![]() After the band had appeared on the music show Top Gear in November of 1969, and due to the popularity of a few demos that were floating around ("The Rebel" being one) the label Vertigo decided there was enough buzz about this Birmingham outfit that they green lighted the group to record an album (the debut cataloged as VO 6). Though the band had only recently changed their name from Earth to Black Sabbath in 1969 (from the Boris Karloff movie of the same name) to avoid confusion with another band named Earth, the band had been gigging around England for a long enough period of time that there was significant interest (due in part to the support of DJ John Peel) in the band recording an album. Influenced by jazz, blues, and rock ( The Yardbirds, in particular) the self titled debut remains of the greatest albums known to heavy metal and hard rock fans around the world. Fusing dark themes, blues, rock, jazz, and with an undeniable eeriness, Black Sabbath recorded in one day what remains to the present time a truly classic album. The album that most believed spawned the genre of heavy metal. ![]() Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B. Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath (2012) The Devil You Know (2009) (as Heaven and Hell) Live from Radio City Music Hall (2007) (as Heaven and Hell) Symptom of the Universe: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978) (2004) We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n' Roll (1976) But if one wants to include Iommi's solo albums, Geezer's work with GZR and Geezer and Bill Ward's two solo albums, that's fine with me. Obviously, if anyone wants to suggest other projects that pertain to the thread, feel free, but I really would like to stay away from Ozzy Osbourne's solo work as that could, easily, be a thread unto itself (and perhaps it's been done anyway, I didn't look). ![]() Nevertheless, I think it will be a fun exercise and I hope people will be into discussing these albums and projects.īelow is what I've deemed to be the releases to be discussed here. Obviously, some of the reviews will be more detailed than others and people's interest will vary upon subject matter so your mileage may vary on this thread. My intention is to cover Black Sabbath's entire discography including live albums, compilations, and videos. ![]() So, after some thinking, I decided to go ahead and do a full Black Sabbath album by album thread as the previous one here on only included Ozzy material as well as a bit of the Dio era. ![]()
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