Yet of these metal pioneers, Sabbath are the only one whose sound today. Compatriots like Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple were already setting new standards for volume and heaviness in the realms of psychedelia, blues-rock, and prog rock. Hard as it is now to fathom, such is the band’s legendary status and so ingrained is every note of those classic songs, but they were just four regular young men, unaware at the time just what they were about to offer onto an equally unsuspecting public. Black Sabbath's debut album is the birth of heavy metal as we now know it. It came from something intangible – a true one-of-a-kind moment in time. It came from the unique magic created when those four musicians played in a room together, each bringing their A-game to the record. Instead, the band eschewed the façade of hippy-centric peace and love that dominated the music of their peers, delving into the kind of subject matter that others dared not – fantasy and the occult, taking cues and inspiration from figures like Aleister Crowley, Dennis Wheatley, H.P. Black Sabbath Commonwealth Games opener will be on par with London 2012, says director Ziggy bows out, Madonna scares the pope and Dylan goes electric: 50. Black Sabbath is an English heavy metal band that formed in 1968 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, originally comprising Ozzy Osbourne. “Once we’d finished,” the vocalist wrote in his 2009 autobiography I Am Ozzy, “we were in the pub in time for last orders.”īut the source of Black Sabbath’s awesome power came from a much darker place than the temporal. Black Sabbath is the debut studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released on 13 February 1970 by Vertigo Records in the United Kingdom and. And it all started with their introduction on that monolithic debut album, released on the eve of Saint Valentine’s Day, 1970.Īnd yet, speak to Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward about it and you’d think the record came as naturally as breathing – that such inspired genius was as easy as flicking on a light switch to illuminate a room. The fact that Black Sabbath have influenced legends who themselves went on to shape the lives and careers of future generations speaks to the level of their importance and impact. Virtually every musician who has strapped on a guitar and peeled off riffs in the years since its release owes it an immeasurable debt. It is no exaggeration to say that Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut laid down a blueprint for heavy metal that would sprout, grow wings and blossom into something so multifaceted, brilliant and beautiful that not even its creators could ever have foreseen it.
It has been over five decades since one record written by four blokes from Birmingham changed everything.
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