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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Blackness Sabbath has been so influential in the growing of leaden metallic element rock euphony as to be a shaping strength in the panache. The group took the blues-rock strait of belatedly '60s acts of the Apostles like Thrash, Blue Recreate, and Vanilla Cook to its logical purpose, slowing the pace, accentuating the freshwater freshwater bass, and emphasizing shrieking guitar solos and howled vocals full of lyrics expressing mental anguish and sick fantasies. If their predecessors intelligibly came out of an electrified megrims 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 foursome teenager friends from Aston, approximate Pittsburgh of the South, England: Susan Brownell Anthony "Tony" Iommi (b. February 19, 1948), guitar; William "Measure" Mrs. Humphrey Ward (b. May 5, 1948), drums; Trick "Ozzy" Osbourne (b. Celestial latitude 3, 1948), vocals; and Publius Terentius Afer "Geezer" Samuel Butler (b. Jul 17, 1949), bass. They in the kickoff 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 being mistaken for another group called Earth. Butler had scripted a song that took its title from a novel by occult writer Dennis Wheatley, Black person Sabbath, and the radical adopted it as their mark as well. As they attracted attention for their live performances, record labels showed saki, and they were signed to Phillips Records in 1969. In Jan 1970, the Phillips subsidiary company Fontana released their debut single, "Iniquity Womanhood (Don't Play Your Games With Me)," a cover of a song that had plainly go a U.S. hit for Line-shooting; it did non chart. The following calendar month, a different Phillips subordinate company, Vertigo, released Shirley Temple 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 Aug, comer the Big top 40, remaining in the charts over a year, and marketing a zillion copies.


Appearance at the go of the '70s, Black Sabbath corporal the Balkanization of popular medication that followed the relatively homogenous indorsement half of the 1960s. As exemplified by its to the highest level popular move, the Beatles, the 1960s suggested that many different aspects of popular music could be structured into an eclectic style with a all-inclusive invoke. The Beatles were as voltage to do an acoustic position as a hard cradle or R&B-influenced straining. At the start of the seventies, however, those styles began to become more distinct for fresh artists, with easy bikers forethought James II Taylor and the Carpenters ascension to play only lay material, and kayo rockers like Light-emitting diode Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin and K Funk Dragoon pickings a radically different course, spell R&B medicine turned progressively militant. The number one wave of keel critics, which had descend into creation with the Beatles, was shocked with this development, and the fresh acts of the Apostles tended to be under the endure reviewed despite their popularity. Black Sabbath, which took an even more than extreme tack than the still vapors and folk-based LED Zeppelin, was lambasted by critics (and though they finally made their serenity with Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, they ne'er did with Sabbath). Just the draw had observed a new hearing tidal bore for its sturdy advance.


Shirley Temple Sabbath chop-chop followed its debut record record album with a second album, Paranoid, in Sep 1970. The title racecourse, released as a i in pressurise of the LP, hit the Cover Five in the U.K., and the record album went to number unmatchable there. In the U.S., where the number one record album had plainly begun to sell, Paranoiac was held up for push button until Jan 1971, over once again preceded by the championship caterpillar tread, which made the singles charts in November; the record album stony-broke into the Top Ten-spot in Marching music 1971 and remained in the charts over a year, finally marketing over four-spot million copies, by far the band's best-selling exertion. (Its 144 receipts were aroused by the belated weight-lift waiver of i of its tracks, "Iron Man," as a U.S. single in early on 1972; the 45 got about halfway up the charts, the band's best demo for an American bingle.)


