I mean John Bonham's drum sound pretty much invented Heavy Metal. Look at the first "heavy metal" groups who followed: Black Sabbath, I ron Butterfly, Iron Maiden, early Metallica. They all had some hard ass drums. Heavy metal has just change. The city of LA ruined rock drums. Everyone started doing that "studio" sound with double bass pedals and shit, just watered it down. Hair metal didn't help either.
Think if those first two full Fishbone albums and the first Living Color album had been produced on some dirtier, deeper drums. Damn.