![]() In 2003, the album was ranked number 241 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time despite the cold reception the magazine gave the album when it first came out. The album has also been credited for pioneering Heavy Metal, Stoner Rock, and Goth. Records, the album reached number 23 on the Billboard 200, where it remained for over a year, selling a million copies. Following its US release in June 1970 by Warner Bros. Released on Friday the 13th February 1970 by Vertigo Records, Black Sabbath reached number eight on the UK Album Chart. The album was not packaged with a gate-fold cover in the U.S. Although, in Osbourne's recent biography, "I Am Ozzy", he says that to the best of his knowledge that nobody was upset with the inclusion. Allegedly, the band were upset when they discovered this, as it fuelled allegations that they were Satanists or Occultists. Vertigo, the band's UK record label, were allegedly responsible for adding the cross. ![]() On the original release, the inner gate-fold sleeve featured an Inverted Cross with a poem written inside of it. The silhouette of a raven is visible among the trees on the back cover. Standing in front of the watermill is a figure dressed in black. The album cover features a depiction of Mapledurham Watermill, situated on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. The first was written and performed by Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation, and the second was written and performed by the band Crow. Lovecraft short story Beyond the Wall of Sleep, while "The Wizard" was inspired by the character of Gandalf from The Lord of The Rings The latter includes harmonica performed by vocalist Ozzy Osbourne.īoth the songs "Warning" and "Evil Woman" are covers of Blues songs, with lyrics regarding relationships. "Behind the Wall of Sleep" is a reference to the H. Lyrics of two other songs on the album were written about supernatural-themed stories. Tony Iommi said in several interviews that it is merely a reference to drummer Bill Ward's pointed goatee at the time, which was shaped as a pen-nib. Contrary to popular belief, the name of that song is not an initialism for "Nativity in Black". Similarly, the lyrics of the song "N.I.B." are written from the point of view of Lucifer. The song's lyrics concern a "figure in black" which bass player Geezer Butler claims to have seen after waking up from a nightmare. The first song on the album is based almost entirely on a tritone interval played at slow tempo on the electric guitar. Musically and lyrically the album was considered quite "dark" for the time. We never had a second run of most of the stuff." Ozzy was singing at the same time, we just put him in a separate booth and off we went. ![]() ![]() Iommi recalls recording live: "We thought 'We have two days to do it and one of the days is mixing.' So we played live. We actually thought a whole day was quite a long time, then off we went the next day to play for £20 in Switzerland." According to guitarist Tony Iommi, "We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it. In January 1970, the band recorded and mixed the remaining seven songs that would appear on their debut album. In December 1969 they recorded and released their debut single, "Evil Woman". Around the same time they recorded and distributed a demo version of their eponymous song. This was because there was another band also known as Earth the name is also an homage to the 1963 classic Mario Bava terror film starring Boris Karloff. In August 1969 the band, who were then known as Earth, decided to change their name to Black Sabbath. ![]()
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