We always think of metal as being invented in the 1970's, but back in 1840's Franz Liszt was already rocking!!! Just listen to this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md2IxKFsWD0&feature=related"]YouTube- Liszt: "Danse macabre" Paraphrase on "Dies Irae" for piano and orcherstra "Totentanz" Part I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uy_TxQkeGU"]YouTube- Liszt: "Danse macabre" Paraphrase on "Dies Irae" for piano and orcherstra "Totentanz" Part II
Stravinskiy? He just created such a beautiful and massive and massively loud ruckus. To me, he's the unaware mother of heavy metal. In raw brutality and power and also naturality. Also a certain kind of primitivity which seems to have carried over into modern music and especially metal