1970 Deep Purple - hard lovin man (00:00) Lucifer's Friend - ride in the sky (00:21) Sir Lord Baltimore - hard rain fallin (00:39) Deep Purple - speed king (00:57) 1971 Zoot - the freak (01:19) Deep Purple - fireball (01:37) May Blitz - for mad men only (01:55) Black Sabbath - children of the grave (02:13) The Pink Fairies - do it (02:31) Bloodrock - whiskey vengeance (02:49) Stone Axe - snakebite (03:07) Eloy - walk alone (03:25) 1972 Tarkus - el pirita (03:46) Night Sun - plastic shotgun (04:04) Jerusalem - frustration (04:22) Highway Robbery - fifteen (04:40) Night Sun - nightmare (04:58) Deep Purple - highway star (05:16) 1973 Pentagram - hurricane (05:38) Argus - road of life (05:56) Icecross - nightmare (06:14) Buffalo - shylock (06:32) Budgie - breadfan (06:50) 1974 Budgie - crash course in brain surgery (07:11) Queen - stone cold crazy (07:29) UFO - rock bottom (07:47) Blast - damned flame (08:05) Robin Trower - day of the eagle (08:23) Sweet - set me free (08:41) 1975 Astaroth - satanispiritus (09:03) Black Sabbath - symptom of the universe (09:21) Armageddon - buzzard (09:39) ZZ Top - heard it on the x (09:57) 1976 Judas Priest - Tyrant (10:18) Zane - step aside (10:36) Rainbow - a light in the black (10:54) Ted Nugent - hammerdown (11:12) Triumph - street fighter (11:30) 1977 Heart - barracuda (11:52) Triumph - rock and roll machine (12:10) Riot - warrior (12:28) Judas Priest - dissident aggressor (12:46) Riot - overdrive (13:04) 1978 Queen - dead on time (13:25) Rainbow - kill the king (13:43) Judas Priest - exciter (14:01) Scorpions - he's a woman she's a man (14:19) Angel Witch - baphomet (14:37) Vulcan - noname (14:55) Judas Priest - hell bent for leather (15:13) 1979 Legend - the wizards vengeance (15:35) Accept - free me now (15:53) Motorheaad - overkill (16:11) Squadran - the wall (16:29) Van Halen - light up the sky (16:47) Accept - thats rock and roll (17:05) Riot - narita (17:23)
Very nice list but it's missing a lot more Budgie Just listen to a track like Napoleon Bona Pt II ... HEAVY AS FUCK ... 1975! Budgie were WAY ahead of their time, a la par with Sabbath.
I would add "Raging River of Fear" by Captain Beyond(1973) and by Yesterday and Today.. "Earthshaker" and "Fast Ladies(Very Slow Gin)", both from 1976..
Lucifer's Friend's "Ride In The Sky" has been one of my most loved ones since I was 14 years old. Everything in this song is just divine, the heavy organ, those godlike vocals, the driving rhythm section, the immigrant-song-horn-bit, the haunting guitars... Will never stop loving this tune.
Don't miss Budgie's "In for the Kill" album. Those first guitar tones in the intro of the title track will scratch your soul. I Fisrt heard that track as a a massive storm was approaching my hometown back in the seventies. I lowered the needle onto the vinyl and the rest is history. A vivid rock moment for me personally. Tony Borge was sadly underrated here in the USA. Love that band!
@Happy Joy Sabbath, Zeppelin, and the Who are the godfathers of metal, mate. I can see you've got not idea what the fuck it is that you're talking about.
I saw the documentary about the lead singer of Pentagram, he fought hard till the end. And although, he struggled with addiction-like many of us, he kept his art and his music alive and didn’t give up
It wasn't hard rock. It was Heavy Rock. But yeah the stuff that came out between the late sixties in the first couple years of the 70s massively influenced everything from punk to thrash to grunge to you name it. You can symphonic black metal wouldn't exist if it wasn't for that stuff. That later musical complexity stuff borrowing from classical ? What Uriah Heep, early Judas Priest, and Jethro to name the more famous guys and a host of other more obscure acts were doing was the progressive and complex Heavy Rock stuff very early on, we were not that's supposed to really influential on black metal. Influence is a weird thing for example Bathory was heavily influenced by a mix of early influences. they were listening not only to Black Sabbath and Motorhead but they're also listening to Kiss. And punk stuff like GBH and the Exploited. The 60s and 70s were a far more interesting and influential era of time musically than conventionally realized.
I'm not sure about its influence on punk. I guess it had an impact and they certainly influenced hardcore and grunge acts, but classic punk main influences were garage rock bands like The Stooges. You can call those bands hard rock though, but they didn't play the exactly same brand of hard rock as Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple.
@@Kongorlobo Some of the 70's Punk band tooked influences Hårdrock and Heavy Rock and of course from 50's rockabilly and Velvet Underground blendet with their vision of noise. Early Hardcore Punk musicians liked also stuff like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple for example. But Garage Rock and Motörhead were main influences on Punk rock.
@@mrnordyk1125 Well, yeah, I think in the 70s prior to the birty of modern punk rock all hard-sounding rock bands took influence from everything they could. Garage rock had a massive influence on punk, Motorhead would also influenced the genre but they came later.
There are some Scorpions songs from the 70s that are really proto thrash: Robot Man (In Trance 1975) Virgin Killer (Virgin Killer 1976) He's a Woman She's a Man (Taken By Force 1977) Another Piece Of Meat (Lovedrive 1979) Even some Queen : Ogre Battle (Queen II 1974) More of that Jazz (Jazz 1978)
@@crisalidadevil9469 well I wouldn't say punk. The basis of early punk was actually really more like bands like the New York Dolls, Slade (which ironically was also one of the greatest influences musically on kiss, Alice Cooper, quiet riot, twisted sister later, in the whole 1980s glam metal stuff that evolved) and similar glam bands. Also the stuff coming-out if Detroit like the MC5, and Iggy Pop and the stooges. Punk was a reaction to bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. What muddies the water these days is that they're all just sort of variance of heavy Rock.metal, hardcore, punk, Hard Rock, they're all really just forms of Heavy Rock and the seeds for them sll were all floating around underground rock scenes between 1966 and 70.
