And Avenged Sevenfold ornamented it with catchy, head-turning melodies. Metallica whirled it into a breakneck blur. Judas Priest dressed it in denim and leather. Its roots stretch back to the late Sixties, when artists like Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly and Led Zeppelin cranked their amps to play bluesy, shit-kicking rockers, but it wasn’t until that fateful day, when Black Sabbath issued the first, front-to-back, wholly heavy-metal album – their gloomy self-titled debut – that a band had mastered the sound of the genre, one that still resonates nearly 50 years later: heavy metal.Īlthough Black Sabbath’s members have scoffed at the metal tag over the years, their lumbering, overdriven guitar, acrobatic drumming and forceful vocals, all originally intended to be rock’s equivalent to a horror movie, have been copied time and again, decade after decade. It’s like we were very naive and sometimes things will shine because it’s like, they don’t know what they’re doing, but sometimes there’s brilliance in that, I guess.With a crash of thunder, the ringing of ominous church bells and one of the loudest guitar sounds in history, a heavy new music genre was born in earnest on a Friday the 13th early in 1970. … I appreciate it for what it is, obviously. And Adrenaline … I never really liked that record too much. One of the main reasons why… For one, we were pretty young … but we were on fire.

He continued, “I honestly still think that record will always be my favorite record.

“I will say that is my favorite Deftones record.”

“ a really special place for me,” said the singer. Moreno was chatting about the band’s new LP, Ohms, with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, when the discussion turned to the singer’s favorite Deftones album. In a new interview, the Deftones frontman insists that the group’s sophomore effort, 1997’s Around the Fur, is his favorite release in the alt-metal act’s discography. While 2000’s White Pony tops most publications’ rankings of Deftones albums ( including ours), singer Chino Moreno puts another LP at No.

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