Heavy metal didn’t appear out of nowhere in 1970. Long before it had a name, a wave of songs from the 1960s were already turning up the volume, cranking distortion, and pushing rock into darker, heavier, and more aggressive territory.
This video takes you on a journey through 15 proto-metal tracks released before Black Sabbath’s debut — music that carried the grit, rebellion, and sheer power that would later explode into heavy metal. Some stormed the charts, others stayed underground, but all of them left their fingerprints on the DNA of heavy music.
⚡ Discover the riffs, the chaos, and the raw energy that shaped a genre before the world even knew what to call it.
🎧 Featuring:
00:44 The Kinks – You Really Got Me (1964)
01:55 The Who – My Generation (1965)
03:09 Cream – Sunshine of Your Love (1967)
04:16 Vanilla Fudge – You Keep Me Hangin’ On (1967)
05:17 The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze (1967)
06:28 Steppenwolf – Born to Be Wild (1968)
07:40 Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues (1968)
08:48 Deep Purple – Mandrake Root (1968)
10:00 Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968)
11:14 The Beatles – Helter Skelter (1968)
12:23 MC5 – Kick Out the Jams (1969)
14:47 The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog (1969)
16:03 Grand Funk Railroad – Paranoid (1969)
17:44 Ten Years After – I’m Going Home (1969)
18:51 Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love (1969)
Credit to : 33 & Timeless