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Mika Kangas: Mun mielestä nää ns. neljä suurta eli Black Sabbath,Deep Purple,Uriah Heep ja Led Zeppelin on enemmänkin pelkkiä 60-luvun lapsia joilla on varsin vähän tekemistä hevin kanssa.Tai oikeastaan Black Sabbath on ainoa joka on tuonut heviin mitään eli musiikin raskauden.Pitäisin tärkeämpänä bandinä enemmänkin The Kinksiä koska esimerkiksi You Really Got Me:ssä on kunnon hevikitarariffin ainekset,yksinkertaisuus ja sen toistaminen.Tämä yhdistettynä Black Sabbathiin voidaan keksiä jo Judas Priest joka toi nahkat ja shown mukaan.Siinä ne perushevin rakennusaineet sitten onkin.Toki progemetallit ja muut on tulleet sitten myöhemmin mukaan mutta peruskaava mun mielestä on tossa.
 
Tässä on pari lainausta tuosta E. Liljan lisensiaattityöstä "CHARACTERISTICS OF HEAVY METAL CHORD STRUCTURES
Their Acoustic and Modal Construction, and Relation to Modal and Tonal Context"
 
"During the 1970s, several followers of these three bands (many of them from America) modified heavy metal into more accessible form (Heavy Metal 2004). In general, this meant simpler and more pre-arranged structures in contrast to early heavy metals often complex and improvised forms this can be clarified by comparing, for instance, the music of Deep Purple or Black Sabbath to that of Kiss or AC/DC."
 
"Heavy metal is often seen as being derived from hard rock as its subgenre (Walser 2004a), but as in almost all genre-labelling we are usually forced to refer to elements outside the music while attempting to establish a difference between heavy metal and hard rock. For example, Moore (2004) basically relies on the lyrics: The subject matter of the hard rock songs emphasizes a misogynistic, macho sexuality and an unfocussed but often environmentally aware liberal politics. Hard rock, however, avoids heavy metals leaning towards madness, violence and the occult. However true this may be, the distinction is made by other than musical terms. Actually, it is quite possible that the distinction cannot be made by musical terms alone. Elsewhere Moore (2001:147-151) has pursued to find some musically significant distinguishing features, asking the profound question to what extent do the subtle differences between different brands of metal (about which fanatics make great play) equate to differences of musical style --? (ibid: 151). In spite of several important findings, some conclusions seem simplistic and contradictory perhaps because Moore emphasizes the role of heavy metal as a subgenre of hard rock. For example, Deep Purple is said to be hard rock and not heavy metal, although there is no obvious reason for this. Apparently, this labelling is done on the grounds that hard rock tends to favour an organ instead of a second guitar (ibid: 149). However, the underlying reason as to why the favouring of an organ over a second guitar should be the musical definition for hard rock, appears to be that in Deep Purple there is an organ and not a second guitar (ibid.). So it seems that Moore has first decided that Deep Purple is hard rock and the musical factors that serve to identify them (ibid: 148) are then used only to support this pre-determined view. In fact, it is hard to find an unambiguous distinction between hard rock and heavy metal, and many bands (such as Deep Purple) are frequently put under both labels."
 
"Nevertheless, this study follows Moores suggestion (ibid.) to treat hard rock and heavy metal as points of a style continuum. However, this is done without trying to point out some significant differentiation. In fact, those terms are very much in parallel: if someone called something hard rock and something heavy metal, the next writer would probably do the exact opposite. Thus, all the music studied here is in some way put under the label heavy metal. As stated above, the objective of this study is not to define exactly which bands are, or are not, heavy metal, but rather to explore some common melodic-harmonic features of the music that at some point of time has been called heavy metal (together with its main influences and numerous subgenres).Only by doing this we might, some day, be able to tell, what are the basic musical features distinguishing heavy metal from other styles. Still, the question remains as to whether this kind of strict categorisation is ever possible or relevant at all. As stated before, the usage of the term (and the terms) seems to be quite a personal matter varying from one individual to another. Here, because of this, the term is understood and used in a very broad sense. Thus, in the text, musical examples from commonly accepted heavy metal canon of the 1970s and 1980s coincide with the pre-heavy music of The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Cream of the late 1960s."