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Black sabbath album covers4/18/2023 The Polka Tulk Blues Band included slide guitarist Jimmy Phillips, a childhood friend of Osbourne's, and saxophonist Alan "Aker" Clarke. The new group was initially named the Polka Tulk Blues Band. They enlisted bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, who had played together in a band called Rare Breed. Following the break-up of their previous band Mythology in 1968, guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward sought to form a heavy blues rock band in Aston, Birmingham. But one by one, let us have a lesson in history.īlack Sabbath was formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. All of this was already reflected in the self-titled debut album, even if none of the musicians knew at the time what this album was about to kick off. Not only heavy metal but also doom metal, stoner metal and gothic in general emerged from Black Sabbath's music. The self-titled first album from the band we know as Black Sabbath not only threw down the first official metal album, it was also superbly written and highly influential on many subgenres of metal. But even that theory, while not wrong, is still damn incomplete. If that album had been released a few months later, Deep Purple's "Deep Purple in Rock", or widely known as just "In Rock", would have earned the glorious title of the album that ushered in the metal age. I personally think to say that this album marks the birth of metal is in no way wrong or stupid, it's just incomplete. But let's stop weaving mystic words of praise and dark omens, let's take a closer look at an album that is widely regarded as the one and only inception of heavy metal. February 13th 1970, a date that everyone who is interested in the history of music will know as the day on which heavy metal was born. No matter what you prefer, 1970 was the year of the first omen.
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