You can't imagine the reactions we had when playing this new in 1970. Their were 6 of us high schoolers crammed in my friend's bedroom when we put this on the stereo. My friends sister yelled 'turn it up' and we were mesmerized, never hearing anything like it before. You need to hear the studio original and the entire debut album in order to truly appreciate how shocked we were by the end. Start your Black Sabbath journey with this amazing album and enjoy! Pioneers of Metal for sure, they are the gold standard of Classic Heavy Metal. Enjoy! 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶🔥
Geezer, Bill... and the Riff Master Tony Iommi... who by the way... is uploading all his songs in his youtube channel, all Black Sabbath line ups... and his solo and colaboration albums, with Glenn Hugues, Dio, Ian Gillian...
Bill Ward, the drummer, is probably one of the most underrated in the business. You should delve into the collection just to hear how he fills out the songs.
WELCOME TO THE BEGINNING… OK NOW LADDY. SECOND SONG OF THE ALBUM, THE WIZARD. KEEP THAT BALL ROLLING. THE FIRST SIX ALBUMS ARE THE FOUNDATION OF HEAVY METAL. I GREW UP WITH THIS AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN N STILL ROCKIN IT AT 69. GREAT REACTIONS. ROCK ON 👊🖖
Fun to see you react to this one. You're spot on with The Exorcist comment. Black Sabbath seems pretty tame by modern standards, but it's the wellspring, the sourcce. That thick guitar tone, the sinister tritone (known as the 'devil's interval') of the main riff, the ominous vibe, the dark, occult lyrics, the thunder of the rhythm section once it kicks off - all the key ingredients of modern metal are there. Even now, I still love the audacity of that massive opening chord. That alone is metal as fuck to me! Love to hear you react to more Sabbath. I'd suggest Into the Void, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Iron Man, War Pigs, Supernaut, Children of the Grave, Symptom of the Universe...
I never really got metal until I discovered Sabbath when they released 13. Getting into them made metal click for me instantly. Each of the four musicians here are individually on any reasonable list of the best in their class.
A genre born out of a workplace injury. Tony Iomi lost the end of his finger in a steel press. To help with guitar he fashioned a cover for the finger from melted plastic...the jiggling of that on the strings a major part of the metal sound. Tony suffered discomfort playing guitar his whole career...but did what he loved. Fkn Trooper 💪👌 You gotta hear War Pigs...I wouldn't bother with unrelated MV...black screen lyric video is powerful AF.
Hearing this in 1970 3 of us at John Ogilvie High School Burnbank this was an eye opener along with Uriah Heep's first album. The greatest time in music along with Purple in rock.
As more and more time goes by, I'm more convinced that the original Black Sabbath lineup is one of the best groups ever. This is another great example - ua-cam.com/video/LqsycmKPSbY/v-deo.html
Trends in music and bands drop suddenly. Back then it felt like Sabbath sprung from the ground in an old decommishioned church yard. Some loved them and some feared them
It's really the first doom metal song. There were other songs that were arguably metal, but this song was slower and darker with really creepy lyrics. It's at least one of my favorites by Sabbath. The feel and imagery are quite unique.
Loved your reaction. Honest and enjoyable. Yes this is actually musical. It is the birth of metal, although Black Sabbath has said repeatedly that they don't like that term applied to them. They consider their style to be hard rock. But this is good music, good songwriting, subtle in it's use of volume and heaviness, deeply rooted in blues and, .if you can believe it, jazz. A thorough listen of later Black Sabbath will show you that they have a lot of jazz influence, especially Bill Ward the drummer. I have been loving Black Sabbath since 7th grade when I first heard the vinyl of this song. It blew me away so much that I learned how to play the entire album by playing along with it for hours and hours. That's how I learned rock guitar. In middle school they had a talent show and my first band played N.I.B. at it. Surprised the hell out of everybody, I can tell you! Next you should listen to The Wizard and N.I.B. from the first Sabbath album. The Wizard is Sabbath's tribute to The Lord of the Rings and features Ozzy playing harmonica as well as singing. Is a good song. If possible, you must hear N.I.B. as it was originally done on this album, where there are 4 songs that go together into a single song: Wasp/ Behind the Wall/ Bassically/ N.I.B. They make for an amazing listening experience. Cheers!
no doubt someone else has commented but the reason Bill Ward uses drum patterns youre not expecting is that hes not a metal drummer, hes a jazz man first and foremost. He fucking swings.
