TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
RUSH takes UFO handily according the TTR voting population.
Now it's time to get a little darker. The Doors might be considered a bit more 1960's band than a 70's band but are well within the window 1968-1980 here with some very important releases, however they only managed five albums
over a six year period starting in '66 and it all crashed down when enigmatic singer Jim Morrison joined "Club 27" in 1971 Morrison was known as much as poet as a lyricist, with a penchant for dark and spooky lyrical themes, but they could
also bring a jazzy lightness to juxtapose with darker creations via the keyboardist Manzarek and guitarist Krieger, the
Doors made the Morrisons dark lyrics float over accessible, airy backgrounds, or flat out blues.
Black Sabbath had the first release in 1970, with the famous self-titled debut album, and with various
different singers, after Ozzy was dumped by his longtime bandmates in 1978 for substance abuse issues.
Sabbath went on to release new music with various frontmen, reuniting with Osbourne much later on for a final release.
Both bands (particulary the frontment) were certainly fueled to an extent by drugs and alcohol. Both explored rather dark themes so it's kind of fitting. Many consider Sabbath the be the first true heavy metal band, and the doors would be more psychedelic blues with of pop sensibilities, and there were certainly sprinkles of blues psychedelia in the Sabbath catalog too. Guitarist Tony Iommi use of "The Devils Interval" or diabolus in musica - a tritone interval which is part of the blues scale, leaning heavily on ponderous riffs favoring this musical flavour infusing a dark/evil sound to the music, that worked well with darker occult/alternate song themes. But Sabbath were no one trick ponies they were unafraid to explore a variety of musical styles... one of the more endearing factors of the band to many.
I'll admit I don't know too much about either band, but I would say I enjoy them equally, though some would say I favour the wrong
kind of Sabbath, just out of this time period which true Sabbath fans might frown upon.
Who deserves to move on in this contest?
Now it's time to get a little darker. The Doors might be considered a bit more 1960's band than a 70's band but are well within the window 1968-1980 here with some very important releases, however they only managed five albums
over a six year period starting in '66 and it all crashed down when enigmatic singer Jim Morrison joined "Club 27" in 1971 Morrison was known as much as poet as a lyricist, with a penchant for dark and spooky lyrical themes, but they could
also bring a jazzy lightness to juxtapose with darker creations via the keyboardist Manzarek and guitarist Krieger, the
Doors made the Morrisons dark lyrics float over accessible, airy backgrounds, or flat out blues.
Black Sabbath had the first release in 1970, with the famous self-titled debut album, and with various
different singers, after Ozzy was dumped by his longtime bandmates in 1978 for substance abuse issues.
Sabbath went on to release new music with various frontmen, reuniting with Osbourne much later on for a final release.
Both bands (particulary the frontment) were certainly fueled to an extent by drugs and alcohol. Both explored rather dark themes so it's kind of fitting. Many consider Sabbath the be the first true heavy metal band, and the doors would be more psychedelic blues with of pop sensibilities, and there were certainly sprinkles of blues psychedelia in the Sabbath catalog too. Guitarist Tony Iommi use of "The Devils Interval" or diabolus in musica - a tritone interval which is part of the blues scale, leaning heavily on ponderous riffs favoring this musical flavour infusing a dark/evil sound to the music, that worked well with darker occult/alternate song themes. But Sabbath were no one trick ponies they were unafraid to explore a variety of musical styles... one of the more endearing factors of the band to many.
I'll admit I don't know too much about either band, but I would say I enjoy them equally, though some would say I favour the wrong
kind of Sabbath, just out of this time period which true Sabbath fans might frown upon.
Who deserves to move on in this contest?
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