Me vs Loudwire: the top 3 Metal songs of the 70s.
This is gonna be interesting. I might not be able to do a top 3 songs for each year, and some of my picks will definitely raise an eyebrow or two. I thought I might have to tap out at 1 or 2, but turns out I was able to come up with three (four if I'm being honest about my past few lists like this) solid choices that shaped heavy metal as it would become in the 80s and beyond. Mind you some of these artists are very much borderline metal/not metal at all, but if you were a teenager in the 70s, said artists were part of the metal mixtape as Black Sabbath was. So let's going holy diving..... 1970: 3. Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath "wHy iSn'T ThIs nUmBeR oNe? It iNvEnTeD mEtAl," I am so fuckin sick of hearing this. Black Sabbath did NOT invent heavy metal. At least not by themselves. They were just the first band to claim ownership for it, defeatedly might I add. Now this song did centralize metal, abso...