BLACK SABBATH - BLACK SABBATH

THE ONE THAT STARTED IT ALL.

Here we have it, the album that started it all (Sorry Blue Cheer). The very first Heavy Metal album, well maybe not exactly by todays standards but this was certainly a giant step forward towards metal.

Just listen to Bill Ward's drumming, you can hear a lot of jazz and blues in his drumming. It was Judas Priest that removed the blues and jazz strokes from metal a few years later with Sad Wings of Destiny (1976) and that was when metal became a thing of it's own.

But without Black Sabbath's debut maybe we wouldn't have had a Sad Wings of Destiny. So it all goes back to this record that changes music forever.

Did Black Sabbath develop more as a metal band over the years, certainly. I for example hold the Dio era albums and the Tony Martin albums as their best albums when it comes to the music itself. Was Black Sabbath's selftitled record more groundbreaking and important? Definitely.

Do I think that this record is essential, of course. It's an album that every metal fan should own and should know simply because of it's importance. Plus it's far from bad. The title track itself is so haunting and probably the first song that really scared people. N.I.B. is another favourite. What everyone doesn't know is that the album features two rather obscure covers, one of Crow (Evil Woman) and one of Aynsley Dunbar (Warning).

I think I'm going to keep this review short since everyone reading this probably know how essential this record is even if it's as metal as Priest or Maiden.

No matter what this is an essential and quite bluesy record.

You need to own this in one form or another.

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