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Music Appreciation

LuvLoogie

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

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:06 PM

Jul 25

Not quite metal, though. Sabbath's first album really takes song structure, tonal center, and subject matter into a different realm for me.

BTW, have you heard this version of Eight Miles High by Neil Merryweather? It's pretty cool. Kinda T. Rex-ish

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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