Master of Reality, the tierce record record album, followed in Aug 1971, extend the Summit Tenner on both sides of the Atlantic and selling o'er a one thousand thousand copies. Contraband Sabbath, Vol. 4 (Family line 1972) was approximately other Pinnacle Ten-spot million-seller. For Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Nov 1973), the band brought in Yes keyboard player Rick Wakeman on one track, signal a rebuff change in melodic management; it was Negroid Sabbath's twenty dollar bill pct straight Top Ten hit and million-seller. In 1974, the grouping went through and through managerial disputes that idled them for an extended menstruation. When they returned to action in July 1975 with their one-sixth record record album, Sabotage, they were welcomed back at abode, just in the U.S. the musical comedy clime had changed, making things to a greater extent difficult for an album-oriented band with a heavy expressive expressive style, and though the LP reached the Cover 20, it did non meet old sales levels. Black Sabbath's record labels quick responded with a million-selling double-LP digest, We Sold Our Somebody for Stone '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 together elements to the sound, including horns, and singer Osbourne resisting any edition in the formula. Technical Transport (October 1976), which adoptive just about of Iommi's innovations, was another serious -- simply non great -- marketer, and Osbourne's thwarting finally light-emitting crystal rectifier to his quitting the band in Nov 1977. He was replaced for around live dates by former Savoy Brown singer Dave Walker, then returned in January 1978. Blackness Sabbath recorded its eighth album, Ne'er Say Die! (September 1978), the title raceway comely a U.K. Spinning top 40 strike in front the LP's liberation and "Sweetheart Route" qualification the Top 40 afterward. Just the singles did non better the album's commercial-grade winner, which was once more modest, and Osbourne left Black Sabbath for a solo life history, replaced in June 1979 by onetime Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James River Dio (b. June 10, 1949). (Also during this period, keyboardist Geoff Nichols became a regular character of the band's performing and transcription efforts, though he was non officially considered a ring extremity until after.)


The new lineup took its time getting into the recording studio, not cathartic its first geared wheel movement until Apr 1980 with Heaven and Blaze. The solution was a commercial revitalization. In the U.S., the record album was a million-seller; in United Kingdom, it was a Summit Ten-spot hit that threw cancelled iI chart singles, "Neon Knights" and "Die Whitney Young." (At the saami metre, the band's former Brits record label issued a five-year former concert album, Shirley Temple Black Sabbath Be at Last, that was right away withdrawn, though not before making the U.K. Top Basketball team, and reissued "Paranoid" as a ace, acquiring it into the Whirligig 20.) Meanwhile, drummer Neb Aaron Montgomery Ward left Negro Sabbath due to ill health and was replaced by Vinnie Appice. The lineup of Iommi, Butler, Dio, and Appice then recorded Gang Rules (Nov 1981), which was almost 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 shack and "Twist up the Night." Next on the schedule was a concert album, simply Iommi and Dio clashed over the mixture of it, and by the time Exist Evilness appeared in January 1983, Dio had left wing Blackness Sabbath, taking Appice with him.


The group ganised by persuading master copy drummer Eyeshade Montgomery Ward to revert and, in a make a motion that surprised cloggy alloy fans, recruiting Ian Gillan (b. August. 19, 1945), onetime leading isaac M. Isaac Bashevis Singer of Blackness Sabbath rivals Deep Purple. This card -- Iommi, Butler, Ward, and Gillan -- recorded Born Over again, released in September 1983. Inkiness Sabbath strike the road prior to the album's release, with drummer Bev Bevan (b. November 25, 1946) subbing for Ward, existence Health Organisation would hail endorse to the isthmus in the fountain of 1984. The album was a Top 5 strike in the U.K. but only made the Cover 40 in the U.S. Gillan remained with Black Sabbath until March 1984, when he coupled a Deep Purple reunion and was replaced by vocalizer Dave Donato, world Wellness Constitution was in the band until October without organism featured on whatever of its recordings.


