Top 10 Most Revolutionary Rock Bands

Not the first rock band ever, but they created the style of rock that almost all bands from the '60s onward use. They led the British Invasion and influenced bands such as The Who, The Rolling Stones, etc.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we all want to change the world. But not many rock bands can do it.

They influenced numerous musicians and still do today. They did a lot of pioneering, creative work.

Ritchie Blackmore did something revolutionary: he first created rock songs based on scales typically used in classical music. All other rock bands used mostly blues scales to create rock/hard rock or, in the case of Black Sabbath in the '70s, to create heavy blues rock.

This was the biggest invention in 20th-century music because it set the pattern for metal music as we know it now. Heavy metal is a non-bluesy genre.

Deep Purple first used double bass drumming on an early metal song. They were also the loudest band of the '70s. And last but not least, they were the most talented band - a band of masters.

Conclusion: Deep Purple is the most revolutionary rock/metal band.

Deep Purple introduced some aspects of heavy metal such as fast tempos, classical-influenced guitar solos, and operatic vocals, but it was Black Sabbath that truly invented the genre. Their first three albums had the heaviest music at the time. They brought darkness and occult themes into metal.

Like Deep Purple, Sabbath was a pioneer of extreme metal with songs like Paranoid, Children of the Grave, and Symptom of the Universe. It all comes back to Black Sabbath.

After The Beatles, they were the most revolutionary band. They brought alternative rock to the spotlight and popularized heavier sounds. They brought meaning, depth, and sadness into music. They changed the whole definition of rock and music.

Smells Like Teen Spirit, but not just that song. All the sounds they made in their songs changed musical interests across the globe.

They basically made grunge awesome.

The Kinks revolutionized the rock sound in the early '60s. They experimented with louder rock sounds and made pioneering contributions to the field. Dave Davies became bored with the traditional "clean" guitar style of the period. In search of a louder, more biting sound, he famously split the speaker cone of his Elpico amplifier:

"I got a single-sided Gillette razorblade and cut... [from the center to the edge of the] cone... so it was all shredded but still on there, still intact. I played and I thought it was amazing."

The jagged sound of the amplifier was replicated in the studio. The Elpico was plugged into a larger Vox AC30, and the resulting effect became a mainstay in The Kinks' early recordings, most notably on "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night."

Jim Morrison is the prototype of the rock band frontman even to this day. Everyone from Axl Rose to Steven Tyler to Anthony Kiedis clearly followed in Jim's footsteps, as does just about every modern hard-rocker wearing leather pants.

They're not un-metal. Anyway, they revolutionized what you could write about when producing music. Writing about complex and specific political concepts, stories of the less fortunate, and rebellions. Morello developed techniques that changed the way people looked at the guitar, and both Commerford and Wilk were real virtuosos.

Rage deserves to be higher on this list.

An amazing band that brought new sounds to the rock genre.