One of the early Heavy Metal bands:

[MarineCombatEngineer]

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[Permanut]

1. Great song..

Listened to it many times while playing foosball at the little tavern across from my work at Montgomery Ward

[MarineCombatEngineer]

2. The drum solos are fantastical. nt

[Blue Owl]

3. Wait a minute.....

[SeattleVet]

5. Saw Boney-M in Frankfurt, Germany on the release of the 'Oceans of Fantasy' album

Great performers, super high energy.

I still listen to them from time to time, and turned on a friend's kids to them a few years ago. There are a LOT of videos of them on YT.

[JohnnyRingo]

7. There's an earlier progenitor of metal.

Dust released their first self titled album in 1971. The trio was considered the beginning of heavy metal, their albums now coveted by collectors. It consisted of teenagers Kenny Aaronson on bass, Marc Bell on drums, and Richie Wise on guitar and vocals..

Of the three, Wise moved into record production including working with KISS, among others, producing that band's first two albums. Marc Bell joined several other bands until 1978 when he joined The Ramones as Marky Ramone. Kenny Aaronson joined up with Stories (Louie Louie). Somehow, they all survived.

Marky hosts a current Sirius radio show called "Punk Rock Blitzkrieg". . Aaronson is now a member of The Yardbirds and Bell is a member of The New York Dolls. Richie Wise is still producing, including for movie soundtracks. (Transformers, Eye Of The Tiger etc). Busy hands can also be the devil's playground I guess

I had this album since it was released, but it had an early cover depicting a huge pile of Holocaust skulls. Not many bought the album and were surprised at what they heard. I gave my copy to a dear friend back in the '80s.

I know it's a few minutes, the the flourish at the end makes it worth it.

[3825-87867]

8. "da-Vida" was recorded and released n '68

I am familiar with Dust but the first hard metal was Iron Butterfly and you could make a possible argument for Steppenwolf in late '67, early '68 (Heavy metal Thunder).
Regardless, metal started late 60s.

[JohnnyRingo]

9. you're right

Butterfly was earlier. I played the crap out of it too.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Sabbath Was Earlier, Oo

The first album came out in early 70.
Paranoid was released later that same year. Yeah, they released 2 albums in 9 or 10 months!
Then about a year later, they released Masters Of Reality.
Three critically important metal albums in about 19 months!
Disagreeing with the sarge a bit here, about Iron Butterfly. Definitely heavy, but a lot of elements of psychedelia to be metal, for me.
With the interplay between organ & guitar, they were almost prog metal before there was such a thing.

[JohnnyRingo]

12. Metal is hard to define. All my dad heard was racket from my Sansui

I believe it takes more than a guitar shred to qualify as Heavy Metal. Should be more about edginess and attitude, two hard to define qualities.
I consider Black Sabbath a dark hard rock. Much of their work is melodic ballads with great guitar solos. Closer to heavy metal than Iron Butterfly though. Still they all had songs that fit the general bill.

I don't think you're wrong because metal, hard rock, and punk are all hard to pin down.

I think this is an example of that Heavy Metal attitude and edge: