| Has elegido retar a: | Raulius |
| Has elegido: | Bandas heavies de los a�os 80 |
The album was simply called Black Sabbath , and its impact was seismic, immediate, and terrifying. To understand the shock of Black Sabbath , one must understand the musical landscape of 1969. The dominant sounds were the flower-power psychedelia of The Beatles’ Abbey Road , the rootsy folk of Crosby, Stills & Nash, and the blues-rock swagger of Led Zeppelin and Cream. Music was largely about love, peace, expansion, and technical virtuosity.
The album’s most famous track. It begins with a solo bass intro from Butler—a melodic, almost jazzy line that suddenly collapses into one of the heaviest riffs ever written. The title is an inside joke (standing for “Nativity in Black,” though drummer Bill Ward thought it meant “pen” for a while). Lyrically, it’s a masterpiece of inversion: a love song from the perspective of Lucifer. The devil falls in love with a human and changes his ways. The song features a monstrous, lurching riff that would become the template for every doom metal band to follow.
On a damp autumn day in 1969, four working-class lads from Aston, Birmingham, walked into Trident Studios in London’s West End. They were exhausted, having played countless gigs in German clubs and English dives. They had been booked for a quick, live-in-the-studio session to capitalize on the minor buzz surrounding their new, darker sound. They were given a meager budget and just 12 hours of studio time. No one—not the band, not the label, not the engineers—realized they were about to forge the blueprint for an entire musical genre: heavy metal.
