Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath . Compatriots like Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple were already setting new standards for volume and heaviness in the realms of psychedelia, blues- rock, and prog rock. Yet of these metal pioneers, Sabbath are the only one whose sound today remains instantly recognizable as heavy metal, even after decades of evolution in the genre. Circumstance certainly played some role in the birth of this musical revolution - - the sonic ugliness reflecting the bleak industrial nightmare of Birmingham; guitarist Tony Iommi's loss of two fingertips, which required him to play slower and to slacken the strings by tuning his guitar down, thus creating Sabbath's signature style.
These qualities set the band apart, but they weren't wholly why this debut album transcends its clear roots in blues- rock and psychedelia to become something more. Sabbath's genius was finding the hidden malevolence in the blues, and then bludgeoning the listener over the head with it. Take the legendary album- opening title cut. The standard pentatonic blues scale always added the tritone, or flatted fifth, as the so- called .
Thematically, most of heavy metal's great lyrical obsessions are not only here, they're all crammed onto side one. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, and Dennis Wheatley. Even if the album ended here, it would still be essential listening. Unfortunately, much of side two is given over to loose blues- rock jamming learned through Cream, which plays squarely into the band's limitations. For all his stylistic innovations and strengths as a composer, Iommi isn't a hugely accomplished soloist. By the end of the murky, meandering, ten- minute cover of the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation's .
Henceforth Black Sabbath would forge ahead with a vision that was wholly theirs.
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