"As soon as we started working, the first song I came up with 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.' First day we were there, bang! I went, 'Bloody hell!'" The nearly-six-minute song kicks off the disc. "The vibe did lift my writer's block," Iommi wrote in his memoir, Iron Man. The locals felt the place was haunted, and it had an actual dungeon. They rented a giant castle in Gloucestershire, England to see if it would inspire them. The group had released four amazing albums over the previous four years, all built around his riffs. Five decades later, "Black Sabbath" remains a high point of their live show.īlack Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi was going through a rough case of writer's block when the group began recording Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in 1973. There was nothing like it on the charts, and the group quickly began writing similar songs. The track is an absolute masterpiece and does feel like a mini audio-horror movie. The group wrote a song called "Black Sabbath" and changed their name from Earth to the same. This was also the peak of the hippie era and the four working-class kids from Birmingham, England were sick of songs about peace and love. Bassist Geezer Butler observed that people loved seeing scary movies, but there wasn't much scary music out there. The band was inspired to write the song when they saw a movie theater playing the 1963 Boris Karloff film Black Sabbath. It's difficult to overstate the importance of this song to both Black Sabbath and heavy metal in general.
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