The early albums had an underlying gritty funky vibe,and the progression of their sound through their first 6 albums is astounding. The list of bands that had a run of albums like Sabbaths first six is not very long in my opinion. They inspired so many people to make music and spawned a genre that also spawned sub genres that have Sabbaths imprint on them.
If you compare them to The Animals or Led Zeppelin of 1970, the evolution doesn't seem so stark. No one sounds like Ozzy though, very distinctive voice.
I really enjoyed your take on this song. For reference, I've been listening to Sabbath properly since 1976. Imo they are a unique entity that you cannot put into any genre/box/label whatever. They are simply Sabbath - a fusion of heavy jazz, blues, funk and swing set to theme of being "horror" music (think musical version of horror films) and also very full of social commentary, that captured other musicians' imaginations to develop on Sabbath's ideas. There is so much variety in the 1970s Sabbath catalogue that will gobsmack you. I anticipate watching and sharing in your journey discovering the brilliance of these 4 humble working class blokes from Birmingham.
You get it! Well done! This is the genius of lead guitarist Tony iommi (eye-OWE-me), with great lyrics by bassist Geezer Butler. In 1971 no one was doing anything like this. This was the heaviest thing that existed by far.
Black Sabbath called it Heavy Rock back in the early 70's. Which it was. Back when this album was released, there was nothing else that was this heavy. They called it Heavy Rock, we called it Heavy Metal. I bought this album in 1977 on vinyl and it blew me away., I never heard anything this heavy in my life. To me, it always will be Heavy Metal because they invented the genre.
Heavy Rock! Pre-dates speed (metal), pre-dates punk, pre-dates "metal" really. So good. These guys took a left turn in the Rock&Roll path and changed music for so many bands to come.
In my opinion Black Sabbath were one of the first heavy rock bands who influenced the later metal groups like Metallica. I think Geezer Butler is one of the best bass players I've heard, and Bill Ward is underrated as a drummer. I grew up in the 70's listening to Black Sabbath, and they're still one of my favourite bands.
Ned from Spain sayin Thank YOU Mark ! Sabbath were and are the Kings of Classic Metal and Godfathers of Stoner and Doom. Tony Iommi created so many brutal beautiful iconic riffs and his bandmates were geniuses in knowing what to do with them. Geezers bass is great, not only his sense of melody and harmony but his hard hammering on those strings, playing chords and bashed notes to add to the darkness. Drumming beast Bill Ward is playing SINGLE bass drum. Watch him in the Paris 1970 video and wear a seatbelt or two. Ozzy is a legend for a reason. The big difference between them and their disciples is that they had many types of songs and approaches. Very politically and socially aware too especially about what evil really is. Good start Mark but keep going, we Sabbath-ers know you'll love it.
Gotta do War Pigs next. It really shows that Sabbath were extremely groovy, had deep guitar tones but weren’t typical ‘metal’ bands nowadays. They were the epitome groovy
it's in C Sharp tuning. As is Children Of The Grave that ends the first side. Tony and Geezer stayed down in the depths on their next album. It is a very fine rabbit hole, welcome in. (Six devastating albums in a row)
Think of metal as a house. There's different rooms (genres) throughout the house, some are decorated more elaboratly than others, but they're all part of the same connected structure. Black Sabbath is the foundation that the house was built on.
If you like Black Sabbath, you should really start at the beginning with the first song "Black Sabbath" on the first album Black Sabbath. Their music gets increasingly better. If you listen to the later first, you'll miss out on the buildup. This was called Hard Rock back then.
When Black Sabbath started, the genre metal did not exist. They came from blues, jazz and rock and evolved their own genre. So they are at least the ignition and inspiration for the metal genre. When you make a musically time travel through the first six albums you can not only see their musical evolution but also you'll experience the ignitions of several metal subgenres (Doom Metal, Power Metal, Black Metal, Stoner Rock/Metal, even Symphonic Metal (e.g. Supertzar), or Thrash Metal). Fun facts: The lyrics at that time were written by Geezer Butler (bass). There are at least two reasons for the darker mood of many Black Sabbath songs. One is an accident of Tony Iommi (guitar) where he lost parts of two fingers and had to re-learn to play guitar with prosthetics on his fingers. To reduce the pressure of the strings he tuned his guitar down a bit, leading to their typical sound. The other reason is that at that time low budget horror films were quite popular and the band had the idea to create music with this vibe.
