Black Sabbath are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler, and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. [1] The band helped define the genre with their first three albums Black Sabbath, Paranoid (both 1970), and Master of Reality ...

With their riff-based songs, extreme volume, and dark, demonic subject matter, Black Sabbath embodied key aspects of the heavy-metal aesthetic. Yet in their own words, Black Sabbath saw themselves as a “heavy underground” band.

Black Sabbath is generally considered both the first heavy metal and doom metal band. Their name came from the 1963 Italian horror anthology film I tre volti della paura, internationally titled Black Sabbath, which ...

Feb 23, 2025 · But the truth is that the essence of heavy metal found its first bona fide expression in that ageless opening riff to Black Sabbath’s eponymous theme song: the opening track on their self-titled debut which was unleashed onto an unsuspecting world on February 13, 1970.

Feb 21, 2025 · Black Sabbath, British band whose bludgeoning brand of rock defined heavy metal in the 1970s. Their songs ‘Paranoid,’ ‘Iron Man,’ and ‘War Pigs’ became metal classics, and by the end of the decade they had become the standard against which metal bands were measured.

Feb 13, 2021 · Black Sabbath's debut album gave birth to heavy metal as we know it - and we've never looked back

Feb 13, 2020 · For we’re talking here of the self-titled debut album from Black Sabbath. This was where heavy metal breathed for the first time, staring down the burning sun of commercial realism and blinding succeeding generations with an uncompromising darkness of thought, deed and riff.

Sep 12, 2019 · Why the original Black Sabbath are heavy metal's greatest band. Courtesy of Warner Records When Black Sabbath first attempted to tour America in 1970, they had a Hell of a time.

Feb 5, 2025 · Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath are reuniting for one last time, to play a fund-raising concert in Birmingham on 5 July. The heavy metal pioneers will headline a spectacular one-day festival at ...

Feb 4, 2017 · For a group that has been widely credited with creating the sound of heavy metal, influencing thousands of bands and inspiring generations of guitarists, it was a term Black Sabbath...