It's genuinely hard to understand how insane this song must have felt in 1971. It's a HEAVY song today in 2023. It must have sounded like hell itself in 1971.
They were the heaviest for me but differed in having great songs. The only band who followed who.were good on early Albums were Judy's Priest But they soon became naff.and boring
Placing the needle on the first track of Sabbath 1 when it was first released introduced a completely new genre of music to me. Just called heavy rock in the day, but there was already heavy stuff out there including Zep. This was different, now referred to a doom metal it seems, it simply blew me away.
@@vadomarmeddugnatoswidukind listen to Exciter,Tyrant,Genocide(Unleashed in the East), Dissident Aggressor,The Ripper,Killing Machine,The Ripper,Sabbath is proto doom metal but Priest created real heavy metal.
I'd say they were metal right from the start, with their first song, Black Sabbath. Maybe goth, or doom metal. Tommy Ionni is so great. He lends such darkness to their songs, like War Pigs, and this one here. What an awesome riff!
Rageaholic generally knows his stuff, but he claims that Tony Iommi lost his fingertips between this album and paranoid. And until I double-checked, I bought it, because while the earlier Sabbath albums were heavy, this was the first one that made the skies go dark as soon as you put it on.
@@richdisilvio4591 Just checking brother, because I say, if it's to loud your to old, and if it doesn't move you, you better see a doctor, because you may be dead already 🤘👊
It's crazy how well the early Sabbath albums have aged and how fully formed their sound was on this album. They still sound heavy and dark anything now, to think they did this in '71! This album is the embodiment of heavy music, musically and spiritually. It's perfection.
Not to mention the tounger generations who did not grow up with the rise of these bands are brought up, taught, and demonstrated pure art in its finest. All these bands today in my opinion lack the true soul and originality that marked that era. Thats why black Sabbath rules: they have a soul, and it's beautiful
@@TFB-k8v ughhhh. shut up man. i'm 18 years old and love everything sabbath made from the 70's. your argument is invalid because you don't know what "this generation" is listening to. Sure, pop/rap is big. but you can't generalize an entire generation like that.
@@errorloadingmusic821 true. There are literally thousands of incredible, talented, creative bands out in the past decades - in metal alone. There are obscure subgenres that get two or three 10/10 records a month. Anybody that thinks there's nothing good today is just massively out of the loop.
@@makismakiavelis5718 i always ask myself the same thing, cause we know that all the cult shit becomes legendary with the time, in the moment they came out no one really understand them
The first metal album I ever heard. My brother in law handed me a copy and said, "there you go son have some of that" I went to my bedroom a mere boy, I listened, when I came out, I was a man.
Elvis Has left the building I first heard this album going through my dads record collection as a 6 year old girl. Made my parents play it from beginning to end for 6 months straight. So fucking epic.
Im sitting home one day back in the mid 70s ,i hear a knock on my door , open it , my good friend john is standing there with Master of Reality in his hand ........
That goes for any generation. My dad brought Master Of Reality home from Vietnam but if my son were to listen to autotune BS in front of him, he'd be like "the hell is that noise?"
Embryo is probably one of my favorite song intros ever to this day! I might be only 18, but I'm so glad my dad had me listen to classic rock all these years! Black Sabbath forever!!
@@kftc1980 I'm a little confused by your statement, are you saying that nuclear war is not possible? Or that we'll just keep inventing new ways to obliterate each other? I only ask because post-history denotes an event or consequence that ends recorded history.
@@hilbornnailhead9906 no, that is not what I am saying. During the 20th century it became fashionable in some circles to think that war would become a thing of the past, as societies became more technologically advanced that would usher in Utopia and an end to all of our problems and conflicts. As we see technological advancements may change the nature of conflicts, but do not necessarily reduce their frequency or severity, and certainly do not eliminate them.
@Jason Black Sabbath brought it up. Which is how great music is born, addressing the issues that gnaw away at us. You can't change if you don't acknowledge what's happening.
I remember playing a game called Brütal Legend on my PS3 5 years ago.This was one of the first songs you heard... I wasn't able to find it until today... When I heard the intro I was screaming in joy...
@@panagiotis4805 you mean songwriters. Musicians play instruments. Songwriters write songs. Gotta also give credit to the sound engineers and technical folks in the back ground. They make the music go round too.
This album dropped in July '71. It will be 50 years old in a month, and it still sounds completely fresh and relevant. What alternate universe did Tony, Ozzy, Bill, and Geezer come from?
Thats why i love Sabbath, drums, bass and guitar sound so freakin good on every song, this the drums steal the show, then the bass and Tony just ties everything together.
@@cheyennemeredith2961 Your correct in saying that as he plays power chords using his index and pinky fingers and developed a whole different sound compared to the normal blues stuff they played when Black Sabbath was called ''Earth''. Have you seen that footage of them playing ''Blue suede shoes'' for example. ''Master of reality'' for me was the record that definitely had a metal sound and basic thrash roots using palm muting etc. Alice in chains ''Check my brain'' is a string bender at the start sounds unreal when you play it in a pub on the juke box. I used to play guitar but got sick of it and switched to bass and I've done vocal work and a few karaoke songs. I started off on acoustic and did finger picking, The start off ''Stairway to heaven'' for example.''Purple haze'' beach boys songs etc
@@cheyennemeredith2961 I think the 2 middle fingers as he plays powerchords with his index and pinky fingers and that's how they got chopped off pushing sheet metal through a guillotine. ''MASTER OF REALITY'' was their defining moment there were other heavy rock bands but nothing like Black Sabbath with palm muting,shifting time signatures etc. Listen to Alice in chains ''Check my brain'' for a good riff
@@andrewking9761 As someone that also lost two fingertips, I can tell you with absolutely no uncertainty that it really does change your playing style, and as Tony himself says, It limits the chords and progressions you could do before such an accident. I've tried to make and use finger prosthetics myself and just can't. I still play mostly in standard E tuning with an occasional drop D, but there's just some chords I'll never be able to play properly. The other thing that kept Tony going, Probably the biggest thing was someone turning him on to Django Reinhardt. Django only had two fingers and played better than most people today with all fingers intact.
