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Birmingham, England (1968 – present)

Black Sabbath is an English heavy metal band formed in 1968 in Birmingham, England, originally comprising Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums). In the early ’70s they were the first to pair heavily distorted, sonically dissonant blues-rock at slow speeds with lyrics about drugs, mental pain and abominations of war, thus giving birth to generations upon generations of metal bands that followed in their wake.

Black Sabbath were formed in Aston, a poor district of Birmingham damaged by bombing during World War II, under the name Polka Tulk Blues Band (soon shortened to “Polka Tulk”), later Earth. Initially a blues-rock band, Earth moved in a darker direction when their bassist, Geezer Butler, a fan of the black magic novels of Dennis Wheatley, wrote lyrics for an occult-themed song titled “

Black Sabbath” (the song name was inspired by a 1963 Mario Bava film), and Tony Iommi wrote a riff based on the tritone, sometimes called “diablos in musica” (“the Devil in Music”). In their Last Supper concert film, the band stated that the song is based on an experience Geezer had one night when he saw a black object at the end of his bed and noticed the next day that an occult book Ozzy had given him was missing. When the band found themselves being confused with another local band called Earth, they adopted the song title as their new name.

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Nightsan wrote:
8 hours ago

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HilaryDuff00 wrote:
10 hours ago

" i hate how people look past them and only think of iron man or paranoid when you say thare name it bugs me they have so much and it's so good i them and truely i hate metal it's just they arent pure crap metal i hate they have some rock in thare but either way they have talent and more songs then just iron man and paranoid- rock on" ..... Could have been true if Paranoid wasn't your highest played Sabbath track LOL

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hardRheavyM wrote:
yesterday evening

A National Acrobat & Paranoid then Sabbath Bloody..., Ancient Warrior and Digital Bitch

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ComradeRene wrote:
yesterday evening

Has he lost his mind? Can he see or is he blind? Can he walk at all Or if he moves will he fall? - love it!

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infectedmodes wrote:
yesterday afternoon

► We Love British Bands

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IWrestledABeer wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Their years active says (1968 – present). FREAKING FORTY YEARS!

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Senefera wrote:
yesterday afternoon

...wait... "vastly underrated"? o.O

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E5150Rules wrote:
yesterday morning

Bloody Sabbath Rules!!! \m/

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joshlockwood69 wrote:
Saturday evening

Tony Rules!!!

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CharlieWatts wrote:
Saturday evening

A National Acrobat! <3

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crownanchor wrote:
Saturday evening

SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH.......TONY RILZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ:)

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miqmiranda wrote:
Saturday afternoon

vinyl*

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lordmackery wrote:
Saturday afternoon

Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of death's construction FUCKING AWESOME FUCKING HEAVY METAL!!!

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miqmiranda wrote:
Saturday afternoon

Look at me,I got Paranoid´s vinil in my hands!!WHOOOOOOOOL!

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darthcas wrote:
Saturday afternoon

underrated.... hahahahahahaa

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cyclonnl wrote:
Friday evening

Are you metal, are you man...

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Bloodbathing wrote:
Friday afternoon

YES! THERE IS A GOD! Bye-bye fantasy hobbit.

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ZoidbergatKHI wrote:
Friday afternoon

Holy shit, Electric Funeral's really awesome. So's the whole Paranoid album, I guess. I definitely need some more of their albums.

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hammerstrikebg wrote:
Friday morning

Neon Knights is their best to me :>

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DaveBFC wrote:
Thursday evening

Fuck i hope dio gets by ok it would really be awful to see him go, Also yeah i agree with the 2 comments below

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