Black Sabbath (Album)

Occupation

• Ozzy Osbourne: Vocals
• Tony Iommi: guitar
• Geezer Butler: Bass
• Bill Ward: Drums

Black Sabbath is the debut album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath. It was on Friday released 13 February 1970 at the United Kingdom.

Genesis

Since there was already a band named Earth, the group changed its name nor during the recordings in Black Sabbath. The album was recorded in 12 hours on 17 November 1969. On the original record covers, the name of Ozzy Osbourne mistakenly " Ossie " was written.

The intro to Behind the Wall of Sleep is called Wasp, the intro of NIB bassically means and the outro ( incorrectly stated as an intro ) of the song Sleeping Village was called A Bit of Finger.

In gatefold cover of the LP an inverted Latin cross is to be seen, which was inserted by the record company without the knowledge of the band. However, the band even took this on a positive:

"However, we were very excited about the artwork for the first album. There have hardly time bands get a gatefold sleeve, and also the intro with the bell was awesome ( it was also added by the record company - jj ). Suddenly we ever got invitations to black masses. I did not know what that was. "

The original LP of the European edition contained seven pieces, Wicked World, there was only a single. In a later episode Wicked World has been added to the CD compilations. The original U.S. and Canadian versions of the album contained the song Evil Woman held the title Wicked World, due to publishing rights. The re-mastered re-release contains both songs.

Importance

Many critics call this album mainly because of the title track as the definitive beginning of Heavy Metal. On this first disc, the influence of Led Zeppelin in the form of blues rhythms is still audible.

2003 Black Sabbath reached the 241st place in the selection of the 500 best albums of all time Rolling Stone magazine.

Marco Götz from Metal Hammer wrote on February 13, 2013, for 43 years after the appearance "have the dark riffs of reef - god Tony Iommi lost none of its magical allure ."

Title list

Meaning of the lyrics

• Black Sabbath - as a name for both band and song name was the film The Three Faces of Fear with Boris Karloff. The film's title was, in some countries, Black Sabbath. Although the song is often cited as evidence of an occult background of the group, it is rather a warning against the occult, according to the experience of the Catholic -bred bassist Geezer Butler in the course of his employment with magic and Satanism, to consequently his " terrible things " happened.
• Behind the Wall of Sleep is inspired by HP Lovecraft short story Beyond the Wall of Sleep.
• N.I.B. written from Lucifer's perspective. Many critics interpreted this song as evidence of a satanic background of the band. It has often been claimed that N.I.B. for " Nativity in Black" would be. Several tribute albums also bear this name. In reality, the title refers to the nickname of drummer Bill Ward.
• Evil Woman is a cover version of the band Crow. The original was released a year earlier.
• Warning was originally written by Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation and in 1967 published for the first time ..