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PROGMAN
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Topic: BLACK SABBATH Posted: May 26 2006 at 05:21 |
It's Bat metal silly
You know the headless bat 
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Trickster F.
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Posted: May 25 2006 at 12:16 |
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: May 25 2006 at 11:15 |
ivansfr0st wrote:
Proto-Cheese Metal.
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You mean "Milk-Metal"?
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Trickster F.
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Posted: May 25 2006 at 09:37 |
Proto-Cheese Metal.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: May 25 2006 at 09:29 |
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Trickster F.
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Posted: May 25 2006 at 09:19 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
I'm a total Black Sabbath noob ... but I listened to most key tracks. And I played War Pigs on the GuitarPort for like 100 times.
BTW: Listening right now to War Pigs, covered by the Hayseed Dixies. Howdy!
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Wait, if you aren't familiar with Black Sabbath's discography, why are you the one most persistant and confident in this argument? Perhaps it wouldn't be wrong for you to get your hands on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage and see it for yourself, no?
You simply should not judge Black Sabbath by Paranoid, Iron Man or War Pigs or whatever other popular songs they have. For a comparison, it's like if you asked me if I thought Yes and Genesis were worthy of inclusion in PA and I would say "Are them the bands that played "I Can't Dance" and "Owner Of A Lonely Heart"? I played these on my keyboard, they definitely aren't prog, NO WAY!" A stupid example, but you should have understood what I mean by now.
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Abstrakt
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Posted: May 25 2006 at 09:07 |
Sabbath isn't METAL, it's ROCK!
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Posted: May 25 2006 at 09:00 |
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AtLossForWords
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 19:29 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
^ So if you think that Sabbath are Proto Prog Metal, wouldn't that make Iron Maiden Prog Metal? |
I don't think Sabbath is proto prog metal. I do think that Maiden is proto prog metal. If we have classification by genre, I would say X Factor is a prog metal album.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 18:08 |
^ So if you think that Sabbath are Proto Prog Metal, wouldn't that make Iron Maiden Prog Metal?
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AtLossForWords
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 17:56 |
Iron Maiden happened inbetween Sabbath and Master of Puppets. When I look for a band that truly lead to the direct development on heavy metal it's Iron Maiden. Black Sabbath was an influence for metal, but I never considered them to play metal. Iron Maiden and Judas Priest took Sabbath's heavy hard rock combined it with aggressive parts and thus became heavy metal.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 17:12 |
I'm a total Black Sabbath noob ... but I listened to most key tracks. And I played War Pigs on the GuitarPort for like 100 times.  BTW: Listening right now to War Pigs, covered by the Hayseed Dixies. Howdy!
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Trickster F.
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 17:09 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
fair enough - maybe someone else knows what happened between Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and master of Puppets. |
Sabotage happened between SBS and MoP. 
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 17:00 |
 fair enough - maybe someone else knows what happened between Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and master of Puppets.
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Trickster F.
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 16:51 |
Don't ask me, there's a huge gap between my perception of early 70's music and late 80's metal! There must have been groups who followed Sabbath's new direction at the time, although they perhaps had no popularity because of the new tendencies of music at the time. Actually, I have no idea and I don't see how it matters and, on top of that, I'm off to bed.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 16:31 |
Let's assume for a second that Black Sabbath were proto-prog-metal on these albums. Then, almost 10 years later, prog metal came to be. What happened in between? There must have been bands that built upon the style of those albums ... are they also prog metal, or proto-prog metal?
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Minkia
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 16:27 |
Hey Abstrakt, are you sure that's Frank Zappa (next to Hendrix) and not Frank Marino?
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Trickster F.
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 16:18 |
I wouldn't say vitruosity is some kind of a Progressive Music only trait. If that was the case, we would all be members of Shred Archives.
I consider Sabbath to be a more progressive group than either Metallica, Megadeth or Maiden, and by that I do not mean their innovation - rather the sound itself.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 16:15 |
Jody agrees with you ... but I still think that Master of Puppets is a better candidate for the title of "THE proto-prog-metal album". The most convincing reason: It came first!
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AtLossForWords
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Posted: May 23 2006 at 16:09 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
^ if such a thing as proto-prog-metal exists, Black Sabbath don't qualify for it. At the very most they are proto-metal ... prog metal came to be in the 80s, and a typical proto-prog-metal album could be Master of Puppets ... |
We agree. Rather than Master of Puppets, I see ...And Justice For All as the definition of Proto-Prog Metal. There's a lot of contrast in guitar tones, keys, composing. If only there was a bassist. 
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