Black Sabbath Black Sabbath Reaction!!

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[@ErinMercurial]

This song created METAL...period. Not Zepllin....Sabbath is the godfather.

[@loganschneider3577]

I totally fucking agree, been listening to Sabbath since I was 5.. I'm now 23. Never gets old

[@shoesagogo1]

Sabbath Metal- Zepplin - Rock & ROLL 🤘

[@yearginclarke]

@mickor I'm also 34, and I agree. And this is the song that separates proto-metal from the real deal, this was/is definitely the real deal. I'd like to know what band/song was in the same caliber as this before it came out, to the people claiming otherwise.

[@ecgodsmack86]

Yes. Yes. Yes

[@p.b.palaciosalmafuerte3463]

@@shoesagogo1 sabbath - zeppelin: MUSIC!!✌

[@NolanVoid]

This track NEVER gets old man, as old as this is.....it's STILL the standard for heavy music. Blows your mind that this track is almost 50 years old.

[@yearginclarke]

Fuck yeah, the song is a plain, undisputed classic. It remains unsurpassed to this day...

[@kevinmitchell4778]

U hit the nail!!! Im 50& this song never ever gets old, especially the openin riff.i actually like the basement version more.better lyrics

[@yearginclarke]

I almost forgot about the basement version, the last time I had it I recorded it off a CD onto cassette in the early 2000's, and I haven't heard it since then. I remember really liking it though.

[@seelenwinter6662]

england, home of the rock... maiden, priest, ozzy, lemmy... nothing more to say... plus rolling stones, led zepplin, pink floyd, the who, deep purple and and and...

[@douglasarnoldda33]

I agree man never gets old always takes me to a place unknown I love it

[@sdmfanthony5649]

Sabbath's certainly NOT a ''black metal'' band. Many of their songs are about love and peace, like ''Children Of The Grave.''

[@De50lat0r]

Yeah I agree, but I'd say the start of this song has a very black metal vibe, just slow dreadful-sounding instead of fast and lo-fi sounding like 80's/90's black metal. Just my opinion though.

[@Ranmann86]

And thrill of it all

[@scottvelez3154]

Sabbra Cadabbra

[@TheLECSproductions]

it's doom

[@ToddFraud]

They are all metal

[@Mop_v21]

When Sori said she wants to listen to Ozzy Osbourne but she just did lol

[@VinAndSori]

Lol!

[@greggsonic]

Listen to Ozzy's solo career. Even though his antics was truly Black Sabbath it was his solo career that really made him the figure and legend he is today. And he is still touring, fucking amazing!!

[@david521598]

I don't know why I like the song Bark at the Moon so much. The lyrics are nothing special, though not terrible or anything, but something about the music in the song is really good.

[@spinedogfog581]

I was just gonna comment about this but you beat me to it.

[@allnothing581]

Ozzy's solo career as opposed to his work with Sabbath. Haha

[@felipecampos3045]

this 3 note progression is called a tritone, and it was prohibited in the 1800s cause they said it was the sound of the devil

[@Kottery]

It was never banned at any point in time. During the medieval period it was advised against using tritones in church music as they simply sounded bad when singing them and were more difficult than other things. The concept of the tritone having an "evil" sound really didn't get big until the 20th century.

[@teamatfort444]

Kottery it’s a cool myth don’t ruin it

[@ssoonnyymm]

Called the devil in music not cus its thought of as satanic but cus it was consider to sound bad

[@oldmatevb]

Daniel Vaughan no it wasn’t banned, but people in the early time’s thought that is summoned the devil

[@ocho611]

@@oldmatevb if Tony had played it any time before the early 1900s he'd have been hanged

[@neilmurrell281]

This song kicked off an entire genre it's a true masterpiece.

[@wadew3623]

Imagine how some people reacted to this in the early 1970s.

[@kinematograficznie]

Exactly what i was thinking about its giving me goosebumps 50 years after it was released

[@sirsancti5504]

They felt inspired to continue.. That's how we "reacted".

[@yukas1ngas]

Not really different I think ;) I listened it in 89, my son 3-4 years ago. Reaction seems very similar ;)

[@soumilghosh5156]

@@kinematograficznie i get goosebumps literally every time the solo plays

[@crsylvia9950]

Ozzys wail gives me freaking goosebumps everytime, oh my gosh

[@themuchdingdong]

The song that created metal

[@allensaunders449]

El Mucho Ding Dong alot of songs and bands created metal

[@themuchdingdong]

Allen Saunders no, Black Sabbath did. With Black Sabbath. On the album Black Sabbath

[@allensaunders449]

El Mucho Ding Dong no blue cheer, deep purple, iron butterfly, the kinks and many others contributed to the forming of metal not to mention the WHO educate yourself

[@dirtpile]

they branched off to a darker sound but creation of metal was an evolution, not a single song

[@themuchdingdong]

Allen Saunders you can name any band you want but none before this were actually metal, you consider the kinks metal? Deep purple? The who? Hilarious

[@jaredmay4620]

React to N.I.B of black sabbath ,please!!!

