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Words fall utterly short of describing the majesty, the evil, the never-before-heard power and darkness of this album, and the legions of worshippers that it created (but I'll try to describe it anyway). When this album came out in February 1970, critics said it was a rehashing of the late '60s blues rock like Cream. But it became immediately obvious that it was much more than that, as the fans quickly latched on and copies of the album began flying off record store shelves. Sabbath had already been playing shows around England under various other names, like Polka Tulk Blues Band, and Earth, and their blues rock jams had garnered a sizeable fan following. When they went in to record this, their first album, they thought they had only two days to record and mix it, so they recorded it all live in one day so that they would have a day to mix it. Turns out that the two days they were allotted was for recording, so they could have spent more time on recording if they needed it. But they didn't need it, and in fact one day to record seemed like a lot to them. They played their live show songs and added some overdubbed guitar and a few sound effects and that was it. Ozzy sang live with them in a vocal booth and they all tracked together, giving the songs a solid jam feel, and showcasing their solidness and togetherness as a band.
Merely a rehashing of blues rock like Cream? I think not. Just listen to the first track, just the first 40 secs of the first track and its immediately obvious that this is something much darker and more evil than anything that had come out before, or since. Then Ozzy starts singing and its immediately obvious again that this is not your same old blues-based rock. Singing about darkness and evil in his signature nasally and distinctive voice, when he gets to the end of the 2nd verse and screams "Oh no no, please God help me!" he cements the track as the most evil and terrifying song of the decade. Did they know what they were creating? I doubt they had any idea that what they were doing was so innovative that it would be hailed as the creator of the genre of heavy metal. No other rock band had the element of horror like Black Sabbath did with this first recording, and people graviated to that.
Not only are the lyrics and riffs dark, even the tone that Tony Iommi gets out of his guitar is menacing and vicious. Because of an accident in the factory where he was working, he lost the tips of his middle two fretting fingers, and was almost going to give up playing altogether, until his old boss played him some Django Reinhardt, the famous 2-fingered Gypsy jazz guitarist. Because of this accident, he had to come up with new ways to make his tone heavy and huge, and in the process created a sound that spawned an entire genre. Think I'm over-exaggerating? Think again. There would be no heavy metal without Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath. Sure there are other bands that helped create the sound that became heavy metal, such as Led Zep, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Cream, Blue Cheer, Leaf Hound, etc., and their influence should not be down-played. But Black Sabbath took these inflluences and forged them into a new sound that was far more menacing and dark, which is a crucial component of metal.
Anyway, if you like Sabbath's other albums and somehow haven't bought this one yet, do yourself a service and buy this album. There is so much raw energy and potential in this album that its amazing. Its not quite as solid as Paranoid as a whole, but it is an absolute necessity to own and stands tall, taller even than Paranoid, as the beginning of heavy metal.
If you like classic rock in general, this is a crucial album for fully understanding rock history, as it is a landmark album of the seventies. If you like new doom metal, buy this album and see where it all began. If you like jazzy rock tunes and jam bands, there are great jazzy rock jams on here that you would dig. If you are a heavy metal purist, you already own this album, so buy it on cassette for your car or something. If you like Zeppelin, Cream, Hendrix, Leaf Hound, Blue Cheer, Deep Purple, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Diamond Head, any rock band from the late sixties or seventies, buy this album, you'll enjoy it.
Highlight songs of the album: all of them! But I guess if I have to choose, I'd say- 'Black Sabbath', 'The Wizard', 'NIB', 'Wicked World'.
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El comienzo del heavy metal, gracias por existir. Ojalá y saquen toda la discografia en esta edición
