Happy 40th Birthday to Heavy Metal!!

On this fateful day in the year nineteen-hundred and seventy(1970), Black Sabbath released their groundbreaking debut album "Black Sabbath". And thus Metal was born.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE HEAVIEST GENRE ON EARTH!

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In 1968 with Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild saw the birth of "Heavy Metal".

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEAVY METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love you lots. Hahaha. :D


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Let's celebrate !

happy b- day Heavy Metal! Uhu

hahahahaha!  Happy Birthday rofl.  Glad you were born the world would be quiet without you.

It's 40 years already ? Who would then say Ozzy would live this long ? :-)

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In 1968 with Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild saw the birth of "Heavy Metal". 



 



 



 

[/QUOTE] glad it wasnt just me who thought it :-p

Oh great. Happy birthday cunt-shitting awful music.

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In 1968 with Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild saw the birth of "Heavy Metal". 

[/QUOTE] Nah. That song is not metal. It's hard rock. Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" is the first true metal song. Sure "Born to be Wild" has the lyric "heavy metal thunder" but even the Beatles' Helter Skelter is heavier than that song.

IMO, heavy metal band Lizzy Borden's cover of BTBW on "Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years" is pretty good, and the lead singer sounds like Freddie in parts.
The Ozzy cover is hilarious too.                    

Goldmine, glad to know you feel that way. :P Metal just wouldn't be metal if it didn't offend anyone at all. ;)

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In 1968 with Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild saw the birth of "Heavy Metal". 





[/QUOTE] Nah. That song is not metal. It's hard rock. Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" is the first true metal song. Sure "Born to be Wild" has the lyric "heavy metal thunder" but even the Beatles' Helter Skelter is heavier than that song.

IMO, heavy metal band Lizzy Borden's cover of BTBW on "Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years" is pretty good, and the lead singer sounds like Freddie in parts.
The Ozzy cover is hilarious too.                    

Goldmine, glad to know you feel that way. :P Metal just wouldn't be metal if it didn't offend anyone at all. ;)            


The phrase Heavy Metal came from that song and it was heavy in those days. Your own taste or opinion aside, it is  internationally acclaimed as the first metal song.

Agr, doesn't matter!

Great to have you around Heavy Metal! :)

[QUOTE]The phrase Heavy Metal came from that song and it was heavy in those days. Your own taste or opinion aside, it is  internationally acclaimed as the first metal song. [/QUOTE]

And rumour has it that John Kay was talking about listening to Hendrix, so it's either Steppenwolf or Hendrix.   Listening to that old tripe now, Black Sabbath is something I would have a tough time calling "Hard" rock.   Their early music videos certainly don't reflect them being hard rockers or metal.  Just a 4 piece that looks down at the floor and plays power chords.

If Born To Be Wild is considered the first heavy metal song, then this genre would have dissolved into plain hard rock if Tony Iommi had not met with that accident in the factory.

@Saif - don't see you much around here lately...kahaan ho aaj kal bhai?

Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness.
 Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are generally associated with masculinity and machismo.

The first heavy metal bands such as[i][b] Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple[/b][/i]
attracted large audiences, though they were often critically reviled, a status common throughout the history of the genre. In the mid-1970s Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence; Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. Bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Iron Maiden followed in a similar vein. Before the end of the decade, heavy metal had attracted a worldwide following of fans known as "metalheads" or "headbangers".

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[QUOTE]The phrase Heavy Metal came from that song and it was heavy in those days. Your own taste or opinion aside, it is  internationally acclaimed as the first metal song. [/QUOTE]

And rumour has it that John Kay was talking about listening to Hendrix, so it's either Steppenwolf or Hendrix.   Listening to that old tripe now, Black Sabbath is something I would have a tough time calling "Hard" rock.   Their early music videos certainly don't reflect them being hard rockers or metal.  Just a 4 piece that looks down at the floor and plays power chords.[/QUOTE] I'm not a big fan of Sabbath, I only really like the Dio albums but their song "Black Sabbath" shows the beginnings of 'doom metal'. When Dio came in, BS went from being an ambiguously metal band to an unambiguously metal one.

@ParisNair: Medical ka akhri semester chal raha hain, no time. :(