The first metal song ever made?
 

no probably blue cheer.

the solo at 1:25 sounds pretty metal, this is definitely early roots to the genre, could be considered psychedelic too... it's cool to listen to some of this stuff to see the genius of some of these guys creating new sounds as it progressed

maybe this one

interesting, kind of cool industrial sound

yes :thumbsup

It is not so old, it is EBM

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Crawling+Chaos

But it is an interesting sound

to be honest i would say beach boys made heavy metal, in fact modern music.

I don't really care ...

Yes, I was going to say blue cheer.

steppenwolf is credited for coining the term 'heavy metal' from the song born to be wild..heavy metal thunder.

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

probably Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath.
Helter Skelter is great, but not metal. To me its more like punk.

First Speed metal sound i know of is Goblin's E Suono Rock, 1977.
Goblin soundtracked a ton of horror films including the original Dawn of the Dead, Suspiria and Deep Red.
It's not a speed metal song per se, but they break into it around 2 minutes in-

I always thought that people considered Black Sabbath as the "fathers" of Heavy Metal.

We all know the term came from steppenwolf. So anything before born to be wild is disqualified.

metal is love, metal is life.

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For me it has to be Black Sabbath. The first song off of their first album, released in the Feb 1970: The last minute and a half of the song was just so amazing for it's time....




You can say that all kinds of songs were a pre-curser to metal, but this was the first band that actually WAS metal, IMHO.



(it was also the first band that I saw in concert. I'll never forget it....)




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Yea I'd have to say for the first "real" metal I'd go with Sabbath.

I personally always credited Sabbath's "Symptom of the Universe" as the first real super heavy song.



Too bad the audio sucks here.

Widely regarded and credited as the birth of heavy metal.

I don't have to listen to it to know that :)

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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

this song has the feel of 1970, pure raw drug usage and so deserves major props

the music was certainly ahead of it's time.. the stage props not so much. :)



Ill go with Summertime Blues as the first metal song

Well, The Who were rocking "Summertime Blues" well before that, but neither band actually wrote the song. Eddie Cochran was genius though and certainly influenced them all as well.

I'm not sure which qualifies more as metal. In A Gadda Da Vida could also be a contender.

totally forgot about King Crimson "21st Century Schizoid Man" 1969
Not only is it Metal, you could call it death metal.
Ozzy Osbourne did a cover of it as well.



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I would call it ProgRock.

By all that is sacred shred... why has no one even mentioned Deep Purple? They were laying the foundations of metal well before Sabbath, Cream, Blue Cheer, etc.

What are they teaching in schools these days?

Blue Cheer and Deep Purple all put out their debut albums in 1968. Sabbath's first album was 1969. So who really came first? Good question. Blue Cheer formed in 1966 while Deep Purple formed in early 68 or late 67. There are probably a bunch of bands who never got any recognition or even record deals who were doing "metal" before this. Deep Purple's Highway Star is said by some to be the first 'speed metal' song but who knows.

Yes, Osbourne loves covering prog rock-

Just watch the new series from Sam Dunn on VH1 Classics called Metal Evolution...the first two episodes lay out the ground work with no guessing involved.

is your honesty usually that wrong? haha

i'll admit they did some ground breaking stuff later on but their early shit was literally stolen from chuck berry... He sued and won by the way.

that is some good shit right there.. very under rated band.

Great idea. Sam has put out a number of great metal documentries in the past few years. Haven't seen any of this series yet but will for sure!

first song ozzy ever wrote.. black sabbath itself.. ftw

Cream was disbanded in the same year that Deep Purple formed.

Just to point out that the song Black Sabbath is based on Gustav Holst: The Planets Mars: The Bringer of War. Bill Ward and Gezer Butler have both said that song alone is the heaviest song ever recorder and is where they got the idea to write the music for Black Sabbath. They literally said they wanted to take Gustav Holst music and update it.

Black Sabbath and The Bringer of War are mirrors of eachother just one has lyrics.



On a side note, everything Gustav Holst composed is extremely heavy and was shunned by most people during its time.

metal is neg vibe downer music. this comes from a former metalhead. so who cares?

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that drummer didn't touch his set once

these guys were way ahead of their time.







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