Who Invented Heavy Metal? (Metal Documentary)

what about the Sonics?

Acid Rock plays a big part in the evolution of Heavy Metal ..Amboy Dukes, Blue Cheer & Frijid Pink

If we go by what John Lennon said...Then we'd have to go back three years to Ticket to Ride

Waited for this video my whole life. Totally agree! Although not even mentioned Jimmy Hendrix 😢

The literal sound of Heavy Metal was first made by Paul McCartney for Helter Skelter. But it wasn't fully realised. He just wanted to make a louder,nastier and filthy song than The WHO. Zeppelin and then Deep Purple picked up where cream and yardbirds left off and made it more hard. But themes of the songs and vibe was more Hard Rock than Heavy Metal. Black Sabbath who was inspired by Zep created a new sound ( thanks to a machine that cut Iommi's finger) and created a dark lexicography which later define heavy metal. It was fully realised and conceived. So BLACK SABBATH are the actual creators of heavy metal. The Beatles experimented so much so that they accidentally did many non existent genres that was not fully conceived. Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath were opposite. Angel and Demon. Hard Rock and Heavy .Tolkien and Crowley.Heaven and Hell. They along with Pink Floyd( prog rock) picked up where The Beatles left off.

Someone really stupid.just kidding.

Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath written by Black Sabbath in 69 in the industrial metal city of Birmingham England with Tony Iommi who had finger tips cut off in a metal press is the first metal riff,song and band.

Just like motorhead invented thrash/speed metal, like venom invented, or were the first to play black metal, or extreme metal, black sabbath coined the phrase heavy metal, not zeppelin, not the beatles, no one, it was black sabbath, iommi's style of playing thanks for posting

If The Beatles made a whole album like Helter Skelter......... That song went hard. Feels like the first real metal song.

I’d assume that Led Zeppelin 2 with ‘Whole Lotta Love’ would receive some mention, but 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🤷🏼 NO ??

Black sabbath..heavy...doom...kind of thrash too....way diffrent than led zep or stones....but sabbath was more metal/doom/black/thrash kind sound before was a thing

Brummies brought metal into the world. If you've been to Birmingham you'll understand.

I like to imagine that Iron Butterfly was secretly named after a guy named Ignatius Ronald Butterfly.

MC5 may have invented punk, not heavy metal, along with the Stooges. Black Sabbath took the more bluesy elements of Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple out of hard'n'heavy.

a bit late but..PRIEST for SURE

Honestly Jimi Hendrix had the heaviest sound in the 60s!! Hands down even to this very day nobody can touch him!!!🎛️🎛️😩🎸🎛️🎛️ Judas priest was not the first band to have twin guitar players it was thin Lizzy that started that first

In my opinion Steppenwold, Led Zeppelin, Cream and Jimy Hendrix were proto metal, is psychodelical rock but with metal elements.
Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Sir Lord Baltimore, Budgie, Blue Oyster Cult and UFO were the first wave of Heavy Metal mixed with Hard Rock and Psychodelical Rock.
And Judas Priest, Rainbow, Saxon, Motorhead and Iron Maiden is the second wave of Heavy Metal and the truth sound of the Pure Heavy Metal.

you forgot to talk about "Old Man going" from the Pretty Things album S.F. Sorrow. You can clearly hear the beginning of Heavy Metal / Black Sabbath stuff !

Link Wray was the earliest in my opinion.

Blue Cheer!!!Louder than God!!

Steppenwolf=Heavy Metal Thunder!!!

I thought of Iron Maiden and Vanilla Fudge as the beginning of heavy metal. Not Cream. They were more into blues and rock. Deep Purple was sorta Heavy Metal but, I did not see them in the same genre as VF and IM.
MC5 was early early punk. They fit right in with the late 70s Sex Pistols and Ramones music.
Black Sabbath was definitely one of the first heavy metal bands.
Zeppelin kicked the door down with heavy metal and went on to do a lot of diverse music as well.
I always saw Zeppelin as the first because they were the best musicians of their time and were then ones to kick in the door for this music to thrive.