Some people today think "rock" is going "out of fashion." But "rock" is just a word. And maybe that WORD is going out of fashion, but this is just a song. And its absolutely incredible, and will be til the end of time. Incredible music will NEVER go out of fashion. Wait...
It's just too expensive to make this music, sadly. When you're guaranteed millions upon millions in record sales alone, not counting merch, videos, concerts, etc. you can invest in the best songwriters, musicians, creative direction, sound and recording engineers, etc. When you're not, you try to copy this stuff and cut corners, and it never meets this standard. This is the sound of $$$$$$$ make no mistake.
musicisbrilliant there’s a huge movement in the underground rap scene gravitating towards death metal right now and black metal too. It’s very interesting and there are rappers paying homage to their inspiration. It’s interesting to see because it’s making more teens go and listen to this old music. Not to mention post Malone being largely influenced by rock music.
Theyre were alot of people who played heavier “metal” like music in the late 60s but black was the first purely heavy metal band. They kick so much ass its ridiculous.
liver666 nobody was heavier than sabbath by any means, just stating other musicians had that gritty metal. Rumble by link wray is a bange thats was written in late 50s early 60s i think. But all hail be to sabbath.
@@WarPigs413 Cromagnon were basically doing proto-black metal in 1969. Listen to Caledonia. Swap the bagpipes for tremolo picked guitars or synths and you've basically got a modern black metal song that could've been by Nachtmystium.
makes me wonder how epic this song (and maybe the whole album) could be if they got together and made this album with todays equipment. due to their age, i doubt they would be able to do that, but maybe in some alternate universe.lol
@@justincooper5189 A big part of the sound comes from the old recording equipment, it would sound quite dull today given how sterile and lifeless modern metal production is. Besides, the actual recording isn’t nearly this badly distorted, this is just a low quality mp3 upload.
That's a bit inaccurate, my friend. The Beatles started metal. Listen to "In the End" and "I Want You". The latter is considered doom metal. Then listen to "Helter Skelter". That's the first heavy metal song.
There's always some Beatles fan saying they started everything. They Beatles were a pop band. They weren't even rock and roll. Chuck Berry did far more contributions to rock and roll than the Beatles ever did. Black Sabbath started metal on the foundation Jimmy Hendrix laid. That foundation was later reinforced by Robin Trower. The Beatles were the same as the Monkees. Pop bands with a few decent songs but more interested in making movies with hoards of screaming girls chasing them.
I'm talking about the songs not the Beatles as a band. You are correct that the Beatles was not the first metal band. But they made the first metal songs in late 60s. Helter Skelter maybe only miss a bit more noise from lead guitar and drums to make it more obvious. It's from a "pop band" but not a pop song. Listen to it and give me any Monkees song that resembles that song in any way. And yes, as you noticed, Hendrix had laid some foundations to it. Also the Who with their album in 1968 had some influence to metal too. Now, the Beatles didn't influence metal. They started it. They just didnt have a label for that kind of rock.
Glad to say Black Sabbath is the band that opened me up to heavy metal. I remember the first time I ever heard them my dad was driving me to football practice, he put Iron Man on, and that song just made me wanna run through some people. Started with Black Sabbath, moved onto Guns N' Roses Metallica, Motörhead, on and on and on.. music never gets old.
Now that's Heavy Metal!! I still love this song 33 yrs after first hearing it. Sabbath was before my teens but well ahead of their time. Doom metal was bourn from this type song Just as many sects/labels of types of metal Sabbath went on to create. Very much the "Beatles" of their arena . So Metal Gods were bourn.
Kenneth Sickles? Don't you just hate it when people call Sabbath Hard Rock or even Heavy Rock? I guess they don't acknowledge the existence of 70s Heavy Metal.
Whether you're here because Ozzy provides upgrades as a Lord of Metal (Brutal Legend), or because you tried to do the universe (Beavis and Butt-Head Do The Universe), all are welcome in metal.
I'm here because my father's platoon buddy in Vietnam had the record and never made it home. My dad took it with him back to the States and I listened to it as a young child since he still had it by then.
Watched Black Sabbath live in Hamilton with my then 14 yo daughter. A dear memory for both of us. I love their music. I listen to them with both of my daughters these days. Until the day I die and then some.
The dawn of real heavy metal, this intense musical juggernaut, with profound warning lyrics and that ominous haunted ending, this awesome sonic force of dreadful nature.
@@thunderstorm3495 it did only one good thing. It got my mom to see ozzy is not a satanist as a matter of fact I got her to listen to a few songs from sabbath and she doesn't mind it.
