70s: The Most Influential Bands Of The 1970s

The Most Influential Bands of the 1970s

The 1970s was a crucial decade for the development of rock music. Numerous bands were created, and many existing bands gained more popularity. The different bands from this time all contributed to music in different ways. They helped evolutionize music and shape it into what it has become today. Collecting information about the most influential bands in the 70s will help gather a deeper understanding of why music is the way it is. The music genre of rock consists of multiple different sub-genres, heavy metal and soft rock being the most popular. With heavy metal and soft rock being the most popular: many of the bands from the 70s emerged into music from these two sub-genres. Many different academic articles will be examined to reach a more concise conclusion on the contrasting bands from the 70s and their

Heavy metal bands, including Judas Priest and Motörhead, both followed Black Sabbath in the 1970s. Black Sabbath emerged from blues/blues rock, and as the 70s progressed, many other metal bands were inspired by their blues style of heavy metal (Archer-Capuzzo, 2021). The debut of Black Sabbath’s “Black Sabbath” album at the beginning of the 70s, wasn’t a record breaking album when it was first released. Clark (2022) explains, the album paved the way for the band’s domination of heavy metal throughout the 70s, as well as the eventual rise of the bands following like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Pantera and Slipknot. Heavy metal was born, shaped, and defined: on the albums Black Sabbath released during the 1970s. Much attention is paid to the band's historic first two albums, and rightfully so. But each of the band's first six efforts rank among the greatest metal albums of all time. No band was more important to a single genre during the 1970s than Sabbath was to metal. (Smith, 2019, Black