Top Ten Arguments Black Sabbath Did Not Create Heavy Metal
I love Sabbath, but they didn’t create metal.This list was inspired by Metal_Treasure’s list about why War Pigs didn’t create power metal.
This is a good list, it will get this misconception out of the way, or at least educate some people about it
I get that they were influential in the crafting of the genre, but that does not mean that they created the entire genre. I don’t think there is a sole creator of metal.
Deep Purple wasn't heavier, they had less metal songs than Black Sabbath. 2 or 4 songs on in rock were metal, and highway star. Judas Priest released their first album in 74, and it didn't have many screams. Black Sabbath's first album was heavily metal, the first song, NIB, and Behind the Wall of sleep.
And which of the three created metal? Take a guess. It's called "black metal", not "purple metal" or "judas metal".
They both have screams, which Black Sabbath has never had, and...just listen to Child In Time and Painkiller and you’ll know what I mean.
Not all metal is dark, listen to almost any power metal band. Just because they had dark lyrics and subject matters does not mean they created the entire metal genre.
This is a big one. They almost unarguably created doom metal, but just because they created one incredibly monotonous, boring, repetitive genre doesn’t mean they created every sub genre.
Example: Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Rainbow, etc.
If you listen to War Pigs, it’s incredibly long and monotonous. It sounds way more bluesy than metal. A lot of their songs are like that. They are metal, but a lot of their music is bluesy hard rock.