critical mass of metal music knowledge here

I see the questions about metal. I got more deeply interested in rock genres in 1979. Foundations of metal to me in those days was not all strictly metal. It came from psychedelic, blues, hard rock. Zeppelin was considered primal metal, I don't know if Zeppelin considered themselves to be metal, they were concerned with taking blues in a new direction. Jimi Hendrix playing with lots of distortion and control of feedback was influential. Iron Butterfly was a very heavy band. Black Sabbath.

@dboing said in #18:
> I recognized only a small segment of music as what I thought metal would be.

Idk if that's good or bad but metal can be pretty versatile.
Swing metal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2mZVOd0jWY

Flamenco metal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwzR7ZIJw0Q

Opera, experimental (not the most metallish song by them, but it's my favorite)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKp30C3MwVk

Experimental. genre crossover, avant garde is where it's at for me.

@i-bex Enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oVUqEadv_aA

@morphyms1817 said in #21:
> I see the questions about metal. I got more deeply interested in rock genres in 1979. Foundations of metal to me in those days was not all strictly metal. It came from psychedelic, blues, hard rock. Zeppelin was considered primal metal, I don't know if Zeppelin considered themselves to be metal, they were concerned with taking blues in a new direction. Jimi Hendrix playing with lots of distortion and control of feedback was influential. Iron Butterfly was a very heavy band. Black Sabbath.

Sabbath is metal granddady of course and I did not live back then so I don't know how Zeppelin, Rush and similar were viewed. Maybe it's because genres got pushed a lot further but I hear the 70s guitar tone and it's automatically classic rock to me.

@i-bex sounds good to me.
I also like cross-pollination efforts. The metal dosage here is like a spice, it has dynamics in the mood impact.

@clousems said in #5:
> FWIW, I wholeheartedly believe that more songs need to be written about relatable things, like battling villages of Satan-worshippers.
Yeck... Sounds like some Christian music festival!
Count me out.
I prefer my rock music with a Devils touch.

The last years I learned much about Blue Öyster Cult. They are 52+ old respectively in business.

I'm not sure if this fits here but Slash fits in wherever he wants...So....Metal to Blues Slash can play it all...

Slash with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - Blues Jam/Godfather Theme
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fykcn5d7D6A

Some more NWOBHM bands not mentioned in my blog post:

Geddes Axe
Cloven Hoof
Blade Runner
Chateux
Tytan
Excalibur
Dark Star
Warfare
Wytchfinder General (Not to be confused with Witchfinder General or Wytchfinde)
A-II-Z
Bleak House
Chariot
Bashful Alley
Virtue
Persian Risk
Battleaxe
Black Axe
Badger
Tranzzam
Traitor’s Gate
Tokyo Blade
Girl
Tysondog
Holocaust
Def Leppard (Yes-- THAT Def Leppard. They used to be metal, okay?)
Trespass
Heavy Pettin’
Goldsmith
Montreaux
Blind Fury
Angel Witch
Wolf
Chinawhite
Stampede
Youngblood
Bitches Sin
Soldier
White Spirit
Buffalo
Triarchy
Black Rose
Black Axe
Demon Pact
Overdrive
Crucifixion
Trident
Parallex
After Dark
Marquis de Sade
Scratch
Dragon Fly
Mendes Prey
Dawn Watcher
Dealer
Venom
Limelight
Hammer Head
Wikker Wikker
Seventh Son
Warrior
Split Beaver

That seems like enough at the moment.

@clousems said in #19:
> lichess.org/@/clousems/blog/clousems-heavy-metal-playlist/kdVticaZ
> Been getting a lot of questions about metal lately, so I made this blog post. Some of you may find it enlightening.
why is there no metallica?????? come on man they are like top 5 best heavy metal bands EVER up there with Iron maiden and Black sabbath