Blues to metal What is blues?
Initially called American work songs, they were written and composed by the African-American people in the deep south of the U.S during the late 19th century. Usually written using the Pentatonic scale or the Dorian Mode over a 4/4 time signature. What is metal? Society & Culture of the 1960’s
- Cold War Climate & Anti War Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Movements & Environmental Degradation
- Flower Power, Hippies & the Counterculture Music on Eve of Sabbath’s Arrival
- Amazing talents & albums offering feel-good factor
- Led Zeppelin & Deep Purple laying foundations for a heavier sound Black Sabbath
Industrial Birmingham, 1968
Black Sabbath: the so-called pioneers of Heavy Metal Industry Reaction
“We used to do these auditions for record companies, and they’d just leave after the third song...I’ll always remember one producer told us to go away, learn how to play and learn how to write some decent song. We were rejected again and again, by company after company”.
-Geezer Butler- The Big Takeover!
Sold over 75 million records worldwide
UK Music Hall of Fame
Rock&Roll Hall of Fame
2 Grammy Awards: Best Metal Performance “Black Sabbath” “Paranoid” Number 8 in the UK Number 1 in the UK Blues influences on metal
Buddy guy
Ozzy Osbourne Muddy waters
Jimi Hendrix The Siege of metal music
! 26 sub genres ! Countless derivatives
(metal evolution, 2011) Metal in the modern age
Top ten selling albums of 2017
Metallica Linkin Park Metallica 585,500 Foo Fighters Metallica 258,200 215,700 212,700 154,700
Linkin Park Metallica Queens of the Stone Age Metallica Guns & Roses 141,000 125,350 123,250 117,600 115,150 (Kennelty, 2018) What is this That stands Before me
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