Origins: late 1960s and early 1970s

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commentators tending to favour Led Zeppelin and British commentators 
tending to favour Black Sabbath, though many give equal credit to both. A 
few commentators—mainly American—argue for other groups including Iron 
Butterfly, Steppenwolf or Blue Cheer.
In 1968, the sound that would become known as heavy metal began to 
coalesce. That January, the San Francisco band Blue Cheer released a cover 
of Eddie Cochran's classic "Summertime Blues", from their debut 
album 
Vincebus Eruptum
, that many consider the first true heavy metal 
recording.
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 The same month, Steppenwolf released its self-titled debut 
album, including "Born to Be Wild", which refers to "heavy metal thunder" in 
describing a motorcycle. In July, another two epochal records came out: The 
Yardbirds' "Think About It" (from the 1967 Yardbirds album 
Little Games
)—
B-side of the band's last single—with a performance by guitarist Jimmy Page; 
and Iron Butterfly's 
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
, with its 17-minute-long title track, 
a prime candidate for first-ever heavy metal album.
The Jeff Beck Group, whose leader had preceded Page as The 
Yardbirds' guitarist, released its debut record that same month: 
Truth
 featured 
some of the "most molten, barbed, down In October, Page's new band, Led 
Zeppelin, made its live debut. The Beatles' 
White Album
, which also came out 
that month, included "Helter Skelter", then one of the heaviest-sounding 
songs ever released by a major band.
 The Pretty Things' rock opera 
S.F. 
Sorrow
, released in December, featured "proto heavy metal" songs such as 
"Old Man Going" and "I See You".
In this counterculture period MC5, who began as part of the Detroit 
garage rock scene, developed a raw distorted style that has been seen as a 
major influence on the future sound of both heavy metal and later punk music.
 The Stooges also began to establish and influence a heavy metal and later 
punk sound, with songs such as "I Wanna Be Your Dog", featuring pounding 

and distorted heavy guitar power chord riffs.
 Pink Floyd released two of their 
heaviest and loudest songs to date; "Ibiza Bar" and "The Nile Song", which 
was regarded as "one of the heaviest songs the band recorded".
 King 
Crimson's debut album included 21st Century Schizoid Man, which was 
considered heavy metal by several critics.

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