Re: Heavy metal/Melancholia

[Lucas Bleicher <bleicher@who.net>]

Mark R. Leaman wrote:

> I  don't know about the bass, but I'd say the first Heavy Metal was the My
> Generation album itself. Speaking purely if we assume the first Black
> Sabbath album was Metal, and I think we can agree on that. The music,
> anyway...the "dark" and Satanic trappings all came with Sabbath, which might
> be a legitimate claim for first true Metal band. Some might argue it was
> Blue Cheer, but again there's that demon Who influence cropping up (Cheer's
> first single was a definite Who-type Summertime Blues a year after The Who
> came charging through the US playing it)

My opinion is that the MG album (especially the title song) is the
predecessor of punk rock. I don't think it sounds like metal (70's or
80's). Don't you think it's more on the punk style?
 

> To me, Melancholia sounds more like Cream (same time period) than anything
> else. Politician, for instance.

Well, I think this song (Melancholia) is much darker then most songs
done by Cream. And less bluesy, too.