@@hommedetowne4253 True, Punk, at least in England, really grew out the early seventies glam stuff which turned it's back on the late psychedelic era and went back to the simpler structures of early sixties and fifties rock'n'roll but kept the fat distorted guitar sound (which is what muddies the waters) Punk stripped glam down even further and also upped the tempo.
My three all-time hard rock/heavy metal bands, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, are well represented here! And, thanks for this selection, I discovered some great bands I had never heard of before!
Everyone always mentions Stone Cold Crazy, but seem to forget or be oblivious to their two earlier tracks Modern Times Rock N Roll and Ogre Battle. Maybe not as fast, but in the same Thrash/Speed realm. EDIT: It's probably also worth it to mention that all three were performed live extensively years before their studio releases, all of which present as early as 1972, some earlier.
The Zoot are from my hometown here in Australia. I knew the drummer's son. A few times in the early 90s I jammed on his dad's bass amp with my band, it was set up in a pool room we all partied in. Legendary band, thanks for posting them!
What an awesome retrospective! The list would be even more complete with: Sheer heart attack, tie your mother down, keep yourself alive (all by Queen) Easy Livin - Uriah Heep Let there be rock-AC/DC (faster and heavier than ZZ Top and Robin Trower) On fire , Atomic Punk - Van Halen Another piece of meat - Scorpions Kudos for putting Narita in your list. Fantastic.👍👏
@@pvdguitars2951 He didn't include any Rush songs, either. 1975's "Anthem" and "By-Tor And The Snow Dog," especially. Glad he included Queen's "Stone Cold Crazy" and Triumph's "Rock 'N' Roll Machine," though. That Riot was extremely heavy.
@@dennissweeney6774 yes, Barón Rojo in Spanish. That band is from Spain and is/was good. I'm more into Rock and Blues, but precisely for this fact I know that Metal band. Also, I enjoy listening to others, from different styles, like Accept (mainly their 80's albums). There was another 80's metal band from Spain: Ángeles del infierno. Take a look at them, maybe you like it. 🤘😎
@@albertovalentinangulogarci9685 thanks for the reply. I do have one of there album's have not listen to it since the 90s or early 2000 .I have about thousand album's about three hundred are in bad shape. I should start listen to my old records.
Atm, I don't remember which came first. Have to say though, the first really proto-thrash song for me is Symptom Of The Universe. That said, I love early Priest as much as I love early Sabbath :)
Excellent curation. That Sweet song always instantly strikes me as obvious metal as soon as I hear it. They're of course categorized in the glam rock section, but they definitely had proto-metal leanings at times. ONE mere omission (IMHO - and apologies, I'm sure you get this a lot) might be the MC5's "Gotta Keep Movin'" from High Times (1971).
Sweet were an incredibly overlooked rock band. Their Chinn/ Chapman years overshadowed their fantastic self-penned rock tracks. As for Mick Tucker, his drumming was up their with Bonham, Powell, and Moon, and was a massive influence on people like Tommy Lee. R.I.P. Brian, Mick, and Steve.💕
Rush - Finding My Way David Bowie - Suffragette City KISS - 100,000 Years, Parasite, Detroit Rock City, Love Gun Van Halen - I'm On Fire, Atomic Punk Alice Cooper - Elected
Kudos for mentioning Zoot. Best known for their cover of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby", which was pretty heavy for its time, but the band is still regarded as a bit "bubblegum" here in Oz because of how they looked.
If its one thing I've learned, its that innovations in music are usually spurred by artists who blend current trends but are too different to catch on. But they pave the way for future artists
A lot of this material was on the tape - trader network in the 80's. My band used VH's Light Up The Sky as a set opener a lot. Early Deep Purple and UFO were good for covers too because almost nobody had ever heard them before
There was also apparently a pre-Icecross band called Manar. I read years ago that they had members in common, but I can no longer find anything to substantiate this. Anyway, Söngur Satans is a great tune!
Queen’s Stone Cold Crazy can definitely be the first to be called thrash, but like Jimi Hendrix it took a few years for a band to solidify the tone, and 12:29 Riot’s Warrior seems definitive. So is the Scorpions’ “He’s a woman She’s a Man” and that Angel Witch number shortly after. It’s the fusion of punk and metal elements that makes it definitive.
@@nikolas8088 it's all "Proto", and I can't think of a louder and faster band than the Stooges among their contemporaries. When you hear I Got A Right, that could easily be a speed metal track, but better
1969 Can song "Graublau" has last 2 minutes grindcore blast beat. Same band 16 minutes long song "Spoon" (from Lost Tapes album) also has similar speed metal drumming finale. Same with their song "Abra Cada Braxas" pure hardcore noise rock ending.
Thanks for all of 'em especially Pentagram, Scorps, Buffalo, Riot, Purple, Motorhead, Budgie, Priest, UFO, Rainbow, Uncle Ted (when he was well) and the mighty Sabbath. I love The Sweet a shitload as well. Squadran-damn great from the lil clip that you put up. I'll have to look for their output, thanks.
Excellent compilation that shows that hard rock and metal owned speed and heaviness long time before punk. And Deep Purple had this before anyone. I don't deny punk influence on thrash metal though, but hard rock had it first!
50's rock 'n' roll was faster than 70's hard rock and had noisier guitar solos. And 80's hardcore was faster than anything before. In 1984-85 hardcore was faster than anything in metal.