Pude verlos en su Final Tour, aquí en Argentina... Uno de los recuerdos más impresionantes y melancólicos que voy a tener por el resto de mi vida AGUANTE SABBATH
I'm that "kid" and I'm an Osborne. Rock diz house. The Old Man was fresh back from Nam,thanks Pap, and he was down with this and Jimi and all the stuff I was listening to them, and still today at 67.
Heavy metal is from birmingham. It comes from the working class. A lot of metal was made in birmingham, but Tony from black sabbath took inspiration from every guitar player until Tony found the one and only sound of heavy metal Love Tony Iommi Best guitar player EVER!
I love the sound of the drums in this song. It sounds like Bill Ward was rocking so hard that he had to just beat on a trash can. Either that or someone put rocks in a dryer.
Lucky you, just think, you might have never heard them and your life as you know it now would be totally different, the God's of Black Sabbath were with you, SABBATH FOR EVER ,🤘🤘👊👊
"So, you children of the world, listen to what I say If you want a better place to live in, spread the word today Show the world that love is still alive you must be brave Or you children of today are children of the grave Yeah" Powerful music, powerful messages
with twitter (along with EVERY OTHER GOD-FORSAKEN WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET, INCLUDING RUclips!) being a cesspool of hate and war, i can only hope the next generation will save this god-forsaken planet. (atleast, if the political cancer / climate change / threats of nuclear annihalation / the increasing sterilisation of humanity / economic collapse / the ever-existant threat of diseases / alien invasions / gender wars / race wars / ...whatever doesn't wipe us out before any of that could ever happen)
that is sad. I saw them at a ozzfest one year. they played right as the sun was setting and a storm was blowing in. off in the distance above the stage you could see lighting jumping sideways through the clouds, you could literally feel the electricity in the air. beautiful. ill never forget it
You probably had a chance but let it slip away I took my son to a show in 2013 they said that was it 3 years later their back they play everywhere unless you live in Alaska I think it's prey safe to assume their done keep your eyes and ears out you never know with these old dinosaurs
Grew up with an older audiophile brother, Black Sabbath was his favorite. Drove our Mother nuts with that "Turn that Damn noise down!", ringing in your ear, one might be tempted to push an envelope.
Every rock or metal band on the planet owes a debt to these guys. For those of you born way after this, you won't know how dark and evil that intro sounded back in those days.
What an awesome time to be young and alive, 1970s, so many intense rock bands, in their prime, their concerts literally just a few miles down the street, sabbath, priest, scorpions, rush, zeppelin, ect, ect, friggin wow, i was born, 66, a little to late for then, i was the 80s.
This track is brilliant. I like the way that Iommy takes a back seat and lets Geezer's bass and Bill's drums are promoted. Then he comes in with the powerful riffs and you can still hear them both behind his guitar prowess. For myself this is the best ever Sabbath album. I salute the foundations of Metal 🤘🤘
Love black Sabbath!! But gotta be honest lads....the new Beavis and Butt-Head do the universe movie brought me here!! The car chase scene plays this and I could NOT stop headbanging!! And upon learning this is Black Sabbath I've smashed me FOOKING replay button!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
@@Io-Io-Io you got me, I used the wrong grammatical spelling. Thankfully you corrected me. Now I can go on living a productive life of correcting grammar.
Probably the best ever LIVE band , they broke the Beatles gate audience when they were still Earth , in Hamburg , thats how good they were ,even back at the start , Charlie Barber is bang on , you have to be there to see for yourself
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I am in my 60s I can still hear my Dad yelling Turn That Crap Down love these guys still
......mine said .......turn it off........
Joe White I'm 17 and I always hear my dad telling me to turn it up!
Hahahahah , mine just has to keep up with it :P
Undoubtedly, this is one of the best Metal tracks ever.
Joe! Turn that crap down!! 😎 (I love Sabbath) 🤟🤜🤛
The opening riff gives me chills every time
after the Embryo part, the down-tuned guitar in C# is so F**KING cool that gives me shivers
Spine tingling isn't it
@@AndrewFlour wait, I always thought that was the bass....
Me too
Sounds like it's century's old
It's genuinely hard to understand how insane this song must have felt in 1971. It's a HEAVY song today in 2023. It must have sounded like hell itself in 1971.
It did and it was and is feckin awesome
They were the heaviest for me but differed in having great songs.
The only band who followed who.were good on early Albums were Judy's Priest
But they soon became naff.and boring
Judy's Priest, seriously?😂
Placing the needle on the first track of Sabbath 1 when it was first released introduced a completely new genre of music to me. Just called heavy rock in the day, but there was already heavy stuff out there including Zep. This was different, now referred to a doom metal it seems, it simply blew me away.
@@vadomarmeddugnatoswidukind listen to Exciter,Tyrant,Genocide(Unleashed in the East), Dissident Aggressor,The Ripper,Killing Machine,The Ripper,Sabbath is proto doom metal but Priest created real heavy metal.
This officially marks when Black Sabbath became Heavy Metal... The godfathers themselves... Best song in my opinion... Awesome bass line.
I'd say they were metal right from the start, with their first song, Black Sabbath. Maybe goth, or doom metal. Tommy Ionni is so great. He lends such darkness to their songs, like War Pigs, and this one here. What an awesome riff!
They were already heavy metal since their first album
I'd say this is when they start branching out towards sludge metal
Rageaholic generally knows his stuff, but he claims that Tony Iommi lost his fingertips between this album and paranoid. And until I double-checked, I bought it, because while the earlier Sabbath albums were heavy, this was the first one that made the skies go dark as soon as you put it on.
