Top Ten Most Heaviest song of the 1968- 1980
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Topic: Top Ten Most Heaviest song of the 1968- 1980
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Subject: Top Ten Most Heaviest song of the 1968- 1980
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 12:36
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Hello i would like to know your opinions about this:
What is as your preception de top ten heaviest prog and prog related songs of 1968-1980 period.
For those who sure want to ask why this period, is because i like the most of this time
so, please attach your list.
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Posted By: CyberDiablo
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 13:10
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Helter Skelter should be first. You know it's the first heavy metal song anyway.
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 13:15
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Top 10 would be tough, but I can definitely tell you that my numbers one and two would be:
1. Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe.
 2. Black Sabbath - Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes
2 of the heaviest songs ever. Sabbath would probably make up a good deal of this list. We could include Children of the Grave, Into the Void, Black Sabbath, Hole in the Sky, Wheel of Confusion/The Straightener...the list goes on and on. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 15:17
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i can tell you one song i know from the period that has the heaviest riff i think i have ever heard it is Back Off Evil by Dirty Tricks, from their first album-awesome! |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 15:41
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Blue Cheer's cover of Summertime Blues is definitely one of the first.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 17:18
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Posted By: otto pankrock
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 19:19
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Sabbath's first three albums
Deep Purple-Mandrake Root
Deep Purple-Burn(any live version)
Uriah Heep's first
Lucifer's Friend
King Crimson-21st Century Schiziod Man(LIve USA)
Hawkwind-Master of the Universe(Space Ritual)
Van der Graaf-Vital
Just firin' some stuff out there. Some track or albums that come to mind
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 19:25
| 21st Century Schizoid Man is up there. |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 20:45
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21st Century Schizoid Man, definitely. -------------  
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Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 21:42
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Black Sabbath comes to mind first and foremost. The "most heavy" tracks... - N.I.B. - Warning - War Pigs - Iron Man just to name some... ------------- To be the one who seeks so I may find .. (Metallica) |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 22:17
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Kashmir seems pretty relevant as well. Even Dancing with the Moonlit Knight gets pretty heavy in the middle-ish section. Can't forget to mention the latter part of The Musical Box; there's some crazy dark guitarring by Hackett there. -------------
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Posted By: stoneman8
Date Posted: June 21 2012 at 19:14
| Black Sabbath, King Crimson, Van Der graaf generator, Magma mostly |
Posted By: HarbouringTheSoul
Date Posted: June 21 2012 at 19:20
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The first two parts of Larks' Tongues in Aspic, although not consistently heavy, contain some of the heaviest music pre thrash metal. Other things that come to mind (besides the obvious Black Sabbath) are Speed King by Deep Purple, Facelift by Soft Machine and a large percentage of Miles Davis' 70s catalogue. Oh, and Sabbath's heaviest song must be Into the Void. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 21 2012 at 20:22
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Surprisingly the band that came into my mind was The Who. Won't Get Fooled Again My Generation (Live at Leeds is even better) The Real Me That's my definition of heavy without the monotonous chugging and such. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: June 21 2012 at 21:08
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YOU GUYS!!! are missing out on the heaviest fking band of the early 70s- Il Balletto De Bronzo - o cow yes. Probably most of their album Ys- The last track is pretty fkin heavy at the end. dun dun dun DUN dunnnn dun DUNNNNNNNNN. ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: June 21 2012 at 21:12
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Mainly I feel like a lot of the Italian bands are pretty dang heavy. And the song Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by Sabbath of course has a really heavy riff at the end. And Pawn Hearts was pretty fkin heavy. I mean, didn't any other bands hear song "Black Sabbath" and go "I want to make music heavier and scarier than that" and then actually get away with it? I want to find that really really early version of extreme metal. Haha
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 21 2012 at 23:50
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"Deutsch Nepal" by Amon Duul II "Ogre Battle" by Queen "Speed King" by Deep Purple (already mentioned, great tune!) "Halo of Flies" by Alice Cooper "Larks Tongue in Aspic Part 2" and "Fracture" by King Crimson "Dancing Madly Backwards" by Captain Beyond "Master Builder" by Gong "Heaven and Hell" by Black Sabbath "Man In The Silver Mountain" by Rainbow ....those are my ten! |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: June 21 2012 at 23:53
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Red - King Crimson Into The Void - Black Sabbath Helter Skelter - The Beatles Bloodsucker - Deep Purple Lemmings - Van Der Graaf Generator Kashmir - Led Zeppelin Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Brainstorm (Space Ritual Version) - Hawkwind Ogre Battle - Queen Hut Of Baba Yaga/Curse Of Baba Yaga - Emerson, Lake & Palmer ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 22 2012 at 01:42
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trying to avoid heavy rock:
Aphrodites Child - The Four Horsemen
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
King Crimson - One Red Nightmare
ELP - The Barbarian
Pink Floyd - Time
Eloy - The Apocalypse
Genesis - Squonk
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Vangelis - Baccanale
Rush - Cygnus X1
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Posted By: Cthulhu42
Date Posted: June 22 2012 at 08:00
| Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: June 22 2012 at 12:37
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Hawkwind: Upside Down (Space Ritual) maybe?
