13-12-2013, 20:00
Sabbath. Zeppelin are probably the first band that could be credited as hard rock or heavy metal. Before that it was all bluesy rock or psychedelia, which was all getting heavier but nothing prepared people for the monstrous scream of Robert Plant's voice and Jimmy Page's fantastic guitar playing. Sabbath took it to another level though. The atmosphere, the distortion, the dense rhythm section, all of it was predated in the late 60s but nothing completely reached that eerie, dark, and insanely heavy level. Other bands weren't quite reaching the craziness of Sabbath(think that the emerging hard rock bands were Queen, and Thin Lizzy, who did a much more upbeat thing), but then NWOBHM came and everything was different.
