Black Sabbath: The 1970 British heavy metal debut album that became the blueprint of the genre and set the stage for generations of bands that developed in its wake. Features the killer title track along with the classics “The Wizard” and “N.I.B.” Absolutely essential.

Black Sabbath was recorded by the original lineup of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward, four childhood friends from the north of England-grew out of the U.K’s late 1960s blues/hard rock scene, which also included Led Zeppelin, Cream, Blue Cheer, and other greats. Sabbath‘s sweeping and masterful metamorphosis away from that tradition spawned heavy metal music, inventing the template for everything that would follow. With crushing rhythms, doomy riffs, haunting songs, and Ozzy’s other-worldly vocals, the band conjured a dark, menacing, and resonant sound that forever reverberates.

1.  Black Sabbath
2.  The Wizard
3.  Wasp/Behind The Wall Of Sleep/Bassically/NIB
4.  Wicked World
5.  A Bit Of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning