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Black Sabbath Black Sabbath Release Date: 1970 05 zz Running Time: 40:16 Label: Warner Bros. Black Sabbath's debut album is given over to lengthy songs and suite-like pieces where individual songs blur together and riffs pound away one after another, frequently under extended jams. There isn't much variety in tempo, mood, or the band's simple, blues-derived musical vocabulary, but that's not the point; Sabbath's slowed-down, murky guitar rock bludgeons the listener in an almost hallucinatory fashion, reveling in its own dazed, druggy state of consciousness. Songs like the apocalyptic title track, "N.I.B.," and "The Wizard" make their obsessions with evil and black magic seem like more than just stereotypical heavy metal posturing because of the dim, suffocating musical atmosphere the band frames them in. This blueprint would be refined and occasionally elaborated upon over the band's next few albums, but there are plenty of metal classics already here. Steve Huey, All Music Guide Tracks: Title Composer Time 1 Black Sabbath Iommi, Osbourne, Ward, Butler 6:16 2 Wizard Butler, Ward, Osbourne, Iommi 4:18 3 Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B. Butler, Osbourne, Iommi, Ward 10:40 4 Wicked World Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward 4:42 5 Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning Ward, Osbourne, Iommi, Butler 14:20 Releases: Year Type Label 1988 CS Warner Bros. 2004 LP Earmark 2007 CD Universal Distribution 1988 CD Warner Bros. 2000 CD Castle Music Ltd. 2005 LP Earmark 2008 CD Universal Distribution 2006 CD Creative Sounds 2003 LP Earmark

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