Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
| Release date: | 13 February 1970 |
| Style: | Doom metal, Hard rock, Heavy metal |
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Disc I
01. Black Sabbath
02. The Wizard
03. Wasp / Behind The Wall Of Sleep
04. Bassically / N.I.B.
05. Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Game With Me) [Crow cover]
06. A Bit Of Finger / Sleeping Village
07. Warning [Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation cover]
08. Wicked World [bonus]
Disc II [2009 Deluxe Edition Bonus CD]
01. Wicked World [Single B-side]
02. Black Sabbath [Studio Out-take]
03. Black Sabbath [Instrumental version]
04. The Wizard [Studio Out-take]
05. Behind The Wall Of Sleep [Studio Out-take]
06. N.I.B. [Instrumental version]
07. Evil Woman [Alternative version]
08. Sleeping Village [Intro]
09. Warning [Part 1]
Top 20 albums of 1970: 2
Top 200 albums of all time: 31
Featured In "Getting Into: Black Sabbath"
01. Black Sabbath
02. The Wizard
03. Wasp / Behind The Wall Of Sleep
04. Bassically / N.I.B.
05. Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Game With Me) [Crow cover]
06. A Bit Of Finger / Sleeping Village
07. Warning [Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation cover]
08. Wicked World [bonus]
Disc II [2009 Deluxe Edition Bonus CD]
01. Wicked World [Single B-side]
02. Black Sabbath [Studio Out-take]
03. Black Sabbath [Instrumental version]
04. The Wizard [Studio Out-take]
05. Behind The Wall Of Sleep [Studio Out-take]
06. N.I.B. [Instrumental version]
07. Evil Woman [Alternative version]
08. Sleeping Village [Intro]
09. Warning [Part 1]
Top 20 albums of 1970: 2
Top 200 albums of all time: 31
Featured In "Getting Into: Black Sabbath"
Review
Lyrics Produced by Roger Bain.
The tracklist of the more common American release (June, 1970) combines several tracks into one and incorrectly switches the titles around, as well substitutes Evil Woman for Wicked World, the B-Side to the original Evil Woman single, resulting in:
1. Black Sabbath
2. The Wizard
3. Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B.
4. Wicked World
5. A Bit Of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning
The '96 Castle remaster uses the original track-listing, plus "Wicked World" as track 8, being the only release with both songs on one disc.
Some versions of the album contain a live version of "Tomorrows Dream" as track #8.
Following the release of the expanded Paranoid set, Universal issue a further two classic Black Sabbath albums in the Deluxe format with an additional CD of goodies.
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Rating: 10 |
Black Sabbath is not an ordinary album. It's the one that gave birth to our beloved metal genre. It was recorded back in 1970. At that time, although the spotlight was on the popular rock'n'roll groups which were constantly producing new "hits", Black Sabbath managed to compose the first heavy metal album ever. Read more ›› |
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| annodomini Posts: 782 From: Lithuania  |
We could proudly say, that Doom metal was the first metal genre 
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| Baz Anderson Posts: 13237 From: UK  |
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Posts: 15250  |
Amusingly this is the second best metal album of 1970 to "paranoid"... same band took gold and silver in the same year. i don't think that feat can be matched.
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| Hellchain666 Posts: 11 From: UK |
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| Axe Argonian Posts: 116 From: USA  |
Written by BitterCOld on 15.02.2010 at 20:37 That's especially true when considering that both this album and Paranoid are timeless classics. To be honest, however, I once foolishly overlooked this album in favor of albums like Paranoid and Master of Reality until most recently when I decided to listen to songs like "Black Sabbath" and "The Wizard" for the first time in my life. Admittedly I was blown away when I did; I never previously knew that 70's songs could be so fucking dark and heavy! This is definitely the definitive heavy metal album of the ages.
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| erykk Posts: 48 From: Mexico  |
Music: 10 Vocals: 10 Lyrics: 10 Melody: 10 Production: 8 Originality: 10 CD Cover: 10 My top 5: 1. Black Sabbath 2. NIB 3. Evil Woman 4. The Wizard 5. Wicked World A masterpiece 
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Account deleted Written by erykk on 13.04.2011 at 10:05 you're still grading everything...  8 for production? what's wrong with it? Remember most of the album was recorded in 1969 and released early 1970.
