Gamera
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Re: Heavy Metal...defined
It's nice to read a Sabbath appreciation thread like this. They definitely are the masters. "Into the Void" is a great example of down-tuned metal that is all the rage now. The song "Black Sabbath" pretty much perfected and defined doom-metal before there even was doom-metal. "Faeries Wear Boots" and "Planet Caravan" are great prog-metal examples. And songs like "Changes" and "Am I going Insane" are almost a roadmap for the 80's metal ballad. And songs like "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "Paranoid" are just flat-out jams!
Another oldschool guitarists that deserves some props is Ritchie Blackmore. His work with Deep Purple (Smoke on the Water, Burn, Highway Star, Child in Time) and Rainbow (Man on the Silver Mountain, Gates Of Babylon) has done more for metal than I think he gets credit for. And he proved it can all be done with a Strat!
IMO, Iommi and Blackmore pretty much defined what metal is and will ever be.
It's nice to read a Sabbath appreciation thread like this. They definitely are the masters. "Into the Void" is a great example of down-tuned metal that is all the rage now. The song "Black Sabbath" pretty much perfected and defined doom-metal before there even was doom-metal. "Faeries Wear Boots" and "Planet Caravan" are great prog-metal examples. And songs like "Changes" and "Am I going Insane" are almost a roadmap for the 80's metal ballad. And songs like "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "Paranoid" are just flat-out jams!
Another oldschool guitarists that deserves some props is Ritchie Blackmore. His work with Deep Purple (Smoke on the Water, Burn, Highway Star, Child in Time) and Rainbow (Man on the Silver Mountain, Gates Of Babylon) has done more for metal than I think he gets credit for. And he proved it can all be done with a Strat!
IMO, Iommi and Blackmore pretty much defined what metal is and will ever be.
