Originally Posted by harlall

Seeing as heavy metal was basically invented by the release of led zeppelin II, that would make them the best band eh?

Originally Posted by Muffindo

No.
Heavy Metal was born from blues which was bor from jazz which was born from gospel which was born from African music.
That doesn't mean each one is a subgenre of the previous one since there is a clear distinction between Blues and Heavy metal (the most obvious one being distortion).
It does have a relation with rock since rock comes from jazz and has some blues influences but they're not directly related.

Originally Posted by Muffindo

However, Rock has more common musical elements with jazz than with the Blues and vice versa with metal (see heavy rythmic sounds with the drums and the bass guitar).
The combination of rock and Blues is what creates Metal basically but the first Heavy Metal bands were clearly blues bands (e.g Black Sabbath).

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. I went through a period when I started off playing all jazz and blues.

Originally Posted by Muffindo

BUT we're still derailing the topic of this thread as well as my original point: There are no Heavy Metal bands that are not affiliated to a subgenre