or the whole album
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: June 22 2012 at 12:56
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Rush - 2112 and Jacob's Ladder The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire, The Noonward Race and The Meeting Of The Spirits King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part 2 and Fracture ------------- 
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Posted By: wjohnd
Date Posted: June 22 2012 at 13:15
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Black Sabbath - After Forever (~though you could pick anything off Master of reality plus others like NIB, Symptom of the universe etc ) Led Zep - Kashmir Rainbow - stargazer/Light in the black Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera Budgie - Breadfan it's funny, there were songs that sounded quite 'heavy' at the time by the likes of Tull and Magnum that sound pretty tame now  ------------- 
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Posted By: silverpot
Date Posted: June 22 2012 at 13:39
Yeah, like The Beatles Yer Blues and Birthday. My favorites from the White Album. |
wjohnd wrote:Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: June 22 2012 at 15:14
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Dude- been listening to Dies Irae by Vistors from their self-titled
WAY heavier than I thought it was going to be. ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: HarbouringTheSoul
Date Posted: June 22 2012 at 19:19
Excellent suggestion! The Mahavishnu Orchestra were one of the heaviest groups of their time.
I actually think Yer Blues still sounds plenty heavy today. |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: June 23 2012 at 00:29
| How come no one mentioned High Tide, their debut is the heaviest album i heard from the 60's, even preceding Black Sabbath. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 07:02
I would add:
"Green Manalishi" by Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac)
"Megalomania" by Black Sabbath
"A Light in the Black" by Rainbow
"Stone Cold Crazy" by Queen
"Pibroch (Cap in Hand)" by Jethro Tull
"Bad Motor Scooter" by Montrose
"Motor City Madhouse" by Ted Nugent
"Too Rolling Stoned" by Robin Trower
"Hocus Pocus" by Focus
"Going Down" by The Jeff Beck Group
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush Live ('77 - the entire damn album) - possibly the best cover of "Purple Haze" ever:
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Posted By: wjohnd
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 10:46
A lot of the songs listed did indeed seem heavy at the time, but for me the likes of pibroch (no lullaby would have been my pick of JT song), stone cold crazy, motor city, bad motor etc sound pretty light by comparison to Metallica, motorhead, venom , paradise lost, type o negative , soundgarden, pantera (etc alongside loads of other 2nd and 3rd generation bands) -------------
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 11:05
Meh, to each his own. For me, there was more of an immediacy the first time around. Everything thereafter was wash, rinse, repeat. Except, of course, for a few new toys and some annoying affectations (guttural grunts and a certain sterile sameness to the guitar sound). Bigger, louder, faster does not necessarily equate to better. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 11:11
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Whaling Storys - Procol Harum,
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 14:41
OK, but the parameters were 1968-1980. The bands you mentioned are from a different era. It's always easier to build upon what was done before, look how many doors Black Sabbath opened with their original album....heavy metal, death metal, etc. Amazing debut! Instrumentation and amplification changed from the 1960's onward.....more advanced sound processing equipment, rack-mounted effects for guitarists etc. took the music to a higher level than guitarists could achieve with overdriven Marshall stacks. Given all that, it is really hard to beat "Deutsch Nepal" for sheer nightmare heaviness! Screaming in German, distorted organ & Mellotron, torturous bass & drum.....one of my all-time favorite "Let's turn this up & chase everyone out of the party!" song selections!!
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 14:43
I salute thee, Sir Dark Elf!! Well done!! I actually play most of our combined list on either guitar or bass. Much fun!
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Posted By: SigmundFloyd
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 14:50
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The Nile Song by Pink Floyd was pretty heavy for 1969 I guess??
