Heavy Metal

Fair enough but historically Page, Blackmore etc. were/are metal, otherwise it can all get a bit OTT and spinal tap with who is most metalish etc. For me anything that has or is described as metal warrants a listen, apart from warrant of course... :)

I strongly believe iommi defines the metal sound. His guitar sound for such early days was monstrous!!! He had to have extra wax in his pick ups to try reduce feed back from such high output (or something like that). Laney once built him their first 200watt head some time during the 70s (early-mid I guess), it fucking blew up. Seems he was always pushing for a heavier sound.