A fan of horror films and the black magic-themed novels of Dennis Wheatley, he flirted briefly with the black arts. Influenced by the reigning British blues bands - Led Zeppelin, Cream, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers - the four of them formed Earth Blues Company (shortened to Earth), in 1968.Įverything changed when Butler came to the band with an idea for a song inspired by a disturbing apparition.
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The four musicians got their start in such psychedelic outfits as the Rare Breed and Mythology (although Osbourne had been a short-haired Mod who loved soul music). The Black Sabbath story began in Birmingham, England, where Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward were looking to escape a life of factory work through music. The truth is, they remain one of the most misunderstood bands in rock history. Although they became eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, they weren’t inducted until 2006. In a sense, though they’ve sold more than 75 million albums worldwide, they still are a heavy underground band. That term denoted both the intensity of their music and the network of fans who found them long before critics and the music industry took notice. Yet in their own words, Black Sabbath saw themselves as a “heavy underground” band. With their riff-based songs, extreme volume, and dark, demonic subject matter, Black Sabbath embodied key aspects of the heavy-metal aesthetic. Not until Black Sabbath upended the music scene did the term “heavy metal” enter the popular vocabulary to describe the denser, more thunderous offshoot of rock over which they presided.
The success of their first two albums - Black Sabbath and Paranoid - marked a paradigm shift in the world of rock. Black Sabbath is credited with creating heavy metal.
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