Okay, me and my friends have been debating this, and we can't come to an agreement on who the first metal band was. I say Sabbath, my buddy says Zeppelin, and my other buddy says Jimi Hendrix Experience. What do you guys think?

Black Sabbath /thread.

Seriously, Zeppelin was a blues band, and so was the Jimi Hendrix experience. Until 1974, I wouldn't say anything that Zeppelin did even resembled metal. Ok, maybe the Immigrant Song, but still, that had blues changes in it.

Sabbath had a much heavier sound, especially in 1971, with Masters of Reality. No one else tuned to C#, and no one else had as dark of lyrics as Sabbath did.

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience wasn't metal. Blue Cheer's cover on Summertime Blues is considered the first heavy metal record. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is also one of the earliest metal records. Other early bands that produced (even a little) metal would be Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Asking what's the first metal band is like asking which was first, chicken or an egg, which is in fact totally meaningless question since bacteria gradually evolved into eukaryote, fishes, reptile, into birds and eventually to chickens as it did evolve to other animals.

So just keep "debating" it with your friends instead of asking such questions in here.

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Led Zeppelin are Led Zeppelin. They approximate to the genre called hard-rock, even though they were heavily influenced by blues music, especially on the first album. As you may have gathered, they have nothing to do with heavy metal. Black Sabbath, well, maybe. To me, they are a hard rock band, at least until the '80s. Actually, there's been several band at the time so it is difficult to say who was the first. Judas Priest formed back in the '60s so they can be, too. I guess some bands contributed, in a way of influencing the style, but the first real heavy metal band, to me, was Iron Maiden. No one knew about heavy metal, actually about metal at all, until the '80s when the music died, grunge was born and other bad things, like MTV and Maddona, stormed everything good there was taking it to the history. Rock 'n' Roll!

Sabbath! i dont consider Jimi or Zeppelin to be metal

Because they are blues as goolz said.

And I also agree that sabbath should be considered the first.

i thought Deep Purple was made the same time Sabbath did?
oh well,since the majority is sabbath,then i'll go to sabbath.
*edit: deep purple wasn't exactly just heavy metal.my bad.

I'm agree with you!

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Alright I don't really debate this but, I believe there is only one real origin of metal and that will be in blues. I mean every heavy band out there during the late 60s and early 70s were blues bands. At first Black Sabbath was called Earth and were a Blues band. Well Jimi Hendrix was also blues. Led Zeppelin was blues and also another band that started metal called Blue Cheer was blues. So there for that the real actaual deep root in metal is really basically anyone because the blues umbrella is under Jazz and from there basically there can be many metal bands because they had the subject matter of struggle and being pissed off and some times they played bass heavy. Well all that BS aside. The first to be named that was Black Sabbath so I go with them.

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Someone is misinformed.

Priest didn't release their first album until 1974. Maiden didn't release their first album until 1980.

You could say that Priest was the first metal band, but consider these songs:

1973
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SH2DNAB0Qo

1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUrurqGixY8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_K6dXUo7a4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctNLkD8S7_U

Fact is, there'd be no metal without Sabbath.


Also: Motorhead came on the scene in 1977, so the can be considered first.

Just saying. None of this really matters, but if one must be specific, it's best to know what you're talking about.


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