[\m/] Heavy Metal Thread - Page 107

On April 23 2013 02:50 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
is Led Zeppelin considered to be heavy metal ?

On April 23 2013 02:39 zmsFlood wrote:
Allright, I just HAVE to promote a Finnish band that some of you may already know. Wintersun is the name of the band and the genre would maybe best be described as epic metal, although I have to say that this description is not enough as often is the case with genres. The second track off their album Time I (2012), Sons of Winter and Stars, is one of the most complex and beautiful things I've heard in a long long time. If you haven't heard this one before, it's gonna fucking knock your teeth out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWxLQDzJOU

Here is a song from their first album titled Wintersun (2004). The song is called Battle Against Time and it kicks all kinds of asses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs5727QFhtw

On April 20 2013 13:18 hunts wrote:
That pan thy monium song would actually be really good if they had someone who could sing, or at the very least do screams that aren't deathmetal or blackmetal.

On April 23 2013 21:41 zmsFlood wrote:


Led Zeppelin was definitely considered to be heavy metal at the time they published their first two albums (before Black Sabbath published their first record) since no other band had as heavy a sound as they had. Now that heavy metal has evolved so much, the name of the genre is often associated with a sound that is a lot heavier than the sound that was even possible at the time when the best Led Zeppelin albums were released. Younger listeners have pushed Led Zeppelin into the hardrock -category because of how the heavy metal sound has evolved. So I guess it depends of whom you ask, I would still call it early heavy metal

On April 28 2013 02:18 Ljas wrote:
Heavy metal has it's roots in blues-based rock.

On April 28 2013 07:27 sick_transit wrote:


Of course it does. Alice Cooper has cited the Beatles and the Yardbirds (Jimmy Page on guitar ironically) as his biggest musical influences. That doesn't make the Beatles and the Yardbirds metal bands.

EDIT: Of course musical debates on this level are all personal taste. If it makes people happy to think of Zep as a metal band that's great. Peace.

On April 23 2013 02:25 TMD wrote:


Yeah, but you gotta remember this is '93/94, this was considered avant-garde then; just something I've never heard before, but heard about... if you're into old dm, that is. Someone who could sing? So you're into commercial music? Singing quality is important? So, screams that aren't death/black, like the watered-down screams of modern hardcore/screamcore/screamo/mainstream metal? The songs where they scream and then produce that lullaby singing bullshit, that what you're talking about? The modern, watered-down, domesticated aggro bullshit, right?

On April 28 2013 07:34 Mindcrime wrote:


why is this ironic

The late 1968 incarnation of the Yardbirds was Led Zeppelin