@@piotrb8434 totally. The dude has by no offense ever listened to pure rnb, rock and roll, rockabilly, surf, raw garage punk and psychedelia, seventies punk rock, psychobilly, eighties hardcore, and whatever follows. No offense, punk aesthetics is older as it draws directly by old rnr. Cheers from Greece Piotr.
@@georgefromgreece4119 One may not agree with you when saying that punk aesthetics are older cause they're found in old rock n' roll. This is kind of anachronistic. Old rock n' roll actually contains both aesthetics of hard rock and punk.
Most people who get into heavy music starting at Sabbath or Deep Purple or similar don't know how incredibly heavy mid to late 60s real acid rock was. Crank the 13th Floor Elevators 1966 album The Psychedelic Sounds Of or the Airplane's 1968 House At Pooneil Corner on your car sound system sometime. Heaviness is more of a continuum than something that just popped out of thin air. The problem is that the further back you go the harder it gets to recognize it because the instruments, musical language, and sound reinforcement methods change. But the driving heaviness doesn't. There's a reason Sabbath and most of the 60s bands were so influenced by blues for example, they recognized it. That's hard for us to hear today because the blues have become such a cliche and watered down, and because a lot of the old stuff was quieter and more subtle, often acoustic or barely amplified, because late 60s sound reinforcement tools didn't exist yet .
I was wondering if The Sweet Set Me Free was gonna make the list. It was one of the very first right hand songs I had heard and I knew it was what i wanted to hear more of in my life.
For some 60's proto-metal (or metal-related): _British Invasion/Hard Rock_ The Kinks - You Really Got Me/All Day and All of the night/Wicked Annabella The Beatles - Helter Skelter The Who - Boris the Spider/Heaven and Hell/Jekyll and Hyde The Pretty Things - Old Man Going Led Zeppelin - Communincation Breakdown _Prog_ Jethro Tull - Sweet Dreams King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire Pink Floyd - The Nile Song/Astronomy Domine _Psychedelic/Garage_ The Lollipop Shoppe - You Must Be A Witch Coven - Wicked Woman/Dignitaries of Hell Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida _Bands I should include but don't know very well_ Jimi Hendrix, MC5, Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf And if you want to get really retro : Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You
♥️ Thank you so much for this, I'm a diehard Metal head but haven't heard many of these bands, so good 🤘😆 miss these playlist videos on youtube before they started taking em down, Metal till the end
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Hey man... Thanks for this; educational, eye-opening and mind expanding! Sure I knew about several of these--Sabbath, The Sweet, Deep Purple--but many I'd never heard of. And who knew Triumph was ever that heavy!!
I lived next door to a guy that was in the navy in late 60’s early 70’s and he had STACKS. Of album’s he’d collected traveling the world in the navy he had a record player a receiver and 2 badass speakers and all I remember him ever doing was getting stoned and jamming these and playing a fender strat to the majority of these. He got me into playing guitar
Ahhhh...a good refreshing list of 70s rock, hard rock, early speed rock, etc. All paved the way , inspired for future bands. I can hear riffs and styles that i see where some bands later get influenced by. (I'm not talking about cover songs by the way)
Great list, thanks for posting. wow I thought I knew my metal history, lots here are new to me. Gonna be busy checking out these bands. Glad you included Zoot, also love their "metal' 1971 version of Eleanor Rigby
When it came to being introduced into the world of thrash, I give credit to Led Zeppelin's 'Wearing & Tearing' song off the CODA album. Despite the fact that it was released in 1982, the song itself was actually recorded in November 1978, and in all honesty, should have been included in this video. I don't know why it's such an overlooked song, I mean, it was unlike anything Led Zeppelin had ever done on their previous albums. Such an underrated, overlooked song from their catalog.
Gr8 to see the sweet get a mention - often only known for the poppier singles - made great heavy albums - dont look around by mountain was quite fast/brutal for 71 - worth checking out
Definitely should have included some Diamond Head! I know Lighting To The Nations didn't come out until 1980, but they had demos and liver performances as early as 1977.
Image is everything. I worked for a booking agency around this era. We got a bunch of these portfolio pictures for the various bands, posing to present their image. Not all matched up with the demo tape we had with the resume. The most important notes with an act were: "Showed up late" "Started 45 minutes late" or the worst one "$12,000 damage to the facility"
Another one is Alice Cooper’s “Halo of Flies” from 1971. In addition to the song structure and various parts throughout, check out the gallops starting at 2:36.
I dunno about the proto speed/thrash part for a lot of these, but what a set of songs! no Hawkwind-Motorhead though? Twisted Sister-Under the Blade (1979 self released 45 version)? Judas Priest-Call for the Priest 1977!!! Also for your consideration: Wishbone Ash-Phoenix 1970 (builds up, then has a heavy breakdown too) , Dust-From a Dry Camel 1971 ( the middle instrumental break starting at 3:30). Fantastic set including some GREAT and RARE stuff for sure though.
That first l.p. from Wishbone Ash is awesome. While not speed metal, the track "Lady Whiskey" is permanently marked on my "best hard rock of all time" list. Both Dust lps are so heavy in spots. Although the album "Come Down Heavy" from Thee Hypnotics was decades later, it is sure interesting to see how all of this great music from the 60s and 70s evolved.
Damn Riot just kicked soo much ass, but so did Lucifer Friend. Also Legend really doesn't get enough respect for just how really amazing they were for the time they came around! Great choices and great songs throughout!
