It amazes me how people will believe what they read rather than find out for themselves.īlack Sabbath did not record any of my very favourite tracks, or any of my top 10 albums, but they did produce 10 albums I regard as classic, no other artist got close, (PF and LZ 6 each). The lyrics are not as one-track doom-laden as many would have you believe,
Ranked 238 on Rolling Stones 2005 The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Ranked 12 in Colin Larkin’s Top 50 Heavy Metal Albums. Kerrang In 1989 ranked Black Sabbath 31 on their 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time. I know many consider Technical Ecstasy a low point but this is not the case, there are some great tracks on this album.Ĭomments such as 'you can hear the band falling apart on this album' are ridiculous, how does that work? They continued to develop their sound as only a great band can, if they didn't then they would have been accused of becoming stagnant.Įvery track they produced is highly distinctive with different structures, tempos, always inventive and heavy. The Rolling Stone album guide states Bain’s production makes an album that eats hippies for breakfast. The only weak interlude in the first 10 albums was side two of Never Say Die (but that has the far from weak Air Dance). (unfortunately the band of the same name faded to mediocrity after Dio left despite Iommi's best efforts). Sabbath invented heavy metal, then shaped and developed the genre over the next 10 albums, This is the heaviest of the original Ozzy era Sabbath and we get lots of heavy, gloomy riffs that sound like they could be parts of Slayer songs. Their first albums generated a plethora of zealous critics who took years to realise how wrong they were.īlack Sabbath are to Heavy Metal in the seventies what the Beatles were to pop/rock music in the sixties,īoth were working class bands pushing the boundaries of their music. So we get Black Sabbath sort of moving away from their typical bluesy hard rock, and this is the first Black Sabbath album where they really start to show they were early pioneers of doom metal.
(Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Beatles, Bowie, Kate Bush, AC/DC, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest were also in the running for this, some might say, dubious honour). After much consideration I have come to the conclusion that this is my favourite band, managing to produce some of the most diverse and creative music ever recorded, (cocaine enhanced creativity some might say).
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