Prog Metal Roots

I´d say Sea Shanties by High Tide. Such powerful riffing and this was 69 - before Sabbath, and way more in the "territory" of prog metal.
Some people actually claim it to be the first metal album, but that is stretching it a bit. 

Gandalff wrote: My question: Which songs or even whole albums from 60´s to 80´s years of 20th century is most influential or most important for the development of Prog Metal and its related subgenres?

Edited by moshkito - October 19 2010 at 18:27

I and a bunch of friends in 71' discovered the first Black Sabbath album. A bunch of 15 year olds running across an album with a picture of a witch on the cover.Was it those darn devil worshippers again? Not exactly. It was hard rock with a twist of Satan cult mentality that caused us to feel strange and under the influence though. Everyone in school seemed to be buying later on Paranoid and Master of Reality. A hard rock crowd was a dope crowd with desire to reach out beyond the hippie movement but, still carried hippie characteristics. Jesus freaks (termed as that then), had set up Jesus freak housing in my hometown. They tried to convert us kids off the street. Even when we were taking a happy go lucky walk to the corner store. Satan cults resided in my town and there was a Satan cult killing as well. The Jesus freaks set up camp and tried their best to sort the youth out. By the end of 72', Black Sabbath were being directly in blame for the exsistence of the youths behaviour. Those who carried Sabbath albums to school were questioned by the principal and guidance nerds were hired by the school to investigate the personal lives of kids who were in question. The guidance nerds worked hand in hand with narcs and detectives. People from Satan cults were arrested before another death through ritual could be performed. In the long term race as it is, the finger was pointed at the music of Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep. The term Heavy Metal was yet to have been invented however, they.....the law .....were treating it the same way. Blaming a kid's death directly on the music they listened to.

TODDLER wrote: I and a bunch of friends in 71' discovered the first Black Sabbath album. A bunch of 15 year olds running across an album with a picture of a witch on the cover.Was it those darn devil worshippers again? Not exactly. It was hard rock with a twist of Satan cult mentality that caused us to feel strange and under the influence though. Everyone in school seemed to be buying later on Paranoid and Master of Reality. A hard rock crowd was a dope crowd with desire to reach out beyond the hippie movement but, still carried hippie characteristics. Jesus freaks (termed as that then), had set up Jesus freak housing in my hometown. They tried to convert us kids off the street. Even when we were taking a happy go lucky walk to the corner store. Satan cults resided in my town and there was a Satan cult killing as well. The Jesus freaks set up camp and tried their best to sort the youth out. By the end of 72', Black Sabbath were being directly in blame for the exsistence of the youths behaviour. Those who carried Sabbath albums to school were questioned by the principal and guidance nerds were hired by the school to investigate the personal lives of kids who were in question. The guidance nerds worked hand in hand with narcs and detectives. People from Satan cults were arrested before another death through ritual could be performed. In the long term race as it is, the finger was pointed at the music of Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep. The term Heavy Metal was yet to have been invented however, they.....the law .....were treating it the same way. Blaming a kid's death directly on the music they listened to.

early rock / proto metal

Edited by KABSA - November 29 2010 at 16:11

I think Metallica's Master Of Puppets and And Justice For All albums really bridged classic metal and what became progressive metal.