[@rajamcraja]

YES!!!!!!

[@catalystguitarguy]

yeah. the Ozzy with primus one is probably one of the best versions of the song.

[@Cafuba12]

Children of the Grave would be killer too!

[@samheppener7878]

And sabbath bloody sabbath!

[@profanepersonality]

First Sabbath song I learned on guitar, and definitely in my top three favorites by Sabbath.

[@Monchi2006]

BTW it was the bass player who saw the black shadow next to his bed he wrote these lyrics based on a real experience

[@LacieCrazy]

This song was written by bassist Geezer Butler. He wrote it after seeing a dark shape in the corner of his room, which appeared after he brought home a book on the occult, I believe.

[@darrenaurisch2707]

Bang on!!

[@themuchdingdong]

This song was made after I think their bassist had a night terror or sleep paralysis whatever you call it, where he had a black silhouette at the foot of his bed point at him and disappear. And also it's the first metal song ever

[@kukottoollonstrom2877]

El Mucho Ding Dong although lets be honest here, I’m pretty sure all of them were high on psychedelics during this point in their life.

[@themuchdingdong]

Kukotto Ollonström oh most definitely. But I didn't say he had actually seen a demon or ghost, just a night terror

[@rajamcraja]

the bass player was into occultism and black magic type of thing at that time, that is why

[@themuchdingdong]

Mr. Blonde yes

[@ledgm108]

He did say he saw a black figure. He thinks it had something to do with an old latin leather bound occult book he had. He told Ozzy about it and that's how the song came about

[@foulgrowl5893]

3 terrifying notes brought the birth of Doom metal

[@doomhead1619]

Yep. True Doom.

[@jim62000]

and they’re all tritones, so evil!

[@justzanin]

Devil’s interval!

[@Blikkjen666]

Doom Metal? This song gave the birth to Metal in general

[@afonsosilva1700]

Yes but it also created The subgenere Doom metal

[@Raul-vl7ly]

What this band did was ground breaking for the genre of heavy metal. They laid down the blueprint for all generations of metal genres that exist today. Tony iommi’s guitar riffs can be heard in some sort of way in all metal. Geezer Butler’s bass lines were chilling that brought fear into you. Bill Ward is a master behind the drums. Ozzy’s voice was and still is a major influence in today’s singers. The fact that all original members are still alive is absolutely amazing. They are the Mount Rushmore of heavy metal period.

[@neuroisis85]

50 years later and this song is still one of creepiest, darkest and heaviest things ever put on tape. Plus the fact that literally every riff section of it is the blueprint for everything Metal eventually evolved into. These guys were on another planet than everyone else in 1970.

[@krustbag1039]

in 2 years it will be 50 years ago

[@JMEAUS22]

Krust bag so damn crazy

[@sotis1756]

Half a century thats mindblowing and sad at the same time

[@chuckwilliams6261]

um

[@highapachelos3286]

Whoa it's 50 years now 😮

[@victorguerrero3197]

50!!

[@jdg1120]

Just started the video, so not sure if it's mentioned, but the notes Iommi is playing are called "the devil's tritone", which were seldom heard in music before this song, IIRC.

[@VinAndSori]

No we didn’t know

[@jdg1120]

VinAnd Sori Thought you'd find that factoid interesting. My understanding was that it was an unwritten rule not to play it, lest one be thought of as "evil".

[@MegaAlan54321]

It's also called the diminished fifth. That is the fifth note in the scale of the key that the song is in is dropped a half tone. So maybe the fifth note in the major scale is an a. In this instance it would be a-flat

[@chicagoconcertchannel4031]

Haven't gotten through whole thing, but worthy of note is this is about 50 years old. (recorded 69', released 70'). "Black Metal" per se didn't come until many years (decades) later.

