Genres: Heavy Metal, British Metal, Album Rock Active: 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1969 in Birmingham, England
Blue Cheer, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Yardbirds, The Who, Elf, The Beatles, Screaming Lord Sutch, Vanilla Fudge, John Mayall, The Kinks, Iron Butterfly, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Rainbow, Dokken, Dio, Diamond Head, Iron Maiden, Danzig, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Butterfly, Motörhead, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Budgie, Twisted Sister, Gillan, Scorpions, Samson, King Diamond Pantera, Helmet, GWAR, Henry Rollins, Monster Magnet, Samhain, The Obsessed, Faith No More, Dokken, Dio, Green River, Bruce Dickinson, Diamond Head, Pentagram, Danzig, Megadeth, Corrosion of Conformity, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest |  |
Black Sabbath has been so influential in the development of heavy metal rock music as to be a defining force in the style. The group took the blues-rock sound of late '60s acts like Cream, Blue Cheer, and Vanilla Fudge to its logical conclusion, slowing the tempo, accentuating the bass, and emphasizing screaming guitar solos and howled vocals full of lyrics expressing mental anguish and macabre fantasies. If their predecessors clearly came out of an electrified blues tradition, Black Sabbath took that tradition in a new direction, and in so doing helped give birth to a musical style that continued to attract millions of fans decades later.
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Release: July 3, 2009
Label: Universal Distribution
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Release: June 9, 2009
Label: Universal Distribution, Universal Music TV
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