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| Zombie94 Posts: 458 From: Ireland  |
Written by Guest on 20.03.2011 at 07:40 I guess there's a lot of bands you could say influenced what eventually became known as heavy metal. But I also don't think that this album is THAT great when just looked at as a piece of art by itself. Paranoid is by far superior imo. Of course many people give it extra cred for its historical significance but for me, it's all about the music and this didn't really live up to what I expected, considering it's put so high on people's "greatest albums of all time" lists. 
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| musicalkaratekid Posts: 1506 From: UK |
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I like how the bass sound in "N.I.B.", perhaps the best bass-sounding in all metal history. Great review! 
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| slinx Posts: 86 From: USA  |
Hey, I have the American version of this album so I'm not sure the which exact songs I like off the album. Could someone break up these two songs into exact parts for me? Into time frames, like say Wasp is from 0:00 to 3:37 (just an example) and such. 3. Wasp \ Behind The Wall Of Sleep \ Basically \ N.I.B. 5. A Bit Of Finger \ Sleeping Village \ Warning. Thanks
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| Pelagial Posts: 84 From: France  |
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 60950 From: Sweden  |
Written by Yaniv on 03.03.2012 at 19:36 Maybe it was whitche swhen had a sabbath in some secret place in England? About album after long time I was listening this agan.... well masterpiece, old school old BS this and Paranoid is pretty much true sabbath what I enjoy rest is OK, but not close to amsterpiece how this one and follower
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| king_matt Posts: 449 From: USA  |
Written by Guest on 20.11.2012 at 18:58 Black Veil Brides
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| Aristarchos Posts: 814 From: Sweden |
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| Ruchesko Posts: 435 From: UK  |
All this really did for me was confirm my indifference towards Ozzy and my lack of appetite for doom. NIB's a keeper, though.
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| musclassia Posts: 7033 From: UK  |
Honestly, this is so far from what metal has become these days I can see why people would be willing to dismiss it, but the first 4 songs at least have so much to offer, even after everything that's happened since, that I hold this record in high regard even if I think e.g., Warning is too widdly-waddly-winding and unfocussed. Attempting to rationalise the early BS records these days is such a challenge just because they pretty much acted as cement for most-to-everything that was built since
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| Azarath Free as a.. Fish Posts: 959 From: Finland  |
It's a good album with some classics on the first half, but the second side goes deep into blues jamming and soloing. I mean, I really like it, but I can see why some wouldn't care for it. Paranoid and Master of Reality are more "metal" overall.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 60950 From: Sweden |
Written by Azarath on 08.03.2015 at 18:51 band started as blues band, they wanted play blues at 1th place, not metal so, that makes sense
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| TreyWeddle Posts: 39 From: USA |
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| Maasai Mara Posts: 159 From: Kenya  |
Homie we get it, you gave birth to heavy metal and shit but this sucks monkey balls. Black Sabbath is an excellent song but the rest of the album sounds as boring as most of the music from this era.
---- You are not metal enough until you visit Kenya. The cradle of mankind, where man learnt first to work with stones and first enjoyed the sounds produced by banging stones which later influenced metal in all its sounds and genres.
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| JoHn Doe Posts: 4871  |
Written by Maasai Mara on 03.01.2019 at 22:47 You're so fucking clueless 
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 60950 From: Sweden |
Written by Maasai Mara on 03.01.2019 at 22:47 Himie, then you font know much about that erss music.
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| Maasai Mara Posts: 159 From: Kenya |
Written by Bad English on 04.01.2019 at 07:57 I like heavy energetic music and i find the music from 1970s really lacking in heaviness, energy and an in your face attitude. You can point me to some records from the 70s that are full of energy like AC/DC or Hell Bent for Leather. Interesting music began in 1980s
---- You are not metal enough until you visit Kenya. The cradle of mankind, where man learnt first to work with stones and first enjoyed the sounds produced by banging stones which later influenced metal in all its sounds and genres.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 60950 From: Sweden |
Written by Maasai Mara on 04.01.2019 at 15:25 Its matte of taste
---- Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!! Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' apos;'[image] I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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