Deep Purple at least influenced a lot of metal bands. I know some people do consider them metal, I don't really though. Some of their songs are hard rock at least.
and banned.
Edit: according to wikipedia all/most of the Deep Purple albums in the 70's were partially heavy metal. Under the genre it lists: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal. For a lot of them. Not that wikipedia is always right, but that's one source that says they're metal.

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