I wouldn't say the original , but they are very close. A great band created by Lemmy.Motorhead are the original heavy metal band Are they not?
Cool band, but nowhere near AC/DC.Here is another classic metal album from days gone by that @changeling may be interested in as they are from Ozz.
Here is all you need to know, mate:I agree it's a catchy rift but I have never heard the kinks described as 'heavy metal'
What's in a genre name ? When the Kinks used that amp in the way they did, the sound was a growling sound......heavier than any other sound ever heard before 1966 .......it was described as heavy and metallic = "heavy metal" .....now you know the story behind the Kinks and heavy metal. Terminogically speaking, even in the era of The Stooges (considered the forefathers of punk) the term "punk" was unknownThey may have inspired others to go down that route but their own music was quite mainstream. They were a full decade before music described as heavy metal appeared in the late seventies by the likes of Motorhead, Saxon Judas Priest etc
In fact , I wasn't comparing any band with any other band, just stating the obvious. If it wasn't for the Kinks' early loud distorted sound, there would be no 'heavy metal' today. I was listening to an early Sister Rosetta Tharpe song earlier and I noticed there would be no modern electric guitar blues without SRTAll music 'evolves' from music that is already around but you are missing out an intermediate Genre. The Kinks were around in the late 60's and they inspired rock music in the early 70's with the likes of Deep Purple, status Quo, black sabbath etc.. It was from that you got first punk in the mid 70's then heavy metal in the late 70's but to compare a rock/pop band like the Kinks to a heavy metal band like Judas Priest is just a step too far in my opinion.
Didn't the others come after '66.....just asking eh ??!! The Kinks' did their thing in '64, while Hendrix was still giggin' with the Kasuals .....the others came out in or after '66.I am sorry but I have to respectfully disagree with you, the Kinks were not the only 'distorted guitar' sound back in the late sixties, what about the Jimi Hendrix experience and the Velvet Underground