The subgenre of metal that specifically is inspired by this song (and a number of others from Black Sabbath) is called Doom Metal. Slow to mid tempo, fuzzy distortion, heavy riffs. Often clean vocals, but sometimes growls, too. Stoner Metal is a related subgenre with very heavy Sabbath influence, particularly from songs like "Sweet Leaf". If you end up enjoying more Black Sabbath, you might enjoy some other bands that follow in those genres, too. For more Sabbath songs, if you go chronological you could do "The Wizard", the second song off this album and another inspiration for later metal. Then go to the next album, Paranoid (from the same year), and do "War Pigs", "Iron Man", or "Hand of Doom". Their third album, Master of Reality, is many people's overall favorite with classics like "Sweet Leaf", "Children of the Grave", and "Into the Void". That's too many songs now. Don't worry, their recording techniques do become cleaner, this first album is very raw compared to the rest.
Loved this reaction. Sabbath still the original and the best imo. I love loads of different metal genre’s but Sabbath stands the test of time and I’ve been listening to them for 45 years eeek The whole band complements each other the perfect line up.
There's actually a conversation as to what the first metal song was. It's either Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath...or it's Helter Skelter by the Beatles from what I'm hearing Black Sabbath I believe is credited as the first metal band, but they may not have created the first metal song.
It's not Helter Skelter. Helter Skelter has almost no bass and has no heavy drums. It has no power chord. It only has some distortion, which does not equate to what Sabbath did.
@mikeg.4211 Helter Skelter could be considered a prototype metal song imo. Also, I believe Helter Skelter was the first, but Black Sabbath really set things up for what metal can be.
@@markabusireactions that is statement made by people who don’t understand what the word means. Hearing something doesn’t mean the people saying it know what they are talking about.
Bill Ward is a jazz based drummer like John Bonham was. Sabbath reformed and put out some more fire tracks like God is dead and End of the beginning. Ozzy's vocals still kill it and watching him play harmonica on The Wizard rehearsal (2017) is amazing.
There was nothing remotely like this on the radio in 1970. Just think, all their stuff if like this. the next song on the album is The Wizard, you will not be disappointed, also they put a lot of effort into their studio versions to make every song a little musical journey. Thanks for a great reaction.
The album was recorded in 12 hours. When I was a lid innthe 1970s, there was just heavy Metal. Now there are tons of dubgenresof metal. On the furst several Sabbath albums, just about every third song was the birth of one of those future subgenres.
Check out Black Sabbath war pigs live in Paris 1970. The entire band is at 100% but bill Ward puts on a clinic on the drums. You absolutely nailed it with the exorcist analogy.
The only almost "proto-metal" before this was Pink Floyd "The Nile Song" (yes Pink Floyd I know very Weird) and that followed the even earlier Beatles "Helter Skelter"
There's a lot of proto-metal or ur-metal songs out there if you look for them. Consider Boris the Spider by the Who, 1966. To say nothing of some of the riffs on Led Zeppelin's first album, songs from Deep Purple's first album like Mandrake root. Prodigal Boy by the Amboy Dukes (very early Ted Nugent). King Crimson's Mars. Lots of really obscure bands like Astaroth with songs like Satanispiritus. And maybe Steppenwolf with Born to be Wild, which, after all, is possibly where the phrase comes from, in the line "Heavy metal thunder!" Not a particularly hard song, but to some extent heavy metal as a genre is about the attitude, which that song is all about. And then you have all of the proto-punk stuff like the Stooges informing heavy metal and vice versa to some extent. This is the sixties atmosphere into which Black Sabbath is born, and they took all of this sort of chunk and attitude, and put it all together to really kick-start the genre proper. It isn't then until Judas Priest, probably, that you have a band that has taken the identity of heavy metal band and run with it a few years later. Consider that the Scorpions started in 1972 (though they were a bit more proggy at first, and probably more hard rock properly speaking).
