Label: Strange Days Records (Japan), POCE-1097
Style: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
Country: Birmingham, England
Time: 42:57
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 304 Mb
Charts: UK #8, AUS #8, CAN #29, FIN #13, GER #8, NL #6, US #23. UK & Canada: Gold, US: Platinum.
Listening to Black Sabbath’s self-titled 1970 album is a lesson in heavy metal history. Though bands such as Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple influenced the formation of the genre, Black Sabbath is often considered the first true heavy metal band, perhaps because they were the first to devote their focus to the darker themes that became an often controversial element of metal. Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin also has been quoted as saying he thought Black Sabbath was the first true heavy metal band. Living in an impoverished English town where career choices for most were limited to factory worker or criminal, the boys of Black Sabbath could not relate to the idealistic hippie music that was popular when the band formed in 1968, considering themselves a blues band. Guitarist Tony Iommi, observed the lines that formed at the local movie theater whenever it showed horror films and remarked that if people were so willing to pay to be scared, perhaps they should try playing evil-sounding music. With that in mind, they took their name from a Boris Karloff film.
Full version: (classicrockhistory.com/black-sabbath-album-review/) Review by Mal Benson.
Listening to Black Sabbath’s self-titled 1970 album is a lesson in heavy metal history. Though bands such as Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple influenced the formation of the genre, Black Sabbath is often considered the first true heavy metal band, perhaps because they were the first to devote their focus to the darker themes that became an often controversial element of metal. Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin also has been quoted as saying he thought Black Sabbath was the first true heavy metal band. Living in an impoverished English town where career choices for most were limited to factory worker or criminal, the boys of Black Sabbath could not relate to the idealistic hippie music that was popular when the band formed in 1968, considering themselves a blues band. Guitarist Tony Iommi, observed the lines that formed at the local movie theater whenever it showed horror films and remarked that if people were so willing to pay to be scared, perhaps they should try playing evil-sounding music. With that in mind, they took their name from a Boris Karloff film.
Full version: (classicrockhistory.com/black-sabbath-album-review/) Review by Mal Benson.
01. Black Sabbath (06:21)
02. The Wizard (04:24)
03. Behind the Wall of Sleep (03:37)
04. N.I.B. (06:07)
05. Evil Woman (03:25)
06. Sleeping Village (03:46)
07. The Warning (10:32)
08. Wicked World (04:43)
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