Songwriting process: In the main, was, Tony Iommi would come up with the riff, then Ozzy would come up with the cadences, then Geezer ( bass ) would do the lyrics. Then one of the best rhythm sections, would do the rest.
Michael Earl Saunders is an American rock critic and the singer of the Californian punk band Angry Samoans. He is credited with coining the music genre label "heavy metal" in a record review for Humble Pie's As Safe as Yesterday Is in the November 12, 1970 issue of Rolling Stone.
The most commonly reacted to song on the internet is "War Pigs". There is an official AI style video that goes along with it that is actually pretty good. And a very famous live video that I believe was the Paris show. Either one is great. Very slow, droning, melody they made famous as the first to do it. If you have the idea of 4/4 time, then maybe you could call it 1/1 time -- Ha Ha! And on that album Paranoid, last song on 1st side, "Iron Man" was their biggest hit back in the 70's, and generally considered their "heaviest" song. 🫡
the reason it is heavy is because tonny had to tone down his guitar because of his fingers, and the rest of the band also lowered to fit, it is more heavy than it is metal at this point
Probably a dumb thing to say, but you sound like you must be from the same area as Billy Boyd (Pippin in LotR) is from :D I am born '94, but i will forever stand behind the fact that the 60/70s *(+ some of the 80s) era was by far the greatest time for music on this earth 🤟👹❤️
Seconding that. Supernaut is the song I feel goes most seamelessly with Void. Also "Wheels of Confusion" "Tomorrow's Dream" and "Snowblind" are right along this tempo.
Can you react '' No ticket for haters '' from S2 official. It's thai hip-hop song. Noeul Nuttarat (S2) - He is a very famous thai actor, singer and performer.
AC/DC was squechy in the 70's? This song is more Doom metal. Black Sabbath laid the ground work for Sludge, doom, thrash metal they were just Black Sabbath.
You didn’t like the video because I paused it to talk about something I enjoyed in the intro..? That’s fucking ridiculous. Honestly mate, you’re ridiculous 😂
I'll call this one now. When you get to Thin Lizzy, I believe that's your band. Just a pointless guess, but if/when you get to Thin Lizzy, I'm bettin' they're gonna be a fav. I recommend "Bad Reputation" or "It's Only Money". For Sabbath, I recommend "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath," or "Supernaut".
Saying that metal came from Sabbath doesn't mean that Sabbath needs to sound like metal. Sabbath sounds like Sabbath. Metal built on that framework
Heck a lot of Stoner metal bands still sound like Black Sabbath
Fr symptom of the universe is just pure psychedelic prog barely even metal, but it’s my second favorite Sabbath song of em all!
The early albums had an underlying gritty funky vibe,and the progression of their sound through their first 6 albums is astounding. The list of bands that had a run of albums like Sabbaths first six is not very long in my opinion. They inspired so many people to make music and spawned a genre that also spawned sub genres that have Sabbaths imprint on them.
@@domenicgalata1470 I have the t-shirt. "You can only trust yourself...and the first six Black Sabbath albums."
Imagine hearing like the Beatles in 1970 and a year later hearing this, pioneers, no one was making these sounds
If you compare them to The Animals or Led Zeppelin of 1970, the evolution doesn't seem so stark. No one sounds like Ozzy though, very distinctive voice.
