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Originally Posted by Norma J
No one ever denied they influenced 'Heavy Metal' acts. But that also doesn't justify calling them 'metal' just because they were influential and had powerful riffs. It's interesting how dfferent cultures (be it even in the slightest difference) can see things completely different.
They were always an Aussie pub rock band, even when they were playing arenas, and even now.
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But I didn't "call them 'metal' just because they were influential and had powerful riffs." I made a long list of classic AC/DC songs, all pre-Back in Black, that thematically had a very heavy metal (i.e. dark, satanic, evil, electric, etc.) feel to them.
I don't think of them primarily as a metal band, but I do think metal has always been a component of the band and the band has played a pretty big part in the development of metal as well. I don't think of them as a blues
band either, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't call "Down Payment Blues" a blues
song nor deny that blues is a major part of the band's sound and feel.
Observing these influences on a band's sound really doesn't have much to do with cultural perceptions. I'm sure AC/DC at least through Bon's days (I don't have much use for them after that myself) maintained a trueness to their Aussie pub rock roots, but they also took on something bigger too. By the time of For Those About To Rock, they'd moved pretty far in the opposite direction with the cannons and shit, and were getting to be an arena band first and foremost to their own detriminent. I far prefer the pub rock rooted days myself, though the irony will always be that Bon wanted and drove them to bigger things, and didn't get to see much of it.