Duder!! This is friggin awesome list! Thank you for taking time to compile all these bands and do all the exellent editing. You are appreciated! ❤ I just subscribed to you. 😃
1970
Deep Purple - hard lovin man (00:00)
Lucifer's Friend - ride in the sky (00:21)
Sir Lord Baltimore - hard rain fallin (00:39)
Deep Purple - speed king (00:57)
1971
Zoot - the freak (01:19)
Deep Purple - fireball (01:37)
May Blitz - for mad men only (01:55)
Black Sabbath - children of the grave (02:13)
The Pink Fairies - do it (02:31)
Bloodrock - whiskey vengeance (02:49)
Stone Axe - snakebite (03:07)
Eloy - walk alone (03:25)
1972
Tarkus - el pirita (03:46)
Night Sun - plastic shotgun (04:04)
Jerusalem - frustration (04:22)
Highway Robbery - fifteen (04:40)
Night Sun - nightmare (04:58)
Deep Purple - highway star (05:16)
1973
Pentagram - hurricane (05:38)
Argus - road of life (05:56)
Icecross - nightmare (06:14)
Buffalo - shylock (06:32)
Budgie - breadfan (06:50)
1974
Budgie - crash course in brain surgery (07:11)
Queen - stone cold crazy (07:29)
UFO - rock bottom (07:47)
Blast - damned flame (08:05)
Robin Trower - day of the eagle (08:23)
Sweet - set me free (08:41)
1975
Astaroth - satanispiritus (09:03)
Black Sabbath - symptom of the universe (09:21)
Armageddon - buzzard (09:39)
ZZ Top - heard it on the x (09:57)
1976
Judas Priest - Tyrant (10:18)
Zane - step aside (10:36)
Rainbow - a light in the black (10:54)
Ted Nugent - hammerdown (11:12)
Triumph - street fighter (11:30)
1977
Heart - barracuda (11:52)
Triumph - rock and roll machine (12:10)
Riot - warrior (12:28)
Judas Priest - dissident aggressor (12:46)
Riot - overdrive (13:04)
1978
Queen - dead on time (13:25)
Rainbow - kill the king (13:43)
Judas Priest - exciter (14:01)
Scorpions - he's a woman she's a man (14:19)
Angel Witch - baphomet (14:37)
Vulcan - noname (14:55)
Judas Priest - hell bent for leather (15:13)
1979
Legend - the wizards vengeance (15:35)
Accept - free me now (15:53)
Motorheaad - overkill (16:11)
Squadran - the wall (16:29)
Van Halen - light up the sky (16:47)
Accept - thats rock and roll (17:05)
Riot - narita (17:23)
tnx
People who couldn't sit through the full video actively looked for this such comment, including myself. LOL.
@@michaelhanrahan5349 or maybe someone is to lazy to write down every song from this list and that someone will just copy this comment
Very nice list but it's missing a lot more Budgie
Just listen to a track like Napoleon Bona Pt II ... HEAVY AS FUCK ... 1975!
Budgie were WAY ahead of their time, a la par with Sabbath.
I would add "Raging River of Fear" by Captain Beyond(1973) and by Yesterday and Today.. "Earthshaker" and "Fast Ladies(Very Slow Gin)", both from 1976..
Ian Paice was one hell of a drummer.
Love that opening to Fireball.
He still is.
Deep Purple was ahead of their time in terms of hard rock
natesquared Agreed, too bad theyre not getting alot of attention...
They should have hung out with Frederick Douglas, he seems to be getting a lot of attention these days.
Deep purple sin dudas son los padres del hard rock.
Ian gillian was the right vocalist for deep purple.. So sad it difficult to be acompany with richie blackmore
@jesse Vortex Sungte But Judas priest are metal.
I was looking for more songs like "Dissident Aggressor", thank you! I need to discover these 70s gems.
Lucifer's Friend's "Ride In The Sky" has been one of my most loved ones since I was 14 years old. Everything in this song is just divine, the heavy organ, those godlike vocals, the driving rhythm section, the immigrant-song-horn-bit, the haunting guitars...
Will never stop loving this tune.
thanks for pointing that out, never heard of them, that horn was crazy insane!!! And the host was hot AF!
Budgie what a band just found these guys a few years ago . Also thanks for this journey and the discovery of some new bands to listen to 👍👍👍👍
Don't miss Budgie's "In for the Kill" album. Those first guitar tones in the intro of the title track will scratch your soul. I Fisrt heard that track as a a massive storm was approaching my hometown back in the seventies. I lowered the needle onto the vinyl and the rest is history. A vivid rock moment for me personally. Tony Borge was sadly underrated here in the USA. Love that band!
@@marksavage1744 The only place in the US where Budgie got a following was the Heavy Metal capital of the USA, San Antonio Texas
@@agentstanley29 I think Trapeze was another band that had a strong fan base in Texas back in the day.
Truth @@agentstanley29
Black Sabbath and Deep Purple are unreachable metal gods. Especially Sabbath.
I always thought they were hard acid metal rock bands myself. But I might be wrong
@Happy Joy Black Sabbath Proto Stoner- doom metal
wrong, not ahead, just right on time
@Happy Joy Sabbath, Zeppelin, and the Who are the godfathers of metal, mate. I can see you've got not idea what the fuck it is that you're talking about.
Black Sabbath sounded more metal than anything during the 70s!..
And that's why Metal Church made a killer cover of Highway Star.
RIP David Wayne.
Point Blank did one of the better Highway Star covers I ever heard.
Metal Church RULES
Bad Bees.
Metal church's cover is one of my favorite covers ever.
cuz they grew up listening to 70s hard rock doesnt mean 70s was speed/thrash.. thats ridiculous AF!!!😂😂😂
Purple were amazing: genuinely ahead of their time.
I would have picked "Bloodsucker" over Speed King.
@@Slicklickz No, man. Flight of the rat pick in that studio.
Rush- The Necromancer
Blue Oyster Cult- The Red And The Black
Uriah Heep- Look At Yourself
Scorpions- Robot Man
Hacksaw- Leave It Behind
You forgot "He's a Woman, She's a Man".
@@beeragainsthumanity1420 Yeah, but the video creator didn't
…or even BOC’s Transminiacon MC from ‘72
I saw the documentary about the lead singer of Pentagram, he fought hard till the end. And although, he struggled with addiction-like many of us, he kept his art and his music alive and didn’t give up
That was a great documentary about him.
holy shit you made me think he died
1970's Early Metal/Hard Rock is the best, it has influenced from punk rock to thrash to grunge to sludge.
