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Poll Question: Who had the better career during their classic eras?
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    Posted: 27 Aug 2014 at 4:03am
These bands are probably the most influential in Heavy Metal.I'm wondering what you guys think. Who had the better and most influential career during their peak?


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Edited by ProgMetaller2112 - 27 Aug 2014 at 4:06am
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Black Sabbath were the first, but they were generally considered a very, very heavy psych band in their early years, so I´d probably say Judas Priest.



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I love Iron Maiden, they are one of my favorite bands but as far as influence goes I'd have to say Black Sabbath.
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I'd say in the first days it would be Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple and UFO but it was Judas Priest that really separated the metal sound from the blues. 

Sabbath started the whole thing but was on the doom and horror side of it. Uriah, Purple and UFO took the hard rock and upped the intensity and virtuosity. So i think these are the bands that really developed the different subgenres that would go in the different directions ranging from doom to power metal etc
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I guess more bands have and still do cite Sabbath as an influence than the others, although all four are hugely important bands.

Sabbath's influence seems to cross more sub-genres of metal and rock in terms of bands it's influenced than the others too.

In terms of the "better" career, that's harder and depends on what criteria you use. In terms of money earned from their day jobs, the answer I'd guess would be Maiden.
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All very influential bands so a difficult question - Metallica will have made the most money I would guess but perhaps Sabbath or Maiden will have been more influential.
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No love being shown for Maiden, so I picked 'em. They were the first of the four I ever heard.
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THis isn't a fair question. They were all influential at different stages of metal's history. They were all successful. Does not compute. Short circuit
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