Black Sabbath Black Sabbath Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward, and singer Ozzy Osbourne. Black Sabbath are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with releases such as "Black Sabbath" (1970), "Paranoid" (1970), and "Master of Reality" (1971). The band had multiple line-up changes, with Iommi being the only constant member throughout its history. Formed in 1968 as the Polka Tulk Blues Band, a blues rock band, the group went through line up
Born Again (Black Sabbath album) drummer of Black Flag, stated the band was listening to the album around the time of "My War", defining songs like "Trashed" and "Disturbing the Priest" as "ideal". In 1984, Ozzy Osbourne stated that the album was the "best thing I've heard from Sabbath since the original group broke up". In 1992 Iommi confessed to "Guitar World", "To be honest, I didn't like some of the songs on that album—and the production was awful. We never had time to test the pressings after it was recorded, and something happened to it by the time it got released." A re-mastered 'Deluxe