@@speedking7224
Creating* this can be considered proto doom/sludge metal.
The drumming on this is out of this world bill Ward is one hell of a drummer 😃👌👍
I totally agree with you! Fab drumming! I saw a concert and he was killing those drums! The energy and force!
Amen! Brother.
I have read that this song had bothered Bill a little bit while trying to record it. If I remember right.
I often hear people go on about Danny Carey, Bonzo, and Moon but for me it's Mr William, Animal, Ward
how did the drums survive
Children Of The Grave without Embryo directly before it just isn't the same.
the opening to children of the grave is nice but embryo really changes it to a new level
The same with NIB without bassically at the start just isn’t the same
@@DannyBoi2112 My favorite bass line of all time.
@@EPWillard yeh
Some things just don't sound complete...
How many bands invent a whole new genre of music!? We are truly blessed to be alive in the time heavy metal was created by the boys from Birmingham.
you are so right.
here here sir!
the granddaddy's of metal, not a lot of bands will come close to being as influential as black sabbath
Indeed!
No many
This song was so radical the day it was released, and here it is 50 years later, and it still kicks ass. Amazing.
Agree💯💯💯💯💯💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
🤔The question is, do you still kick ass 50 years later
@@mikehester1209 Of course, and its because kick-ass music like this keeps you young! :)
@@richdisilvio4591 Just checking brother, because I say, if it's to loud your to old, and if it doesn't move you, you better see a doctor, because you may be dead already 🤘👊
@@mikehester1209 Well, I guess you can say those people are Children of the Grave!
Can't get enough of the main riff, it sounds so ahead of its time
Imagine being someone in 1971 hearing this shit for the first time!!!
@@ger1617 if you watch that video where they’re playing in front of that massive sea of people no one understands what’s going on exactly lol
Still is in my opinion
ahead of it's time ?? yes it was written for today !!! ozzy knew this was coming!!!
2:48 - One of the best ever tempo changes in metal. Slow yet heavy, powerful and aggressive!
I remember reading Slaine while listening to this. Can't get a more celtic and powerful feeling
I agree. And those chords sound devilish and sinister !!
4:36
No band ever changed up or changed down as brilliantly as Sabbath.
yes!!!!
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It's crazy how well the early Sabbath albums have aged and how fully formed their sound was on this album. They still sound heavy and dark anything now, to think they did this in '71! This album is the embodiment of heavy music, musically and spiritually. It's perfection.
Not to mention the tounger generations who did not grow up with the rise of these bands are brought up, taught, and demonstrated pure art in its finest. All these bands today in my opinion lack the true soul and originality that marked that era. Thats why black Sabbath rules: they have a soul, and it's beautiful
Exactly!!! ✌️
@@TFB-k8v ughhhh. shut up man. i'm 18 years old and love everything sabbath made from the 70's. your argument is invalid because you don't know what "this generation" is listening to. Sure, pop/rap is big. but you can't generalize an entire generation like that.
This what got me into doom metal.
@@errorloadingmusic821 true. There are literally thousands of incredible, talented, creative bands out in the past decades - in metal alone. There are obscure subgenres that get two or three 10/10 records a month. Anybody that thinks there's nothing good today is just massively out of the loop.
1971
Tommy Iommy 23 years
Ozzy Osbourne 22 years
Bill Ward 23 years
Geeze Butler 22 years
I always wondered if they, at their young age - or others like them Hendrix, Floyd etc. -realised that they were making history.
holy fuck, i'm 21 and seriously jealous
@@pottergeist I am 44
no one writes good rock/metal past the age of 30
@@makismakiavelis5718 i always ask myself the same thing, cause we know that all the cult shit becomes legendary with the time, in the moment they came out no one really understand them
The first metal album I ever heard. My brother in law handed me a copy and said, "there you go son have some of that" I went to my bedroom a mere boy, I listened, when I came out, I was a man.
Yeah....now you're a fucking man ....thanks Black Sabbath !!
Elvis Has left the building I first heard this album going through my dads record collection as a 6 year old girl. Made my parents play it from beginning to end for 6 months straight. So fucking epic.
Very well Said😉😇👿👿
Did it make u a man too? - lol
Im sitting home one day back in the mid 70s ,i hear a knock on my door , open it , my good friend john is standing there with Master of Reality in his hand ........
Imagine the fear of parents in 1970 when their kid brought this record home. Talk about rousting grandma right out of her easy chair
depends on whos grandma it was.
wow now that's funny!! like ozzie said halloween music
I know mine fell out of Rocker and causd me out in Italian
That goes for any generation. My dad brought Master Of Reality home from Vietnam but if my son were to listen to autotune BS in front of him, he'd be like "the hell is that noise?"
So epic I can't believe I'm in my 30s and never gave a chance ! What was I doing all me life
I discovered Black Sabbath when I bought the Paranoid album. I am now 71 and still listening. I enjoy a nice trip and a good boogie. Yes!!!
Embryo is probably one of my favorite song intros ever to this day! I might be only 18, but I'm so glad my dad had me listen to classic rock all these years! Black Sabbath forever!!
same my dude! glad he showed me this music.
I'm so glad as well
One of the Baddest songs of Black Sabbath, was 16 now I'm 45, still jammin to this song!
