It's one of the great debates in musicology and the answer is as
complicated as it is hotly contested. Popoff's Who Invented Heavy
Metal? provides the most detailed, well argued, reasonable,
ridiculously complete, and most lively and readable telling of the
early history of heavy metal yet, arming the argumentative
headbanger with all the facts and figures one needs on hand to win
those bar room bets around this provocative question. Ultimately,
Who Invented Heavy Metal? aims to be a book that doesn't limit
itself to heavy metal fans. The book provides wide instructional
scope of teachable moments through unfolding, subconscious, telling
by osmosis of the very history of heavy metal's origins through
events inside the genre but, surprisingly, many events outside of
its own kerranging reverberations. Divided into four parts: Trace
Elements: 1250 BC - 1966, beginning with the Battle Of Jericho
through shocking concerts in ancient Greece, Vikings, Paganini, the
blues, the invention of the electric guitar and why Little Richard,
Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee Lewis - but most notably, Johnny
Burnette, might be called the first headbangers. Lead: 1967 - 1969:
Discussing extreme vocals, distortion, feedback, guitar heroes,
psychedelics, amplification, the first riffs, the first power
chords and the first heavy metal songs. Steel: 1970: where Martin
argues for the "real" or "correct" answer to the titular question
being Black Sabbath given their groundbreaking Black Sabbath album,
but also that band's Paranoid, Uriah Heep's debut, and most
important of this set of three, Deep Purple's In Rock. Dozens of
other bands are discussed as well. Titanium: 1971: In the final
stretch Popoff talks about the wildest, heaviest full albums of
1971. Readers should come away with a new way to look at this
question, whether they become convinced of Martin's arguments
completely or not!
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