The Song That Accidentally Created Heavy Metal

[Different Drummer]

You may be of a different opinion.

[Earl_from_PA]

1. Ray and Dave Davies

We're true disciples of rhythm and blues based rock n roll. While I appreciate the sentiment of that video, I have a different opinion...

[ProfessorGAC]

4. As Do I

Heavy Metal is characterized by far more than guitar distortion.
While the story about Davies & his tone is true, and the soubd if that sing & All Day All Of The Night was one of the first forays into distortion, the songs weren't metal.
MC5 was closer to the founders with songs like Kick Out The Jams being less blues based and more focused on riffs & pounding drums.
Black Sabbath cemented the genre with their first album.

[DBoon]

2. IMHO, Link Wray inspired Metal back in 1958

Heavy, slow pace use of distortion

[Eko]

6. I think that is more spaghetti western with distortion.

Its like a minor key with a very strong major subdominant. It also has a major flat seven chord. It starts with Dsus2 which is the major flat (or really the suggestion of a major flat since it has no 3rd) then moves to E major as the anchor or a strong major subdominant. You really got me deals with chords with just the 1st, 5th and octave up. Its F to G forever then changes to G to A. Then C to D, Its not a single key, you could say its Cmaj then moves to Gmaj but there are no thirds anywhere to provide a roadmap as it were. Its a riff not a song. The absence of thirds or really major thirds makes it quite different to me and spells the beginning of metal with the distortion rather than what Link Wray did. Of course I could be very wrong and there are others on here that know theory and the history on music on here better than me that I would love to here from. Its just a thought.

[Lucky Luciano]

3. The Beatles Helter Skelter was a precursor to metal too I think.

[Celerity]

5. Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op. 32: I. 'Mars, the Bringer of War' (written in 1914)

[highplainsdem]

7. Whoever has that YouTube account is using AI to make the videos. Different AI voices on every video, lots

of AI art and AI video, script possibly AI-generated.

The use of AI art is especially obvious in this short from the channel:

https://youtube.com/shorts/viaw4z9mIiw

The quick cuts from one image to another make the AI-art flaws harder to spot, but sometimes it's really glaring, like the attempt at lettering that's supposed to read, "This will definitely get me the deal."

Please don't post anything from that channel.

EDITING to add that I did some more googling and discovered there's an Instagram account with the same name as this YT account. A heavy metal fan in Poland. So at least the person creating the videos, if it's the same person, cares about this rock genre.

But they're still using AI.