I was 21 now I'm 70
@@peterbeaton2312 hell yeah keep rocking
I have been listening to this music since before I knew what music was thanks to my Dad and am now 41 and still rocking on with this great music 🎶
14 now 37
Easily one of the heaviest songs ever recorded!!!! Absolutely love Bill Wards drumming in this and Geezer Butlers bass is just eargasmic!!!!!!
Listening to this song over the years I always hoped it would become irrelevant. Here we are in 2022 still living in the shadow of atomic fear.
This is, unfortunately, true.
The notion that we would ever be “post history” was absurd. Technology changes, we don’t.
@@kftc1980 I'm a little confused by your statement, are you saying that nuclear war is not possible? Or that we'll just keep inventing new ways to obliterate each other? I only ask because post-history denotes an event or consequence that ends recorded history.
@@hilbornnailhead9906 no, that is not what I am saying. During the 20th century it became fashionable in some circles to think that war would become a thing of the past, as societies became more technologically advanced that would usher in Utopia and an end to all of our problems and conflicts. As we see technological advancements may change the nature of conflicts, but do not necessarily reduce their frequency or severity, and certainly do not eliminate them.
@Jason Black Sabbath brought it up. Which is how great music is born, addressing the issues that gnaw away at us. You can't change if you don't acknowledge what's happening.
I remember playing a game called Brütal Legend on my PS3 5 years ago.This was one of the first songs you heard... I wasn't able to find it until today... When I heard the intro I was screaming in joy...
DeadKing66 shut up and enjoy the music. It’s not exclusive to former angry white kids like you
@DeadKing66 lmao chill
@DeadKing66 stupid gatekeeper
Mr. Graves and if he doesn’t he isn’t a man?
Sameeee
I'm 75 and I still live for this band - Goddess bless everyone in the band.....especially Ozzie!!!!!
2:48 one of the most badass riff in the history
Jabura 4:30 is the baddest
One thing that always strikes me about Black Sabbath is just how deep and meaningful their lyrics are
tu GT
That's one thing that separates true musicians from posers
@@panagiotis4805 you mean songwriters.
Musicians play instruments. Songwriters write songs.
Gotta also give credit to the sound engineers and technical folks in the back ground. They make the music go round too.
I am all but positive they are not the people's who created
Be cautious
This album dropped in July '71. It will be 50 years old in a month, and it still sounds completely fresh and relevant. What alternate universe did Tony, Ozzy, Bill, and Geezer come from?
From the universe of metal and sabbath
birmingham
Those drums ..... Oh those drums . Bill ward is the Boss
JA
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Nein YEAH!
Hell yeah
Thats why i love Sabbath, drums, bass and guitar sound so freakin good on every song, this the drums steal the show, then the bass and Tony just ties everything together.
That sound, that sound, that c# tuning sound is a monster that Black Sabbath invented. Others can try, but no one can duplicate.
Crowbar, Down, Electric Wizard, and every other good stoner or doom metal band beg to differ
tony iommi has no fingertips so it was easier for him to play down-tuned
@@cheyennemeredith2961 Your correct in saying that as he plays power chords using his index and pinky fingers and developed a whole different sound compared to the normal blues stuff they played when Black Sabbath was called ''Earth''. Have you seen that footage of them playing ''Blue suede shoes'' for example. ''Master of reality'' for me was the record that definitely had a metal sound and basic thrash roots using palm muting etc. Alice in chains ''Check my brain'' is a string bender at the start sounds unreal when you play it in a pub on the juke box. I used to play guitar but got sick of it and switched to bass and I've done vocal work and a few karaoke songs. I started off on acoustic and did finger picking,
The start off ''Stairway to heaven'' for example.''Purple haze'' beach boys songs etc
@@cheyennemeredith2961 I think the 2 middle fingers as he plays powerchords with his index and pinky fingers and that's how they got chopped off pushing sheet metal through a
guillotine. ''MASTER OF REALITY'' was their defining moment there were other heavy rock bands but nothing like Black Sabbath with palm muting,shifting time signatures etc.
Listen to Alice in chains ''Check my brain'' for a good riff
@@andrewking9761 As someone that also lost two fingertips, I can tell you with absolutely no uncertainty that it really does change your playing style, and as Tony himself says, It limits the chords and progressions you could do before such an accident.
I've tried to make and use finger prosthetics myself and just can't. I still play mostly in standard E tuning with an occasional drop D, but there's just some chords I'll never be able to play properly.
The other thing that kept Tony going, Probably the biggest thing was someone turning him on to Django Reinhardt. Django only had two fingers and played better than most people today with all fingers intact.
"Show the world that love is still alive you must be brave
Or you children of today are children of the grave"
Some people today think "rock" is going "out of fashion." But "rock" is just a word. And maybe that WORD is going out of fashion, but this is just a song. And its absolutely incredible, and will be til the end of time. Incredible music will NEVER go out of fashion. Wait...
Thank you! :)
It's just too expensive to make this music, sadly. When you're guaranteed millions upon millions in record sales alone, not counting merch, videos, concerts, etc. you can invest in the best songwriters, musicians, creative direction, sound and recording engineers, etc. When you're not, you try to copy this stuff and cut corners, and it never meets this standard. This is the sound of $$$$$$$ make no mistake.
*heavy metal
Best answer ever
musicisbrilliant there’s a huge movement in the underground rap scene gravitating towards death metal right now and black metal too. It’s very interesting and there are rappers paying homage to their inspiration. It’s interesting to see because it’s making more teens go and listen to this old music. Not to mention post Malone being largely influenced by rock music.
