blues-metal?

Led Zepplin is real bluesy. Page broke up 12 bar blues riffs a lot of times and make songs from that. There are soooo many examples, being blues is a foundation of rock I guess you could say it's already in there.

 

Definately listen to the Zeppelin and take some pointers from Page and John Paul Jones....some of Steve Morse's older stuff "the Introduction" and " High Tension Wires" might help to influence and inspire you too, especially if you like a little (OK, a LOT) more technical playing ability.
Lots of Luck to ya!

 

What about Jimi Hendrix? I would certainly put some of his blues music in a kind of metal context or forerunner of metal.

I also think you could take some of The Allman Brothers' work and move it more toward metal. You should also consider the work of Cream as at least a jumping off point.

I need to think more about this question, because I'm certain there are some excellent examples of blues-metal out there, but I can't remember them at the moment. I did almost say Faith No More.

I like the idea of blues metal. It sounds very appealing. If you can experiment to the point that you can do it well, especially if it seems to emerge as a readily identifiable new genre, I think you could be quite successful with the concept.

 

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Just look up "sludge" or "stoner metal" and you'll find tons of bands.

 

Definately Sabbath and Zeppelin, Satriani also has some bluesy stuff too.
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Kyuss?

 

Yep, that's the genre/s that sabbath helped create.

I'm a huge Monster Magnet fan. Dopes to Infinity is a killer album.

 

Monster Magnet is cool. I dig the pre Dopes to Infinity stuff. Dopes they started to sell out.

 

10 Years After were bluesy in a proto-metal way.

 

For blues metal, I would say Down is the group to listen too.
Give it a listen, I believe it is exactly what you are looking for.

 

Another really, really great sludge metal group was eyehategod. My favorite album by them was Dopesick.

 

I don't think writing a few catchy songs and producing your albums better is really selling out.

I dig all their albums.

For the sludge... I don't know how bluesy this is but check out early Melvins and Soundgarden.

 

Any of the 70s and late 60s hard rockers from Britain could be considered blues-metal.

Cream
Zeppelin
Bad Company
I think some Yes would qualify, maybe as jazz-metal or so.

I'd also suggest Pink Floyd. They aren't metal, but they do a lot of bluesy stuff buried underneath the keyboards and blurps and whirls. Kinda a different approach to the blues.

Hendrix of course.

Skynyrd, Allman, CCR, all did hard rock songs based in the blues.

Classic rock is pretty much blues, later classic rock is pretty much proto-metal, listen to classic rock bands!

 

cynic has jazz metal, thats the closest thing I can think of.

 

Heres the thing though, Led Zeppelin/Cream/etc aren't metal. This is the thing that makes the term "blues metal" so difficult, the blues would take the edge off of metal and make them a stoner band or hard rock band. So it's rough.

 

Everything in rock and roll is descended directly from the blues anyway, so I guess it's all a matter of semantics.

 

... and the minor penatonic scale.

 

Well, yeah, there is that.