Who Invented Heavy Metal? (Metal Documentary)

I agree. Priest did much more than inventing a stereotypical look. They had a deep musical impact. They combined pretty much all the different early metal sounds of 70s hard rock bands (Sabbath's darkness and heaviness, Purple's palm-muted riffage and high pitched screams, Zeppelin's dramatism, Queen's epic sound and neoclassical touch, Thin Lizzy's twin lead guitars...) and codified another one that finally came to be the prototypical metal sound in the 80s and beyond. In fact, some of their most influential albums (Sas Wings of Destiny, Stained Class) were released before they started to wear leather outfits. Their 70s work was, in some ways, way ahead of its time.

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Deep Purple dont get nearly enough love for what they did. They made so many great songs other than 035

You forgot Pink Floyd's "The Nile Song" and "Ibiza Bar" both for 1969. They were CRUSHINGLY heavy. Also Spooky Tooth's "Waiting for the Wind", "Evil Woman", and Better By You, Better Than Me, all from 1969. Also, Writing On The Wall's "The Power Of The Picts" album from 1969. For 1970 and 1971, one NEEDS to include Sir Lord Baltimore's first two BRUTALLY heavy albums. Also for the early 1970's, we have bands like: Budgie, Pentagram, Bedemon (criminally underrated), Crow, Dust, Flower Travellin' Band, Trapeze, Blue Oyster Cult, Nazareth, Warhorse, and many others.

Sabbath brought heaviness into music more than anyone before, zeppelin brought a feeling of epicness and purple brought speed and virtuosity. Judas priest did a great job of combining a lot of that to finalise the style of traditional metal.

Whoever it is, I think we can all agree: Tony Iommi is an amazing guitarist.

A lot of people mention bands like Deep Purple or the Yardbirds or Cream but they just fundamentally lack the darkness that Sabbath brought. Their whole epic scariness is metal.

Thank you for including Helter Skelter

the machine that ate Iommi's finger.

"You Really Got Me" by the Kinks does not only feature distorted power chords, it also builds up tension through a crescendo. This focus on achieving a powerful effect through purely musical means is typical of Heavy Metal and a departure of the song format in which music is just accompaniment to a voice.

Really love how unbiased your videos are man, especially how u leave your own opinions to the end of the video. Even if i may not agree with EVERYTHING u say, its really cool to hear different perspectives as well as excerpts from tracks/bands i haven't heard before. Its a breath of fresh air from how bad some metalheads can be with the gatekeeping and 'know-it-all' attitude. Keep up the good work, great channel :)

Blue Cheer, Sabbath, Zeppelin, High Tide, Deep Purple. Are all good choices when it comes to the origin of Heavy Metal.

The Nile Song by Pink Floyd. Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer. Heavy!

Agree with you! Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, are two different entities, and Judas Priest were the first to strip away the bluesy origins of true Hard Rock, and the Stoner, darkness of Black Sabbath. The image, the faster pace, and the edginess, guitar sound, belongs to Judas Priest, they were the first complete package of METAL. Thank you, once again for your analysis.

Any Who, especially live, from ‘68 to ‘70. Young Man Blues. An absolute ripper. And before Kiss, there was ELP and Alice Cooper. Insane stage presentations. I mean, Keith Emerson stabbed his keyboards with knives!

Another brilliant video! I could sit and talk with you over many beers for hours. Love from England!

