“We had nearly 10 months of legal cases where we couldn’t do anything,” explained Geezer Butler. Unsurprisingly, Ozzy penned a song about the situation (The Writ) and Sabbath vented their frustration ...
“Paranoid” is on the rise on the Hard Rock Streaming Songs chart. This frame, the single lifts four spaces, pushing from No. 14 to No. 10. Black Sabbath enters the top 10 on the list of the ...
Would there be heavy metal without Black Sabbath? Possibly. But it wouldn’t sound nearly as menacing or as dark (or as awesome) if Black Sabbath didn’t set the template in the early ‘70s.
With the exception of the Beatles, no band casts as long of a shadow as Black Sabbath. Depending on who you ask, they are the first goth band, the first Christian rock band, and the first metal band.
As you’d expect from a double album covering Black Sabbath’s 1970 and 1971 releases, the tracklist below is one-to-one with the originals. Just looking at those songs though, it’s wild how many of the ...