Grand Funk is the Grand Daddy of Metal. Black Sabbath started their career opening shows for Grand Funk. The red album tour. They loved Grand Funks heavy bass and fuzz guitar and ran with it. They stole Grand Funks Fuzz Guitar and Nuclear Sirens, and even the name, Paranoid. Grand Funk went in a different direction and had many styles. Listen to " Paranoid " and " Sins a good Mans brother " for the earliest metal. The whole Red Album is hard.
Yessss Black Sabbath were so cool! Good reaction, thank you and thank you to whoever requested it. Now when you think of Ozzy it's just that zombie shell of a man but back in the day fuck yeah! You've probably heard War Pigs but in case you haven't give it a listen because it's chef's kiss
metal/hard rock, doesnt rlly matter big grey area with iron miaden, judas preist etc. depends on ur def of metal or hard rock. good music is what it is
Better late than never. Seriously :D These guys made this song literally a 'Sabbath', hense it's slow and somber pace. They are very good at doing whatever they want.
Don't forget that our parents had gone through serious shite through WW2 and Korea so the militaristic regime was how you were raised. Then this came along and I had to keep it in the garage , just in case
Some people would suggest that HELTER SKELTER by The Beatles was the first actual metal song. At least I've read and heard that suggested a number of times. The Beatles White Album was released a couple of years before Black Sabbath. Have a listen to HELTER SKELTER if you're not familiar with it. At the time there was really nothing else like it.
I grew up with Black Sabbath. I suggest you react to a studio lyric video of Into the Void, Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath and Symptom of the Universe. of Tony Iommi (eye-OWE-me), lead guitar, Geezer Butler, bass, Bill Ward, drums. You should have reacted to the album studio version, which is much more metal. and is heavier, and the drums sound much much better. Metal has nothing to do with speed.
Oh! It's a live version- Great. If anything probably doom metal. Saw Black Sabbath 1971 & 72 and Ozzy solo during the 80 and 90s, many times, then Black Sabbath again in 2000s including the End Tour. Ozzy is a treasure- bless him. Bill Ward was/is a fantastic drummer and well recognised as such now. You'll see- wait until the end. The final bit of which you missed off the last four notes.
Bill ward is one of the greatest drummers ever i put him easily in the top 5 combined with tony iomies prosthesis on hus finger tips he had to tune the guitar way down and it became his trademark sound and geezer on bass ozzys personal demons caused him to be kicked out but 50 yeara later thr reuinion tour sounded just as good
I remember buying this album when it came out in the record stores. Took it home for a listen and life was never the same again. IMHO, it's the most impactful rock album ever made. There have been many better albums, but nothing sounding like this had ever come out before and it changed the game.
I was 11 when this was released and had it played to me by friends throughout the seventies. I always thought it was a shame the great music wasn’t matched by the lyrics which I found a bit obvious and only creepy in a schoolboy way. Sabbath influenced punk more than the Ramones or garage music, I think, and had a good laugh when the New Musical Express magazine declared the Sex Pistols album Never Mind The Bollocks the best heavy metal album of 1977 (or 78, can’t remember). Good reaction though. The album really was unlike anything knocking about at the time.
This was an interesting alternate recording. It's not the studio version from the album... the drums here are very dry sounding. It's maybe an early outtake version. Or a different recording they made just for the promo perhaps?
