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Poll Question: Which band would you call the fathers of Prog Metal
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2013 at 17:24
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I thought Steppenwolf first gave us "heavy metal thunder"?
 
Well...it was a line in the song Born To Be Wild referring to the sound of hogs/motorcycles.....personally I don't think Steppenwolf was a metal band or even a father of metal.....a great band at one time nevertheless.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2013 at 23:34
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

I thought Steppenwolf first gave us "heavy metal thunder"?
 
Well...it was a line in the song Born To Be Wild referring to the sound of hogs/motorcycles.....personally I don't think Steppenwolf was a metal band or even a father of metal.....a great band at one time nevertheless.
 
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Blue Oyster Cult used to do a cover of "Born to be Wild" though my fave Steppenwolf song was "Magic Carpet Ride"...they had a great hard rock organ sound but I never considered them metal of any kind.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2013 at 23:54
Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

I thought Steppenwolf first gave us "heavy metal thunder"?
 
Well...it was a line in the song Born To Be Wild referring to the sound of hogs/motorcycles.....personally I don't think Steppenwolf was a metal band or even a father of metal.....a great band at one time nevertheless.
 
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Blue Oyster Cult used to do a cover of "Born to be Wild" though my fave Steppenwolf song was "Magic Carpet Ride"...they had a great hard rock organ sound but I never considered them metal of any kind.
 
I think I have a version of that by BOC on one of their remastered cd's....Magic Carpet was my favorite too by Steppenwolf. I saw BOC recently near Valparaiso University in Indiana ...sadly they did not do Born To Be Wild.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 03:27
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

I thought Steppenwolf first gave us "heavy metal thunder"?

 

Well...it was a line in the song Born To Be Wild referring to the sound of hogs/motorcycles.....personally I don't think Steppenwolf was a metal band or even a father of metal.....a great band at one time nevertheless.

 

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Steppenwolf was included in VH1's origins of metal show (years ago) just because of that lyric.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 03:59
This lot weren't Heavy Metal either:
(They were neither Heavy, nor Metal, nor Kids)


Is this obviously Black Sabbath inspired piece another "father of heavy metal?"


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 04:07
yeah any band whose name includes the name of a genre is sure not to have much to do with it

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 04:11
Ah, so you've heard the Prog Rock Orchestra then... Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 04:26
Is there such a monstrosity?   I was gonna say Metallica was an exception, or in their case, the rule.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 04:27
are there metal bands influenced by Nektar? just curious
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 04:34
^ I don't know--  are there electronic bands influenced by the Everly Brothers?  I doubt it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 09:59
Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

I thought Steppenwolf first gave us "heavy metal thunder"?

 

Well...it was a line in the song Born To Be Wild referring to the sound of hogs/motorcycles.....personally I don't think Steppenwolf was a metal band or even a father of metal.....a great band at one time nevertheless.

 

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Steppenwolf was included in VH1's origins of metal show (years ago) just because of that lyric.
Shows you how much VH1 knows about music.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 17:18
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 23:18
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

I thought Steppenwolf first gave us "heavy metal thunder"?
 
Well...it was a line in the song Born To Be Wild referring to the sound of hogs/motorcycles.....personally I don't think Steppenwolf was a metal band or even a father of metal.....a great band at one time nevertheless.
 
Cool

Blue Oyster Cult used to do a cover of "Born to be Wild" though my fave Steppenwolf song was "Magic Carpet Ride"...they had a great hard rock organ sound but I never considered them metal of any kind.
 
I think I have a version of that by BOC on one of their remastered cd's....Magic Carpet was my favorite too by Steppenwolf. I saw BOC recently near Valparaiso University in Indiana ...sadly they did not do Born To Be Wild.
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I think "Born to be Wild" was on their 70's live album "On Your Feet or On Your Knees" Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2013 at 00:09
I think some of us are forgetting that Metal and Prog Metal are 2 totally different genres of music.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2013 at 01:00
^ True, though there's a school of thought that says Metal itself was progressive rock; that is to say, at the time, those pioneering metal - Zep, Sabbath, Priest, maybe Rush, etc. - were also creating a progressive form that was evolving parallel to Prog and rock-fusion.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2013 at 17:51
Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

I think some of us are forgetting that Metal and Prog Metal are 2 totally different genres of music.


I'm more and more confused by this game of tags and musicof**kology. Confused
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2013 at 17:58
^ me too. Prog Metal is a subgenre of Metal, they are the same genre of music.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2013 at 20:58
Yep! Metal begat prog metal. It's an open-and-shut case.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2013 at 11:58
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

yeah any band whose name includes the name of a genre is sure not to have much to do with it


Funkadelic
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Skatalites
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2013 at 15:42
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ me too. Prog Metal is a subgenre of Metal, they are the same genre of music.


You have a point here and it's a valid one at that, but to my ears I feel that Prog metal and metal sound so vastly different whereby I personally feel those to types of music don't really sound very similar to me at all, so i would list them as separate from one another. But, I do see your point and can understand how a lot of people would agree with you, but I don't here....for once.
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