[@teamatfort444]

Chicago Concert Channel black metal was in 1984 not that long

[@Sideswipe225]

Black Sabbath-Children of the Grave

[@samdoo1433]

I always feel very humble listening to this song. Amazes me of how metal the first metal song actually is

[@DennisTrovato]

The beginning of it all

[@Alede27]

ᛞᛖᚾᚾᛁᛋ ᛏᚱᛟᚹᚨᛏᛟ if you mean the beginning of metal then you're right, but their first song recorded in this album was Wicked World

[@mikemclaughlin3306]

monokhem ummmmm....... led zep 1 was a blues album start to finish..... no metal there....sorry

[@freyzerb.castro9124]

@monokhem Sorry dude, not Metal

[@blizzdog3881]

This is the song that started it all, hell ya🤘

[@innosanto]

This is not only the first but the best metal song. The most pure.

[@Respecttheriff]

Black Sabbath is far from black metal...the song name is from the Boris Karloff movie of the same name and the band quickly adopted the name Black Sabbath as well. The song as maybe u eluded too, is more of a warning. There is no glorification of the devil. It’s a warning...as many of Sabbath songs were. You want a shell shock listen to their song “After Forever “.

[@michaelboyce9028]

Their name was "Earth" before they changed it,BTW.

[@fkinghostile]

@@michaelboyce9028 ik

[@hraefn1821]

This is an intense song. Story goes that in the beginning, Black Sabbath dabbled in the occult and black magic. Their bassist, Geezer Butler, acquired this really old "book of shadows." A black magic spell book. Geezer kept it at his house in a cupboard. He swears that he was awoken during the night and saw a tall skinny figure made of shadow standing at the foot of his bed...pointing at him then to the cupboard. Paralyzed with fear, Geezer told the figure to take it. He then blacked out. Next morning, the book was GONE. This was supposedly the experience that led the band to realizing this was the wrong path...and to Ozzy becoming a Christian, wearing crosses and saying "God bless" and such. XD

[@genetrosper5834]

The band has always nominally been Christian. Ozzy's father actually made the first crosses they wore early in their career.

[@hraefn1821]

Gene Trosper - That's just the story I heard. It could very well be exaggerated or outright false. I clearly recall more than one source claiming Geezer had a freaky experience along these lines though.

[@waynestumbo6430]

Black Sabbath came from a movie in the 30's movie starring Boris Karloff.the original name of Sabbath was called Earth and was a Blues band

[@Fedorevsky]

The movie Black Sabbath with Boris Karloff is an Italian anthology horror movie directed by Mario Bava. It was released in 1963 not the 30's.

[@posmanager44]

What Pierce is saying is true. Black Sabbath put out a live DVD with interviews and Geezer Butler tells this story of what inspired this song

[@kentmains7763]

This album was earth shattering, there was nothing like it when it was released.

[@adrathemetaloutlaw754]

Classic jam. Classic band. I dig their Masters of Reality album. Especially the songs Children of the Grave and Into the Void. Solitude is a great melodic jam too

[@leafsfan1728]

Deep Purple- Burn, Highway Star, Space Truckin', Fireball, Child in Time, Bloodsucker, Pictures of Home, Lazy, Flight of the Rat, Demon's Eye Black Sabbath- Sabbra Cadabra, Into the Void, Supernaut, Snowblind, NIB, Symptom of the Universe, Children of the Grave, A National Acrobat, Hand of Doom, Fairies Wear Boots Led Zeppelin- Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand, The Ocean, No Quarter, Bring it on Home, Over the Hills and Far Away, The Rover, How Many More Times, Immigrant Song, The Battle of Evermore

[@wei446]

leafsfan1728 how dare you not include babe im gonna leave you?? Great list tho

[@leafsfan1728]

BBGaming&Tutorials Hahaha...just giving them a little taste! "Babe I'm gonna Leave You" is one of my favourite Zeppelin tracks and one of Plants best vocal performances! I could replace those lists 3-4 times with all new tracks for those bands and it would still be top tier! That's how good the Unholy Trinity were.

[@paulriddle7818]

How did I miss this comment?!?!?!? The Holy Untrinity of Heavy Metal

[@fredrikjelkefors9336]

Smoke on the water

[@mix6809]

the beginning of heavy metal, tnx tony iommi...

[@beast_of_burden7762]

This song was written about Black Sabbath’s bassist gezer Butler when ozzy gave him a book about black magic and he had put the book in a cupboard when he went to sleep he saw this figure at the end of his bed and he jumped out of his bed to throw the book but when he opened the cupboard the book was gone and that’s the story of this song

[@jackjervis8401]

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[@SimonH109]

Close to 50 years Vin! I honestly can't imagine what it would have felt like to hear this back then. It still holds up to this day

[@Real_SkyRipper]

it has been like 20 years and i still feel chills listening to this today, damn epicness is really something.