It's very difficult to mark only one turning point, but definitively the first 2 albums from Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple "In Rock" and the first Black Sabbath was what we could call "the defining moments". It's very important to remember that evaluates the past ONLY by today's standards is wrong and give us a different notion of what was said and done in the time the events really took place. It's just as important to read the Martin's Popoff's book "Who Invented Heavy Metal" (2015) as it is to read the very first HEAVY METAL encyclopedia in english words, from the begnning of 1975, compiled by Pete Makowski and Geoff Barton in "Sounds" Magazine, the 1980 first Heavy Metal Book, "Encyclopedia Metallica - The Bible of Heavy Metal (Malcon Dome, Brian Harrigan) or read the early articles from Melody Maker, Creem, Phonograph Record, Circus, Sounds and other magazines who used to write about the term and the early bands. At that time, Led Zeppelin was considered the DEFINITIVE HEAVY METAL BAND by 80% of the press, not Black Sabbath. It's much more complex than just this, but IN SHORT: 01. Primitive Influence and roots: Blues, Classical Music and Rock and Roll. 02. Close influence and first songs: the heaviest songs from some bands like Beatles (Helter Skelter and Revolution), Steppenwolf (Born To Be Wild), King Crimson (21st Century Schizoid Man King), Gun (Racing With the Devil) the general atmosphere of various Jimi Hendrix Experience songs, Blue Cheer, Humple Pie and Cream or even the attitude (and also some songs) of bands like The Who. 03. First REAL generation of Heavy Metal Rock, Heavy Rock / Hard Rock or as said today, Early Metal, Proto Metal, 70s Metal or Olde Metal (who actually created the style): Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad, Sir Lord Baltimore, Budgie, Lucifer's Friend, Nazareth etc. 04. When the term HEAVY METAL started to be used by the press: Between 1969 and 1971, sporadically, often as SYNONYM for Heavy Rock or Hard Rock. From 1972 the use of the term intensified and in 72/73/74/75 bands like Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple were already called by the US and UK press like "kings of Heavy Metal Rock". The first EXCLUSIVE Encyclopedia of the style (trying to define it and compiling several Heavy Metal bands), like I said before, dates from April 1975 (as a supplement to Sounds magazine). It's important to say that the first generation of bands denied the term Heavy Metal because the press used it pejoratively. 05. First bands to officially accept the term HEAVY METAL in interviews or even use it in advertising campaigns: Second generation bands like KISS, Blue Oyster Cult, Rush and, ESPECIALLY Judas Priest. 06. First band to RAISE THE HEAVY METAL FLAG, shouting in songs and in his speech that Heavy Metal would conquer the World in the next decade: Judas Priest, around 1978. 07. Bands that helped to define the style, adding new elements and eliminating the Blues in a gradual form (among the added elements, we have the staccato muffled palette, which despite being introduced by pioneers such as Led Zeppelin, became the standard for the style with bands like Judas Priest): second generation bands like KISS, Rush, UFO, AC / DC, Riot, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Van Halen, Sweet and, mainly, Rainbow, Scorpions and, AGAIN, ESPECIALLY, Judas Priest. 08. When Heavy Metal established itself as a MOVEMENT, with clothes, accessories, exclusive terms, exclusive nightclubs (The Bandwagon Heavy Metal Soundhouse, by the mythical Heavy Metal Rock DJ, Neal Kay), Exclusive Festivals (Monsters of Rock, in Castle Donnington. Until then, Metal had its days in Festivals like Reading or had its bands mixed with other styles of Rock), Magazines and exclusive Fanzines (until then Metal bands have been in Rock magazines in general or special editions just about them), Records compilations EXCLUSIVE for Metal (like The Heavy Metal Album, 1979, Metal For Muthas, 1980 or Metal Explosion - From The Friday Rock Show, 1980) and fans that ONLY listen to this type of music (and reject anything that was not Metal), with their identifiable codes (such as Headbangers or Metalheads nomenclatures): With NWOBHM (Iron Maiden, Saxon, Samsom, Def Leppard, Angel Witch, Diamond Head, etc.), between 1978 and 1980 (in fact, even a little earlier, since the Bandwagon has existed, for example, since 1975, but the bulk of the transformation took place during this period). 09. After the N.W.O.B.H.M, from 1980 onwards, the scene was ready for the globalization of Metal and the subdivision into various styles (Glam / Pop Metal, Thrash Metal, Power Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, etc.). The 1980's were, without a doubt, the METAL decade, already fully formed and with its own identity (like Rob Halford had already predicted in his CLASSIC speech, before "Take on The World", during 1978 Judas Priest world tour!!)

When man first struck hammer to steel and stood in awe of his creation, the attitude of heavy metal was forged.

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That's why I love Judas priest, they are the best in the Heavy Metal