Black Sabbath overview
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- Iron Man(07:04)
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Paranoid(03:21)
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Planet Caravan(04:25)
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Heaven and Hell(14:24)
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Black Sabbath(08:24)
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Dying for Love(05:53)
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War Pigs / Luke's Wall(07:56)
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath(05:46)
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Children of the Sea(06:07)
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I Witness(04:58)
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The Sabbath Stones(06:48)
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Back to Eden(03:57)
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Stonehenge(01:58)
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Heaven in Black(04:05)
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Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath(05:44)
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Black Sabbath bio
Black Sabbath is an English heavy metal band formed in 1968 in Birmingham, 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.
Black Sabbath were 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 in 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 th Full bioRead more
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