[@silverblack5475]

Now its time for Symptons of the universe by sabbath ....beginning of thrash

[@SiGhast]

Never ceases to blow my mind that they wrote this song in 1969, roughly 50 years ago. I wish the whole album was this dark, slow and heavy. While they came close on occasion we didn't _quite_ get another song like this until the Dio-era 'After All (The Dead)', which is incidentally another one of my absolute favorites.

[@Alede27]

SiGhast into the void isn't heavy?

[@SiGhast]

pistola Dese No, it is. They definitely had that highly influential doom sound on several songs. Children of the Grave is a personal favorite of these. But their eponymous song and After All (The Dead) are so hellishly slow and crushing they might as well have been death/doom metal songs. Just without the growls.

[@kevinmitchell4778]

This is their absolut best heaviest song& the rest of the album is pretty raw& is their album.

[@normanbarney1568]

Love your reactions! Great perspective on the songs!

[@DaPoopIsInDaPudding]

Very glad you guys don’t stop the songs.

[@dreadwind4644]

"Satan comes around the bend" rhymes with "Could this be the end my friend." Sometimes there's no deeper spiritual meaning behind a lyric, sometimes you just need something that fits. This is the first song off their first album, in 1970. While the music and lyrics aren't complicated, it was groundbreaking at the time. Definitely the early blueprint for metal.

[@petertyson2]

You guys do know that Black Sabbath is not Black Metal right?.

[@mix6809]

doom metal?, i can see this song inspired lots of doom bands, but sabbath was never doom...

[@kallemakynen934]

@@mix6809 whole doom metal is based on sabbath's first 3 albums.

[@messiona]

Sabbath is doom metal. They do know they’re not black metal they directly address how they’re not in the video lmao.

[@syazwanshukor]

الله يكره الجمهوريين damn i really love album 13

[@TropnevadNitsuj]

@Captain Bruh Black Sabath isn't Doom Metal, but they're close. They are Sludge Metal. There is a lot of overlap with Doom Metal and Sludge Metal, but Black Sabath is Sludge Metal. Hell, The Rolling Stone described Master of Reality as representing "the greatest sludge-metal band of them all in its prime."

[@jeep4ron]

Used to play this song first at our Halloween shows... LOL. Brings back so many great memories ..!! We made a casket that some friends would bring out on stage while we started the song. Right before the vocal line our singer would break out to start....LOL. I’m smiling thinking about it. These old songs you can interpret in so many different ways. Never happened to me.. nice video as always. Have a great day you two..!!

[@paulriddle7818]

I like to come back to this once in a while and laugh humorously at the 6.5 and 6.3 that you guys gave to the first Heavy Metal song. Written in 1969. Especially when you guys understand now just amazing Black Sabbath is.🤣

[@greypossum1]

18:48 "I want to hear Ozzy Osborne too.." Can you sometimes have a third person who is from the era of some of these older songs to help you guys put it into a little perspective. This was very different to most other stuff on the radio at the time. As plenty of people are saying, this was the first heavy metal song. Sure, Deep Purple was around at the same time, but they had just released a cover of Neil Diamonds "Kentucky Woman".

[@donlebo6824]

So DP did some wimpy pop songs, well, Sabbath did the equally wimpy "Evil Woman" and that "pop single" flopped. Also DP released at the time In Rock which was heavy as fuck as well.

[@greypossum1]

yes. But nothing deep purple or anyone else were doing in 1970 was addressing anything dark or satanic directly like black sabbath did. And they were really holding back themselves.

[@kosmosyche]

Well, if they need someone else to explain shit to appreciate this song, then it's probably lost cause already, sadly. I mean, I don't care how much "heavier shit" you've listened to, you' ve got to be deaf to metal to not feel the vibe of that riff.

[@ChicagoTRS]

imo They should do 5 minutes of actual research about songs/groups before listening just so they understand the time period and have at least a little perspective.

[@hmpz36911]

Deep Purple released Black Night before this was released. That was when they just made that leap.

[@dmsnm]

Black Sabbath - N.I.B please :)

[@Allurarose]

Type O Negative covered this song and its the creepiest thing I ever heard. Peter's voice lends itself very well!!!

[@2heavenAndHell]

the guitar work here is so raw. What a breeze.

[@sdmfanthony5649]

The band that started it all. I think the very first to play and record ''The Devil's Chord'', or triad/tritone that's at the very beginning.

[@someguyfromanotherplanet5284]

Purple haze by Jimi Hendrix used a tritone too.

