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Originally Posted by The Unfan
Black Sabbath's lyrics had a christian undertone and used vague referances to occultism to point out how bad it was more so than glorifying it.
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this is true. but they definitely used the dark imagery to their advantage. people need to keep in mind that the world was a much different place in 1970 than it was in 1990. just the name 'black sabbath' pissed off old ladies because it implied negative connotations about a holy day.
the free press they received from church groups taking their lyrics out of context definitely didn't hurt their career. being that they, along with alice cooper, were the first really large scale shock rockers they didn't really need to go that far to scare all the soccer moms of the day. by the time the 90s rolled around the kids who ignored their parent's warnings about the devil music of black sabbath were parents themselves and weren't going to be shocked by the same tricks again. so things did inevitably get ramped up.
but from the get go metal has always been about aggression and darkness, isolation / rejection from society, aside from communication breakdown and the break in whole lotta love does anything in zeppelin's catalog sound remotely like metal? now compare that to 'black sabbath' the song - first track on the first album? that still sounds effing METUHL! today.
metal didn't get hijaked until the 80s when church groups decided to try recruiting disciples through cheeseball crap like the video linked in the OP. it's more contrived than the last #1 timbaland produced.
jack black said it best. METAL! it comes from HELL!