Who do you think is the most important and influential metal artist of all time?

[kelandwood]

Imagine a cold February winter...a teenager who is awestruck by The Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Who, Ten Years After, CSNY, Pink Floyd, etc,,, and borrows an album from a friend...hears haunting church bells and then pouring rain and thunder,,,then a thunderous guitar riff of the doom tone! Scared the living crap out of me!!!..lol




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Couldn't have said it better myself. I'll always consider them the first heavy metal band. Even though Zeppelin were the first blues-influenced band to break through from the blues rock boom and become hard rock in themselves, I think Sabbath took it another level. Like I said, the evil sound we associate with metal is all their in that self-titled song.