Old School Heavy Metal Setlist

[Onslaught_fei]

I have handpicked 5 (Update: 10) songs from each year between 1970 and 1979 featuring nothing but metal's oldest and finest.

Atomic Rooster - "Sleeping for Years" - 1970 - Heavy Prog
Bloodrock - "Melvin Laid an Egg" - 1970 - Heavy Prog
Edgar Broughton Band - "Love in The Rain" - 1970 - Heavy Blues
Euclid - "All Over Now" - 1970 - Heavy Rock
Led Zeppelin - "Immigrant Song" - 1970 - Heavy Rock
Lucifer's Friend - "Ride in the Sky" - 1970 - Heavy Metal
Sir Lord Baltimore - "Hard Rain Fallin'" - 1970 - Heavy Metal
Seompi - "Lay on the Floor" - 1970 - Heavy Metal
The Human Beast - "Brush With The Midnight Butterfly" - 1970 - Heavy Psych
Warpig - "Melody with Balls" - 1970 - Heavy Metal

Black Sabbath - "Into the Void" - 1971 - Doom Metal
Bolder Damn - "Dead Meat" - 1971 - Stoner Metal
Cactus - "Restrictions" - 1971 - Heavy Blues
Captain Beyond - "Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air)" - 1971 - Stoner Metal
Leaf Hound - "Freelance Fiend" - 1971 - Heavy Psych
Possessed - "Darkness Darkness" - 1971 - Heavy Metal
Randy Holden - "Blue My Mind" - 1971 - Heavy Blues
Sudden Death - "Country Livin'" - 1971 - Stoner Metal
Tear Gas - "That's What's Real" - 1971 - Heavy Psych
Uriah Heep - "Lady in Black" - 1971 - Heavy Prog

Bang - "Idealist / Realist" - 1972 - Stoner Metal
Deep Purple - "Pictures of Home" - 1972 - Heavy Metal
Dust - "Suicide" - 1972 - Heavy Metal
Jerusalem - "She Came like a Bat from Hell" - 1972 - Heavy Metal
Night Sun - "Plastic Shotgun" - 1972 - Heavy Prog
Pentagram - "Be Forewarned" - 1972 - Doom Metal
Shinki Chen - "Gloomy Reflections" - 1972 - Heavy Psych
The Flow - "It Swallowed the Sun" - 1972 - Heavy Prog
Warhorse - "Standing Right Behind You" - 1972 - Heavy Prog
Zior - "Angel of the Highway" - 1972 - Heavy Psych

Bedlam - "Putting on the Flesh" - 1973 - Stoner Metal
Blue Oyster Cult - "Hot Rails to Hell" - 1973 - Heavy Metal
Budgie - "Breadfan" - 1973 - Heavy Metal
Buffalo - "Sunrise (Come My Way)" - 1973 - Heavy Metal
Fire - "Could You Understand Me" - 1973 - Stoner Metal
Granicus - "Bad Talk" - 1973 - Stoner Metal
Icecross - "Nightmare" - 1973 - Doom Metal
Incredible Hog - "There's a Man" - 1973 - Heavy Rock
Montrose - "Space Station #5" - 1973 - Heavy Metal
Stray Dog - "Tramp (How It Is)" - 1973 - Heavy Blues

Coven - "Blood on the Snow" - 1974 - Heavy Metal
Hydra - "If You Can Survive" - 1974 - Heavy Metal
Pinnacle - "The Ripper" - 1974 - Heavy Metal
Primevil - "High Steppin' Stomper" - 1974 - Stoner Metal
Supernaut - "Keeper of the Keys" - 1974 - Doom Metal
Sweet - "Set Me Free" - 1974 - Heavy Metal
Tempest - "Brothers" - 1974 - Heavy Prog
Three Man Army - "Polecat Woman" - 1974 - Heavy Metal
UFO - "Rock Bottom" - 1974 - Heavy Metal
White Witch - "Auntie Christy, Harlow" - 1974 - Heavy Metal

Angel - "The Tower" - 1975 - Heavy Metal
Armageddon - "Buzzard" - 1975 - Speed Metal
Cain - "Queen of the Night" - 1975 - Heavy Metal
Freeway - "Rock Teaser" - 1975 - Stoner Metal
Neil Merryweather - "Give It Everything We Got" - 1975 - Heavy Blues
Neon Rose - "A Smell of Death" - 1975 - Heavy Rock
Rainbow - "Man on the Silver Mountain" - 1975 - Heavy Metal
Rush - "Under the Shadow" - 1975 - Heavy Prog
Ted Nugent - "Stormtroopin'" - 1975 - Heavy Rock
Warlord - "The Ring" - 1975 - Heavy Prog

Blackfoot - "Flyin' High" - 1976 - Heavy Rock
Bow Wow - "Hearts on Fire" - 1976 - Heavy Metal
Dirk Steffens - "Things and Thoughts" - 1976 - Heavy Metal
Dirty Tricks - "Wait 'Till Saturday" - 1976 - Heavy Rock
Heavy Goods Vehicle - "I Shall Die Tonight" - 1976 - Doom Metal
KISS - "God of Thunder" - 1976 - Heavy Rock
Starz - "Monkey Business" - 1976 - Heavy Rock
Thin Lizzy - "Emerald" - 1976 - Heavy Metal
Triumph - "Blinding Light Show/Moonchild" - 1976 - Heavy Prog
Truth and Janey - "No Rest For the Wicked" - 1976 - Heavy Metal