You should react to Pappo's Blues Volume 1, ua-cam.com/video/jMWQCDPs8Vo/v-deo.html ... it is from 1971, although it was probably generated before, so it is totally parallel and contemporary to Black Sabbath... Pappo is a pioneering guitarist and singer of Argentine national rock... he will explode your head and It will lead you to reconsider where heavy metal really emerged.
Pappo's Blues is a kickass album but it was recorded after the release of Black Sabbath and actually recorded about a year later than Black Sabbath was recorded
Was a big Black Sabbath fan when they came out, and got tickets to see them when they came to town, it was an awesome show, but miss matched Genres, a new band called Yes opened for them, and by the time Sabbath came out, i was like fffff that i want more Yes, but Sabbath Killed it also, just a miss match of bands.
Ozzy was 21 when he recorded this. All the excessive booze and drugs hadn't taken a toll on his voice or body yet. It's not so much the pace of Black sabbath songs that make it metal, it's the overall sound of the band that inspired metal. Also, there was only bass, guitar & drums with Ozzy's voice over the top. Cheers!
Many years now since I listened to it, but isn't this slower than the studio recording on the first album*? Maybe my memory fails me, but I like it though. *UK release on Friday 13th (February 1970) if you are superstitious...
If this 'IS' your first ever time listening to Black Sabbath then you should have listened to the album version, not the live version. Oh well..... still good but this version is perhaps more for those who already know it.
You can't imagine the reactions we had when playing this new in 1970. Their were 6 of us high schoolers crammed in my friend's bedroom when we put this on the stereo. My friends sister yelled 'turn it up' and we were mesmerized, never hearing anything like it before. You need to hear the studio original and the entire debut album in order to truly appreciate how shocked we were by the end. Start your Black Sabbath journey with this amazing album and enjoy! Pioneers of Metal for sure, they are the gold standard of Classic Heavy Metal. Enjoy! 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶🔥
I was in a friend's basement. Psychedelics may have been involved.😅
Black sabbath have an amazing catalogue of fantastic classics. And Bill Ward must be one of the best drummers of all time
Lets not forget Geezer Butler.
Geezer, Bill... and the Riff Master Tony Iommi... who by the way... is uploading all his songs in his youtube channel, all Black Sabbath line ups... and his solo and colaboration albums, with Glenn Hugues, Dio, Ian Gillian...
Bill Ward, the drummer, is probably one of the most underrated in the business. You should delve into the collection just to hear how he fills out the songs.
Sabbath is the reason I started playing bass. Dude, you have no idea just how much of a shock they were back in the early 70s.
WELCOME TO THE BEGINNING… OK NOW LADDY. SECOND SONG OF THE ALBUM, THE WIZARD. KEEP THAT BALL ROLLING. THE FIRST SIX ALBUMS ARE THE FOUNDATION OF HEAVY METAL.
I GREW UP WITH THIS AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN N STILL ROCKIN IT AT 69. GREAT REACTIONS. ROCK ON 👊🖖
Wizard is even better... and then comes Behind the wall of Sleep and N.I.B which are even better again...
Fun to see you react to this one.
You're spot on with The Exorcist comment. Black Sabbath seems pretty tame by modern standards, but it's the wellspring, the sourcce. That thick guitar tone, the sinister tritone (known as the 'devil's interval') of the main riff, the ominous vibe, the dark, occult lyrics, the thunder of the rhythm section once it kicks off - all the key ingredients of modern metal are there. Even now, I still love the audacity of that massive opening chord. That alone is metal as fuck to me!
Love to hear you react to more Sabbath. I'd suggest Into the Void, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Iron Man, War Pigs, Supernaut, Children of the Grave, Symptom of the Universe...
The Sabbath rabbit hole is deep and beautiful.
I never really got metal until I discovered Sabbath when they released 13. Getting into them made metal click for me instantly.
Each of the four musicians here are individually on any reasonable list of the best in their class.
The genesis of metal 🤘🏻
It’s also very fitting that this album was released on Friday the 13th.
