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

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

well, so I know that description will seem accurate to some people. But people can disagree, and those terms weren't used then.

I don't know who George was most influenced by when he wrote that. Couldn't have been Black Sabbath unless he was getting bootlegs, and Black Sabbath had recorded their first album the month before Eight Miles High was released, so they couldn't have heard it first.

George might've been reacting to Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin I was released in early 1969. I read somewhere that when George first heard Led Zeppelin, he wondered if he should just give up. Then they supported Led Zeppelin later that year while touring the States for at least one gig in Detroit, May 16 - and after that show they included a cover of Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times" in their own US shows for the next couple of months, though I've never found a recording of that cover.

No, I hadn't heard that Neil Merryweather cover of Eight Miles High before. I agree it's cool.