Death SS - "Zombie" - 1977 - Heavy Metal
Galaxy - "Everybody Down" - 1977 - Heavy Metal
Legs Diamond - "Stage Fright" - 1977 - Heavy Metal
Motorhead - "Keep Us on the Road" - 1977 - Heavy Metal
Moxy - "Ridin' High" - 1977 - Speed Metal
Nazareth - "Expect No Mercy" - 1977 - Heavy Metal
Quartz - "Mainline Riders" - 1977 - Heavy Metal
Riot - "Warrior" - 1977 - Speed Metal
Scorpions - "Catch Your Train" - 1977 - Heavy Metal
Taste - "Same Old Story" - 1977 - Heavy Metal

Gillan - "Message in a Bottle" - 1978 - Speed Metal
Granmax - "Mistress of Eternity" - 1978 - Heavy Metal
Heavy Load - "Full At High Speed Level" - 1978 - Speed Metal
Krokus - "Killer" - 1978 - Heavy Rock
Judas Priest - "Exciter" - 1978 - Speed Metal
Magnum - "Kingdom of Madness" - 1978 - Epic Metal
Shakin' Street - "Vampire Rock" - 1978 - Heavy Metal
Sorcery - "Snowsh*t" - 1978 - Heavy Metal
The Godz - "Gotta Keep a Runnin'" - 1978 - Speed Metal
Y&T - "Dreams of Egypt" - 1978 - Heavy Metal

Accept - "Free Me Now" - 1979 - Speed Metal
Gamma - "Razor King" - 1979 - Speed Metal
Legend - "The Destroyer" - 1979 - Epic Metal
Mythra - "Death and Destiny" - 1979 - Heavy Metal
Samson - "Tomorrow or Yesterday" - 1979 - Heavy Metal
Saxon - "Militia Guard" - 1979 - Epic Metal
Silvertrain - "I Need Some More!" - 1979 - Heavy Metal
The Hand of Doom - "They Who'll Creep At Night" - 1979 - Heavy Metal
Whitesnake - "Outlaw" - 1979 - Heavy Metal
Vardis - "100 MPH" - 1979 - Speed Metal

Thanks for viewing, commenting, and listening. Hope you found something new or that you liked.

[Buffdog18]

I'm gonna have to listen to some songs I don't know but I like the looks of the list.

[Fizzeler]

Atomic Rooster gets you a ton of credit Fei

Surprised you did not label Lucifer's Friend as Prog. Metal as well

However,

Eloy - "Between the Times" - 1976 - Progressive Metal

this alone makes the list awesome, Pentagram and Supernaut enhance it even more

[LegendofRock3021]

Looking awesome so far, can't wait to see it when it's finished.

[Pescaran Death Machine]

I like it, I will have to listen to some of these, but what I know is absolutely genius. Good Job.

[Onslaught_fei]

Atomic Rooster gets you a ton of credit Fei

Surprised you did not label Lucifer's Friend as Prog. Metal as well

However,

Eloy - "Between the Times" - 1976 - Progressive Metal

this alone makes the list awesome, Pentagram and Supernaut enhance it even more

That first album and particularly that song are not exceptionally proggy in regards to Lucifer's Friend.

Supernaut I am on the fence about. First off there is absolutely no information on them. They might not have ever actually existed. Secondly they didn't have vocals. It's the one and only instrumental track on the setlist but Jesus for the mid 70's it is absolutely HEAVY.

I like it, I will have to listen to some of these, but what I know is absolutely genius. Good Job.

Personal favorites: Icecross and first use of the double bass kick in metal, Legend for being the first epic metal track years before Manowar, and Riot for being speed metal before Judas Priest gets the credit. Also love Buffalo for being absolutely metal as **** and just as metal as 80s Motorhead and White Witch for being a more metal version of Zep.

[soup567]

Really good list, but some of those are just Hard Rock, not metal, namely Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, KISS and Deep Purple. There is a difference between Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. Robert Plant criticizes people who call Led Zeppelin Metal, because a 1/4th of their stuff is acoustic. Led Zeppelin's genres are Rock, Hard Rock, Folk Rock, and Blues-Rock.

[x-dragon39]

Really good list, but some of those are just Hard Rock, not metal, namely Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, KISS and Deep Purple. There is a difference between Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. Robert Plant criticizes people who call Led Zeppelin Metal, because a 1/4th of their stuff is acoustic. Led Zeppelin's genres are Rock, Hard Rock, Folk Rock, and Blues-Rock.

y'know it might just be me, but Black Dog was very very metal for it's time

edit: If you believe deep purple isn't metal, I don't know what to tell you.

[soup567]

y'know it might just be me, but Black Dog was very very metal for it's time

Black Dog is Hard Rock, but very Blues-Rock like as well.

edit: If you believe deep purple isn't metal, I don't know what to tell you.

Deep Purple is Hard Rock. Hush, Smoke on the Water, Highway Star, Lazy, Child in Time, The Mule, Black Night, Knocking at Your Back Door, etc. are Hard Rock, not Heavy Metal. Bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Cream, KISS, etc. were some of the main influences to Metal bands.

[rossinfl]

if you have accept you have to list BALLS TO THE WALL for them. you
should only choose songs from the 80s for accept like:

fast as a shark or breaker or metal heart or sob or even midnight mover
which is a great song but not on their live cds

youre asking for a song that they didnt even put on either of their
LIVE CDS - staying a life and all areas

HMMMMMMMM

good choice for priest but i would have gone with diff year and
hell bent for leather b/c its a classic and they do it live with the
harley and all