……remember, this came out shortly after The Beatles (Abbey Road) think of the contrast in the music ❤️🎸🤘🏼
#octopus’sgarden
🤣😂🤣
Black Sabbath Ruuuuules! 🤘😜♥️
Don't no what your talking about.
A genre born out of a workplace injury. Tony Iomi lost the end of his finger in a steel press. To help with guitar he fashioned a cover for the finger from melted plastic...the jiggling of that on the strings a major part of the metal sound. Tony suffered discomfort playing guitar his whole career...but did what he loved. Fkn Trooper 💪👌 You gotta hear War Pigs...I wouldn't bother with unrelated MV...black screen lyric video is powerful AF.
10x this. For the love of Satan, the music video of War Pigs needs to be banned from reaction channels.
Track for track what a album. You needed to be there the day it was released.
Hearing this in 1970 3 of us at John Ogilvie High School Burnbank this was an eye opener along with Uriah Heep's first album. The greatest time in music along with Purple in rock.
As more and more time goes by, I'm more convinced that the original Black Sabbath lineup is one of the best groups ever. This is another great example - ua-cam.com/video/LqsycmKPSbY/v-deo.html
Trends in music and bands drop suddenly. Back then it felt like Sabbath sprung from the ground in an old decommishioned church yard. Some loved them and some feared them
Always check out the original version first before listening to a live version.
This is the stuff we used to get high and listen to.
It's really the first doom metal song. There were other songs that were arguably metal, but this song was slower and darker with really creepy lyrics.
It's at least one of my favorites by Sabbath. The feel and imagery are quite unique.
One of my favorite songs, it's beautiful. Thanks for sharing your first listen.
They were the influence of every Metal band. And this was the first track of their first Album. Look at when it first came out
Saw the guys live in the mid 70’s. Memories, have a number of their albums on vinyl
"Master of Reality" was the first Sabbath album where Tony down-tuned his guitar. The first "Heavy Metal" album IMO.
Loved your reaction. Honest and enjoyable. Yes this is actually musical. It is the birth of metal, although Black Sabbath has said repeatedly that they don't like that term applied to them. They consider their style to be hard rock. But this is good music, good songwriting, subtle in it's use of volume and heaviness, deeply rooted in blues and, .if you can believe it, jazz. A thorough listen of later Black Sabbath will show you that they have a lot of jazz influence, especially Bill Ward the drummer. I have been loving Black Sabbath since 7th grade when I first heard the vinyl of this song. It blew me away so much that I learned how to play the entire album by playing along with it for hours and hours. That's how I learned rock guitar. In middle school they had a talent show and my first band played N.I.B. at it. Surprised the hell out of everybody, I can tell you!
Next you should listen to The Wizard and N.I.B. from the first Sabbath album. The Wizard is Sabbath's tribute to The Lord of the Rings and features Ozzy playing harmonica as well as singing. Is a good song. If possible, you must hear N.I.B. as it was originally done on this album, where there are 4 songs that go together into a single song: Wasp/ Behind the Wall/ Bassically/ N.I.B. They make for an amazing listening experience. Cheers!
You were expecting the beginning of Thrash/Death Metal, but you get the beginning of Doom Metal.
I think so too yeah
They also have the first trash and death metal songs 😂
If you are in to Black Sabbath and Rush, Then you are sorted.
The first metal song is "I Put A Spell On You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins in 1956.
that's not metal.
The first time I heard this song I had a nightmare and in it I was screaming "oh please god help me" for someone to open a door
10 year old me was handed Black Sabbath-Paranoid on 8-track.
That was a game changer.
Do War Pigs studio version next.
Nothing sounded like this when it came out
no doubt someone else has commented but the reason Bill Ward uses drum patterns youre not expecting is that hes not a metal drummer, hes a jazz man first and foremost. He fucking swings.
