My Opinion
It is my pleasure to voice my comments about the mighty Black Sabbath. I count black Sabbath among the most influential musical acts in the rock genre and particularly hard rock.At the time when Sabbath was developing their act leading up to 1970 album Black Sabbath, there was nothing in that time frame that could be characterized as really heavy music. Led zeppelin at that period was heavier than most. Sabbath was tackling some of the same occult subjects that were loosely covered in some of Zeppelins earlier stuff. Sabbath was also adding a musical heaviness to match the dark subject matter they were writing about. When is comes to the members of the band, I dont think anyone would say Ozzy was the best singer when Sabbath was first on the scene, but Tony Iommis down-tuned Gibson SG riffs were innovative in their heaviness. When you compare Ironman, one of sabbaths premiere tunes, with any other song from that year there is no denying it was the heavier than anything. It was the beginning of heavy metal.
If you like Sabbath
If you like Sabbath and are trying to find similar bands, you can see Sabbaths inspiration in any heavy band in the last...