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Black Sabbath - Intro + Black Sabbath - Genting Arena Birmingham - 04.02.2017 - Last Show ever Metal is forever 15.4K subscribers Subscribed
According to Classic Rock Magazine: "If you ever come across anyone who’s never heard a note of metal music, and they ask you explain it to them, just sit them down, turn up the volume and play the song 'Black Sabbath,' because this is the definition of the genre.
What are some of your favorite Sabbath song intros? And I'm saying song intros as in before Ozzy/Dio/Martin/Gillian/Hughes come in with the vocals. Could be long, could be short, you pick.
BLACK SABBATH - Intro & War Pigs - Live - Birmingham, Back to the Beginning - 2025/Jul/05
Read about Musical Intro from Black Sabbath's Purple Sabbath and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists.
Inside John Lennon’s Studio Speaking on this theme, Tony Iommi, the band’s famed guitarist, remembered one particular track vividly. “That was just basically a bass intro; Geez [Geezer Butler] was responsible for that. I just put a bit of guitar on it.
"Black Sabbath" was lifted from the title of a 1963 horror movie starring Boris Karloff directed by the Italian filmmaker Mario Bava. The group's lead singer, Ozzy Osbourne, and bass player, Geezer Butler, had seen the film and decided to write a song with that title.
Within 30 seconds, Black Sabbath ’s self-titled song seals itself as the sound of pure evil in musical form. It telegraphed that the landscape of rock ’n’ roll was changing when released in 1970 – removed from feelgood hippie blues to the polar opposite, the chilling presence of the supernatural.
The Sunday Show, 1970 Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Ward • Album View full playlist 28 songs
The infamous classic guitar intro to Black Sabbath from the Live Evil album (1982). Long live Tony Iommi...more