Black Sabbath

   
Artist: Black Sabbath

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Other
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   Metal
   Metal: Heavy
   

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Discography:


   
 The Dio Years

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 16


   
 The Eternal Idol

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


   
 Paranoid

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Never Say Die

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


   
 Mob Rules

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


   
 Live at Last

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


   
 Heaven and Hell

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Black Box: The Complete Original 1970-1978 [CD 8] - Never Say Die!

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


   
 Black Box: The Complete Original 1970-1978 [CD 7] - Technical Ecstasy

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Black Box: The Complete Original 1970-1978 [CD 6] - Sabotage

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Black Box: The Complete Original 1970-1978 [CD 5] - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Black Box: The Complete Original 1970-1978 [CD 4] - Vol. 4

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Black Box: The Complete Original 1970-1978 [CD 3] - Master Of Reality

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Black Box: The Complete Original 1970-1978 [CD 2] - Paranoid

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Black Box: The Complete Original 1970-1978 [CD 1] - Black Sabbath

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 6


   
 Reunion: Limited Edition (CD2)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


   
 Reunion: Limited Edition (CD1)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


   
 Past Lives (CD2)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


   
 Past Lives (CD1)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


   
 Between Heaven and Hell

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 15


   
 Tyr

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9


   
 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 8


   
 Headless Cross

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9


   
 Dehumanizer

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


   
 Black Mass

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 4


   
 Reunion

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 18


   
 The Sabbath Stones: the Irs Years

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 16


   
 Sabotage

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 8


   
 Live Evil

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 14


   
 Forbidden

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11


   
 Cross Purposes Live

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 20


   
 Cross Purposes

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


   
 Live In Sacramento

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 14


   
 Live In Olympia Hall Sao Paulo

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 14


   
 Live in Oakland CD2

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 6


   
 Live in Oakland CD1

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 7


   
 Live Costa Mesa Los Angeles

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 9


   
 Black Sabbath and Rob Halford

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 9


   
 We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 14


   
 The Eternal Idol Tour

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 15


   
 Sphinx Live At Hammersmith

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 18


   
 Seventh Star

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 9


   
 Live: Parisian Bitch

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 10


   
 Live In Italy

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 8


   
 Live At The Reading Festival

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 7


   
 Concert Chicago

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 10


   
 Born In Hell Live In Worchester

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 10


   
 Born In Hell

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 11


   
 Born Again

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 9


   
 Tokyo,Japan

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 9


   
 Technical Ecstasy

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 8


   
 Lucifer Rising (Live at Ashbury Park)

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 12


   
 Live At The California

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 12


   
 Vol.4

   Year: 1972   
Tracks: 10


   
 Master of Reality

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 8


   
 Live At The Fillmore West

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 9


   
 Neon Nights Live

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 Live Seatle 1980 Part 1

   Year:    
Tracks: 5

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Black Sabbath has been so influential in the development of leaden metallic element rock euphony as to be a shaping forcefulness in the style. The group took the blues-rock sound of late '60s acts of the Apostles like Cream, Blue Cheer, and Vanilla Fudge to its logical determination, slowing the tempo, accentuating the freshwater bass, and emphasizing screaming guitar solos and howled vocals full of lyrics expressing mental anguish and sick fantasies. If their predecessors clearly came out of an electrified vapours tradition, Black Sabbath took that custom in a new guidance, and in so doing helped give birth to a melodious style that continued to attract millions of fans decades by and by.


The group was formed by quaternity adolescent friends from Aston, approximate Birmingham, England: Anthony "Tony" Iommi (b. Feb 19, 1948), guitar; William "Bill" Ward (b. May 5, 1948), drums; John "Ozzy" Osbourne (b. Dec 3, 1948), vocals; and Terence "Geezer" Butler (b. Jul 17, 1949), bass. They in the beginning called their jazz-blues stria Polka Tulk, later renaming themselves Earth, and they played extensively in Europe. In early 1969, they distinct to change their nominate again when they set up that they were beingness mistaken for another group called Earth. Butler had scripted a song that took its title from a novel by occult writer Dennis Wheatley, Black Sabbath, and the group adopted it as their distinguish as well. As they attracted attention for their live performances, record labels showed sake, and they were signed to Phillips Records in 1969. In January 1970, the Phillips subsidiary company Fontana released their debut single, "Immorality Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me)," a cover of a song that had simply become a U.S. hit for Crow; it did not chart. The following calendar month, a different Phillips subsidiary company, Vertigo, released Black Sabbath's self-titled debut album, which reached the U.K. Top Ten. Though it was a less immediate winner in the U.S. -- where the band's recordings were licensed to Warner Bros. Records and appeared in May 1970 -- the LP skint into the American charts in August, arrival the Top 40, remaining in the charts over a year, and merchandising a million copies.


