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"Black Sabbath" is a song by the English heavy metal band of the same name, written in 1969 and released on their eponymous debut album in 1970. In the same year, the song appeared as an A-side on a four-track 12-inch single, with "The Wizard" also on the A-side and "Evil Woman" and "Sleeping Village" on the B-side, on the Philips Records label Vertigo.
On 11 November 1969 Black Sabbath recorded a 4-song session for John Peel's Top Gear radio show. [40] The four songs were "Black Sabbath", "N.I.B.", "Behind the Wall of Sleep" and "Sleeping Village". Broadcast on 29 November 1969, this gave them their first exposure to a UK wide audience. [20]
The song's title has long been a source of speculation, with some fans over the years interpreting the title as meaning "Nativity in Black" or "Name in Blood". In the early 1990s, Geezer Butler claimed that the title was a reference to drummer Bill Ward 's beard at that time, which his bandmates felt looked like a pen nib . [ 3 ]
Black Sabbath 's music and lyrics were quite dark for the time. The opening track is based almost entirely on a tritone interval played at slow tempo on the electric guitar. [ 20 ] In the 2010 Classic Albums documentary on the making of the band's second album Paranoid , bassist Geezer Butler claims the riff was inspired by "Mars, the Bringer ...
The Mexican Rock Band Supernauta named the band after the Black Sabbath's song. Candlemass included a minute of this song in Black Sabbath Medley on their album Ancient Dreams. Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their album Sapattivuosi Vol. 2 in Finnish as 'Supernautti'.
Tony Iommi said of the song "It starts with an acoustic bit. Then it goes into the up-tempo stuff to give it that dynamic, and it does have a lot of changes to it, including the jam at the end." Then it goes into the up-tempo stuff to give it that dynamic, and it does have a lot of changes to it, including the jam at the end."
"Paranoid" was the first Black Sabbath single release, coming six months after their self-titled debut was released. Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler (from Guitar World magazine, March 2004): A lot of the Paranoid album was written around the time of our first album, Black Sabbath. We recorded the whole thing in about 2 or 3 days, live in ...
Noting that some early fans 'jumped ship' with Vol. 4, Eddy says that other fans regard it as Black Sabbath's best album, which he credits to the album's 'jazz', highlighting parts of "Cornucopia" and a section near the end of "Wheels of Confusion" for boasting a captivating "trancy mesh of thump" in the beat, also adding that "Supernaut" is an ...