The drumming on this is incredible.
Bill Ward, with timbales and some inspiration.
even in warpigs, i think that is the most awesome drumline i've ever heard
The guitar even better
Still not sure if that's drums or the clacking sound of geezers fingers plucking the shit out of his bass hahaha
Trippy on the real acid from back in the day
Theyre were alot of people who played heavier “metal” like music in the late 60s but black was the first purely heavy metal band. They kick so much ass its ridiculous.
Joeby who was heavier than sabbath in the 60s?
liver666 nobody was heavier than sabbath by any means, just stating other musicians had that gritty metal. Rumble by link wray is a bange thats was written in late 50s early 60s i think. But all hail be to sabbath.
@@WarPigs413 Cromagnon were basically doing proto-black metal in 1969. Listen to Caledonia. Swap the bagpipes for tremolo picked guitars or synths and you've basically got a modern black metal song that could've been by Nachtmystium.
Alot of people?Pls define that..
Ever Heard of the stooges? I wanna be your dog, No fun, tv eye, search and destroy..
*When you're going through the discovery phase of some of the greatest bands of all time* Thank you Grandpa for your informed tastes in music
Heavy metal never dies \m/
Thanks to people like your grandpa, rock and roll will never die. Now go start a band.
Your grandpa rocks
He’s got good taste...this shit is legendary
Neil Young - 'Sedan Delivery Live'
Saw them yesterday on their final tour... they have to be seen to be believed. Trust me.
We saw them in Leeds last week. Phenomenal performance and sound.
Charlie Barber saw them last night it was awesome
I saw them last summer at Copenhell during that tour, and I can only agree, they're really a special experience.
I saw them last year in summer in Vienna and they were awesome! Incredible band!
sejo tosant I'm not Austrian, mate!
The recording equipment of the time couldn't even properly handle this music, and that somehow makes it sound ever better!!
Why did you turn Eddie into a leprechaun?
makes me wonder how epic this song (and maybe the whole album) could be if they got together and made this album with todays equipment. due to their age, i doubt they would be able to do that, but maybe in some alternate universe.lol
@@snow-puppetsofficial360 Irish maiden
@@justincooper5189 A big part of the sound comes from the old recording equipment, it would sound quite dull today given how sterile and lifeless modern metal production is. Besides, the actual recording isn’t nearly this badly distorted, this is just a low quality mp3 upload.
@@justincooper5189 listen to White Zombies cover. Still pretty old, but a lot better quality
Roses are red
Violets are blue
When I listen to Sabbath
My neighbors do too.
Very yes
Especially if you live in America, because Americans build walls out of fucking drywall and everyone can always hear you doing anything in America.
YEA BABY
That was beautiful, man. Brought a tear to my already red eyes.
OOOOYEAAH
Mighty riff. The tremendous journey of metal is concealed within the riff of this song. Long live Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward.
That bassline is fucking insane... Wow! You can trace all Metal to this one song. Amazing.
Yes
perhaps the first true metal riff - absolutely formative, inredible music
Why don't you mention Ozzy ?
And ozzy? Duh?
Bill ward's drumming is insane its like he's building a shed....just awesome 🤘
Building a shed howling
Metal didn't exist untill Black Sabbath came onto the scene. They were the first metal band.
Gary Bryant Yep they're origin of heavy metal.
Because of them there is heavy metal
That's a bit inaccurate, my friend.
The Beatles started metal. Listen to "In the End" and "I Want You". The latter is considered doom metal. Then listen to "Helter Skelter". That's the first heavy metal song.
There's always some Beatles fan saying they started everything. They Beatles were a pop band. They weren't even rock and roll. Chuck Berry did far more contributions to rock and roll than the Beatles ever did. Black Sabbath started metal on the foundation Jimmy Hendrix laid. That foundation was later reinforced by Robin Trower. The Beatles were the same as the Monkees. Pop bands with a few decent songs but more interested in making movies with hoards of screaming girls chasing them.
I'm talking about the songs not the Beatles as a band. You are correct that the Beatles was not the first metal band. But they made the first metal songs in late 60s. Helter Skelter maybe only miss a bit more noise from lead guitar and drums to make it more obvious. It's from a "pop band" but not a pop song. Listen to it and give me any Monkees song that resembles that song in any way.
And yes, as you noticed, Hendrix had laid some foundations to it. Also the Who with their album in 1968 had some influence to metal too.
Now, the Beatles didn't influence metal. They started it. They just didnt have a label for that kind of rock.
Adrenalina potente el 2022 la seguimos escuchando nunca morirá está pieza de black sabath
Fathers of heavy metal 🤘🤘🤘🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Glad to say Black Sabbath is the band that opened me up to heavy metal. I remember the first time I ever heard them my dad was driving me to football practice, he put Iron Man on, and that song just made me wanna run through some people. Started with Black Sabbath, moved onto Guns N' Roses Metallica, Motörhead, on and on and on.. music never gets old.
I’m so grateful to my father for raising us with this music. My family absolutely adores Sabbath 😌
"You children of today are children of the grave" never more so true than today
Now that's Heavy Metal!! I still love this song 33 yrs after first hearing it. Sabbath was before my teens but well ahead of their time. Doom metal was bourn from this type song Just as many sects/labels of types of metal Sabbath went on to create. Very much the "Beatles" of their arena . So Metal Gods were bourn.
