5/24/2023 0 Comments Black sabbath shirt![]() I knew where I had to go with the tom-toms. When Osbourne laid down the opening lines of the song ‘Black Sabbath’, Ward said that the swampy rhythm that he lays down was what came out naturally: “When Ozzy sang ‘What is this that stands before me,’ it became completely different. While there has been plenty of songs made about being in love with the devil, Sabbath had an instinctual attraction to the dark side. That was before I did drugs-maybe doing drugs killed that part of my brain.”ĭespite the living nightmare lasting only a second, it was enough to convince Butler to throw away all of his occult reading material as well. That was one of the very last ones I had. As a child, I always had a lot of psychic experiences. It just lasted a second, but it freaked me out. While Butler insisted on reading these books solely for astrology, he mentioned getting spooked by a spirit one night after reading: “I woke up in a dream world, and there was this black thing, staring at me. When writing the band’s first song, Butler found inspiration after a terrifying night reading books on the occult. Though the horror of the band may have sounded ostentatious at the time, the origin behind the song was no laughing matter either. ![]() The band turned to an old horror movie that they had heard about called Black Sabbath, starring famed horror actor Boris Karloff. Osbourne thought that the band should take a similar approach saying, “Isn’t it strange that people would pay money to be frightened? So why don’t we make scary music?” As Osbourne recalls, the band’s rehearsal space was right across the street from a movie theatre which was showing horror movies. Now that they had a horror-themed song, the wheels started turning to give themselves a demonic-sounding name as well. When Bill Ward first heard the main riff to Black Sabbath, he talked about how unsettling it was: “Geezer was trying to play Holst’s Mars, and then Tony comes in and plays. When putting together the first real Sabbath songs like ‘Wicked World’, Iommi found his calling writing the band’s namesake track, whose dissonant interval Iommi enjoyed. While Iommi credited Tull with giving him a new appreciation for a band work ethic, the King of Metal returned to his old bandmates to finish what he started. Before Sabbath even got off the ground, Iommi was already ready to pack it in, accepting a gig to play with Jethro Tull and even performing with the prog legends in the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus.
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