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Originally Posted by applecore  |
I wondered how long it would take for someone to mention Doom / Sludge / Desert metal and push my sweeping generalization under the carpet.
However i still stand by my original view that if all we had still was Gilmour and Clapton strumming away we'd be stuck in an AOR MOR nightmare.
The original idea of metal from it's earliest days of the NWOBHM, through eighties thrash was always speed. Agreed, bands such as
Trouble as
one example began to change how metal was played, but when it comes to metal in it's most traditional sense (
Maiden, Saxon, Priest, Dio, Accept) then speed was one of it's main thrill factors.