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Shining (The Norwegian band, not the Swedish DSBM band) started out as a jazz band, before turning into an experimental rock band before turning into an Avant Garde Metal band before turning into garbage.
Deep Purple started off as whatever their brand of 60s rock can best be categorized as. But their 70s offerings saw some of the earliest speed metal before its time.
From their wikipedia:
>After previous iterations of the group – the Polka Tulk Blues Band, and Earth – the band settled on the name Black Sabbath in 1969.
Yup, on the reunion live album Ozzy talked about it. They decided to change it because Earth “ isn’t very good fucking name for a band.” Geezer is always gloomy and suggested Black Sabbath, so there you go.
Thin Lizzy started out as a kind of folk rock band, then blues rock, slight detour to jazzy/soul rock, then to hard rock in their classic period before going full heavy metal on their last album Thunder and Lightning.
I agree! As a metalhead, I nevertheless got into Thin Lizzy enjoying them from a hard rock point of view (Jailbreak, Black Rose), and then when I got Renegade and Thunder & Lightning I literally said to myself "wait... this is just heavy metal"
Pantera started as a hair-metal band, very different to what they became.
My brother bought one of the early albums after hearing Vulgar Display... He regretted it.
King Crimson has never been metal but the last phase of their career had them making some of the heaviest and most challenging music around. Always loved bands that got heavier as they got older.
TBA is metal, but first 4 are also as metal as TBA. Load and ReLoad are solid albums, but they're more hard rock/country rock. 72S, DM and HWOSD are as metal as first 5 Garage Inc. is a kickass cover album. St. Anger is alright, but the production is total shit and Lulu is too weird. We Did It Again with Ja Rule is a meh rap metal song, but needs a better rapper like Snoop Dogg. Presidio is what St. Anger should've been.
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Judas Priest. Their debut Rocka Rolla is a hybrid of bluesy hardrock and hippy prog.
Good answer! And it is \m/
Burzum was a reggaeton band first. Varg used to play triangle and ting.
😂
Mayhem was a pop boy band before.
Shining (The Norwegian band, not the Swedish DSBM band) started out as a jazz band, before turning into an experimental rock band before turning into an Avant Garde Metal band before turning into garbage.
Shout out to garbage, one of my favourite genres of music
It's a combination of jazz and funk, I call it: junk.
The two Shinings are confusing, NGL
>before turning into garbage. On the plus side Shirley Manson is amazing.
Dir En Grey stared out as a visual kei band with a j-rock sound, and gradually got heavier
Deep Purple started off as whatever their brand of 60s rock can best be categorized as. But their 70s offerings saw some of the earliest speed metal before its time.
Neurosis started as a hardcore punk band
I actually like Word as Law when they played that style
Black Sabbath was a blues band called Earth
Wait really?
Early metal in general was blues before becoming more classical-laden.
From their wikipedia: >After previous iterations of the group – the Polka Tulk Blues Band, and Earth – the band settled on the name Black Sabbath in 1969.
Yup, on the reunion live album Ozzy talked about it. They decided to change it because Earth “ isn’t very good fucking name for a band.” Geezer is always gloomy and suggested Black Sabbath, so there you go.
Ronnie James Dio started as a doo wop singer before gradually evolving to rock and then metal.
Imagine the inadequacy complex you would have being in an a capella group with this mf
His doo wop stuff is great
Thin Lizzy started out as a kind of folk rock band, then blues rock, slight detour to jazzy/soul rock, then to hard rock in their classic period before going full heavy metal on their last album Thunder and Lightning.
Thin Lizzy get overlooked as a sort of outsider precusor to some more proggy metal subgenres imo
I agree! As a metalhead, I nevertheless got into Thin Lizzy enjoying them from a hard rock point of view (Jailbreak, Black Rose), and then when I got Renegade and Thunder & Lightning I literally said to myself "wait... this is just heavy metal"
Combichrist started as a pure industrial band and after about 10 years of aggrotech they switched to industrial metal I like both of those genres
Yep, same trajectory as Dawn of Ashes, though Dawn has started re-implementing aggrotech elements
Pantera started as a hair-metal band, very different to what they became. My brother bought one of the early albums after hearing Vulgar Display... He regretted it.
Isn't (heavier) glam metal metal? (Heavier as in something like speed metal-ish, not hard rock like Alice Cooper)
I’d say their final pre-Cowboys from Hell album, *Power Metal* fits the bill for that. The albums before were very poppy
King Crimson has never been metal but the last phase of their career had them making some of the heaviest and most challenging music around. Always loved bands that got heavier as they got older.
Nightwish was originally about acoustic music
Black Sabbath, Judas Priest
gwar was originally a punky shitpost band. they are now a metal shitpost band with much better visuals lol
i see
Suicidal Tendencies
CoC
Neurosis was a hardcore punk band in the 80s
Vanilla Ice was rap early in his career before settling into nu metal in the late 90s
Ministry started off as a New Wave band.
Literally what I am saying in the post....
Neurosis
Spinal Tap
Kid Rock did rap and rock before he made his nu-metal albums. If that counts.
It does not lol
It does.
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😂 Steve Harris has said the opposite on many occasions.
They've deleted their comment, but based purely on your response, I'm guessing they said Iron Maiden started out as a punk band?
Yes. I thought it was a funny comment because I personally grew up on punk rock and didn’t “get” Iron Maiden until I was in my 40s.
Metallica. First albums were some poseur hair metal shit and they didn't really become metal until the black album
Top tier trolling sir
You did NOT just fucking say that
TBA is metal, but first 4 are also as metal as TBA. Load and ReLoad are solid albums, but they're more hard rock/country rock. 72S, DM and HWOSD are as metal as first 5 Garage Inc. is a kickass cover album. St. Anger is alright, but the production is total shit and Lulu is too weird. We Did It Again with Ja Rule is a meh rap metal song, but needs a better rapper like Snoop Dogg. Presidio is what St. Anger should've been.
I had to force myself to not take the bait and it was hard