Black Sabbath Lyrics

Black Sabbath is an English heavy metal band formed in 1968 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, originally comprising Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums). In the early 1970s they were the first to pair heavily distorted, sonically dissonant blues-rock at slow speeds with lyrics about drugs, mental pain, and abominations of war, thus giving birth to generations of metal bands that followed in their wake. They are often credited with creating the heavy metal genre as well as the doom metal genre.

Black Sabbath was formed in Aston, a poor district of Birmingham damaged by bombing during World War II, under the name Polka Tulk Blues Band (soon shortened to “Polka Tulk”), later Earth. Initially a blues-rock band, Earth moved in a darker direction when their bassist, Geezer Butler, a fan of the black magic novels of Dennis Wheatley, wrote lyrics for an occult-themed song titled “Black Sabbath” (the song name w...
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Black Sabbath Songs:

A Hard Road A National Acrobat After Forever Am I Going Insane (radio) Anno Mundi (The Vision) Behind The Wall Of Sleep Black Sabbath Born Again Changes Children Of The Grave Children Of The Sea Computer God Die Young Digital Bitch Electric Funeral Fairies Wear Boots Heaven And Hell Hole In The Sky I Into The Void Iron Man Killing Yourself To Live Lady Evil Laguna Sunrise Lonely Is The Word Lord Of This World master of insanity Megalomania N.I.B. Neon Knights Never Say Die No More Tears Paranoid Planet Caravan Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Sabbra Cadabbra Sins Of The Father Snowblind Solitude Spiral Architect Supernaut Sweet Leaf Symptom Of The Universe The Illusion Of Power The Mob Rules The Sign Of The Southern Cross The Wizard The Writ Too Late Trashed TV Crimes Under The Sun Walk Away War Pigs Wicked World Wishing Well Zero The Hero