The subgenre of metal that specifically is inspired by this song (and a number of others from Black Sabbath) is called Doom Metal. Slow to mid tempo, fuzzy distortion, heavy riffs. Often clean vocals, but sometimes growls, too. Stoner Metal is a related subgenre with very heavy Sabbath influence, particularly from songs like "Sweet Leaf". If you end up enjoying more Black Sabbath, you might enjoy some other bands that follow in those genres, too. For more Sabbath songs, if you go chronological you could do "The Wizard", the second song off this album and another inspiration for later metal. Then go to the next album, Paranoid (from the same year), and do "War Pigs", "Iron Man", or "Hand of Doom". Their third album, Master of Reality, is many people's overall favorite with classics like "Sweet Leaf", "Children of the Grave", and "Into the Void". That's too many songs now. Don't worry, their recording techniques do become cleaner, this first album is very raw compared to the rest.
The outro is classic music s level creativity
This should be labelled the first song that influenced a thousand Heavy Metal bands. Its not metal, its heavy rock.
It _is_ metal, which has overlap with heavy rock.
@@isveryniceyes it’s really not metal. If you think this is metal then you don’t know metal.
@@pvwulfe6662 Define metal.
Bro this is metal what are you talking about lol clearly you don’t know much about music
@@dennisthemenace671this was the creation of metal so it is metal
Loved this reaction. Sabbath still the original and the best imo. I love loads of different metal genre’s but Sabbath stands the test of time and I’ve been listening to them for 45 years eeek The whole band complements each other the perfect line up.
Deep Purple, 1968
CAN monster movies also 1968
Bill Ward is something else.
Love the exorcist analogy. You get it
There's actually a conversation as to what the first metal song was.
It's either Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath...or it's Helter Skelter by the Beatles from what I'm hearing
Black Sabbath I believe is credited as the first metal band, but they may not have created the first metal song.
See I personally thought it was Helter Skelter but I didn’t wanna annoy anyone by saying that lol
It's not Helter Skelter. Helter Skelter has almost no bass and has no heavy drums. It has no power chord. It only has some distortion, which does not equate to what Sabbath did.
@mikeg.4211 Helter Skelter could be considered a prototype metal song imo.
Also, I believe Helter Skelter was the first, but Black Sabbath really set things up for what metal can be.
Tbh, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard Helter Skelter be called the first metal song, so there must be something to it
@@markabusireactions that is statement made by people who don’t understand what the word means. Hearing something doesn’t mean the people saying it know what they are talking about.
Bill Ward is a jazz based drummer like John Bonham was. Sabbath reformed and put out some more fire tracks like God is dead and End of the beginning. Ozzy's vocals still kill it and watching him play harmonica on The Wizard rehearsal (2017) is amazing.
There was nothing remotely like this on the radio in 1970. Just think, all their stuff if like this. the next song on the album is The Wizard, you will not be disappointed, also they put a lot of effort into their studio versions to make every song a little musical journey. Thanks for a great reaction.
Don't be sorry very fair well balanced review, nice 1.
Bill Ward.. One of the most wonderful drummers..
The album was recorded in 12 hours.
When I was a lid innthe 1970s, there was just heavy Metal. Now there are tons of dubgenresof metal. On the furst several Sabbath albums, just about every third song was the birth of one of those future subgenres.
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath! 👈👀
If this was The Exorcist sound track people would have SHIT!
🤘🏻⚡️🔥 is all needs to be said.
When I listen to Sabbath so does my neighbourhood
Check out Black Sabbath war pigs live in Paris 1970. The entire band is at 100% but bill Ward puts on a clinic on the drums. You absolutely nailed it with the exorcist analogy.
The only almost "proto-metal" before this was
Pink Floyd "The Nile Song"
(yes Pink Floyd I know very Weird)
and that followed the even earlier Beatles "Helter Skelter"
There's a lot of proto-metal or ur-metal songs out there if you look for them. Consider Boris the Spider by the Who, 1966. To say nothing of some of the riffs on Led Zeppelin's first album, songs from Deep Purple's first album like Mandrake root. Prodigal Boy by the Amboy Dukes (very early Ted Nugent). King Crimson's Mars. Lots of really obscure bands like Astaroth with songs like Satanispiritus. And maybe Steppenwolf with Born to be Wild, which, after all, is possibly where the phrase comes from, in the line "Heavy metal thunder!" Not a particularly hard song, but to some extent heavy metal as a genre is about the attitude, which that song is all about. And then you have all of the proto-punk stuff like the Stooges informing heavy metal and vice versa to some extent.