Kenneth Sickles
Kenneth Sickles? Don't you just hate it when people call Sabbath Hard Rock or even Heavy Rock? I guess they don't acknowledge the existence of 70s Heavy Metal.
Nobody talked about Heavy Metal back then.
Nobody cares about doom metal
Heavy metal is my life!!!
Playing this song in the car will get you a speeding ticket.
I have the same problem listening to Tool, lol
Only if you are caught.
This and Highway Star- Deep Purple
@Ramil Empleo you star my heart -
Dirty deep dont cheap-
why do people keep commenting that? its not even a fast song. shits slow paced as fuck and almost the entire song is 1 note over and over.
Whether you're here because Ozzy provides upgrades as a Lord of Metal (Brutal Legend), or because you tried to do the universe (Beavis and Butt-Head Do The Universe), all are welcome in metal.
I'm here because my father's platoon buddy in Vietnam had the record and never made it home. My dad took it with him back to the States and I listened to it as a young child since he still had it by then.
@@ReflectionOfPerfection wow, what a way to get into Sabbath.
1.5x speed: Slayer
1.25x speed: Metallica
1x speed: Pantera
0.75x speed: stoner metal
Listen to the band Master thet did a good job with this song.
Watched Black Sabbath live in Hamilton with my then 14 yo daughter. A dear memory for both of us. I love their music. I listen to them with both of my daughters these days. Until the day I die and then some.
Happy 75th birthday to Bill Ward! His drumming on this gem is MINDBLOWING!!
One of my favorite. I enjoy BLACK SABBATH since 1970, and now at my 61, even more¡¡¡¡
I concider myself a hip hopper, but man do I love Black Sabbath 🤘🏾😎
A song that never ages. It’s 2022 and you just have to turn it up when this song comes on.
I'm 66 and still a Child of the Grave. One of my favorite anthems.
Done dun na na na dun da na na na dun da na na na nah nah....
wtf
Geezer the shit
ACCURATE AS SHEEET
@@vicrattlehead8665 Are you kidding me?.
@@marcosfernandezmartinez5284 wot...
The dawn of real heavy metal, this intense musical juggernaut, with profound warning lyrics and that ominous haunted ending, this awesome sonic force of dreadful nature.
I am an old man of the grave these days. All hail Ozzie!
LakeviewGreg All that reality show thing was a bad move. I cannot get past that. 😁
@@thunderstorm3495 it did only one good thing. It got my mom to see ozzy is not a satanist as a matter of fact I got her to listen to a few songs from sabbath and she doesn't mind it.
Pude verlos en su Final Tour, aquí en Argentina... Uno de los recuerdos más impresionantes y melancólicos que voy a tener por el resto de mi vida
AGUANTE SABBATH
What?
Que lujo debió de haber sido presenciarles en vivo
aguante qué??? o para qué???
vaya modismos
Cerrá el culo Fracisco y AGUANTE SABBATH.
Sabbath's best song for me. Every member of the band contributes to the sound. It's dark, hypnotic, and chaotic in equal parts. A timeless classic.
I saw them live in LA. the crowd was so fake but I was in tears hearing Ozzy, Tony, geezer, fuck shit up. I swear they were angels
th crowd was fake?
Rayene Boussetta he was in a simulation inside a simulation
Andrew LaPlante inside another simulation
Fake crowds are like standing in the wilderness
Andrew LaPlante: STOP
That heavy riff at the start is legendary
I'm that "kid" and I'm an Osborne. Rock diz house. The Old Man was fresh back from Nam,thanks Pap, and he was down with this and Jimi and all the stuff I was listening to them, and still today at 67.
Can you imagine sitting in front of geezer butlers speakers at the show you would have brain damage by the end of the show
I did twice ,,1971 and 2003
I did, in 1997, but from half an arena away lol. It still induced a mindfuck lol
@@muddshshshark hats off for you
@@fabiaccio8493 Last time was 2003 in Toronto (with Bill Ward) Pantera opened with Darrell and Vinny rip
It was a religous experience.
Bakersfield Civic Auditorium 1976. Right at the stage, 6 feet from him.
They were fucking INCREDIBLE in Birmingham.
Not only a song. It's philosophy and wisdom
The drumming rocks me.
BILL FUCKING WARD... He is far better drummer that many of the new blast beats death extreme metal drummers from today
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!
yes
lmaooooo
and the reef, wow
Heavy metal is from birmingham. It comes from the working class. A lot of metal was made in birmingham, but Tony from black sabbath took inspiration from every guitar player until Tony found the one and only sound of heavy metal Love Tony Iommi Best guitar player EVER!
How is it bait?
Black Sabbath is from Aston
Sabbath. .priest ..slade ..Elo ..UB40 ..gotta be something in it
Yeah, Judas Priest is from Birmingham 2
elvis didn't create shit, he didn't even write his songs, he just brought rock 'n' roll into mainstream culture.
This song calms me down ❤
I love the sound of the drums in this song. It sounds like Bill Ward was rocking so hard that he had to just beat on a trash can. Either that or someone put rocks in a dryer.
I was born in 1990. its 2019 now and this is my first time hearing this song and I'm rocking out like its brand new.
Lucky you, just think, you might have never heard them and your life as you know it now
would be totally different, the God's of Black Sabbath were with you, SABBATH FOR EVER ,🤘🤘👊👊
Welcome brother
Riddle me this, what is old but yet brand new, it's this Black Sabbath song you never knew, but now you do. 👊🤘
I was born in 91 and I literally cut my teeth to Black Sabbath been a fan since I was literally 3 years old lol long live Black Sabbath
The drumming on this to this day is still the best I've ever heard
You know a song is this good when its relevant at anytime
The end of this used to freak me out , got this album when I was 14 and still love they way it freaks me out lol .Great album wit great memories .
