WHAT IS THIS THAT
STANDS BEFORE ME ?
Black Sabbath
is the
debut
studio album
by English
heavy metal
band
released on
February,13th 1970
by Vertigo Records
in the
United Kingdom
and on
June,1st 1970
by Warner Bros. Records
in the United States.
The album is
widely regarded
as the first
true
heavy metal
album,
and the
opening title track,
"Black Sabbath",
was named the
greatest
heavy metal song
of all time
by
Rolling Stone,
and has been
referred to as
the first
Doom Metal Song.
Black Sabbath
received generally
negative reviews
from critics
upon its release
but was a
commercial success,
reaching number eight
on the
UK Albums Charts
and number 23
on the
US Billboard
Top LPs chart
It has retrospectively
garnered reappraisal
as one of the
greatest and most
influential
heavy metal albums
of all time.
Black Sabbath
is included in
Robert Dimery's
2005
musical
reference book
1001 Albums
You Must Hear Before You Die.
Recording
According to
Black Sabbath's
guitarist
and
founding member
Tony Iommi,
the group's
debut album
was recorded
in a
12-hour session
on
October,16th 1969.
Iommi said:
"We just went in the studio
and did it in a day,
we played our
live set and
that was it.
We actually thought
a whole day was
was quite a long time,
then off we went
the next day to play
for £20 in Switzerland."
Aside from the bells,
thunder and
rain sound effects
added to the
beginning of the
opening track
and the
double-tracked
guitar solos on
"N.I.B."
and
"Sleeping Village",
there were virtually
no overdubs added
to the album.
Iommi recalls
recording live:
"We thought,
'We have two days
to do it and
one of the
days is mixing.
So we played live.
Ozzy was singing at
the same time,
we just put him in
a separate booth
and off we went.
We never had a
second run of
most of the stuff
The key to the band's
new sound on the album
was Iommi's distinctive
playing style that
he developed after
an accident at a
sheet metal factory
where he was working
at the age of 17
in which the tips
of the middle fingers
of his fretting hand
were severed.
Iommi created a
pair of false fingertips
using plastic from a
dish detergent bottle
and down tuned
the strings on
his guitar to make it
easier for him to
bend the strings,
creating a massive,
heavy sound.
"I'd play a load of chords
and I'd have to play
fifths because
I couldn't play fourths
because of my fingers,"
Iommi explained to
Phil Alexander
in Mojo in 2013.
"That helped me
develop my
style of playing,
bending the strings
and hitting the
open string
at the same time
just to make
the sound wilder."
In the same article,
bassist
Geezer Butler
added,
"Back then the
bass player
was supposed to
do all these
melodic runs,
but I didn't know
how to do that
because I'd been
a guitarist,
so all I did
was follow
Tony's riff.
That made the
sound heavier."
TRACK LIST
CD 1
Black Sabbath
The Wizard
Behind The Walls of Sleep
N.I.B.
Wicked World
Evil Woman
(Don't Play Your Games With Me)
Sleeping Village
Warning
War Pigs
(Demo-Alt Lyrics)
Black Sabbath
(Demo-Alt Lyrics)
BONUS
Paranoid
(Blass Mass)
Iron Man
(Black Mass)
Blue Suede Shoes
(Black Mass)
Black Sabbath
(Black Mass)
CD 2
Wicked World
(Single B-Side)
Black Sabbath
(Studio Outtake)
The Wizard
(Studio Outtake)
Behind The Wall Of Sleep
(Studio Outtake)
Evil Woman
(Alt. Version)
Sleeping Village
(Intro)
Warning
(Part 1)
Black Sabbath
(Instrumental)
N.I.B
(Instrumental)
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War Pigs
(Live)
(Mash Up )
(Ozzy/Dio)
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