Tuesday 27 July 2010

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath!!

I'm going to write about Black Sabbath. This is the band who pioneered the genre of Metal along with Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep around the late 60's to beginning of 70's. And they were all British. Without this band Metal wouldn't exist. The famous four is from Birmingham England. Their lyrical theme was things about occult and their sound was heavy with heavy guitar tones. They took a name from a horror film called the Black Sabbath.  Vocalist Ozzy Osbourne is a crazy man and great entertainer if not good vocalist, Tony Iommi the master of Metal came up with great riff and Geezer Butler played bass and Bill Ward on drums. Famous songs were like Paranoid, Iron Man, War Pigs, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Symptom of Universe etc. They ruled the 70's all over the world and in the end of 70's Ozzy left the band and Black Sabbath declined little... Replacement for Ozzy was Dio the American singer and brilliant comeback with Heaven & Hell, Mob Rules and Live Evil albums. Then Ian Gillan and Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple fronted the band also Tony Martin and various musicians came and went... They are very very important part of music history.

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