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Posted By: wjohnd
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 15:18
Fair call. Sabbath were (for me) the 'heaviest' of bands alongside the Dio years of Rainbow. Sabbath all but invented the genre and listening back their early albums still sound heavy today. Whereas (and I realsie this is just a personal view) other artists never achieved that 'heaviness'. Robin Trower was a good shout - which makes me realise that deep, bassy blues is the undertow of heaviness that I am getting at alongside a thumping drum sound - it doesn't have to be fast. Some of the others mentioned may have a heavy riff, but that is complemented and counterpointed by other instruments making the tune less 'heavy' overall. Led Zep - Immigrant Song (How did I forget that?) is another stomping tune that (for me) defines heavy music. Anyway - each to their own. -------------
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 15:55
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I don't see how The Immigrant Song is even remotely heavy as Sabbath...It has a cool riff... but no. |
Posted By: wjohnd
Date Posted: June 26 2012 at 16:06
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Posted By: Nicky
Date Posted: July 05 2016 at 00:14
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Sorry to bump an old thread, but I have some really heavy and more obscure suggestions: This one is from 1967!! IMO - the first (doom) metal song ever, preceding Black Sabbath by three years and a lot heavier than Helter Skelter: This one is earlier than Sabbath as well (and as heavy as anything they've produced): The first song of this album is pure Slayer... 15 years before Slayer: Very raw early doom with organs: This one is a very raw live recording of Floyd with Syd, again pure f*****g doom: Last, but not least - something from Kraftwerk: |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 05 2016 at 21:33
| From The Beatles "Helter Skelter" is often mentioned, but what first comes to mind for me is "I Want You (She's so Heavy)"... perhaps it isn't as heavy as other songs mentioned, but I guess it's among the earlier ones. |
Posted By: Saltychuck79
Date Posted: July 05 2016 at 22:40
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Caledonia by Cromagnon is extremely heavy instrumentally and vocal-wise for 1969! http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U8jOhqOsouM" rel="nofollow - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U8jOhqOsouM ------------- As the dust settles, see our dreams, all coming true, it depends on you... |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 02:03
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"Futilist's Lament" and "Death Warmed Up" by High Tide 'nuff said -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 05:47
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I'm surprised that no one's mentioned Pictures of a City or Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 1 as far as King Crimson tunes go. ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 07:05
This is in a Prog Lounge so I'm calling Prog Rules - if it's Prog Related, Proto Prog or vanilla rock it don't count.  So, despite having no heavy guitar riffs but some stonkingly heavy Hammond: Quatermass - Post War Saturday Echo ------------- What? |
Posted By: 2dogs
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 11:50
Thanks Nicky, they were great, love 'em
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Posted By: 2dogs
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 12:43
I did all that looking for something like Sabbath only louder thing in the 90s but gave it up some time ago and would much rather listen to the original innovators. It's very also very interesting to look for Sabbath like music before Sabbath actually got going. Just in case these haven't been mentioned on the grounds of being too obvious  ....A strange patchwork of styles and sounds from 1968 sounding strangely like Ozzy in places: 1968 again and man this must have been one heavy concert: A beautifully erratic and meandering tune from 1969: Heaviness with a piano, 1970: (Yes, I do like Deutsch Nepal too
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Posted By: HosiannaMantra
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 13:30
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Apart from those Sabbath/Purple tracks: Horse - To Greet the Sun Uriah Heep - Gipsy Lucifer's Friend - Ride the Sky King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic (both parts) Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You Pink Floyd - The Nile Song Van der Graaf Generator - The Sleepwalkers Soft Machine - Hibou, Anemone and Bear Blue Öyster Cult - ME 262 Hawkwind - Damnation Alley There are obviously some other heavy (perhaps even heavier) songs that I can't recall right now. And I purposely didn't mention that Jacula track that's obviously overdubbed (or even recorded) later.
