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Originally Posted by bronco67
I would think maybe something by Black Sabbath. It's probably just a matter of your definition of Metal. The Kinks could not be defined as Metal in any world -- but that's just my opinion.
This might help.
http://mapofmetal.com/#/home |
True, the Kinks can't be defined as metal. But in 1964 "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" sure must have sounded like the equivalent of metal for the time - especially when
compared to the other songs being put out that year. Those two songs pioneered the hard rock era that led to heavy metal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Really_Got_Me
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"You Really Got Me" was an early hit song built around power chords (perfect 5ths and octaves),[1] and was heavily influential on later rock musicians, particularly in the heavy metal genre. American musicologist Robert Walser wrote that it is, "the track which invented heavy metal"[1] while critic Denise Sullivan of Allmusic writes, "'You Really Got Me' remains a blueprint song in the hard rock and heavy metal arsenal."[2]
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