True
It wasn't hard rock. It was Heavy Rock. But yeah the stuff that came out between the late sixties in the first couple years of the 70s massively influenced everything from punk to thrash to grunge to you name it. You can symphonic black metal wouldn't exist if it wasn't for that stuff. That later musical complexity stuff borrowing from classical ? What Uriah Heep, early Judas Priest, and Jethro to name the more famous guys and a host of other more obscure acts were doing was the progressive and complex Heavy Rock stuff very early on, we were not that's supposed to really influential on black metal. Influence is a weird thing for example Bathory was heavily influenced by a mix of early influences. they were listening not only to Black Sabbath and Motorhead but they're also listening to Kiss. And punk stuff like GBH and the Exploited.
The 60s and 70s were a far more interesting and influential era of time musically than conventionally realized.
I'm not sure about its influence on punk. I guess it had an impact and they certainly influenced hardcore and grunge acts, but classic punk main influences were garage rock bands like The Stooges. You can call those bands hard rock though, but they didn't play the exactly same brand of hard rock as Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple.
@@Kongorlobo Some of the 70's Punk band tooked influences Hårdrock and Heavy Rock and of course from 50's rockabilly and Velvet Underground blendet with their vision of noise. Early Hardcore Punk musicians liked also stuff like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple for example. But Garage Rock and Motörhead were main influences on Punk rock.
@@mrnordyk1125 Well, yeah, I think in the 70s prior to the birty of modern punk rock all hard-sounding rock bands took influence from everything they could. Garage rock had a massive influence on punk, Motorhead would also influenced the genre but they came later.
Blue cheer was the band that I remember was my gateway to many of these other bands. Really appreciate seeing Tarkus on the list.
yeah, they could put a 60's one together, with Communication Breakdown and Blue Cheers' summer time blues
What a list! Excellent work putting this together. It opened my ears to several bands I'd never heard of.
Symptom of the Universe is when the shit went next level.
Yeah. And Judas Priest 1976-78. Pioneers of thrash!
@@agentstanley29 the song Tyrant immediately comes to mind off of Sad Wings of Destiny....
@@rbuthird Same for Let us prey/Call for the Priest
So many great overlookd bands I never heard of in this video.... thank goodness for youtube.
There are some Scorpions songs from the 70s that are really proto thrash:
Robot Man (In Trance 1975)
Virgin Killer (Virgin Killer 1976)
He's a Woman She's a Man (Taken By Force 1977)
Another Piece Of Meat (Lovedrive 1979)
Even some Queen :
Ogre Battle (Queen II 1974)
More of that Jazz (Jazz 1978)
Now & Black Out As Well... 🤘🤘
@@thunderstruck2077 these are 80s songs. But yeah definitely they have a thrash feel.
Yess sir! Ogre battle not even sound like Queen to me
Virgin Killer!
Scorpions were amazing!
Communication breakdown by Led Zeppelin was recorded in 1968 but laid the basis of early metal/proto thrash in my opinion.
And punk.
@@crisalidadevil9469 well I wouldn't say punk. The basis of early punk was actually really more like bands like the New York Dolls, Slade (which ironically was also one of the greatest influences musically on kiss, Alice Cooper, quiet riot, twisted sister later, in the whole 1980s glam metal stuff that evolved) and similar glam bands. Also the stuff coming-out if Detroit like the MC5, and Iggy Pop and the stooges. Punk was a reaction to bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. What muddies the water these days is that they're all just sort of variance of heavy Rock.metal, hardcore, punk, Hard Rock, they're all really just forms of Heavy Rock and the seeds for them sll were all floating around underground rock scenes between 1966 and 70.
@@hommedetowne4253 True, Punk, at least in England, really grew out the early seventies glam stuff which turned it's back on the late psychedelic era and went back to the simpler structures of early sixties and fifties rock'n'roll but kept the fat distorted guitar sound (which is what muddies the waters) Punk stripped glam down even further and also upped the tempo.
Nah the end verse of the song Black Sabbath did more than communication breakdown, hell helter skelter did more than communication breakdown
@@theccarbiter You can't be serious.
My three all-time hard rock/heavy metal bands, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, are well represented here! And, thanks for this selection, I discovered some great bands I had never heard of before!
Very good selection, but I still missing:
Immigrant Song (1970) (Led Zeppelin)
Reasons Love (1976) (UFO)
Gypsy (1970) (Uriah Heep)
Easy Livin' (1972) (Uriah Heep)
Free'n'Easy (1978) (Uriah Heep)
Sha-La-La (1974) (Thin Lizzy)
Massacre (1976) (Thin Lizzy)
@anonymous Cold Sweat came out the same year with Metallica's Kill 'Em All, the speed/thrash genre was pretty much defined
Everyone always mentions Stone Cold Crazy, but seem to forget or be oblivious to their two earlier tracks Modern Times Rock N Roll and Ogre Battle. Maybe not as fast, but in the same Thrash/Speed realm.
EDIT: It's probably also worth it to mention that all three were performed live extensively years before their studio releases, all of which present as early as 1972, some earlier.
The Zoot are from my hometown here in Australia. I knew the drummer's son. A few times in the early 90s I jammed on his dad's bass amp with my band, it was set up in a pool room we all partied in. Legendary band, thanks for posting them!
I know of rick Springfield and Darryl cotton... did the other two do anything?
Beeb Birtles went on to play in the Little River Band.
Riot, man 1977, one of the few American metal bands of that time.
I kind of expected Swords and Tequila but it was '81. There's no doubt that these songs were the inspiration for it.
@@whollymindless Road racing live was a monster.
Love the 70’s Scorp’s.
That was so kick ass! I have most of these albums and 8-tracks. A lot of good memories, thanks for putting this together 👍🥇!!
so glad you put a light in the black on there. proto thrash at it's finest. probably my favorite rainbow song. very underrated.