[@menotu000]

My experience Vin and Sori: This happened two times prior to me becoming Christian. 1> Living with mom @ the time, worked at a music store, was a Satanist (true, not LaVeyan)... At night on the weekend something tried to take possession of me IMHO because what happened was I was dreaming (so I thought) flying over a field like in the movie Flatliners from 1990 - but this happened in 1988. I looked behind me and something was pursuing me that looked like a demon to me, but was sort of invisible. I went faster, it went faster. The moment it caught up to me I woke up, looked at the clock which was about 2:35am, and I heard a growl deeper than any animal. My mother woke up and asked me what it was and I said I don't know. That was the end of that time. 2> The same event happened a few years later around 1994 I believe, but I lived alone at the time, and the difference was when I woke I couldn't move, but the clock indicated 2:35am again. The growl happened again, then I realized the growl came from me when I couldn't move. I felt like I was being forced asleep. Out of desperation, I called out to God verbally, and demand it leave in Jesus' name, and within seconds I could move and it felt as though it was gone. Surprisingly, I did not become Christian after these experiences, but many years later I did... it took me roughly 15 more years before I did... so there it is. If nobody believes me I really don't care. This is what I experienced and I was messing with some very dark shit at the time, so it is no surprise this happened to me. What I am surprised about is that it didn't win and possess me. I was very lucky the first time, and the second time it was clear to me God intervened.

[@metalgod2642]

Sabbath are so amazing cause they can make songs heavy without being fast. Awsome song, one of my favorites.

[@awesomeaustin2348]

Love your show, keep up the good work !!!

[@thoughtcriminal3843]

Classic track, Get well soon Vin.

[@Jason-ft9gg]

Finally another Sabbath song!

[@blodekont5458]

0:18 WAUW !!!! you two really complement eachother... Sori her fun-crazy self, Vin joyfull ... this part.. didn't needed a song to react.. just you crazy-fun two !!!!!!! Lovely to watch and listen to .. lots of love and warmth from The Netherlands !!!

[@LJA46]

1970 debut album. So iconic that it's hard to wrap your head around not growing up with it!

[@juho6740]

Skid Row - Quicksand Jesus Slayer - Angel of Death Black Sabbath - Die Young

[@AS-rz8rm]

If you guy do another Black Sabbath song in the future, please do hand of doom.

[@daveethridge7342]

Ozzy gave Geezer an old black magic book before he saw the figure in black. He got rid of the book right away. Crazy

[@spazimdam]

Finally you did the song that started it all! The first song on the first album by Black Sabbath. I remember hearing this for the first time in the early 70s. I was in 7th grade and they played this record at a party. I heard the rain and thunder, and then those opening chords. It changed my life man. I had never heard anything so dark and powerful and utterly cool before. I bought the album, figured out the song and covered it with my first band. Tony Iommi had this cool lick based on the tritone, Geezer Butler wrote these fucked up lyrics after he had a scary vision. Bill Ward's drumming is to die for, so ominous and tasteful, and Ozzy's singing, so passionate and clear. Great song to do guys!

[@rickyderby]

And thus Metal was born

[@antondzajajurca7797]

This is more doom metal then black metal song.

[@kosmosyche]

It's neither. It's 1970 - before metal time. But the Tony Iommy's riffwork and sound on this album were very influential on metal in general.

[@ronaldreagan345]

It is traditional doom metal.

[@martindfp72]

Obviously...very doom metal. Ask any doom band who their biggest influence is and they'll always say Sabbath.

[@kosmosyche]

Their influence spreads far wider than just doom metal though. Slayer, Megadeth, Autopsy, Morbid Angel - you can hear a lot of Black Sabbath influence in the riffwork of lots of metal classics.

[@heldertiago124]

kosmosyche actually this is not only the first metal song but also the first doom metal song as well.

[@youtubbeisshit]

I love the way the context of the song changes in the end going so faster than the entire song

[@OJsGuitarDemo-lition]

I actually do ghost hunting as a hobby. I've never seen shadow people, but I have caught EVPs (electronic voice phenomena) in houses or old buildings I've investigated. The creepiest one I captured was at an old Louisiana plantation. I caught the voice of what sounds like a ghost child in my room. I set up my recording equipment and asked that if there was anyone in the room with me can they please say "Hello." I caught a soft, voice that responded almost in a sing-song fashion. It simply said: "Hello"

[@CVGuitar]

17:03 Science doesn't remotely say that we know everything there is to know, dude - science is always questioning

[@ssoonnyymm]