"So, you children of the world, listen to what I say
If you want a better place to live in, spread the word today
Show the world that love is still alive you must be brave
Or you children of today are children of the grave
Yeah"
Powerful music, powerful messages
Such an appropriate song for today.
Shut up
Actually this song is about the Vietnam War protests in the US, kids were literally being beaten too death.
True, it has always been for any decades regardless of which era you live in. The origin and fuel came from Vietnam war.
It is about the young standing up to save their world.
with twitter (along with EVERY OTHER GOD-FORSAKEN WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET, INCLUDING RUclips!) being a cesspool of hate and war, i can only hope the next generation will save this god-forsaken planet. (atleast, if the political cancer / climate change / threats of nuclear annihalation / the increasing sterilisation of humanity / economic collapse / the ever-existant threat of diseases / alien invasions / gender wars / race wars / ...whatever doesn't wipe us out before any of that could ever happen)
Mike Judge you've got awesome taste in music!! 🤟🔥 Fire!!!
Geezer the bass pleaser
Truly one of the very best bassists ever
My absolute favorite song of any group, any genre, and has been since the first time I heard it
Try playing with the speed of the video.
0.75 - Pantera
1.25 - Motorhead
1.5 - Metallica
1.75 - Slayer
x2 - Darkthrone
I definitely hear the Pantera and Slayer
The best heavy metal masters ever!! There music was groundbreaking ahead of everyone else!!
So sad I'll never get to see them live.
that is sad. I saw them at a ozzfest one year. they played right as the sun was setting and a storm was blowing in. off in the distance above the stage you could see lighting jumping sideways through the clouds, you could literally feel the electricity in the air. beautiful. ill never forget it
very unfortuante im glad i got to see twice once in 2013 and then once on their final tour
I was lucky enough to see them on The End tour a few years ago for my first time then Ozzy at Aftershock a year later (I’m 25)
You probably had a chance but let it slip away I took my son to a show in 2013 they said that was it 3 years later their back they play everywhere unless you live in Alaska I think it's prey safe to assume their done keep your eyes and ears out you never know with these old dinosaurs
Tiqew me either.
Grew up with an older audiophile brother, Black Sabbath was his favorite. Drove our Mother nuts with that "Turn that Damn noise down!", ringing in your ear, one might be tempted to push an envelope.
My favorite Black Sabbath song
Every rock or metal band on the planet owes a debt to these guys. For those of you born way after this, you won't know how dark and evil that intro sounded back in those days.
What an awesome time to be young and alive, 1970s, so many intense rock bands, in their prime, their concerts literally just a few miles down the street, sabbath, priest, scorpions, rush, zeppelin, ect, ect, friggin wow, i was born, 66, a little to late for then, i was the 80s.
Children of the grave without Embryo it is not children of the grave
Yes it is. When l want embryo l listen to embryo not core and vice versa
This song was released in 1971, that’s 53 years ago & it sounds better than all that garbage thats out there today!! Thank you, Black Sabbath!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Timeless- I love listening to this just as much as I did 40 years ago. Still my favorite band.
Perfection! I'm amazed and greatful every time I think of sabbath's existence.
nice boog
One of my favorite Sabbath songs. Tony is the ultimate riffmaster.
This track is brilliant. I like the way that Iommy takes a back seat and lets Geezer's bass and Bill's drums are promoted. Then he comes in with the powerful riffs and you can still hear them both behind his guitar prowess. For myself this is the best ever Sabbath album. I salute the foundations of Metal 🤘🤘
Black Sabbath eterno ,Á melhor banda de todos os tempos.
Love black Sabbath!! But gotta be honest lads....the new Beavis and Butt-Head do the universe movie brought me here!! The car chase scene plays this and I could NOT stop headbanging!! And upon learning this is Black Sabbath I've smashed me FOOKING replay button!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Don't matter how you got here. Welcome. Peace
Geezer and Ward swing on this! Fantastic!
Masterpiece. One of Black Sabbath best songs.
Damn the drums, bass, guitar and vocals it's so good
You mean the whole band?
@@cederickforsberg5840 yeah, guess so
I just turned 120 years old last week and barley became a black sabbath fan,it's never too late
We caught the final tour ... FANTASTIC!
The dark priests of metal. All bow and behold there glory.
😂
...their...
@@Io-Io-Io you got me, I used the wrong grammatical spelling. Thankfully you corrected me. Now I can go on living a productive life of correcting grammar.
@@mr.stinker9335 When l come across mistakes, l point them out.
@@Io-Io-Io i wonder how that's made your social life lol
Love ❤️ that's what this song is all about..! The young people rebelling and speaking their mind's..!
Probably the best ever LIVE band , they broke the Beatles gate audience when they were still Earth , in Hamburg , thats how good they were ,even back at the start , Charlie Barber is bang on , you have to be there to see for yourself
Best live band is Porcupie Tree. Sabbath stills great too. But ñeh
Maiden
Old Metallica.
Judas Priest
BLACK SABBATH IS THE BEST BAND THAT EVER HIT THE PLANET ! ❤
I cant believe the music they created . And its from a long time ago
Damned straight!!!!!