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In your opinion, which metal/rock bands have changed the scene for better or worse, which ones have had the most impact and influence?

I can be obvious and mention Sabbath for 'inventing' the metal sound we know and love but also metallica for the massive explosion of speed/thrash metal.

thoughts?
 
Venom and Bathory for black metal.

Godflesh for introducing samplers, other technology and arguably even other genres to the metal melting pot.

[EDIT: Oh, and Napalm Death, of course!]
 
Since I lived through it (and apologies to Mr Bulbous), these are the bands/artists that changed things :

Elvis
The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Sex Pistols
Van Halen (mainly for guitar)
Metallica
Slayer

I can't think of anybody after the early 80's.


simisker said:
Venom
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I always remember Venom being on The Tube in the 80's and being asked questions about Black Metal. The interviewer walked over them and said that they knew absolutely nothing about satanism so why were they acting like they did. One of them shoved him out of the way - classic TV.
 
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There would be no Metallica without Iron Maiden. All the boys wanted to do was to play like NWOBHM, they just didn't know how exactly, and that's how thrash metal started, then was quickly dropped after Kill'em all to make beautiful and milestone stuff.
 
Napalm Death
Carcass
Pitch Shifter
Pitchshifter (I refuse to say they're the same band)
Iron Monkey
earthtone9
Tool
Miocene.

*n
 
v0n said:
There would be no Metallica without Iron Maiden. All the boys wanted to do was to play like NWOBHM, they just didn't know how exactly, and that's how thrash metal started, then was quickly dropped after Kill'em all to make beautiful and milestone stuff.
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Mmm, I always thought Metallica copied Diamond Head. to be honest it took ages for iron maiden to become a headlining act and they were support at many gigs in their early days. it took ages before people copied them where bands like Led Zeppelin Sex Pistols were copied straight away.
 
Judas Priest - people say Sabbath were the daddies, but Priest were the first band to call themselves heavy metal and, in my opinion, have a more hard-edged sound in their early albums than Sabbath. Rob Halford has a GENIUS metal voice....

Opeth - for being the innervators of combining progressive rock with death metal. The best band in the world.

-C
 
Spirit7 said:
Judas Priest - people say Sabbath were the daddies, but Priest were the first band to call themselves heavy metal and, in my opinion, have a more hard-edged sound in their early albums than Sabbath. Rob Halford has a GENIUS metal voice....

Opeth - for being the innervators of combining progressive rock with death metal. The best band in the world.

-C
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I'd agree with that, Judas Priest are awesome, as are Opeth, although i don't think Opeth have had a big effect on Metal, same goes for Tool, stunning band bud have not had a massive impact on metal as a whole.

Like it or not Korn changed metal massively when they broke through as the main nu-metal band, i personally like them (well their first 3 albums) but am not a fan of a lot of what they spawned.
 
Slayer have to be one of the most influential bands, specifically when Reign in Blood was released (had to be one of if not the most extreme metal album released at the time.) So many bands have been influenced in some way since that album was released...
 
Arcade Fire said:
You don't think that metal has changed since the early 80s? Or do you just mean that you can't think of anybody offhand?
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Perhaps I'm looking too deep because the OP asked "In your opinion, which metal/rock bands have changed the scene for better or worse, which ones have had the most impact and influence?"

I named bands that really did change the course of music where Penski (bless him) named bands that most people have never heard of. I will give one more band that did create a genre although when they came out they were just another heavy rock band - Venom. It seemed to be years later when they had died that the genre started and bands cited them has an influence. Somebody named Judas Priest and they are one of my all time favourite bands but I saw them from the first album onwards (which was bloody awful) and it wasn't until a couple of albums later when future musicians 'got it'. The same can be said for Iron Maiden and again it was Powerslave when future musicians 'got it'.

The bands I listed earlier were the bands that virtually hit the scene running and influenced immediately. After more thoughts I will also add Rolling Stones, Boston (for the AOR sound), Meatloaf/Jim Steinman (for the big opera sound) and Oasis (only in this country). Yes Oasis were a copy of the Beatles and the Who but they did start a trend almost immediately which is still carrying on now. The thing is that most of you were too young to remember radio stations in the 80's. Big kev, Mr Bulbous and me will remember that the 80's was full of synths and disco music and the only rock guitar you heard was Beat It by Michael Jackson. Oasis changed that and it was great to hear power chords once again on the radio.

Perhaps I'm looking too deep.
 
Thing is with metal, the bands that really changed or shaped the scene are the really big ones. I mean, metal is popular, and for every truely outstanding bands you get about a million clones (the only evidence I have of this, because of my age is during the whole nu-metal fad). So, my list:

Motorhead,
Iron Maiden,
Black Sabbath,
Misfits (not because they are metal but their whole style was borrowed a lot by pretty much every thrash band),
Venom,
Slayer,
Megadeth,
Metallica,
Pantera,
At The Gates.

Then I get confused with nu-metal. I think the important nu-metal bands need a mention, even though now we're way past nu-metal and it's influence is limited at best.

Korn and (questionably) Deftones helped shape nu-metal. I'd say Limp Bizkit but I detest them. Slipknot brought "metal" to the mainstream and as such caused a nu-metal backlash by stupidly claiming they were thrash. Not so.

We now come to the current trend of metal. "Metalcore" or a mix of Iron Maiden-style melody, biting Slayer thrash and brutal Sick of it All-esque hardcore. Defining bands, I feel anyway, would be:
Unearth and Killswitch Engage. I'll add more of these bands when I remember more!
 
Woody__ said:
Slipknot brought "metal" to the mainstream and as such caused a nu-metal backlash by stupidly claiming they were thrash. Not so.
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No they didn't. They claimed they were death metal...which, at the time of their second album (the eponymous one), I'd agree completely.

Not nu-metal, really.

I remember when they had Incubus-style funk guitars.

Best nu-metal band EVOOORRR = Linea 77.

*n
 
penski said:
No they didn't. They claimed they were death metal...which, at the time of their second album (the eponymous one), I'd agree completely.

Not nu-metal, really.

I remember when they had Incubus-style funk guitars.

Best nu-metal band EVOOORRR = Linea 77.

*n
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Whatever they claimed, they were wrong. They're never been anything but nu-metal.
 
Although im not much of a hardcore metal fan id agree with a previous poster in saying that Pitchshifter were pretty influential but overlooked most of the time. Otherwise its the usual suspects.

IMO and i know im gonna get flamed in some way, slipknot can join the "needs a kick in the teeth" line, just behind James Blunt.
 
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