I have to agree, the first time I heard Immigrant Song I kind of felt we were in the presence of something new. Not metal but something new.
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Do you consider Led Zeppelin a METAL band?
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When the song is played on my car radio, I fear my airbag is gonna deploy, from beating the steering wheel so hard...
I was in high school in the late sixties when I first heard the term "heavy metal". It was used to describe two bands and those that sounded like them. The two bands were Iron Butterfly and Led Zeppelin. Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Steppenwolf, etc? Yeah, they sounded like IB and LZ to us back then. You may not recognize the foundation on which modern metal is built, fair enough, but the term itself most definitely starts with LZ and similar bands of that era. Back then the term was an obvious reference to Iron and Led but the reference to "heavy metal thunder" is also intriguing but no matter where it originated it was absolutely applied to LZ. And I did not know until I red this thread that they HATED that!!
Back then no self respecting musician under the age of 65 used the term "genre"....
Back then no self respecting musician under the age of 65 used the term "genre"....
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Naw man. That would have never crossed my mind.
They more or less started as a British band laying with the blues format and evolved into what was then harder alterna-rock.
Naw man. That would have never crossed my mind.
They more or less started as a British band laying with the blues format and evolved into what was then harder alterna-rock.
They were for their day, but like every other long lived band they changed over time as well as the genre itself. Therefore, what is considered heavy metal today is not looked at the same as it was 40 years ago.
I'm way over forty and have never even thought of them close to being a heavy metal band.
Zeppelin wasn't Classic Rock until classic rock became a thing, which was early 80's, but they are Classic Rock now.
Zepplin isn't heavy metal by today's definition, but they were by 1970's definition.
I guess you will have to specify "when".
Zepplin isn't heavy metal by today's definition, but they were by 1970's definition.
I guess you will have to specify "when".
All metal is heavy, but not all heavy music is metal. Zep was heavy as heavy can be, but not metal.
As previously stated; you must define the time period about which you are asking. At the correct time in history, yes.
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I confess I did not read all the pages here.
But I'm 58 years old and was there when Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Deep Purple and Steppenwolf and Humble Pie and any other band that could have fathered Heavy Metal made their first record.
Led Zeppelin was Heavy Hard Rock, and Heavy Blues Rock, and generally Heavy and Hard and Rock...their sound was massive as we all know, but Metal got quickly associated with a darkness tied to Black Sabbath.
Black Sabbath has been the band most often pointed to as the beginning of Heavy Metal, and to a lesser degree Deep Purple.
Of the hundred interviews of metal bands that I have read, those two bands were the most often cited as their largest influences.
The term Heavy Metal developed over time and became more and more the marketing moniker used to refer to bands who followed in the footsteps of Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler.
Depending on the age of the metal fan, lots of bands are credited as leading the way to the growth of Metal.
But I'm 58 years old and was there when Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Deep Purple and Steppenwolf and Humble Pie and any other band that could have fathered Heavy Metal made their first record.
Led Zeppelin was Heavy Hard Rock, and Heavy Blues Rock, and generally Heavy and Hard and Rock...their sound was massive as we all know, but Metal got quickly associated with a darkness tied to Black Sabbath.
Black Sabbath has been the band most often pointed to as the beginning of Heavy Metal, and to a lesser degree Deep Purple.
Of the hundred interviews of metal bands that I have read, those two bands were the most often cited as their largest influences.
The term Heavy Metal developed over time and became more and more the marketing moniker used to refer to bands who followed in the footsteps of Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler.
Depending on the age of the metal fan, lots of bands are credited as leading the way to the growth of Metal.
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In 1972 yes. An so was Sabboth. Today, both are classic rock. The genre has changed. I couldn't name a single current metal band.
