxon Iron Maiden

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not a huge fan of Diamond Head' date=' I'd drop them for Angel Witch but more importantly why you no like Black Sabbath?[/quote'] Diamond Head blow. I don't know how anyone likes them. They're easily the most boring band I've ever heard.
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not a huge fan of Diamond Head' date=' I'd drop them for Angel Witch but more importantly why you no like Black Sabbath?[/quote'] I love Black Sabbath, more than most bands in fact, but they're going on my doom list. Their 80's albums are more traditional heavy metal, and they're not as good for me as the bands I listed. You could still put them here for their 70's stuff, I've just chosen not to.
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Re: Metal Forum Top 10 Heavy/Traditional Metal Bands The thing with Sabbath is they put out a rock album then a metal album then a rock album after the Ozzy years. IMO at least. They're all pretty good in their own way as they did have a knack for finding talented singers after they sacked Ozzy.

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Re: Metal Forum Top 10 Heavy/Traditional Metal Bands I disagree with that, with the exception of Seventh Star they were all metal albums, just to varying degrees of heaviness, with albums like The Eternal Idol being a bit soft and melodic, but still metal. I just don't like any of those albums as much as their first 6, and I would argue that Deep Purple did more to pioneer the traditional heavy metal sound than Black Sabbath did. Aside from a couple of more uptempo tracks like Paranoid, Children of the Grave, and Symptom of the Universe, they were pretty slow in their early days. They were still definitely heavy metal, but I prefer to group them with doom metal.

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Re: Metal Forum Top 10 Heavy/Traditional Metal Bands I think Sabbath did more for metal than Purple simply because they introduced the concept of the grim and the doomy and indeed heavyness into music. There first metal song Black Sabbath has all this, whereas Purple are really quite up-tempo and cheery most of the time. Not saying they are not metal-y, but Sabbath gave more I think.

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Re: Metal Forum Top 10 Heavy/Traditional Metal Bands Conceptually this is absolutely true, Sabbath pushed the dark elements into metal whereas as Purple were more about themes that had already been explored by rockers and blues bands before them. Musically though, 70's and early 80's metal bands bore more musical similarity to Deep Purple than Black Sabbath, with doom really not taking off until the mid 80's, despite that bands like Pentagram had been in the same ballpark since the 70's without any real success. The traditional metal sound which we are speaking of in this thread, with NWOBHM bands, Judas Priest, etc., was developed by Deep Purple.

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Re: Metal Forum Top 10 Heavy/Traditional Metal Bands I'm happy to put Black Sabbath either here or on a doom list they certainly have doomy elements to their sound but as the forefathers of metal I just felt they would be better suited in here, but there can be no doubt Black Sabbath are worthy of a top ten list as for Purple gotta agree with BAN on this one, the tempo and vocal style pioneered by Purple was later picked up by Judas Priest and then adapted in the NWOBHM

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Erm' date=' nice list but I'm not sure all of those are metal. Still, they are awesome and show you have great taste :D ![/quote'] Well it depends how you define metal... Certainly The Who don't qualify as metal from todays POV. But take a song like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiDTRO9ubiI, which was released as a single in December 1966, the same time as
Listen to the bass and the drums, consider the era and then find something heavier. But really, what I did was draw a line between modern metal and the beginnings of what one might consider to be very very early protometal.
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Re: Metal Forum Top 10 Heavy/Traditional Metal Bands Yeah, I can appreciate how influential The Who was, but in addition to not really liking the music, I can't really call it metal. Just because it was ahead of its time in "heaviness" doesn't mean it qualifies, because if that was the case we'd have to keep going back farther to stuff like Link Wray and The Yardbirds and maybe even clear back to Chuck Berry.

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Re: Metal Forum Top 10 Heavy/Traditional Metal Bands Would you call In A Gadda Da Vida metal? 'cause that's where the term was first used as a description of the music. I'm not saying The Who are metal by todays definition, I'm just saying the bass and drum lines are metalish... protometal, stuff that the first metal bands (and later ones) took up and expanded upon.

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