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is your next song and it’ll knock your socks off
This is my favorite Black Sabbath album. Maybe of all time actually. Thanks!!!😊
I really enjoyed your take on this song. For reference, I've been listening to Sabbath properly since 1976. Imo they are a unique entity that you cannot put into any genre/box/label whatever. They are simply Sabbath - a fusion of heavy jazz, blues, funk and swing set to theme of being "horror" music (think musical version of horror films) and also very full of social commentary, that captured other musicians' imaginations to develop on Sabbath's ideas.
There is so much variety in the 1970s Sabbath catalogue that will gobsmack you. I anticipate watching and sharing in your journey discovering the brilliance of these 4 humble working class blokes from Birmingham.
sweet leaf off this same album is killer
You get it! Well done! This is the genius of lead guitarist Tony iommi (eye-OWE-me), with great lyrics by bassist Geezer Butler. In 1971 no one was doing anything like this. This was the heaviest thing that existed by far.
Black Sabbath called it Heavy Rock back in the early 70's. Which it was.
Back when this album was released, there was nothing else that was this heavy.
They called it Heavy Rock, we called it Heavy Metal.
I bought this album in 1977 on vinyl and it blew me away., I never heard anything this heavy in my life.
To me, it always will be Heavy Metal because they invented the genre.
Great reaction to a great song, ty! Now I'm all hyped for the album one 🤘
Time to check out their song "planet caravan".
Heavy Rock! Pre-dates speed (metal), pre-dates punk, pre-dates "metal" really. So good. These guys took a left turn in the Rock&Roll path and changed music for so many bands to come.
It’s a testament to how much metal has evolved that you are perceiving Sabbath as “not too heavy”.
Sabbath will often give you 3 or 4 songs worth of riffs and tempo in every track! There best songs all take you on a journey.
In my opinion Black Sabbath were one of the first heavy rock bands who influenced the later metal groups like Metallica. I think Geezer Butler is one of the best bass players I've heard, and Bill Ward is underrated as a drummer. I grew up in the 70's listening to Black Sabbath, and they're still one of my favourite bands.
Ned from Spain sayin Thank YOU Mark ! Sabbath were and are the Kings of Classic Metal and Godfathers of Stoner and Doom. Tony Iommi created so many brutal beautiful iconic riffs and his bandmates were geniuses in knowing what to do with them. Geezers bass is great, not only his sense of melody and harmony but his hard hammering on those strings, playing chords and bashed notes to add to the darkness. Drumming beast Bill Ward is playing SINGLE bass drum. Watch him in the Paris 1970 video and wear a seatbelt or two. Ozzy is a legend for a reason. The big difference between them and their disciples is that they had many types of songs and approaches. Very politically and socially aware too especially about what evil really is. Good start Mark but keep going, we Sabbath-ers know you'll love it.
Gotta do War Pigs next.
It really shows that Sabbath were extremely groovy, had deep guitar tones but weren’t typical ‘metal’ bands nowadays. They were the epitome groovy
it's in C Sharp tuning. As is Children Of The Grave that ends the first side. Tony and Geezer stayed down in the depths on their next album.
It is a very fine rabbit hole, welcome in. (Six devastating albums in a row)
Think of metal as a house. There's different rooms (genres) throughout the house, some are decorated more elaboratly than others, but they're all part of the same connected structure. Black Sabbath is the foundation that the house was built on.
as someone else said - Sabbath's first 6 albums arent Heavy Metal even though they helped invent it - theyre Sabbath and on their own.
Thank you for your work.
If you like Black Sabbath, you should really start at the beginning with the first song "Black Sabbath" on the first album Black Sabbath. Their music gets increasingly better. If you listen to the later first, you'll miss out on the buildup. This was called Hard Rock back then.
When Black Sabbath started, the genre metal did not exist. They came from blues, jazz and rock and evolved their own genre. So they are at least the ignition and inspiration for the metal genre. When you make a musically time travel through the first six albums you can not only see their musical evolution but also you'll experience the ignitions of several metal subgenres (Doom Metal, Power Metal, Black Metal, Stoner Rock/Metal, even Symphonic Metal (e.g. Supertzar), or Thrash Metal).
