Black Sabbath is the debut album by the British rock band Black Sabbath, released in the United Kingdom on Friday the 13th, February 1970. Black Sabbath is often regarded as one of the first heavy metal albums.
In August 1969 the band, who were then known as Earth, decided to change their name to Black Sabbath, because there was another band also known as Earth. Around the same time they recorded and distributed a demo version of their eponymous ...
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Black Sabbath is the debut album by the British rock band Black Sabbath, released in the United Kingdom on Friday the 13th, February 1970. Black Sabbath is often regarded as one of the first heavy metal albums.
In August 1969 the band, who were then known as Earth, decided to change their name to Black Sabbath, because there was another band also known as Earth. Around the same time they recorded and distributed a demo version of their eponymous song. In December 1969 they recorded and released their debut single, "Evil Woman". In January 1970, the band recorded and mixed the remaining seven songs that would appear on their debut album. The songs were recorded "live" and the entire process took just three days.
Guitarist Tony Iommi recalls recording live: "We thought 'We have two days to do it and one of the days is mixing.' So we played live. Ozzy was singing at the same time, we just put him in a separate booth and off we went. We never had a second run of most of the stuff."...
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