2007-02-09 05:28:06 · 11 answers · asked by the_gh0ul 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Pretty much any music you hear today (excluding country and western... like there's even a difference) stems from African music, namely blues. The blues influenced rock and roll (see Elvis for further details), and rock and roll influenced almost every alternative type of music you hear today. So in reality, it all boils down to slavery creating music, and metal is included. Thank god for black people
2007-02-12 02:57:44 · answer #1 · answered by johnmfsample 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out the documentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Gives great info on the origins of heavy metal and all the sub-genre's. The guy who made the movie set out to find exactly the answer you are looking for - unfortunately, I don't remember who he determined was the first.
2007-02-09 06:03:52 · answer #2 · answered by M S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black Sabbath. Tony Iommi was a worker in a steel mill in Brimingham, England who dabbled in music. One day he cut the tip of one of his fingers off while working an industrial shear. He couldn't play the guitar with it after that. So he invented a prosthetic finger tip from a metal bottlecap. He also had to downtune his guitar in order to be able to play. His band was heard one night at a club by a reporter who termed the music as being like "heavy metal" in reference to the local major industry.
2007-02-09 05:33:26 · answer #3 · answered by Beachman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judas Priest - they coined the term. Some may say Sabbath but the term metal wasnt used to describe them till the late 70s well after Judas Priest was pumping out albums.
2007-02-09 06:25:34 · answer #4 · answered by Erik W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black Sabbath might be musically harder, but I think the term "Heavy Metal" originated as a description of band's that sounded similar to Led Zeppelin. "Led" equals lead equals heavy metal. No one had ever sounded anything like Led Zeppelin when they released their first album (1969).
2007-02-09 05:39:16 · answer #5 · answered by the_lateman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1969 and 1974,[1] mixed blues and rock music to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by the use of highly-amplified distortion.
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2007-02-09 05:32:03 · answer #6 · answered by Mommy To Be in April 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Long ago, shorty after the Angel Lucifer was cast out of Heaven, he invented the electric guitar. Then the power chord. And distortion. And the double bass pedal. His evil minions practice in the garage every day... working on riffs... getting ever more technical and ever faster. Until one day, the evil that was once contained in Hell was unleashed upon the world. That day was February 13, 1970... the day that Black Sabbath's self-title debut hit record stores.
2007-02-09 05:38:07 · answer #7 · answered by hookem_hornz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say Led Zeppelin is an influence in metal and there is Black Sabbath too
2007-02-09 05:31:26 · answer #8 · answered by sk8gurl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a lot of debate but I'm pretty sure I'm safe to say that it was originated by Black Sabbath. Toni Iommi (guitarist if you're unfamiliar) "found" what is more commonly called the Devil's Chord and that was pretty much where it began.
2007-02-09 05:30:45 · answer #9 · answered by Mister Bob the Tomato 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alot of people call black sabbath the first metal band. i agree with them
2007-02-09 15:37:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