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Originally Posted by demonrail666
It's interesting that so many of you are saying that Sabbath 'define' the genre. Although it's obviously wrong to say that any band can fully 'define' a genre but I always think Sabbath (although Massive in influence) only really represent a certain strand (not much evidence of Hair/Glam Metal, for example) Judas Priest, who for some reason have become deeply unfashionable compared to a band like Sabbath, have covered most bases and are far more of a link to bands like Guns n Roses, as well as providing an explicit link to the likes of Metallica and Megadeth. The British Steel album alone manages to anticipate most of the key Metal sub-genres in about 35 minutes. Not a big deal, just thinking aloud I suppose.
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sabbath CREATED heavy metal, in all respects. they purposely sought to make deeply HEAVY music that scared the shit out of you.
Sabbath is the epitome of it all. the main thing judas priest did or iron maiden did that changed metal was add that second lead guitar. (fuck the "style" bullshit.) Sabbath did EVERYTHING first, the rifs, the wailing vocal, the pounding drums, th odd breaks from heavy pummeling to light "classical" guitar playing ( a la the break in the middle of supernaut). Sabbath is the motherload, the sun source, it is sinanju.
hair and glam metal are metal by default, and owe everything metal in them to Sabbath. all the floppy frou frou bullshit they owe to that british fuckface david Bowie and his fucking fashion first bullshit.