This is the sixties atmosphere into which Black Sabbath is born, and they took all of this sort of chunk and attitude, and put it all together to really kick-start the genre proper. It isn't then until Judas Priest, probably, that you have a band that has taken the identity of heavy metal band and run with it a few years later. Consider that the Scorpions started in 1972 (though they were a bit more proggy at first, and probably more hard rock properly speaking).
Grand Funk is the Grand Daddy of Metal.
Black Sabbath started their career opening shows for Grand Funk. The red album tour.
They loved Grand Funks heavy bass and fuzz guitar and ran with it.
They stole Grand Funks Fuzz Guitar and Nuclear Sirens, and even the name, Paranoid.
Grand Funk went in a different direction and had many styles.
Listen to " Paranoid " and " Sins a good Mans brother " for the earliest metal.
The whole Red Album is hard.
Bom enquadramento de vídeo, a luminária bem centralizada
Yessss Black Sabbath were so cool! Good reaction, thank you and thank you to whoever requested it.
Now when you think of Ozzy it's just that zombie shell of a man but back in the day fuck yeah! You've probably heard War Pigs but in case you haven't give it a listen because it's chef's kiss
metal/hard rock, doesnt rlly matter big grey area with iron miaden, judas preist etc. depends on ur def of metal or hard rock. good music is what it is
War Pigs is a great one also they had a ton of hits with him and without him, but he also did well by himself, welcome to the rabbit hole. and enjoy
Better late than never. Seriously :D
These guys made this song literally a 'Sabbath', hense it's slow and somber pace. They are very good at doing whatever they want.
Don't forget that our parents had gone through serious shite through WW2 and Korea so the militaristic regime was how you were raised. Then this came along and I had to keep it in the garage , just in case
The devil's Tri Tone, the 3 notes banned in medieval England from fear it conjured the devil
Some people would suggest that HELTER SKELTER by The Beatles was the first actual metal song. At least I've read and heard that suggested a number of times. The Beatles White Album was released a couple of years before Black Sabbath. Have a listen to HELTER SKELTER if you're not familiar with it. At the time there was really nothing else like it.
I tell you what, it was a nightmare dancing/moshing to the first half on metal nights 😂
It’s the goth version of when Bryan Adams came on at the school disco lol
Not Lemmy, Geezer Butler. And that's Bill Ward on drums.
Wow. Great reaction. Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" would be the next step. ;)
If you do War Pigs don`t do the stupid video that has nothing to do with the song , ok.
Ozzy sings well even now. Check out Ordinary Man.
I grew up with Black Sabbath. I suggest you react to a studio lyric video of Into the Void, Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath and Symptom of the Universe. of Tony Iommi (eye-OWE-me), lead guitar, Geezer Butler, bass, Bill Ward, drums. You should have reacted to the album studio version, which is much more metal. and is heavier, and the drums sound much much better. Metal has nothing to do with speed.
Regarding the recording. This was not the studio version. I believe this was from a show "live in Paris"
Oh! It's a live version- Great. If anything probably doom metal. Saw Black Sabbath 1971 & 72 and Ozzy solo during the 80 and 90s, many times, then Black Sabbath again in 2000s including the End Tour. Ozzy is a treasure- bless him. Bill Ward was/is a fantastic drummer and well recognised as such now. You'll see- wait until the end. The final bit of which you missed off the last four notes.
Most definitely need to watch War Pigs Live 1970 it is disgusting the best down that Bill Ward does to a classic Jazz kit.
