Black Sabbath is the Father, Led it's like a distant uncle...

Black Sabbath...The fathers of Metal!!! Led Zep is more like their older brothers who openned the way for heavy riffs and pounding drums. Maiden, Priest and Motörhead had an incredible influence too but they didn't create a real new genre like Sabbath. They just took things further in new directions. Slayer, well they had an influence on Death Metal, Black Metal and Thrash metal, but nothing like Sabbath.

How could anybody vote for something other than Sabbath, the first full on heavy metal band? Sure, Zep had some metal songs, such as Communication Breakdown, but Sabbath was the first song that was all metal all the time.

In my opinion the most influential band in metal is Black Sabbath, in rock - Led Zeppelin.

Black Sabbath and with the reasons mentioned above.

I decided to vote Maiden just because I knew most people would vote for Sabbath and having a thread without a good amount of Maiden points is utopia lollll gotta keep the tradition

How the hell is it possible that Maiden has four times the amount of votes Priest has when in fact Priest was way more influential for metal, hell they even influenced Maiden

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.07.2011 at 00:55

How the hell is it possible that Maiden has four times the amount of votes Priest has when in fact Priest was way more influential for metal, hell they even influenced Maiden

The answer would be: Because its Iron Maiden Lol like I said, Maiden scores high in every single polls no matter the question asked.

Written by Guib on 14.07.2011 at 01:17

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.07.2011 at 00:55

How the hell is it possible that Maiden has four times the amount of votes Priest has when in fact Priest was way more influential for metal, hell they even influenced Maiden

The answer would be: Because its Iron Maiden Lol like I said, Maiden scores high in every single polls no matter the question asked.

True, one of the 101 Rules To Being A Metalstormer

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.07.2011 at 01:29

Written by Guib on 14.07.2011 at 01:17

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.07.2011 at 00:55

How the hell is it possible that Maiden has four times the amount of votes Priest has when in fact Priest was way more influential for metal, hell they even influenced Maiden

The answer would be: Because its Iron Maiden Lol like I said, Maiden scores high in every single polls no matter the question asked.

True, one of the 101 Rules To Being A Metalstormer

Yep... the rule of the Maiden

Probably Sabbath, but Priest would have to be right behind them. They introduced(or were the first to populorise) the twin lead guitar sound sowide spread in metal.
Can't believe Motorhead is so low, without them and Venom, there probably wouldn't be any Metallica or Slayer.

Sabbath - no doubt at all..

Written by M C Vice on 14.07.2011 at 09:55

Probably Sabbath, but Priest would have to be right behind them. They introduced(or were the first to populorise) the twin lead guitar sound sowide spread in metal.
Can't believe Motorhead is so low, without them and Venom, there probably wouldn't be any Metallica or Slayer.

Actually Metallica took way more from Diamond Head, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest than from Motörhead and Venom.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.07.2011 at 17:47

Written by M C Vice on 14.07.2011 at 09:55

Probably Sabbath, but Priest would have to be right behind them. They introduced(or were the first to populorise) the twin lead guitar sound sowide spread in metal.
Can't believe Motorhead is so low, without them and Venom, there probably wouldn't be any Metallica or Slayer.

Actually Metallica took way more from Diamond Head, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest than from Motörhead and Venom.

Yeah it is clear that Diamond Head inspired them... I mean the sound -_- ! lol they also covered Am I Evil

Written by Guib on 14.07.2011 at 17:52

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.07.2011 at 17:47

Written by M C Vice on 14.07.2011 at 09:55

Probably Sabbath, but Priest would have to be right behind them. They introduced(or were the first to populorise) the twin lead guitar sound sowide spread in metal.
Can't believe Motorhead is so low, without them and Venom, there probably wouldn't be any Metallica or Slayer.

Actually Metallica took way more from Diamond Head, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest than from Motörhead and Venom.

Yeah it is clear that Diamond Head inspired them... I mean the sound -_- ! lol they also covered Am I Evil

and many more songs by them

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.07.2011 at 17:54

Written by Guib on 14.07.2011 at 17:52

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.07.2011 at 17:47

Written by M C Vice on 14.07.2011 at 09:55

Probably Sabbath, but Priest would have to be right behind them. They introduced(or were the first to populorise) the twin lead guitar sound sowide spread in metal.
Can't believe Motorhead is so low, without them and Venom, there probably wouldn't be any Metallica or Slayer.

Actually Metallica took way more from Diamond Head, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest than from Motörhead and Venom.