Man I miss all this music. At 58 I'm still rocking still a metalhead.
Me too! 1966 rocks.lol
@davidjackson2690 yup, I was born 5/11/66. Best era to be born, hahaha !
@@robertoacevedo6247 3/1/66
Pappo´s blues: Algo ha cambiado 1971, Solitario juan 1972 y Sucio y desprolijo 1973
todo fue inventado en argentina... como no
What an awesome retrospective!
The list would be even more complete with:
Sheer heart attack, tie your mother down, keep yourself alive (all by Queen)
Easy Livin - Uriah Heep
Let there be rock-AC/DC (faster and heavier than ZZ Top and Robin Trower)
On fire , Atomic Punk - Van Halen
Another piece of meat - Scorpions
Kudos for putting Narita in your list. Fantastic.👍👏
True about ZZ Top and Trower, but they're still good songs...and I like them.
@@midohiobuckeyeaorwarrior9743 Love those songs a lot but they hardly classify as proto trash metal!
@@pvdguitars2951 He didn't include any Rush songs, either. 1975's "Anthem" and "By-Tor And The Snow Dog," especially. Glad he included Queen's "Stone Cold Crazy" and Triumph's "Rock 'N' Roll Machine," though. That Riot was extremely heavy.
Who would think Rick Springfield when ProtoMetal is featured? Zoot!
Omg I saw the picture of them and thought one guy looked really familiar! That’s Rick lol!
The Blast sound like proto raw Hardcore Punk before Discharge happened. Interesting 🤓🤘
I agree
Tarkus - "El pirata" (The pirate), 1972. It's not "El pirita". A great Peruvian band. Thanks for having added it to this list. Greetings from Peru.
I remember a band called RED BARON but in Spanish they were pretty heavy if I remember right from the 70s one of my favorite decade
@@dennissweeney6774 yes, Barón Rojo in Spanish. That band is from Spain and is/was good. I'm more into Rock and Blues, but precisely for this fact I know that Metal band. Also, I enjoy listening to others, from different styles, like Accept (mainly their 80's albums). There was another 80's metal band from Spain: Ángeles del infierno. Take a look at them, maybe you like it. 🤘😎
@@albertovalentinangulogarci9685 thanks for the reply. I do have one of there album's have not listen to it since the 90s or early 2000 .I have about thousand album's about three hundred are in bad shape. I should start listen to my old records.
Me sorprendió gratamente que los incluyan
Yes'sir is't the pirate...
Glad you included Rainbow A Light in the Black. IMO it’s the first finished product speed/thrash metal song.
Dissident Aggressor probably most qualified as the first proto-thrash metal song.
Great, massive song. But not thrash.
@@Bosanac1985 and they did it poorly
yes, you are right!
Atm, I don't remember which came first. Have to say though, the first really proto-thrash song for me is Symptom Of The Universe. That said, I love early Priest as much as I love early Sabbath :)
Excellent curation. That Sweet song always instantly strikes me as obvious metal as soon as I hear it. They're of course categorized in the glam rock section, but they definitely had proto-metal leanings at times. ONE mere omission (IMHO - and apologies, I'm sure you get this a lot) might be the MC5's "Gotta Keep Movin'" from High Times (1971).
I'm very happy you included Sweet "Set Me Free". "Sweet FA" also belongs here.
Also Burn on the Flame
Sweet were an incredibly overlooked rock band. Their Chinn/ Chapman years overshadowed their fantastic self-penned rock tracks. As for Mick Tucker, his drumming was up their with Bonham, Powell, and Moon, and was a massive influence on people like Tommy Lee. R.I.P. Brian, Mick, and Steve.💕
love Sweet!
Set Me Free(Sweet) is precursor of the modern heavy metal.
And "Sweet F.A." by the same band.
And the live version of "Burning/Someone Else Will"
You can tell Sweet worshipped at the temple of In Rock.
AAAAAAAAÀH
AAAAAAAAAAÀAH
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
SET ME FREEEEEEE
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
SET ME FREE FROM YOUUUUUU 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Good mates with members of Deep Purple! Coincidence? I think not! 😊
Rush - Finding My Way
David Bowie - Suffragette City
KISS - 100,000 Years, Parasite, Detroit Rock City, Love Gun
Van Halen - I'm On Fire, Atomic Punk
Alice Cooper - Elected
Kudos for mentioning Zoot. Best known for their cover of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby", which was pretty heavy for its time, but the band is still regarded as a bit "bubblegum" here in Oz because of how they looked.
If its one thing I've learned, its that innovations in music are usually spurred by artists who blend current trends but are too different to catch on. But they pave the way for future artists
Uriah Heap,Armageddon & there was one of my favorites Brit band Pinnacle ‘71 were soo similar
A lot of this material was on the tape - trader network in the 80's. My band used VH's Light Up The Sky as a set opener a lot. Early Deep Purple and UFO were good for covers too because almost nobody had ever heard them before
Best list I never knew I needed. Currently listening to Icecross' only album and it's pretty insane. Love that 70's sound.
There was also apparently a pre-Icecross band called Manar.
I read years ago that they had members in common, but I can no longer find anything to substantiate this.
Anyway, Söngur Satans is a great tune!
Nice to see Ice cross there from Iceland. Underrated band even here in Iceland.
And Night sun album is so good🤘
Queen’s Stone Cold Crazy can definitely be the first to be called thrash, but like Jimi Hendrix it took a few years for a band to solidify the tone, and 12:29 Riot’s Warrior seems definitive. So is the Scorpions’ “He’s a woman She’s a Man” and that Angel Witch number shortly after. It’s the fusion of punk and metal elements that makes it definitive.
Surprised not to see Stooges, MC5, Leaf Hound or Pappos Blues! However, this is one great selection!!
at least they got Budgie and Stone Cold Crazy from Queen
@@godslayer1415 hell yeah, a great vid!
Stooges was not Thrash Metal...
..but all the others........... ....... ...😱😱😨
@@nikolas8088 it's all "Proto", and I can't think of a louder and faster band than the Stooges among their contemporaries. When you hear I Got A Right, that could easily be a speed metal track, but better
Wow! That was a cool group of songs! Included things I've never heard and can't wait to check out. Thank you so much!
Какая хорошая подборка! Вы хорошо поработали, парни из 70-х!!!
Yeah man!
1969 Can song "Graublau" has last 2 minutes grindcore blast beat. Same band 16 minutes long song "Spoon" (from Lost Tapes album) also has similar speed metal drumming finale. Same with their song "Abra Cada Braxas" pure hardcore noise rock ending.
Thanks for all of 'em especially Pentagram, Scorps, Buffalo, Riot, Purple, Motorhead, Budgie, Priest, UFO, Rainbow, Uncle Ted (when he was well) and the mighty Sabbath. I love The Sweet a shitload as well. Squadran-damn great from the lil clip that you put up. I'll have to look for their output, thanks.
Deep Purple = Father of Speed, Power and Neo Classical Metal
Maybe Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic, Rats in the Cellar, or Nobody's Fault?
I was going to say the same thing, especially Toys. Oh, and great Exorcist avatar!
Excellent compilation that shows that hard rock and metal owned speed and heaviness long time before punk. And Deep Purple had this before anyone. I don't deny punk influence on thrash metal though, but hard rock had it first!
50's rock 'n' roll was faster than 70's hard rock and had noisier guitar solos. And 80's hardcore was faster than anything before. In 1984-85 hardcore was faster than anything in metal.
@@piotrb8434 totally. The dude has by no offense ever listened to pure rnb, rock and roll, rockabilly, surf, raw garage punk and psychedelia, seventies punk rock, psychobilly, eighties hardcore, and whatever follows. No offense, punk aesthetics is older as it draws directly by old rnr. Cheers from Greece Piotr.
@@georgefromgreece4119 One may not agree with you when saying that punk aesthetics are older cause they're found in old rock n' roll. This is kind of anachronistic. Old rock n' roll actually contains both aesthetics of hard rock and punk.
Most people who get into heavy music starting at Sabbath or Deep Purple or similar don't know how incredibly heavy mid to late 60s real acid rock was. Crank the 13th Floor Elevators 1966 album The Psychedelic Sounds Of or the Airplane's 1968 House At Pooneil Corner on your car sound system sometime.
Heaviness is more of a continuum than something that just popped out of thin air. The problem is that the further back you go the harder it gets to recognize it because the instruments, musical language, and sound reinforcement methods change. But the driving heaviness doesn't.
There's a reason Sabbath and most of the 60s bands were so influenced by blues for example, they recognized it. That's hard for us to hear today because the blues have become such a cliche and watered down, and because a lot of the old stuff was quieter and more subtle, often acoustic or barely amplified, because late 60s sound reinforcement tools didn't exist yet .
Parasite- KISS
I was wondering if The Sweet Set Me Free was gonna make the list. It was one of the very first right hand songs I had heard and I knew it was what i wanted to hear more of in my life.
Also covered very well by Heathen. Very good song.
@@troyclark615 and saxon
For some 60's proto-metal (or metal-related):
_British Invasion/Hard Rock_
The Kinks - You Really Got Me/All Day and All of the night/Wicked Annabella
The Beatles - Helter Skelter
The Who - Boris the Spider/Heaven and Hell/Jekyll and Hyde
The Pretty Things - Old Man Going
Led Zeppelin - Communincation Breakdown
_Prog_
Jethro Tull - Sweet Dreams
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
Pink Floyd - The Nile Song/Astronomy Domine
_Psychedelic/Garage_
The Lollipop Shoppe - You Must Be A Witch
Coven - Wicked Woman/Dignitaries of Hell
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
_Bands I should include but don't know very well_
Jimi Hendrix, MC5, Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf
And if you want to get really retro : Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You
De esa canción de Screamin' Jay Hawkins han hecho decenas de covers , " I put a spell on you " , !!! todo mundo la ha tocado !!!!
Cream - (1967) Sunshine of Your Love
♥️ Thank you so much for this, I'm a diehard Metal head but haven't heard many of these bands, so good 🤘😆 miss these playlist videos on youtube before they started taking em down, Metal till the end
Hell"O ! If you like those kind of old bands, cheek out on my youtube channel....i made 17 playlist called " V/A - The Golden Oldies"....i think you'll discover a very lot of bands ! ....here's the link for "V/A - 1969 / 1977 - The Golden Oldies - Vol 1 "...... ua-cam.com/play/PLoPKoZ3Ajmmv0xdx4KhP37nTq0HZBBfnM.html ..................enjoy !
The Sweet Set Me Free is intense!
Honestly thought that was a Vince Neil song
Hey man...
Thanks for this; educational, eye-opening and mind expanding! Sure I knew about several of these--Sabbath, The Sweet, Deep Purple--but many I'd never heard of. And who knew Triumph was ever that heavy!!
I lived next door to a guy that was in the navy in late 60’s early 70’s and he had STACKS. Of album’s he’d collected traveling the world in the navy he had a record player a receiver and 2 badass speakers and all I remember him ever doing was getting stoned and jamming these and playing a fender strat to the majority of these. He got me into playing guitar
Cool story, Rob...Are you still playing?
@@klyvemurray yeah . Not dedicated but still crank it up to 11 every now and then lol
@@RobHowell1
Way to go, mate 🤘
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@@klyvemurray ✌🏼
Amazing as always, lots of badass songs. Thanks :D
Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin
1969
Ahhhh...a good refreshing list of 70s rock, hard rock, early speed rock, etc. All paved the way , inspired for future bands. I can hear riffs and styles that i see where some bands later get influenced by. (I'm not talking about cover songs by the way)
Bro, you tellin me Ritchie Blackmore has been doing the Iron Maiden gallops since 1970? Fuckin revolutionary.
