Are you like metal or rock? Heavy metal, hard jenre of music. So hard that even dubstep or rap with pop music didn't even come close to it. No, well, there are notes of rock in rap too, if guitars are used there, definitely. For those who do not know what metal or rock is, I will immediately move on to the evolution of metal, after rock, the coolest The Beatles and the country genre, which appeared long before the Beatles.

• According to legend, the guitarist of the Kinks band cut his amp, from which he began to rattle and the guitar began to sound distorted - it was one of the first prototypes of distortion - shit, which makes the guitar sound heavier, and it was in 1964.

• In 1968, the Steppenwolf band recorded a heavy song with a touch of blues and psychedelics and for the first time used the musical term "Heavy Metal" the song really sounds like heavy metal thunder.

• Again in 1968, a lesser-known band with a cover of the equally famous Eddie Cochran continued the Steppenwolf business by creating another psychedelic proto-metal song, it was even faster and fiercer.

• And again, the 1968 white Beatles album scandalous (Because of the murders of Charles Manson) and the legendary song Helter Skelter influenced punk, heavy and noise. Guitar sounds really hard. This is one of the hardest Beatles songs.

• 1969 Led Zepplin band released a fast, heavy and fighting song on their first album. Perhaps it was the fastest song at that time, it became the progenitor of speed metal, and in itself a mixture of proto-heavy and hard rock.

• In 1969, as you all know, real heavy metal was born. from the Black Sabbath group. Tony Iommi put his fingers under the guillotine press and they were flattened, but without giving up playing guitar, he made thimbles from the covers of the "Feri" and loosened the tension of the strings from this the sound became heavier, he also tuned his guitar lower so that his band would stand out, this coupled with a heavy bass from Geezer Butler, who used to be a guitarist himself, created a real metallic rasp. The four of them were from Aston, a suburb of Birmingham, which at that time was an industrial center and they all worked in factories and heard metal clanging and grinding there, they transferred this to music, a gloomy atmosphere and heavy loud sounds, but it wasn't even Butler and his friends who brought them real success, fame, honor and legendary status. with gloomy lyrics, not the combat drummer Ward, who can be compared to Bonham from Led Zeppelin, but the charismatic and crazy frontman Ozzy Osbourne! The inimitable vocalist conquered everyone, no one could sing like him. Black Sabbath were the first to play real heavy metal, they also invented doom metal, blues metal and even became one of the progenitors of thrash metal.

• 1970 Deep Pearl Band(Appeared a little earlier than Sabbath) which is attributed to heavy metal, but in fact she almost never played it. I would write so that Deep Purple is 10% of heavy metal, 20% of progressive rock, and the remaining 70% is pure hard rock of the 70s, and yet the band released a single in 1970 that did not get on their famous album "In Rock" but was incredibly cool, a true representative of the hard style en heavy.

• Yuran Hip completes the first four heavy metal bands, they are also closer to prog and heavy, like Pearl, but they also have heavy songs. To be honest, it was difficult to choose the heaviest song on their album, the guitar riffs there are even heavier than those of the Zapps and Perples, but let's stop at this as an example, in a good way any music lover, metalhead, rocker, punk, informal and just a lover of good music is obliged to listen to the entire discography of these groups.

• 1970 Ends my story with a song that became the peak of the first wave of heavy metal - and this song is naturally Iron Man! Iron Man was the heaviest song in the world, she just tore everyone up, and she got a Grammy 40 years after her release. The sci-fi apocalyptic plot of the song, which has nothing to do with the Marvel comics super-hero of the same name, fascinates more than one generation. The heaviest riff in which even some motivating heroism is heard. At the beginning of the song, we hear Ward hitting the barrels and since the technology has not kept up yet, he had to hit with all his might so that they would sound loud and scary. The incomparable voice of Ozzy, which at first sounds distorted as a metallic rasp, under the clatter of barrels and clanging. Ozzy is simply inimitable. The song has only one drawback - it ends, but you can turn it on again :)
• That's the end of the story of the emergence of proto-metal, heavy metal and its first wave. After Iron Man, the bands were still flourishing, but new types of Judas Priest had already begun to appear, and then there was the punk era, the collapse of heavy metal classics and the revival of metal in the form of a new wave of British heavy metal, but more on that next time.