![]() ![]() Every element here is perfectly pitched toward hell. ![]() It’s not enough to say that Black Sabbath invented heavy metal. From the moment Iommi’s tritone-laden riff for the band’s eponymous album opener roared through the speaker, there was a before this album, and an after. Black Sabbath, refined metaphorically and, in Tony Iommi’s finger-shortening industrial accident, literally by working-class misery, churned their blues ‘n’ folk background into something new and terrifying. Brits only had to wait until Friday, February 13 of the new decade to get the perfect encapsulation of this new era. With the ‘60s already aging like milk left out on a hot summer day, 1970 arrived on a sea of bad vibes as the realization of dashed dreams sank in for disillusioned idealists. ![]() Rarely if ever have the stars aligned so perfectly to announce a band’s arrival than they did for Black Sabbath. – Zachary Hoskins Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath (1970) No 10 albums can tell the full story of a decade, of course-particularly when at least one major ‘70s genre, disco, was decidedly singles-oriented. But the decade wasn’t all so ponderous: The explosion of punk and new wave debuts in 1977 alone could have filled their own Top Ten list, and interspersed with the bloated supergroups of the first half of the ‘70s were milestones in the development of heavy metal and power pop. The late ‘60s had established the album as an art form-leaving the early ‘70s, the long hangover for the psychedelic era, to bear the yoke of Album-Oriented Rock. ![]()
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