Not really. I heared Deep Purple after Iron Maiden... And still Iron Maiden sound for me like cover band.
Great list, thanks for posting. wow I thought I knew my metal history, lots here are new to me. Gonna be busy checking out these bands. Glad you included Zoot, also love their "metal' 1971 version of Eleanor Rigby
You did a lot of work. Awesome job!
another from 1970 'Queen of Torture' by Wishbone Ash from their first album = proto thrash/speed metal; great list this \m/
Thanx mate! Just discovered a buncha bands never heard of before
"Step Aside " from ZANE (1976) is similar to "symptom of the universe" of Black Sabbath (1975) !
Genesis's The Musical Box and Deep Purple's Burn should be here.
Phil’s drumming and Steve Hacketts tapping, nothing but thrash metal
very very good all.........................................................
I havent heard Lord Baltimore in ages! Deep Purple FTW! I need to check out these Night Sun guys.
When it came to being introduced into the world of thrash, I give credit to Led Zeppelin's 'Wearing & Tearing' song off the CODA album. Despite the fact that it was released in 1982, the song itself was actually recorded in November 1978, and in all honesty, should have been included in this video. I don't know why it's such an overlooked song, I mean, it was unlike anything Led Zeppelin had ever done on their previous albums. Such an underrated, overlooked song from their catalog.
Great list! Glad to see Armageddon, Riot, and Sir Lord Baltimore being included!
Gr8 to see the sweet get a mention - often only known for the poppier singles - made great heavy albums - dont look around by mountain was quite fast/brutal for 71 - worth checking out
"Let there be Rock" of AC/DC could be in my opinion...
When ZZ Top is featured in proto-speed/thrash compilation, even Elton John could belong here...
You should check out Onslaught’s version of LTBR, it’s insane!
Great selections,some of the obscure acts I do own their vinyl or CDs- others are new to me.
No song is more heavy than "Symptom of the universe", you can talk whatever you can, but it's a fact!
What does any Pantera track have to say about this?
@@JonnyOrange92 There's any Pantera song in the vídeo?
Ogre battle queen 1974
@@queenelmejor no
@@domingossavio9418 yes!
Definitely should have included some Diamond Head! I know Lighting To The Nations didn't come out until 1980, but they had demos and liver performances as early as 1977.
Also "Need Some Love" of RUSH, "Faster And Louder" of THE DICTATORS and "Let There Be Rock" of AC/DC. Thank you, great compilation!
"Anthem" and "By-Tor And The Snow Dog" by Rush, also.
Nice collection...there are some I have never heard before. Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin would have fit in here nicely...great job though overall!
Crazy to think that most of these songs were covered in the ‘80s 🤯
Image is everything. I worked for a booking agency around this era. We got a bunch of these portfolio pictures for the various bands, posing to present their image. Not all matched up with the demo tape we had with the resume. The most important notes with an act were: "Showed up late" "Started 45 minutes late" or the worst one "$12,000 damage to the facility"
This is a kickass list. Not surprising that deep purple has many songs on the list.
Great video. Lots of lost gems to rediscover.
Very nice! Riot - Warrior is so heavy for it's time.. i love Riot !
+Bender Elduce Riot my Favorite Band
+Samira Mayer saw riot v for like 4 times now soooo good live they still deliever
After listening to this whole video, I believe Riot wrote the first proper speed metal song.
Absolutely! And Narita !!!!!
@@ruizd83 you could argue they perfected speed with Thundersteel too
Dope bands. Thanks for the material fellas!
I don’t know why the algorithm decided I needed this now but PRAISE HELL it did
All hail the algorithm.
Another one is Alice Cooper’s “Halo of Flies” from 1971. In addition to the song structure and various parts throughout, check out the gallops starting at 2:36.
I remember jamming on the bass in the attic about 40 years ago playing Halo of Flies!
I thought that was the Accused, never heard Alice's song, very different
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I dunno about the proto speed/thrash part for a lot of these, but what a set of songs! no Hawkwind-Motorhead though? Twisted Sister-Under the Blade (1979 self released 45 version)? Judas Priest-Call for the Priest 1977!!! Also for your consideration: Wishbone Ash-Phoenix 1970 (builds up, then has a heavy breakdown too) , Dust-From a Dry Camel 1971 ( the middle instrumental break starting at 3:30). Fantastic set including some GREAT and RARE stuff for sure though.
That first l.p. from Wishbone Ash is awesome. While not speed metal, the track "Lady Whiskey" is permanently marked on my "best hard rock of all time" list. Both Dust lps are so heavy in spots. Although the album "Come Down Heavy" from Thee Hypnotics was decades later, it is sure interesting to see how all of this great music from the 60s and 70s evolved.
Thanks for including Legend. Their From The Fjords album is brilliant.
Damn Riot just kicked soo much ass, but so did Lucifer Friend.
Also Legend really doesn't get enough respect for just how really amazing they were for the time they came around!
Great choices and great songs throughout!
Amazing List! Thin Lizzy Sha La La and Rush Bastille Day!
As much as I really like all these songs, it's really Symptom of the Universe by Sabbath that was the first one that sounded like 'thrash' to me.
Thanks for posting this! Now I need to go find more music from Riot!
When I first saw this, I Didn’t know Tarkus 3:47 was a Peruvian band and My family is from there 😎🤘. They Rock Very Hard
Duder!! This is friggin awesome list! Thank you for taking time to compile all these bands and do all the exellent editing. You are appreciated! ❤
I just subscribed to you. 😃
Great compilation! Thanks for including Sweet. And Symptom of the Universe was a watershed.
Thx for this upload. Some great & obscure songs in this one. Excellent.
This is a fantastic and enlightening compilation!