Degrees of Black Sabbath

Many people have heard of the game Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The rules are simple: to find the shortest path from a given actor to Kevin Bacon by linking one film role to another (math nerds play a similar game with Paul Erdos).

Since Black Sabbath are generally held to be the progenitors of all metal, I thought I'd apply the same principle using the Similar Artists tab on Metal Archives. For example, because Sabbath is listed on Judas Priest's Similar Artists, they have One Degree of Black Sabbath. Similarly, Iron Maiden has Two Degrees of Black Sabbath (Maiden -> Priest -> Sabbath).

Some other notable bands (for the sake of simplicity, I'm only using the top 20 similar artists):

Candlemass: One Degree of Black Sabbath

Helloween: Two Degrees of Black Sabbath (Helloween -> Judas Priest -> Black Sabbath)

Overkill: Three Degrees of Black Sabbath (Overkill -> Metal Church -> Judas Priest -> Black Sabbath)

Death: Seven Degrees of Black Sabbath (Death -> Possessed -> Slayer -> Death Angel -> Overkill -> Metal Church -> Judas Priest -> Black Sabbath)

Bathory: Seven Degrees of Black Sabbath (Bathory -> Sodom -> Kreator -> Death Angel -> Overkill -> Metal Church -> Judas Priest -> Black Sabbath)

I may have made a mistake in the above paths (in fact, I almost certainly did for Death and Bathory; it gets really complicated once you get past one or two degrees), but you get the idea. So: what's the most obscure band you can name, and what's their Degree of Black Sabbath?

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