Black Sabbath
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath is the debut studio album by the English rock band Black Sabbath. Released on 13 February 1970 in the United Kingdom and on 1 June 1970 in the United States, the album reached number eight on the UK Albums Charts and number 23 on the Billboard charts. Black Sabbath is widely considered the first heavy metal album. Additionally, the opening track of the album—Black Sabbath—is widely considered to be the first doom metal song.-"Wikipedia"
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Tempos are increased; while still delivered in an insistent fashion, the parts played by Iommi, Ward and Butler are combined in a manner that is careening toward…something.
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Metal Archives
This album really digs into the style of how heavy metal and doom metal were founded with it's very experimental construction.
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All Music
Black Sabbath's debut album is the birth of heavy metal as we now know it. Sabbath are the only one whose sound today remains instantly recognizable as heavy metal, even after decades of evolution in the genre. Black Sabbath is nonetheless a revolutionary debut whose distinctive ideas merely await a bit more focus and development.
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BBC
Lyrical finesse was never the band’s strong point – as Sabbath authority Paul Wilkinson points out, there are only five words on the entire album that are longer than two syllables. But Ozzy Osbourne invests them with more emotion than any otther vocal performance he managed later.
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Classic Rock Review
Black Sabbath was recorded live in the studio with very few overdubs added. Due to the loss of a few fingertips, Iommi detuned his guitar for easier playing, which had the added “doomy” effect which worked well with the overall theme of this debut album. Further, the raw sound (sometimes referred to as “sonic ugliness”) worked to give it a sense of raw legitimacy not often heard on recordings in 1970.
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Rolling Stone
The whole album is a shuck – despite the murky song titles and some inane lyrics that sound like Vanilla Fudge paying doggerel tribute to Aleister Crowley, the album has nothing to do with spiritualism, the occult, or anything much except stiff recitations of Cream clichés that sound like the musicians learned them out of a book, grinding on and on with dogged persistence
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Sputnik Music
This album is like a teenager, or an adult in their 20's: as it goes on, as it progresses, it becomes more tolerable, and can be extraordinary. In Sabbath's case: they would go to pioneer metal into what it is. And this is the first step.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
The results on Black Sabbath, issued on Feb. 13, 1970, were as crude as they were undeniable powerful. First came the unforgettable title track, replete with a storm of striking sound effects, terrifying lyrics and sullen instrumentation.
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