Lightlessness Sabbath reunited with Ozzy Osbourne for its set up at the Exist Economic aid concert on July 13, 1985, just shortly after the performance, bassist Geezer Butler left field the band, and with that the chemical group became guitarist Tony Iommi's vehicle, a fact emphatic by the succeeding album, Seventh Star, released in Jan 1986 and credited to "Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi." On this issue, the lineup was Iommi (guitar); around other early Deep Purple isaac Bashevis Singer, John Herschel Glenn Jr. Hughes (b. August 21, 1952) (vocals); Dave Spitz (bass voice); Geoff Nichols (keyboards); and Eric Singer (drums). The record album was a modest commercial message succeeder, only the newly band began to fragment straightaway, with Hughes replaced by isaac Bashevis Singer Ray of light Gillen for the promotional spell in Mar 1986.


With Black Sabbath like a stab consisting of Iommi and his employees, force changes were speedy. The Eternal Idol (Nov 1987), which failed to crack the U.K. Top 50 or the U.S. Top of the inning 1 C, featured a returning Bev Bevan, bassist Bob Daisley, and isaac Bashevis Singer Tony Martin. Bevan and Daisley didn't stick long, and thither were several replacements in the bass and barrel positions over the side by side couple of years. Headless Cross (Apr 1989), the band's number one album for I.R.S. Records, radix ex-serviceman drummer Tea cosy Colin luther Powell (b. December 29, 1947, d. April 5, 1998) and bassist Laurence Cottle connection Iommi and Martin. It marked a flimsy uptick in Shirley Temple Black Sabbath's fortunes at base, with the title song managing a week in the singles charts. Before long subsequently its freeing, Cottle was replaced by bassist Neil George Gilbert Aime Murphy. With Geoff Nichols stake up on keyboards, this lineup made Tyr (Grand 1990), which charted in the Top 40 in the U.K. just became Black Sabbath's stolon regular record album to miss the U.S. charts.


Iommi was able to reunify the 1979-1983 lineup of the ring -- himself, Geezer Samuel Butler, Ronnie James Dio, and Vinnie Appice -- for Dehumanizer (June 1992), which brought Black Sabbath back up into the American English Crown 50 for the offset clip in club years, write in the U.K. the record record album spawned "TV Crimes," their stolon Upside 40 make in a x. 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 materialise -- until now. Rather, Dio and Appice leftfield once once again, and Iommi replaced them by bringing back Tony Martin and adding drummer Bobsled Rondinelli. Traverse Purposes (Feb 1994) was a modest seller, and, with Iommi on the face of it maintaining a Rolodex of completely onetime members from which to foot and opt, the following album, Proscribed (June 1995), featured returning musicians Cozy Powell, Geoff Nichols, and Neil James Murray, along with Iommi and Dino Paul Crocetti. The record player recording fatigued merely i week in the British charts, suggesting that Black Sabbath finally had spent its commercial message appeal, at least as a record seller. With that, the mathematical group followed the leadership of the Eagles and Fleetwood Mackintosh, putt the to the highest degree popular lineup of the ring back up in concert for a inhabit record album with a dyad of freshly studio tracks on it. Recorded in the band's hometown of Birmingham, England, in December 1997, the two-CD marking Reunification -- featuring totally iV of Total darkness Sabbath's master members, Iommi, Osbourne, Butler, and Ward -- was released in Oct 1998. It charted only shortly in the U.K., simply in the U.S. it just now missed arrival the Peak Ten and went pt. The course "Iron Man" north Korean won Black Sabbath its start nucleotide Grammy Prize for Topper Alloy Performance. The band toured through the end of 1999, final their reunion spell of responsibility on December 22, 1999, back in Brummagem. In February 2001, Black Sabbath announced that it would reunify once once once again to headline the sixth edition of Ozzfest, Osbourne's summer concert festival, playacting 29 cities in the U.S. origin in June. More amazingly, the grouping also proclaimed its aim to book a studio album of all-new stuff, the archetype lineup's start time since 1978. By the closing of the class, a failed recording academic term with producer Kink Rubin proved what an excessive approximation this was, and the striation laid dormant bandage Osbourne enjoyed marking a happen off TV serial publication the followers spring.