What can I say, Ozzy Osbourne is the Elvis Presley of Heavy Metal, and Tony Iommi is the Chuck Berry of Heavy Metal!

Good segment. Have a darn good point bout Judas Priest. They were harder than Sabbath at the time...

No Voodoo Chile Slight Return in the 1968 category???

In my opinion KISS,
AC/DC ,Steppenwolf and
Blue Cheer Made Metal I feel like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin invented Metal that was heavier than Before I would have to say the first Heavy Metal Band was Iron Maiden

Do you need a video to know it? the answer is only one: Black sabbath.

It's a shame to not know who invented Heavy Metal. Of course the gods did, as the scripture says:

The gods made Heavy Metal
And they saw that it was good
They said to play it louder than hell
We promised that we would

The Nile Song by Pink Floyd was the heaviest thing from 1969.

Blue Fucking Cheer.

I think the first Heavy Metal Song is Helter Skelter, it just hits so hard it's very unlike anything else before. The Beatles really were the Goat Band of the 60s

Deep purples album 1970 in rock, had some extreme distorted organ and guitar on it. Pumping bass and drums vs an strong vocal, for example hard lovin man is pro metal, galopping riff and extreme 2 good strong solos. For me the ultimative metal album.
Sabbaths first album, was also an eyeopener, heavy riffs, pumping music....
The start of the heavy music was vs this two bands..my meaning😊

I like the way Lemmy describes it. He said that ever since the 1950s, artists had been pushing Rock n Roll to be louder and faster. It became "heavy" with the midlands bands in the early 70's. But it definitely was Judas Priest that transformed iron into steel, so to speak. I think Stained Class is the first real "Heavy Metal" album, full stop.

No mention of sweet.

When the Beatles first dropped Come Together,,, that song hit so damn heavy,,,

Sabbath! Plain and simple. Everything else was just psychadelic hard rock/blues. Without Iommi there would be no Metal🤘🤘🤘

Black Sabbath,Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple are the founding fathers of heavy metal

TONY IOMMI, NUFF SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not Tony

High Tide - Futilists Lament Intro Riff, for sure

Many players in the game , but true metal sound , where it really sprang , where blues influence started to fall behind ? Judas Priest , end of story .

Smoke- No more now (1967) such a heavy song nobody talks about.

Cromagnon created Heavy Metal and Black Sabbath revolutionized it.

What’s the name of the background track?

We can’t just take every heavy song and say metal. Alt rock has lot of heavy songs, so does classical and jazz.
Art historians aren’t interested in taxonomical categories much. For them it’s more about historical periods and trends. We talk about the hard bop era, baroque era, or the blues rock era

We shouldn’t focus on the taxonomy or the feel of the music, but the eras or trends. Sabbath feels distinctly metal, but there was no “metal genre” at the time.
First time it became used to describe a genre was referring to Black Sabbath as “a premiere heavy-metal band in 1973

Helter Skelter was heavy af! Thank you bro!

I invented heavy metal music, i used my time machine to bring the younger versions a bunch of musicians and producers from around 1970-75
outside of time to an island in 1970 where we threw a heavy metal themed party where we played a bunch of hard rock songs from an alternate version of the 80s & 90s that no longer exists
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The top 5 heaviest blues rock and acid rock and progressive rock songs plus the overwritten subgenres of
biker rock a blend of outlaw country, blues rock, early punk and acid rock
wizard rock dnd themed neo prog folk rock with cheesey synthesizers and acoustic guitars that occasionally is legit good
gothic rock originally more black metal leaning, but they filtered it out in this time line out of spite
Cyber rock aka techno rock a rhythmically complex version of synth pop that is similar to what we would consider early industrial music and early hip hop
Emo a genre of melodic punk that was popular in the 90s instead of grunge which also only exists in this timeline and as a reaction against metal