Heavy metal 'as we know it' came into existence today 50 years ago with the release of Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut. Read about that record and all the ones it inspired on our list of the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time
It’s impossible to imagine what heavy metal would have become without the iconic gloomy riff of “Iron Man,” the musical thickness of “War Pigs”is important because it’s the blueprint for metal,” Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford said in the liner notes for a 2016 reissue of the album. “It led the world into a new sound and scene.
And the funky “Fairies Wear Boots” was loosely based on a real, incredibly violent fight the band got into with a group of skinheads after a gig in the north of England . Butler wrote about his own disillusionment with a sci-fi twist in the lyrics to “Iron Man” .bleak postwar environment – bombed-out Birmingham, England – it was easy for him to describe dystopias like those in “War Pigs” and “Electric Funeral.
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