Yeah it is clear that Diamond Head inspired them... I mean the sound -_- ! lol they also covered Am I Evil

and many more songs by them

Yeah well thats the first one I thought of. Some people even believe that the song is actually Metallica's creation

I voted for Sabbath, but I would like to vote for Napalm Death and Celtic Frost too, if I could.

A silly one again...i dont understand there are options available to vote on since its all fact. There should be only one band to vote on.
If you vote anything other the Black Sabbath you dont know enough about Heavy Metal.

Further more....Metallica And Maiden where and are still very influential...but before them Judas Priest on the first place guys! Cant believe they are so low on the list.
Anyway; Black Sabbath created heavy metal. period.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.07.2011 at 17:47

Written by M C Vice on 14.07.2011 at 09:55

Probably Sabbath, but Priest would have to be right behind them. They introduced(or were the first to populorise) the twin lead guitar sound sowide spread in metal.
Can't believe Motorhead is so low, without them and Venom, there probably wouldn't be any Metallica or Slayer.

Actually Metallica took way more from Diamond Head, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest than from Motörhead and Venom.

I mean that Venom and Motorhead were the biggest influences on the Trash metal genre, in that their sound was the closest to thrash of any pre-thrash band.

Written by Marcelo Hissa on 13.07.2011 at 04:29

Black Sabbath is the Father, Led it's like a distant uncle...

Hahaha I love the way you described this, I also voted for Sabbath

Iron Maiden all the way.

Black Sabbath. It simply defined what metal is. And the greatest thing about that: Of all the Rockish stuff in the era of Godfathers of Metal (a la Led Zeppelin), Black Sabbath was the only thing I could identify with as true metal. Man. Truly, they almost invented the whole genre.

Metallica practically started out as a Diamond Head cover band. It's quite ridiculous that anybody would think of Metallica as the most influential metal band. They surely got many people into metal, for better or for worse-generally for worse-but weren't as innovative as some people would have you think.

It does make sense that people who got into metal via popular 2000's bands would think of Metallica as the most influential metal band I suppose, most popular modern day metal bands seem to consider Metallica to be the greatest entity concieved by man.

Written by Guest on 16.07.2011 at 22:14

Metallica practically started out as a Diamond Head cover band. It's quite ridiculous that anybody would think of Metallica as the most influential metal band. They surely got many people into metal, for better or for worse-generally for worse-but weren't as innovative as some people would have you think.

It does make sense that people who got into metal via popular 2000's bands would think of Metallica as the most influential metal band I suppose, most popular modern day metal bands seem to consider Metallica to be the greatest entity concieved by man.

Yeah most Popular modern bands.. you said it, Popular its cause they're not informed properly on the metal scene.

Written by Guib on 17.07.2011 at 16:47

Written by Guest on 16.07.2011 at 22:14

Metallica practically started out as a Diamond Head cover band. It's quite ridiculous that anybody would think of Metallica as the most influential metal band. They surely got many people into metal, for better or for worse-generally for worse-but weren't as innovative as some people would have you think.

It does make sense that people who got into metal via popular 2000's bands would think of Metallica as the most influential metal band I suppose, most popular modern day metal bands seem to consider Metallica to be the greatest entity concieved by man.

Yeah most Popular modern bands.. you said it, Popular its cause they're not informed properly on the metal scene.

A lot of these guys in "popular modern bands" doesn't even know that metal existed before "Black album".

LOLL thats kind of Ironic

Written by Guib on 18.07.2011 at 16:29

LOLL thats kind of Ironic

Yeah, but it's also the sad reality. Once I meet a guy who was playing in the so called "nu metal band" and he thought that "Black album" is the first album that Metallica ever done, and beside this he was wearing "Master Of Puppets" t-shirt.

Written by ravendeath on 22.07.2011 at 20:36

Written by Guib on 18.07.2011 at 16:29

LOLL thats kind of Ironic

Yeah, but it's also the sad reality. Once I meet a guy who was playing in the so called "nu metal band" and he thought that "Black album" is the first album that Metallica ever done, and beside this he was wearing "Master Of Puppets" t-shirt.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! oh my god.. this is so funny can I say it ? he's an idiot

Written by Guib on 22.07.2011 at 20:37

Written by ravendeath on 22.07.2011 at 20:36

Written by Guib on 18.07.2011 at 16:29

LOLL thats kind of Ironic

Yeah, but it's also the sad reality. Once I meet a guy who was playing in the so called "nu metal band" and he thought that "Black album" is the first album that Metallica ever done, and beside this he was wearing "Master Of Puppets" t-shirt.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! oh my god.. this is so funny can I say it ? he's an idiot

And that was my exact response!

Black Sabbath for sure.. how can you go past the master's of metal riffs