Fun facts: The lyrics at that time were written by Geezer Butler (bass). There are at least two reasons for the darker mood of many Black Sabbath songs. One is an accident of Tony Iommi (guitar) where he lost parts of two fingers and had to re-learn to play guitar with prosthetics on his fingers. To reduce the pressure of the strings he tuned his guitar down a bit, leading to their typical sound. The other reason is that at that time low budget horror films were quite popular and the band had the idea to create music with this vibe.
Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Zeppelin the foundation of metal.
Songwriting process: In the main, was, Tony Iommi would come up with the riff, then Ozzy would come up with the cadences, then Geezer ( bass ) would do the lyrics. Then one of the best rhythm sections, would do the rest.
Welcome to mind-blowing Black Sabbath transitions. Try Hand of Doom or Fairies Wear Boots for some more
Mark’s doing a reaction to the Paranoid album so you are going to get both of those! 🤘
All the Black Sabbath with Ozzy please!
Legend song .
Considering that the term Heavy Metal was coined to describe Black Sabbaths music back in 1970 so I would consider that Sabbath are Heavy Metal.
Michael Earl Saunders is an American rock critic and the singer of the Californian punk band Angry Samoans. He is credited with coining the music genre label "heavy metal" in a record review for Humble Pie's As Safe as Yesterday Is in the November 12, 1970 issue of Rolling Stone.
This was Edward Van Halen's favorite Sabbath song.
No single Sabbath song is a single song. They'll give you two, three or more complete change-ups.
…..more Sabbath
🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
The most commonly reacted to song on the internet is "War Pigs". There is an official AI style video that goes along with it that is actually pretty good. And a very famous live video that I believe was the Paris show. Either one is great. Very slow, droning, melody they made famous as the first to do it. If you have the idea of 4/4 time, then maybe you could call it 1/1 time -- Ha Ha! And on that album Paranoid, last song on 1st side, "Iron Man" was their biggest hit back in the 70's, and generally considered their "heaviest" song. 🫡
Black Sabbath 1968-eternity🤘
Not many power chords in this song, mainly single notes. The instruments were tuned to C sharp standard on this album for that sludgy sound.
the reason it is heavy is because tonny had to tone down his guitar because of his fingers, and the rest of the band also lowered to fit, it is more heavy than it is metal at this point
Probably a dumb thing to say, but you sound like you must be from the same area as Billy Boyd (Pippin in LotR) is from :D
I am born '94, but i will forever stand behind the fact that the 60/70s *(+ some of the 80s) era was by far the greatest time for music on this earth 🤟👹❤️
Great reaction. Maybe try their song “Supernaut” from the Vol 4 album. It’s my favorite. Thanks
Seconding that. Supernaut is the song I feel goes most seamelessly with Void. Also "Wheels of Confusion" "Tomorrow's Dream" and "Snowblind" are right along this tempo.
Grunge before grunge :)
Can you react '' No ticket for haters '' from S2 official. It's thai hip-hop song.
Noeul Nuttarat (S2) - He is a very famous thai actor, singer and performer.
No thanks
this is distortion heavy blues rock “proto-metal”. it wasn’t til the band Judas Priest cut out the blue notes that it really became metal.
A blues band, just a really dirty go of it
Stoner rock it was 😉
Dude, stoner rock is in the metal family
AC/DC was squechy in the 70's? This song is more Doom metal. Black Sabbath laid the ground work for Sludge, doom, thrash metal they were just Black Sabbath.
1:49 That was the point when i don't like your video. Not even the intro is finished and you have to put up a finger. This gives you a finger down.
You didn’t like the video because I paused it to talk about something I enjoyed in the intro..? That’s fucking ridiculous. Honestly mate, you’re ridiculous 😂
I'll call this one now. When you get to Thin Lizzy, I believe that's your band. Just a pointless guess, but if/when you get to Thin Lizzy, I'm bettin' they're gonna be a fav. I recommend "Bad Reputation" or "It's Only Money". For Sabbath, I recommend "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath," or "Supernaut".