When we’re talking about influential metal bands, there is no more single influential band to heavy music than Black ... Sabbath. These are albums that would be forgotten if they were made ...

Black Sabbath’s first album is effectively ground zero for heavy metal - and as guitarist Tony Iommi recalled, it was an album made under intense pressure. In 2013, Iommi told Classic Rock how Sabbath ...

Few songs evoke fear quite like "Black Sabbath," the first ... and "Pact With Lucifer" made their thematic direction clear, but nothing was as blatant as the album's 13-minute spoken-word ritual ...