Science doesn't question, people question things with science. U think of science as the people doing science WHICH IS EPISTOMOLOGiCALLY wrong cus then it becomes a cult of what ppl think rather than a proper method, like for example consensus takes on too much weight when you think if it like that I'm tired

[@fryke]

@@ssoonnyymm So you agree. Science doesn't remotely say that we know everything. Science is the method to answer questions that arise from observing things in the world, it gives answers as to how things work. The process is pretty straightforward and can take a lot of time: Somebody thinks of a question and builds a hypothesis. Tries to find reasons why the hypothesis could be wrong. Other scientists come in and do the same to the same question. A theory evolves from that process. It is accepted fact - until proven wrong. Yes, there are theories that are proven wrong (and many, many more hypotheses are proven wrong). So they get altered into (or replaced by) a new theory that doesn't have the problem the original theory had. Yes, that's more complicated than "The Bible says x." - with the bonus of not having to "just believe" what someone a couple of thousand years before you (with much, MUCH less knowledge at his or her fingertips to begin with) thought would be a good answer. If you wish, you can go read the whole process of how specific scientific theories were established, worked on, expanded & changed etc.. You can even find a proof that a theory is wrong. Scientists will welcome that. Because it re-opens whole works of field. And no, people "doing science" isn't wrong, and it's not a cult.

[@ssoonnyymm]

@@fryke I'm not reading that.

[@fryke]

@@ssoonnyymm Cool, bro. :P Others might.

[@michaeljorfi3552]

@@ssoonnyymm pointless comment

[@JJ_957]

Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath (Dio era) please!

[@godbluffvdgg]

shut up music hater...You're not a sab fan...You're a fuckin nudge!

[@subway5907]

ROB-IN-PHILLY hahahah Dio blows Ozzy out of the water

[@naughtygrampa5130]

outstanding song an thanks for the reaction guys ;)

[@swcomewatch0044]

You two are infectious... in a great way! 🤘

[@SoCalDan530]

First song from their first album. 1970!

[@tosh5376]

cdupright 1969*

[@DropTehBazz]

No, 1970.

[@tosh5376]

Strange Brew ohh!! I just checked it was recorded in 69 and released in february 1970! Thanks

[@DropTehBazz]

Yeah. It came out on friday the 13th I believe. That's over 48 years ago.

[@kosmosyche]

Vin and Sori, there is an interesting story as an inspiration behind this song. At the time some of Black Sabbath members were heavily into occult and other dark shit. So one day the bassist Geezer Butler was looking through books in some old bookstore and found an ancient book written in Latin with some satanic and occult illustrations. Some sort of Necronomicon. So he bought the book, skimmed through it at home, put it on the bookshelf and went to sleep, very happy with his purchase. Then he woke up at night and what he saw scared the living shit out of him. There was a dark figure in his room standing near the bookshelf with that book in his hand, pointing at Geezer with the other hand. After some time the figure vanished and when Geezer looked at the bookshelf in the morning, the book was also gone. So Geezer told about his experience to Ozzy Osbourne and he wrote the lyrics for the song. Of course, you've got to take this story with a grain of salt, I am pretty sure they were all pretty high most of the time. Still, cool story. Also, another interesting fact. The ominous riff used throughout the song uses the harmonic progression long known in Western music as "diabolus in musica", because long ago it's sinister qualities had been noticed by musicians and associated with satanic shit. It is one of the first times this particular progression was used in rock music though and it was highly influential in metal. PS Also congrats to France, new world champions.

[@3Ronnie71]

kosmosyche - Ozzy didn't write the lyrics Geezer did. Geezer wrote 99% of the Ozzy era lyrics.

[@kosmosyche]

Yeah, I actually thought so too, but it's just Wikipedia says otherwise in regards to this particular song. "Butler related this story to Osbourne, who then wrote the lyrics to the song based on Butler's experience." So idk what to believe, but you're probably right.

[@3Ronnie71]

kosmosyche - they're Geezer lyrics as almost all are. Bob Daisley wrote 99% of the lyrics for all the Ozzy solo albums from Blizzard of Ozz thru No More Tears too. Now you'll hear Ozzy in interviews say "when I wrote that" but that's all a bunch of lies.

[@kosmosyche]

Ok, here's what I found: "During a July, 2001 interview with Geezer Butler, Guitar World magazine explained that "having borrowed a 16th century tome of black magic from Osbourne one afternoon, Butler awoke that night to find a black shape staring balefully at him from the foot of his bed. After a few frightening moments, the figure slowly vanished into thin air." Geezer continued to describe how he "told Ozzy about it. It stuck in his mind, and when we started playing 'Black Sabbath', he just came out with those lyrics." So, it seems that Geezer himself says the lyrics were Ozzy's.

