Biography

Black Sabbath was so influential in the development of heavy metal, they were a defining force. The group took the blues-rock sound of late '60s acts like Cream, Blue Cheer, and Vanilla Fudge to its logical conclusion, slowing the tempo, accentuating the bass, and emphasizing screaming guitar solos and howled vocals full of lyrics expressing mental anguish and macabre fantasies. If their predecessors clearly came out of an electrified blues tradition, Black Sabbath took that tradition in a new direction, and in so doing, helped give birth to a musical style that continued to attract millions of fans decades later. ~ William Ruhlmann

Top Tracks

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• A Hard Road

• After All (the Dead)

• Air Dance

• All Moving Parts (stand Still)

• Am I Going Insane

• Back Street Kids

• Back To Eden

• Black Sabbath

• Born To Lose

• Changes

• Children Of The Grave

• Danger Zone

• Devil & Daughter

• Devil And Daughter

• Die Young

• Disturbing The Priest

• Dungeons And Dragons

• Evil Woman

• Fairies Wear Boots

• Falling Off The Edge Of The World

• Hand Of Doom

• Hard Life To Love

• Hard Rock Lifestyle

• Headless Cross

• Heaven And Hell

• Hole In The Sky

• In For The Kill

• In Memory...

• Iron Man

• Killing Yourself To Live

• Lady Evil

• Letters From Earth

• Lord Of This World

• Neon Knights

• Never Say Die

• Paranoid

• Planet Caravan

• Rock 'n' Roll Doctor

• Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

• Shock Wave

• Sick And Tired

• Snowblind

• Soul Sabotage

• Stonehenge

• Supernaut

• Sweet Leaf

• Symptom Of The Universe

• The Shining

• The Wizard

• The Writ

• Time Machine

• Tomorrow's Dream

• Trashed

• Turn Up The Night

• Virtual Death

• Voodoo

• War Pigs

• Wasp/behind The Wall Of Sleep/bassically/n.i.b.

• Wheels Of Confusion/the Straightener

• When Death Calls

• Wizard

• You Won't Change Me

Discography

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• Forbidden

  EMI-Capitol Special Markets

  1995

• Cross Purposes

  EMI-Capitol Special Markets

  1994

• Dehumanizer

  Warner Bros.

  1992

• Seventh Star

  Castle Music Ltd.

  1986

• Mob Rules

  Warner Bros.

  1981

• Never Say Die!

  Warner Bros.

  1978

• Sabotage

  Warner Bros.

  1975

• Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

  Castle Music Ltd.

  1973

• Black Sabbath

  Warner Bros.

  1970