If you were looking for a rabbit hole to fall down this wouldn’t be a bad choice
Just like and subscribe, stay cool
Bill ward is one of the greatest drummers ever i put him easily in the top 5 combined with tony iomies prosthesis on hus finger tips he had to tune the guitar way down and it became his trademark sound and geezer on bass ozzys personal demons caused him to be kicked out but 50 yeara later thr reuinion tour sounded just as good
Black Sabbath 1968-eternity🤘
Subbed for the Sabbath journey! Suggest.... "Hand of Doom" 🤘😎🤘
I remember buying this album when it came out in the record stores. Took it home for a listen and life was never the same again. IMHO, it's the most impactful rock album ever made. There have been many better albums, but nothing sounding like this had ever come out before and it changed the game.
FIRE!🔥🔥🔥
Type O Negative did a follow-up version of this song. From the Satanic perspective, it's pretty awesome.
👉 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath!👈
Born is the first heavy metal song cause of the lyric heavy metal thunder but black sabbath created the genre
A true classic! Can you do a reaction for my favorite band Sinister Ghost please?
I haven’t seen this so it was cool but the drum sound on the studio version are much better.
React to Black Sabbath - N.I.B. , 100% recomended.
I was 11 when this was released and had it played to me by friends throughout the seventies. I always thought it was a shame the great music wasn’t matched by the lyrics which I found a bit obvious and only creepy in a schoolboy way. Sabbath influenced punk more than the Ramones or garage music, I think, and had a good laugh when the New Musical Express magazine declared the Sex Pistols album Never Mind The Bollocks the best heavy metal album of 1977 (or 78, can’t remember). Good reaction though. The album really was unlike anything knocking about at the time.
This was an interesting alternate recording. It's not the studio version from the album... the drums here are very dry sounding. It's maybe an early outtake version. Or a different recording they made just for the promo perhaps?
Black sabbath, by black sabbath on the album black sabbath
Try the song Sabbath Bloody Sabbath!
You need to listen to the first eight albums hand of doom next
All versions of metal came from this band
You should react to Pappo's Blues Volume 1, ua-cam.com/video/jMWQCDPs8Vo/v-deo.html ... it is from 1971, although it was probably generated before, so it is totally parallel and contemporary to Black Sabbath... Pappo is a pioneering guitarist and singer of Argentine national rock... he will explode your head and It will lead you to reconsider where heavy metal really emerged.
Pappo's Blues is a kickass album but it was recorded after the release of Black Sabbath and actually recorded about a year later than Black Sabbath was recorded
Ozzy was the SHIT!
Was a big Black Sabbath fan when they came out, and got tickets to see them when they came to town, it was an awesome show, but miss matched Genres, a new band called Yes opened for them, and by the time Sabbath came out, i was like fffff that i want more Yes, but Sabbath Killed it also, just a miss match of bands.
Ozzy was 21 when he recorded this. All the excessive booze and drugs hadn't taken a toll on his voice or body yet. It's not so much the pace of Black sabbath songs that make it metal, it's the overall sound of the band that inspired metal. Also, there was only bass, guitar & drums with Ozzy's voice over the top. Cheers!
Many years now since I listened to it, but isn't this slower than the studio recording on the first album*?
Maybe my memory fails me, but I like it though.
*UK release on Friday 13th (February 1970) if you are superstitious...
Excellent album. The witch is actually Ozzy on the cover. You criticize it, but they are rich from this lol
Actually 1st metal song 1969
Any Slayer
You cut off the end.
Snowblind off of volume 4
Actually, you shouldn’t really separate the song from the whole album
If this 'IS' your first ever time listening to Black Sabbath then you should have listened to the album version, not the live version. Oh well..... still good but this version is perhaps more for those who already know it.
The Beatles' song "Helter Skelter" is often considered the first heavy metal song.
NO, get your pop boy bands out of here. Sabbath is the genesis of Metal.
Someone clearly hasn’t heard Helter Skelter
Black Sabbath? Haha. What about led zep?