Appearance at the go of the '70s, Black Sabbath corporal the Balkanization of popular medicine that followed the comparatively homogenous endorsement half of the 1960s. As exemplified by its to the highest degree popular move, the Beatles, the 1960s suggested that many different aspects of popular music could be structured into an eclecticist style with a all-inclusive appeal. The Beatles were as potential to perform an acoustic lay as a hard rocker or R&B-influenced strain. At the start of the 1970s, however, those styles began to become more distinct for new artists, with soft bikers care James Taylor and the Carpenters rising to play only lay material, and knockout bikers like Led Zeppelin and Grand Funk Railroad taking a radically different course, spell R&B medicine turned increasingly militant. The number one wafture of careen critics, which had descend into creation with the Beatles, was shocked with this development, and the new acts tended to be under the weather reviewed despite their popularity. Black Sabbath, which took an even more than extreme tack than the still megrims and folk-based Led Zeppelin, was lambasted by critics (and though they eventually made their ataraxis with Zeppelin, they ne'er did with Sabbath). But the lot had observed a new audience eager for its sturdy approach.


Black Sabbath rapidly followed its debut record album with a second album, Paranoiac, in September 1970. The title racecourse, released as a single in supercharge of the LP, hit the Top Five in the U.K., and the record album went to number unmatchable thither. In the U.S., where the number one record album had simply begun to sell, Paranoid was held up for button until January 1971, over again preceded by the title track, which made the singles charts in November; the record album stony-broke into the Top Ten in March 1971 and remained in the charts over a year, eventually marketing over four gazillion copies, by far the band's best-selling travail. (Its gross revenue were aroused by the belated press release of one of its tracks, "Iron Man," as a U.S. single in early 1972; the 45 got nigh halfway up the charts, the band's best exhibit for an American single.)


Master of Reality, the tierce record album, followed in August 1971, stretch the Top Ten on both sides of the Atlantic and marketing over a 1000000 copies. Contraband Sabbath, Vol. 4 (Sept 1972) was some other Top Ten million-seller. For Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Nov 1973), the band brought in Yes keyboard player Rick Wakeman on one racecourse, signal a slight change in melodic direction; it was Black Sabbath's twenty percent straight Top Ten hit and million-seller. In 1974, the grouping went through and through managerial disputes that idled them for an extended period. When they returned to action in July 1975 with their sixth record album, Sabotage, they were welcomed back at domicile, just in the U.S. the musical clime had changed, making things more difficult for an album-oriented band with a heavy expressive style, and though the LP reached the Top 20, it did non fit old sales levels. Black Sabbath's record labels quick responded with a million-selling double-LP digest, We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll (Dec 1975), and the band contemplated a more than pronounced change of melodic style. This brought around disagreement, with guitar player Iommi deficient to add together elements to the sound, including horns, and singer Osbourne resisting any edition in the formula. Technical Ecstasy (October 1976), which adoptive some of Iommi's innovations, was another serious -- simply non great -- vender, and Osbourne's frustration eventually light-emitting diode to his quitting the band in November 1977. He was replaced for some live dates by former Savoy Brown singer Dave Walker, then returned in January 1978. Black Sabbath recorded its eighth album, Ne'er Say Die! (September 1978), the title track comely a U.K. Top 40 strike in front the LP's liberation and "Knockout Road" qualification the Top 40 subsequently. But the singles did non improve the album's commercial-grade achiever, which was again modest, and Osbourne left Black Sabbath for a solo life history, replaced in June 1979 by onetime Rainbow singer Ronnie James Dio (b. June 10, 1949). (Besides during this period, keyboardist Geoff Nichols became a regular part of the band's playacting and recording efforts, though he was not officially considered a band member until after.)


The new lineup took its time acquiring into the recording studio, not cathartic its first gear campaign until April 1980 with Heaven and Hell. The solution was a commercial resurgence. In the U.S., the album was a million-seller; in Britain, it was a Top Ten strike that threw cancelled iI chart singles, "Neon Knights" and "Die Young." (At the same time, the band's former British record label issued a five-year former concert album, Black Sabbath Live at Last, that was promptly withdrawn, though non before making the U.K. Top Five, and reissued "Paranoid" as a single, acquiring it into the Top 20.) Meanwhile, drummer Bill Ward left Black Sabbath due to ill health and was replaced by Vinnie Appice. The lineup of Iommi, Butler, Dio, and Appice then recorded Mob Rules (November 1981), which was well-nigh as successful as its predecessor: In the U.S., it went amber, and in the U.K. it reached the Top 20 and spawned deuce chart singles, the claim trail and "Twist up the Night." Next on the schedule was a concert album, simply Iommi and Dio clashed over the commixture of it, and by the time Live Evil appeared in January 1983, Dio had left Black Sabbath, pickings Appice with him.


