I hope you were arguing that whomever said "No Beatles, No Priest" was crazy.
The Beatles may have been an influence to pop or rock but I don't believe they influenced metal
much at all. Yeah they had a few heavy songs at the time but they were not the only ones. I would
give credit to the old blues guy's as major influences. Listen to some old blues and notice how it
has the early signs of "grinding" or "sludgy" sounding guitar. It definitely started the early rock and roll
which ultimately led to metal. I guess The Beatles could have been an early influence to some but
blues layed the groundwork that created heavy music. If you want to take it a step further there was
some pretty bassy and heavy sounding classical music from the 15 and 16 hundreds. I think this was
the first stuff classified devil music because of the deep bass. F#ck the Beatles, hail Beethoven.
