Old school metal like Sabbath, Led Zep, and Maiden were before my time, but I still listened to a lot of it, especially Led Zep. I also liked speed metal of Megadeth, Anthrax. Metalicana was good until Lars became such a whiner. My teen years was Distrubed, Slip, etc. online I saw lots of those early eighty bands like Twisted Sister, Helix, Scorpion and Quiet Riot, and I gotta admit it's good stuff. A good pick me up to a rotten day. BANG YOUR HEAD!
Oh dont get me started on Led Zeppelin, their only the GREATEST MUTHA FOCKING BAND ... EVER!!! Bonzo!!!!!!! oh crap i just wet myself .. off to clean up. Lmao
Here's one more story.. You can't talk about heavy metal without Spectral Glide.. There was one guitarist who was experimenting with this pedal into his also stripped down chords.. And in 1966 he went full on with his new band and unleashed the Spectral Glide to be a key fundamental ingredient of heavy metal.. 3 lower semitones.. Iommi Octavia adding an upper octave.. Hendrix Spectral Glide.. Clapton A couple more stories to come that contributed to the birth of the Heavy Metal sound and soul
Late '60s England was stocked with guitar gods who were in many ways pushed to their creative extremes by the arrival of Hendrix to their shores.. Case in point.. A rock and roll guitar god who was already established before Jimi came along.. Started doing something to add to his arsenal between his signature windmills and trashing guitars into his massive amps for special feedback sounds.. Somewhere in the late sixties.. He started anticipating the open bass chords and started separating his rhythm progression to let the bass notes peak out from his fellow bass player.. This integration of a 'heavy' bass notes into the rhythm world is a key cornerstone to Heavy Metal.. You don't have to ask me WHO they are
Here is something that blows my mind: The Led Zep song, Stairway to Heaven, just that one song, is valued at 625 MILLiON DOLLARS. That one song is worth more than the entire music library of Beyoncé,Taylor Swift, and the Biebs combined. Warner music lists it in its corporate taxes every years as being one of its most important assets.