Fully formed Heavy Metal songs from the70's
- MechaBarbarian
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Fully formed Heavy Metal songs from the70's
Hey guys I've been digging through a lot of 70's proto-Metal/Heavy Prog/Psych bands these past few months and I started thinking about what songs from the 70's that come the absolute closest to what we today would define as Heavy Metal. Here are some of my picks:
Thin Lizzy - Emerald
Quartz - Mainline riders
Scorpions - Sails of Charon
Heart - Barracuda
Riot - Warrior
Basically I'm looking for tracks that were they released in -83 would've fit right in and been clearly identifiable as Metal tracks, not hard rock.
Tracks up for consideration:
Uriah Heep: Gypsy
Deep Purple: Highway Star, Smoke on the Water
Led Zep: Immigrant Song/Achilles Last stand
Sweet: Burning (even if the riff is borrowed from Immigrant song)
UFO: Light's out
Night Sun: Got a Bone of my own
Also you might have noticed I've chosen not to include Priest, Sabbath, Motörhead or Rainbow as they might be a bit too obvious. I'm dying for something I've missed!
Thin Lizzy - Emerald
Quartz - Mainline riders
Scorpions - Sails of Charon
Heart - Barracuda
Riot - Warrior
Basically I'm looking for tracks that were they released in -83 would've fit right in and been clearly identifiable as Metal tracks, not hard rock.
Tracks up for consideration:
Uriah Heep: Gypsy
Deep Purple: Highway Star, Smoke on the Water
Led Zep: Immigrant Song/Achilles Last stand
Sweet: Burning (even if the riff is borrowed from Immigrant song)
UFO: Light's out
Night Sun: Got a Bone of my own
Also you might have noticed I've chosen not to include Priest, Sabbath, Motörhead or Rainbow as they might be a bit too obvious. I'm dying for something I've missed!
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Maybe you can find what you're looking for in this thread :
http://www.thecorroseum.com/phpbb2/view ... c&start=30
http://www.thecorroseum.com/phpbb2/view ... c&start=30
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Had a look though that thread before I started this one :/ was hoping that by ressurecting the topic I'd get some new answers.omen of hate wrote:Maybe you can find what you're looking for in this thread :
http://www.thecorroseum.com/phpbb2/view ... c&start=30
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Re: Fully formed Heavy Metal songs from the70's
"Set Me Free" too.MechaBarbarian wrote:Sweet: Burning
"His name's Antichrist Vandelay. He's an insulter-expulser."
Re: Fully formed Heavy Metal songs from the70's
+1Ernest Thesiger wrote:"Set Me Free" too.MechaBarbarian wrote:Sweet: Burning
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That's a neat thread I missed it because I assumed it would mostly be NWOBHM demos! Thanks!omen of hate wrote:You can also check this thread too : http://www.thecorroseum.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=6621
I know about Buffalo and sir Lord Baltimore. But IMO SLB sound more 70's to me, I'm sort of looking for songs and bands which sound like they really could've been recorded a decade later and fit in snuggly!
@Prowler: Great suggestions and I haven't heard either band mentioned before! Thank you very much!
One track on the album has speedy double bass parts too, unfortunately I can't recall it's title yet.Dokken_Uwe wrote:YES! Unfortunately their other material can't compete with this killer song.Prowler wrote:Gran Max - Mistress of eternity = early Epic Metal!!!!!!!!!!
As for Queen, "Sheer heart attack" is an early Heavy Metal track too. What's interesting is that Roger Taylor already wrote and recorded that song in 1974, but it seemed to heavy for that band and wasn't successful. "Too heavy" ... sounds kinda absurd he?
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How about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zLn4pCFHTY ?Prowler wrote:One track on the album has speedy double bass parts too, unfortunately I can't recall it's title yet.Dokken_Uwe wrote:YES! Unfortunately their other material can't compete with this killer song.Prowler wrote:Gran Max - Mistress of eternity = early Epic Metal!!!!!!!!!!
As for Queen, "Sheer heart attack" is an early Heavy Metal track too. What's interesting is that Roger Taylor already wrote and recorded that song in 1974, but it seemed to heavy for that band and wasn't successful. "Too heavy" ... sounds kinda absurd he?
Very crude stuff, but I like it a lot. I've heard they were a college band.
To me, the rest of the stuff on the Granmax album "Kiss heaven goodbye" sounds quite good too. Like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1vRPdw9FmU or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkruSpWoVic.
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