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Black Sabbath is an English heavy metal band formed in 1968 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, originally comprising Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums). In the early ’70s they were the first to pair heavily distorted, sonically dissonant blues-rock at slow speeds with lyrics about drugs, mental pain and abominations of war, thus giving birth to generations upon generations of metal bands that followed in their wake. They are often credited with creating the Heavy Metal genre.
Black Sabbath was formed in Aston, a poor district of Birmingham damaged by bombing during World War II, under the name Polka Tulk Blues Band (soon shortened to “Polka Tulk”), later Earth. Initially a blues-rock band, Earth moved in a darker direction when their bassist, Geezer Butler, a fan of the black magic novels of Dennis Wheatley, wrote lyrics for an occult-themed song titled “Black Sabbath” (the song name was inspired by a 1963 Mario Bava film), and Tony Iommi wrote a riff based on the tritone, sometimes called “diablos en musica” (“the Devil in Music”). In their Last Supper concert film, the band stated that the song is based on an experience Geezer had one night when he saw a black object at the end of his...
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Top 10 Black Sabbath Songs
Paranoid
Iron Man
War Pigs
Planet Caravan
Electric Funeral
The Wizard
Black Sabbath
Children Of The Grave
Sweet Leaf
Heaven And Hell
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Top 10 Black Sabbath Albums
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
Master Of Reality
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Heaven and Hell
We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'N' Roll
Sabotage
Mob Rules
Never Say Die!
Past Lives
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