Roots of Metal

Logan, I know you have a passion for the metal genre, but what are your opinions on classic rock bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath? U love your metal, but do you enjoy the roots of metal?

Sincerely, Enricky17

 

p.s. You uploaded the GTX 980 and the Define R5 videos (Hardware) to the main channel,  but you have a separate hardware channel  for that sort of stuff. Let's have our content organized!

or punk :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAZ9R2t5Jd0

You could easily say that 'heavy-metal' began in Birmingham in England, as this is where Black Sabbath originated. Tony Iommi's workplace accident (which saw him lose the tips of his fingers) resulted in the 'slushy' or heavy-metal guitar tone that we know today (Tony had made his own prothesises for his missing fingertips)

 

It was a 'happy accident' that resulted in the heavy-metal tones that prevail today, possibly if Tony's unfortunate workplace accident did not eventuate, then maybe the music may have evolved differently.

Well... I'm ready for the hate. I actually do not like old rock bands all that much. Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath are totally fine and I will not ask someone to turn them off if they are on, but I don't voluntarily listen to them myself. I can get more into acid rock than regular rock. Standard rock music is really not my cup of tea. Out of all the old stuff that is mainstream... I guess Iron Maiden is more like something I can like.

I was raised with hair metal and similar genres, but I discovered death metal at the age of 13 (before I even knew about Metalica and Pantera). So, I got into that. After that I was always looking for crazy melodies, double bass, and technicality. As I grew up I got more into black metal, viking metal, and pagan metal. That's sort of where I am now... I still really love technical and progressive death metal... but nothing beats pagan metal that takes you on an atmospheric journey. 

I recommend Metal: A Headbanger's Joruney http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478209 and Global Metal http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1249171/

For black metal fans I recommend Until the Light Takes Us http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014809/

These documentaries give a nice overview how metal music came to be and the biggest influences.

And on a side note Curachan has a new album Blood for the Blood God. Technical death metal is something I like and Blood Red Throne is one of my favorites I still follow the projects of Erlend Caspersen.

I think you nailed it with the term 'atmospheric journey' Logan.  I've found it hard to put it in words before - the feeling I get from a kind of mind-flow that happens under certain conditions of musical complexity (for me at least, but I'm a nut).

Simple music is irritating and sounds like a radio ad.  I typically listen to classical music or metal, although I also enjoy the occasion Gregorian chant!  I'm terrible on a road trip for this reason.

Music is so oddly individual.  

I have to thank you (your shirt) for getting me to watch that Mastodon twerking vid (The Motherload).

Criminally underappreciated for their contribution to the music world. I mean sheeiiit, 3 black males in Detroit in the 70's playing protopunk and not disco or funk, unheard of.

There's also a good Documentary on them called "A band called Death", goes into the inception to modernday with interviews of luminaries of the Punk and Hardcore scenes explaining the influence they had on them. 

"Atmospheric Journey"

That will run through my mind every time I play "Blood In Our Wells" By Drudkh, I kid you not, it's like the definition of that album.

I love how Led Zepplin is almost universally revered among rock music fans, when they were really just plagiarizers. No wait, I hate that. Fuck Led Zepplin. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyvLsutfI5M

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqMQ6keNN5k

 

 

 

 

 

Don't forget the Stooges and the Velvet Underground their influence is felt wide across all genres of rock.

Actually thats not where the sound comes from according to the Black Sabbath section of the Pre-metal episode of the Metal Evolution docu series.

They where playing Holst's "Mars, Bringer Of War" slowly to get that iconic riff for the song Black Sabbath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I

The interview is about 9:30 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xXtVX56rz0

They also cover where the distorted guitar sound originated from an actual accident and how it was evolved by tinkering by other musicians before the fuzz tones came out.

thrash and speed metal comes from motörhead!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2CoNvyJNR0

they made speed and thrash before this song though!

good song though! WAAAAR!