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March 6, 2010

Things that make you want to set your hair on fire and run from the room screaming, "I GOT THE FEAR!"

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Heavy metal turns 40 tomorrow, on the anniversary of the release of Black Sabbath.
Without it, you and I would not be gathered here today. There would be no Big Four, Peaceville Three, !T.O.O.H.!, or "One." There would be no Wacken, Venom, Voivod, or Vader. No Bathory, Beherit, Behemoth, or Belial (Aus, Aus, Bra, Chl, Col, Cze, Fin, Gbr, Sgp, Slv, USA, USA). No Decibel, Terrorizer, or, um, Revolver. No metal maniacs. No Fenriz. No Abbath. No Wino. No Doro. No Danzig. No blastbeats. No mosh. No fun. We would wear lighter-colored clothes. The world would be a darker place. -- INVISIBLE ORANGES - THE METAL MP3 BLOG

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No way. Led Zepp I & II both came out in 1969.

Posted by: Gagdad Bob at March 6, 2010 11:44 AM

But fairies wear boots! Ya gotta believe me!

Yeah, I know - Paranoid, the first album I ever bought.

Posted by: Harry at March 6, 2010 12:07 PM

Further proof, if more were needed, that we are on the steep part of the toboggan ride to hell.

Posted by: Fat Man at March 6, 2010 2:50 PM

Still jam on "Wicked World" and "Behind The Wall Of Sleep" on Tuesday nights.

Sorry Gagdad, but Led Zeppelin was just really loud blues, very cool, but still blues.

Posted by: David C McKinnis at March 6, 2010 4:04 PM

Cool. I've never even heard of one of those bands(?) except for Led Zeppelin, which seemed only another in a long line of names arrived at after marathon brainstorming by the faithful.

Remember me? I'm the guy next door you always suspected of calling the cops, interspersed with occasional anguished screams of "Shut up that fucking noise before I come over there with a shotgun."

Christ I'm glad the fad of annoying your parents has died out, at least among those of my generation. Now get off my lawn.

Posted by: Rob De Witt at March 6, 2010 6:54 PM

(Pouring rain…thunder…bell tolls slowly…)…repeat…

Best opening to the first song on a debut album EVER.

Go ahead, next rain storm, turn the lights off, crank it up to eleven and try not getting the chills.

BTW, describing Led Zep as merely the "blues” is like labeling an orgasm as merely a “delightful feeling“. It may be slightly accurate but doesn‘t begin to do any justice to either.

Posted by: tim at March 8, 2010 5:41 AM

the darkest, heaviest tune released in 1970 was recorded by Fleetwood Mac. The Green Manalishi, by Peter Green.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoSbrTwA4ps&feature=related

Posted by: ThomasD at March 8, 2010 7:18 PM

ThomasD: Sweet!

Posted by: monkeyfan at March 12, 2010 7:48 PM

The very name HEAVY Metal comes from the names of two innovative bands of the 1960's. Led (lead get it, duh) Zeppelin and Iron (another metal ya see) Butterfly.

Black Sabbath was merely riding the wave created by those two.

BTW, I was in Jr High when LZ I came out, so I remember this first hand.

Posted by: Timmeehh at March 14, 2010 1:40 PM

The very name HEAVY Metal comes from the names of two innovative bands of the 1960's. Led (lead get it, duh) Zeppelin and Iron (another metal ya see) Butterfly.

Black Sabbath was merely riding the wave created by those two.

BTW, I was in Jr High when LZ I came out, so I remember this first hand.

Posted by: Timmeehh at March 14, 2010 1:45 PM

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