[@3Ronnie71]

kosmosyche That must be a typo. It goes against everything I’ve heard from Geezer & Tony but maybe not. I guess it doesn’t really matter anyway now. It’s not like the song is going to change if we find out for certain who wrote the lyrics.

[@mikewright256]

This song was written by Geezer Butler, cause he had a dream during the recording of this record, that's where these lyrics came from. Geezer is such a great writter

[@bpjr1899]

Everytime I hear this song I get a chill! Thanks...

[@juantxorena]

I've had some of them "supernatural experiences". They always happened when falling asleep or trying to do so. The common thing of all of them was that I couldn't breath, I was paralyzed, and I felt some abstract "terror" to something unspecified. In a couple of occasion I felt an "evil presence" lurking behind me (which could be in the matress, since I sleep on my back). Once I heard it whispering, but I couldn't get what it was saying as far as I remember. Another time I felt floating and leaving my body, even above the room, however I didn't see anything that I couldn't see (i.e. I didn't see my neighbours upstairs or anything). More than afraid, I was puzzled, but it happened that I was reading Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World", and I got to a chapter where he talks about hallucinations and sleep paralysis, which kind of explained what was that. Furthermore, my father is a psychologist, so I asked him and I told him my experience, and he said nonchalantly "oh, yeah, that's called 'hypnogogic hallucination'. Are you stressed?" I had some more of them, always when I'm stressed, and most of the times when falling asleep as opposed to waking up. With the time I learned to know when I was going to have one and to avoid it (forcing myself to move something like a finger or a foot when I'm getting "paralyzed", which causes the whole body to "wake up", just in case somebody is interested). So that's it. Some people may interpret it as alien abductions, other as some demon, specifically an "incubus" in medieval christianity, etc. Does that prove that there is something supernatural that people interpret as whatever, or that the brain sometimes does strange things and people interpret them as supernatural? The fact that the causes are known, can be avoided, it is comorbid with sleep issues and psychological conditions, etc. points to the latter. No offense, but if you think that that's an arrogant crazy explanation, well, I'm sorry for you.

[@Toroid16661]

Yeah, it's just sleep paralysis. Kill the ignorance 👌

[@coehfelipe]

Wow. It’s seems you found a explanation for schizophrenia and demonic possessions.

[@rashinkazlj9768]

More Iron Maiden!

[@SilverFang2789]

Don't know if it was commented already (not going through them all to look), but the demo version of this song had a third verse to it. It went: Child cries out for his mother Mother screaming in the fire Satan points at me again Opens the door to push me in Don't know why they didn't include it in this album version but it would have made it even more of a masterpiece than it already is.

[@ayeewtasko2601]

Thanks for the review. This is where it all started. No one had ever heard anything dark like this until Sabbath came out and it scared the shit out of people. Btw Led Zeps label are very strict on copyrigh, if you put a full song up you'll get a strike.

[@robertplestenjak]

This is not black metal, this is THE Heavy Metal, this song started it all. You should try "Dirty Women" and "Megalomania". Also don't forget "Into the void", since you're into heavy riff.

[@thaghozt215]

Funny thing that you mentioned the night terror or sleep paralysis. I've actually had that experience happen 2 me during a time that was very negative in my life from a lot of the things that we're going on in my house and one night I was sleeping in my basement and suddenly while I was asleep I had this feeling that I was like drowning as if I were being sucked into the couch that I was sleeping on so as I struggled to breathe I finally kind of snapped out of the sleep that I was in and technically I wasn't fully awake nor was I fully asleep I was kind of in that in-between phase of being awake and asleep and as I began to wake up I could see this dark shadow figure standing over top of me with its arm stretched out as if it were choking me in my sleep and I think that is where I got the feeling of that I was drowning or that I was being suffocated now mind you a basement that is Pitch Black and I could still see the outline of this shadow figure standing over top of me. Once I put my way out of its grasp and I finally was fully awake and I popped up off the couch the thing just disappeared out of sight and I know for a fact that I was not dreaming I know what I saw when I woke up this thing was real and I could see it. I don't know if this is like some kind of demon or multiple demons and this is how they get to People by putting them in the state of sleep paralysis. But this phenomenon is extremely scary and very real and it falls into its own category as does ghost apparitions demons devils and then you have Shadow People. But I do remember when this was happening I could not move I could not move a muscle all I could do was look over and I saw this thing had the outline of like a human but it was a shadow and it was looming over top of me and I know that I saw it. So I figured I'd share my experience with everyone since the topic was brought up on his video.