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 14:17
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 21:31
I guess if you want something like Black Sabbath (well, at least 70's Black Sabbath), but louder, the best you can do is get their 90's live album "Reunion". I actually like almost every song from it better than the original ones, for they are indeed heavier and louder. |
Posted By: 2dogs
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 23:58
Interesting, I only ever listen to Tomorrow Never Knows by the Beatles and hadn't heard that one, it's certainly an exception for them
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Posted By: comascape
Date Posted: July 14 2016 at 14:39
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Sorry if someone already mentioned these: Judas Priest - Dissident Aggressor = The birth of Thrash
Budgie - Napoleon Bona, Pts. 1 & 2 Jethro Tull - My God Rainbow - Stargazer ------------- "You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life." -Salvador Dali |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 15 2016 at 13:15
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Always thought these guys were 'heavy' but there are so many heavy tracks back in those days..... Another one that always blew me away.... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: September 06 2016 at 11:51
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hello, its been a looong time ago i add Whino Man from Frank Zappa, sure is Heavy Sir Lord Baltimore Hellium Eye Exciter From Judas Priest Evil Woman from Master Apprentices and ST ------------- |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 06 2016 at 12:15
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heaviest song.... pffff... Micky for the thread win... so heavy.. even Slayer couldn't pull it off with their cover... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 06 2016 at 14:28
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Judas Priest...? Seriously....? A bunch of wimps..... Now this is heavy.....and they actually know how to play their instruments.... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Thelion78
Date Posted: March 25 2018 at 02:48
Hi, can anyone remeber what band/album he was referring to in the bolded part of the quote? Ie: "The first song of this album is pure Slayer... 15 years before Slayer:", becaude that video seems to be removed from YouTube. Pro tip: if you link to posts on UT, always mention what they are, as videos have the tendency to disappear. I'm looking for "as heavy as possible pre Sabbath" -era stuff, and I've fround some great examples here. If you come up with new examples, that would be great and very much appreciated. |
Posted By: Thelion78
Date Posted: March 25 2018 at 03:07
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I'm answering myself here. By using archive.org, I seem to end up with these results. What about these? The first song of this album is pure Slayer... 15 years before Slayer: Flower Travellin Band - Satori (full album) https://web.archive.org/web/20161224073152/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxB55yaWG-I" rel="nofollow - https://web.archive.org/web/20161224073152/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxB55yaWG-I 1968 again and man this must have been one heavy concert: MC5 - I Want You Right Now https://web.archive.org/web/20130319070942/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG8WhjH6KmU" rel="nofollow - https://web.archive.org/web/20130319070942/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG8WhjH6KmU
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Posted By: twalsh
Date Posted: March 25 2018 at 10:42
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Flower Travellin Band - Satori (full album) https://web.archive.org/web/20161224073152/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxB55yaWG-I" rel="nofollow - https://web.archive.org/web/20161224073152/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxB55yaWG-I I discovered these guys on Spotify a few months ago with the Discovery Weekly generated playlist. What a great surprise! ------------- More heavy prog, please! |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: March 25 2018 at 11:35
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I know that most Genesis doesn't scream heavy but I can't believe "the knife" hasn't been mentioned yet. Really? Also, what about Pink Floyd's "the nile song?" Of course some Uriah Heep would be in there as well as the other aforementioned bands such as Black Sabbath, King Crimson, Deep Purple. Also, some Budgie. Since it goes up to 1980 you have to have "Machine Messiah" in there and Rush goes without saying too. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 25 2018 at 11:57
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Blue Oyster Cult, Motorhead, Judas Priest are other famous examples. Armaggedon (Germany - 1970) Armageddon (UK- 1975) Cargo (1972, band from the Netherlands) High Tide Blue Cheer Moses (1971) Orang Utan (1971) Frumpy Atalantis and many others, I'll get back to it. :)
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: March 25 2018 at 12:45
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At the moment 10 best heavies: 1. Black Sabbath: Behind the Wall Of Sleep 2. Deep Purple: Fireball 3. Blue Cheer: Summertime Blues 4. MC5: Kick Out the Jams 5. Uriah Heep: Bird Of Prey 6. Led Zeppelin: Immigrant Song 7. Rush: Bastille Day 8. Hawkwind: Silver Machine 9. Motörhead: Motörhead 10. Cream: Tales of Brave Ulysses
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Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: March 25 2018 at 16:07
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Trust - Antisocial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfD8Dnh2xho |
Posted By: Argos
Date Posted: March 26 2018 at 07:57
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Judas Priest - The Ripper Judas Priest - Dreamer Deceiver/Deceiver Pink Floyd - The Nile Song/Ibiza Bar Deep Purple - Space Truckin' Judas Priest - Exciter Judas Priest - Savage King Crimson - The Devil's Triangle Led Zeppelin - Black Dog Nektar - King of Twilight (one of my absolute favourites, Iron Maiden's cover is great, it sort of has that gallop sound that Steve Harris and IM is known for) ------------- "All the iron turned to rust; All the proud men turned to dust And so all things, time will mend So this song will end" |