The group reorganised by persuading original drummer Bill Ward to return and, in a move that surprised cloggy alloy fans, recruiting Ian Gillan (b. Aug. 19, 1945), onetime lead isaac M. Singer of Black Sabbath rivals Deep Purple. This lineup -- Iommi, Butler, Ward, and Gillan -- recorded Born Again, released in September 1983. Black Sabbath strike the road prior to the album's release, with drummer Bev Bevan (b. Nov 25, 1946) subbing for Ward, world Health Organization would come back to the band in the fountain of 1984. The album was a Top Five strike in the U.K. merely solely made the Top 40 in the U.S. Gillan remained with Black Sabbath until March 1984, when he coupled a Deep Purple reunion and was replaced by vocaliser Dave Donato, world Health Organization was in the striation until October without organism featured on whatever of its recordings.


Black Sabbath reunited with Ozzy Osbourne for its set up at the Live Aid concert on July 13, 1985, but shortly after the performance, bassist Geezer Butler leftfield the band, and with that the group became guitarist Tony Iommi's vehicle, a fact emphatic by the succeeding album, Seventh Star, released in January 1986 and credited to "Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi." On this outlet, the lineup was Iommi (guitar); some other early Deep Purple isaac Bashevis Singer, Glenn Hughes (b. Aug 21, 1952) (vocals); Dave Spitz (bass); Geoff Nichols (keyboards); and Eric Singer (drums). The record album was a modest commercial success, only the new band began to fragment immediately, with Hughes replaced by isaac Bashevis Singer Ray Gillen for the promotional spell in March 1986.


With Black Sabbath like a shot consisting of Iommi and his employees, personnel changes were speedy. The Eternal Idol (Nov 1987), which failed to crack the U.K. Top 50 or the U.S. Top one C, featured a returning Bev Bevan, bassist Bob Daisley, and isaac Bashevis Singer Tony Martin. Bevan and Daisley didn't stick long, and there were several replacements in the bass and barrel positions over the side by side couple of days. Headless Cross (Apr 1989), the band's first album for I.R.S. Records, base veteran drummer Cozy Powell (b. Dec 29, 1947, d. Apr 5, 1998) and bassist Laurence Cottle connection Iommi and Martin. It marked a flimsy uptick in Black Sabbath's fortunes at home, with the title song managing a week in the singles charts. Shortly later its liberation, Cottle was replaced by bassist Neil Murray. With Geoff Nichols back up on keyboards, this lineup made Tyr (Grand 1990), which charted in the Top 40 in the U.K. but became Black Sabbath's offset regular album to miss the U.S. charts.


Iommi was able to reunite the 1979-1983 lineup of the ring -- himself, Geezer Butler, Ronnie James Dio, and Vinnie Appice -- for Dehumanizer (June 1992), which brought Black Sabbath back up into the American Top 50 for the offset time in club days, spell in the U.K. the record album spawned "TV Crimes," their offset Top 40 make in a ten. And on November 15, 1992, Iommi, Butler, and Appice backed Ozzy Osbourne as section of what was billed as the singer's final live appearance. Shortly later, it was proclaimed that Osbourne would be rejoining Black Sabbath.


That didn't materialize -- hitherto. Instead, Dio and Appice leftfield once again, and Iommi replaced them by bringing back Tony Martin and adding drummer Bob Rondinelli. Traverse Purposes (Feb 1994) was a modest vendor, and, with Iommi seemingly maintaining a Rolodex of all onetime members from which to foot and choose, the following album, Proscribed (June 1995), featured returning musicians Cozy Powell, Geoff Nichols, and Neil Murray, along with Iommi and Martin. The phonograph recording fatigued only i week in the British charts, suggesting that Black Sabbath lastly had spent its commercial appeal, at least as a record marketer. With that, the mathematical group followed the leading of the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, putting the most popular lineup of the band back together for a live record album with a distich of new studio tracks on it. Recorded in the band's hometown of Birmingham, England, in December 1997, the two-CD mark Reunification -- featuring all iV of Black Sabbath's original members, Iommi, Osbourne, Butler, and Ward -- was released in October 1998. It charted only concisely in the U.K., but in the U.S. it just now missed arrival the Top Ten and went pt. The course "Iron Man" north Korean won Black Sabbath its first base Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. The isthmus toured through the end of 1999, final their reunion tour of duty on December 22, 1999, back in Birmingham. In February 2001, Black Sabbath announced that it would reunify once once again to headline the sixth edition of Ozzfest, Osbourne's summer concert festival, playing 29 cities in the U.S. beginning in June. More astonishingly, the group besides proclaimed its intention to record a studio album of all-new material, the original lineup's starting time since 1978. By the closing of the class, a failed recording session with producer Rick Rubin proved what an excessive approximation this was, and the banding laid dormant patch Osbourne enjoyed scoring a bump off TV series the following spring.