[@JayBurrd]

2fly215 You’re not alone. It happened to me too but I was on my stomach & something told me to leave my room & then the pressure released & I got the F out of there as quick as I could.

[@lc4295]

That happened to me too. Freaked me the fuck out. I saw a figure like floating over me and I couldn't move or scream or do anything. It did scare the shit out of me. The figure I saw had kind of like a witch's face.

[@iNeedDrums]

Love you guys!!

[@yearginclarke]

17:12 To be fair, in 1918 they kinda were justified in believing they had to figure out how modern war should be because there had never been a war fought on the scale of WW1 with the relatively new advent of machine guns at the time, artillery, poison gasses, tanks, flamethrowers etc. Also worth noting is that military tactics hadn't caught up with the technology yet, which caused appalling casualties because they couldn't break through fortified lines defended by these new weapons.

[@ianlawless7888]

Been watching you for a while and your reactions are very entertaining. I must tell you as a big Sabbath fan there are many great tunes you need to check out. Like... Children of the Grave - Master of Reality Snowblind - Vol. 4 Hole in the Sky - Sabotage The Wizard - Black Sabbath Paranoid - Paranoid Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and believe me there are many more.

[@VinAndSori]

Took a screenshot

[@ianlawless7888]

I forgot to mention that all these albums are from the Ozzy years. There are some great tunes from the Ronnie James Dio years as well.... Cheers.

[@alrivers2297]

Ian Lawless nice list! I'll add 1. After Forever 2. Dirty Women 3. Fairies Wear Boots 4. Into the Void 5. Lord of this World 6. Never Say Die 7. N.I.B. 8. Supernaut 9. Sweet Leaf

[@M3rett0]

Manowar - Bridge of Death

[@xMXWLx]

one of my favorite songs!!!

[@ulrichragnarsson9624]

I love your Reactions!!!!!

[@ashenone6166]

Carach angren - when crows tick on windows

[@manvsanimal437]

ANGEL OF DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice video by the way!

[@robertwest7889]

Love you guys! I so enjoy your insight.What is this, 1969-70? My God its so fucking heavy to this day.

[@andrewhayward3643]

When you consider what else was in the charts or the radio at the time and also how long ago this was written what a song and what a journey. You knows the crowd still goes bounce crazy when Sabbath play this song, arthritic knees aside.

[@giannissergis5940]

This is Doom metal, not Black : )

[@Xulincendium]

Gary Moore - Still got the blues, Epic guitar solo :)

[@hmpz36911]

Marcus Fors The Blues Alive version in particular

[@pleasuretokill]

The most influential song in my life.... that will ever be.

[@stevejpm1]

this is where it started for me summer 77,listen to this song in a dark room with headphones..without defecating.

[@theHalta]

Iron Maiden - The Legacy please!

[@shmick6079]

“It makes you wonder was that god or was it the devil?” Why does it have to be either? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@armadillotoe]

I remember getting chills when I listened to this in 1970.

[@barbrice721]

I still do. Right now at 67.

[@glennkirchens7970]

Q: How many genres of Metal would you like to spawn? Black Sabbath: Yes

[@ReFLeXImp4cT]

Deftones- Digital Bath!!

[@bullfrogjay4383]

Yes !!

[@johnfrank1574]

Yeah...that's a good starting point for Deftones.

[@zombie8068]

Review Dark funeral - my funeral. Its a great video and lyrics.

[@glennkirchens7970]

Sabbath created it, Priest gave it an identity, Maiden perfected it

[@drlarrymitchell]

12:20 Black Sabbath is the ULTIMATE "remember that guy?" kind of band.

[@k0bra3eak40]

Candlemass - Samarithan

[@martindfp72]

k0bra 3eak Great song :)

[@JMEAUS22]

Good choice

[@findoe8586]

The funny thing about the copyright thing is that in essence you are actually working as an add for the music your reviewing, Why would anyone be upset with free advertising? Most people are likely to buy it after they heard it wouldn't they?

[@sopwithsnoopy8779]

Yeah, I've never understood why bands or record labels don't want their music on channels like this. Especially newer, relatively unknown bands.

[@findoe8586]

Its not like it will keep people stealing the music in the first place. Your right i dont listen to the radio anymore and Vin and Sori Cover the types of bands i would want to listen to Ive purchased stuff off i tunes because of the reviews.

[@pauldaley9626]

The first metal song. Here is the starting point for all metal.

[@mix6809]

that opening riff started the genre of music called metal...