it's quite impossibile to point out "the first heavy metal band", probably the ones that go closer to this definition are Black Sabbath or Judas Priest, those bands started what is considered to be oldschool heavy metal, hard rock inspired, by deep purple and zep....then there are the first/most influential bands to start a particular genre : Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Exodus, are considered the fathers of Thrash metal, Death and Morbid Angel of death metal of course...Napalm Death for grindcore, Helloween for power metal...but that is trying to oversimplify something which is not simple...nothing is born from nothing...i don't like to state for example "Death invented death metal" because simply it is not correct...it is all a gradual process...if you listen to Scream bloody gore - first album by Death - you will hear something more similar to thrash than to what is today called death - espacially inspired by Slayer's Raining blood,in which the vocals for example...go not very distant from being death growls -. If you listen to Stained class by Judas Pirest...you will hear the basics of thrash/speed metal - see Exciter -...you'll hear some Power metal elements in Rainbow's Rising and so on - see the B side of the record Stargazer/A light in the black...but there are just too many examples asd subgenres to mention...
On purpose,i did not mention anything about the birth of "today's metal" , i'm refering to..metal as advertised by the television...because it downright sucks, Nu-metal **** like Linkin crap, the new metallica and so on is described by the mainstream as heavy metal...but it has nothing to do with it...this does not mean it sucks ( well in my opinion it does but it is just my opinion ) simply...if you want to listen to it...just call it with the right name : mainstream rock, there is not a single solo in al inkin crap song, song structure is not based on riffs, but on simple chords, the vocal parts are totally prominent,something defined as heavy metal should have a strong instrumental component, something that i absolutely do not hear on the radio, kids have now mistaken "heavy metal" for "noisy music". Do i need to add that i hate the new deathcore trend even more than nu ?
Of course...there are some good bands which were formed in the 90s...but you will not hear about them on the television...
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Hmm... You might be correct. But CC is epitome of mainstream deathmetal and usually amongst deathcore fans/bands its not unusual to see CC as one of their fav bands. No?
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You're right...cannibal corpse is the ultimate,s00per underground superband loved by the br00tal deathcore scenesters...they're so ignorant about music to not realize that CC is just a continuous stream of hyperfast blastbeats with no meaning at all...probably those kids are even so stupid to take their lyrics seriously...they don't get the joke at all...