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Music Appreciation

highplainsdem

(57,878 posts) Fri Jul 25, 2025, 05:43 PM Jul 25

Doom metal before Black Sabbath. Golden Earring - Everyday's Torture. From Eight Miles High (1969 album) [View all]

This was released in November 1969, three months before the first Black Sabbath album. Eight Miles High was Golden Earring's second album that year - they'd released a double album in April. As with most of their songs at that time, George Kooymans wrote both the lyrics and music. He wasn't yet cowriting songs with Barry Hay, though Barry has the lead vocal here.

And I'm bringing this up now because of a metal fan and reviewer who does consider this early doom metal.

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Doom metal before Black Sabbath. Golden Earring - Everyday's Torture. From Eight Miles High (1969 album) [View all] highplainsdem Jul 25 OP

Cool Tune ProfessorGAC Jul 25 #1

George was influenced by all sorts of music. Heavy as this album is, it was just 7 months after they'd highplainsdem Jul 25 #3

Pretty cool album. It's pretty much psychedelic and 12 bar blues based hard rock. LuvLoogie Jul 25 #2

Well, I saw more than one person online describe it as metal, and some include the adjective "doom" as highplainsdem Jul 25 #4