Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

lmao

Originally Posted by Wpnfire

You mean blues rock, acid, psychedelic, prog., and hard rock right? Because those are all the genres they covered by 1975. I mean, they accommodated blues into rock music better than anybody. They're arguably closer to blues than rock.

Originally Posted by Neapolitan

^Probably the best answer for what the band is. Sabbath is a "Rock band" that plays in the style of (what became known as) Heavy Metal or early 70s Hard Rock drawing in influences not only from Acid Rock (hard Psychedelic Rock) - and the other stuff mentioned above - but also Jazz, horror movie soundtracks, and the sounds of heavy metal machinery from factories in Birmingham.

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

closer to blues than rock?





i thought heavy metal was screaming into the mic about death :/

Black Sabbath have some normalness to them, you can hear what ozzy is saying is the first thing. plus they have melodies.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

This post is seriously so ignorant that I don't even know where to start. You need recs like a mofo.

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

this song sounds like a slow song from a rock bands album

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

I'm not even mad. Seriously I'm not. You're a good dude, and I think and hope you'll become something good

Originally Posted by Qwertyy

lots of tracks from MoR, good. glad we agree it's their best album.