🎵 Black Sabbath - Hand of Doom REACTION

[@tjmasson1013]

That drum beat is no joke. Bill ward legend

[@Danimal77]

First letters of family name's need to be capitalized (i.e., Bill Ward****).

[@kevincolestock7792]

BW in the pocket...............always....... S M O K I N tune... Great reaction.

[@johndef5075]

I love how he plays those jazzy riffs and then just pummels your brains in!❤

[@Streetwisepunx1313]

Fuckin geezer and bill were the definition of groove and feel.

[@ClevelandPotters]

Children of the Grave Bill Ward is nasty !

[@chrisstorms7511]

it seems pretty clear to me that the song is about a soldier with PTSD turning to drugs to cope. getting strung out and dying. That's my interpretation anyways.

[@fredshred5194]

They were in Germany on tour Vietnam era noted many GI's were hooked on Herion. Germany has/had many army bases in Germany.

[@chrisstorms7511]

Also, Slayer does an awesome cover of this song.

[@willredding3859]

Yes abusing drugs to escape the shocking reality of war and the trauma that stayed.

[@timlenard1646]

Yes your interpretation is correct, soldiers in Vietnam stated using heroin to cope with the war and being in battle and came home with addictions and PTSD. its incredibly sad how we as a people treated these men on their return home, when will people learn to separate the hatred for war and the men who were forced to fight it...

[@wild8757]

You would be right sir!

[@MrRoosterx]

OMG Black Sabbath is just so insanely good. And to think that this music is around 50 years old, timeless!

[@robertherring9277]

So am I lol!

[@gscottkelly]

it can't be 50 years old. That would mean I am in my 60...???? oh wait I am. lol

[@75yellowraven]

Paranoid is the quintessential metal album! And one of the top 5 albums of all time!!

[@SonicImmersion_]

Completely agree. Brad & Lex: Next you've got to listen to Black Sabbath - "The Writ"!

[@theghostofthomasjenkins9643]

it's the sound that launched an entire genre full of sub-genres.

[@neillenet291]

Did Brad really just ask "what do you think it's all about?" It's all right there in the lyrics. And yes, Black Sabbath definitely has the sickest riffs.

[@cameronsmith8328]

He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed.😏

[@spjunkies]

@@cameronsmith8328 😂

[@joepaskowski9091]

Tons of references to it…I mean come on!

[@estoy1001]

He asks that about even the most straightforward lyrics. It could be something as simple as "Happy Birthday", actually read the lyrics, and be like "but what does it MEAN?" "Is the 'Alphabet Song' about a relationship?" "Does 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' really need the plot twist?" "Can we say 'Rock A Bye Baby' is about deforestation?"

[@haywin4601]

B-Rad has got to concentrate on the "GROOVE", rather than the singular meaning of a song ? LEX just let's it flow, but Mr. "I don't understand" has issues. Lax chief... Tap your foot,,,,,, rattle your digits on something... ENJOY THE GROOVE...

[@s.willis8426]

Bill Ward and Geezer Butler are the absolute driving force that made Sabbath great.

[@shanebrown3359]

They are great but to say they outshine Ozzy and Tony is a bit of a stretch

[@mikey7189]

Bill Ward on Drums was always great, that is what is so great about them, they put it all together to make such great music

[@Blaze_1961]

This song hints to the high rate of heroin addiction the Vietnam vets were experiencing at the time. How they got addicted to it to "Escape Reality" only to find themselves addicted and overdosing.

[@jackgilchrist]

Lots of guys in 'Nam turned to drugs, including heroin, while over there to cope with the horror, then kept doing it stateside to cope with the aftermath and because they may have already been addicted. And for many it was a downward spiral to death from there. RIP to all our fallen service men and women... however they may have fallen.

[@no_onein2024]

THIS 👆🏼👏🏼

[@robs.6891]

God bless Our Troops 🇺🇸

[@SvenTviking]

Lots of them flew home and never touched smack after hitting the tarmac stateside. It was a noticeable phenomena for researchers, a change in circumstances that great can overcome the addiction.

[@andrewbaldwin9796]

'Snowblind' by Black Sabbath🤘 More proof that Tony Iommi is the riff king🤘🤘🤘

[@MrRoosterx]

I forgot, they havent covered that one yet? It certainly is a required listen if you want to listen to Black Sabbath. Also one of their best, but there are soo many good songs performed by Black Sabbath, not only the Ozzy era.

[@crimsondeath7468]

Yes 🤘More proof and more Drugs 😁

[@timothybarham6374]

Bill Ward absolutely killed it in Snowblind, its definitely in my top 5 Black Sabbath songs.

[@s.willis8426]

@@timothybarham6374 Bill and Geezer never get the credit they truly deserve for their work with Sabbath. It's all about Ozzy and Tony but the band wouldn't have been the same without them (unless they maybe got Bohnam and Entwistle).

[@browntabproductions]

It seems pretty clear that Lex is a ROCKER! It seems She’s got Rock ‘n Roll in her Soul.

[@independentjames1]

Brad,, buddy,,,, Lex is a true Metalhead!!! She totally gets it. Youve created a Metal Monster lol

[@CHRISMED2]

Sabbath with such a bold & deep song warning of Heroine use is a true masterpiece. Ozzy kills it

[@cptlou]

Love the base but that beat Drummer Bill Ward drumming is truly genre-fluid.

[@richardshort311]

*bass.

[@robertpeacock4609]

THE BASS PLAYER AND DRUMMERPLAY LIKE JAZZ

[@Tomasco13]

I just watched this one, NIB, and War Pigs reaction videos, and I gotta say, its a glorious thing watching the dawning come to someone's face when they see just how talented in every aspect Black Sabbath was. Song writing, vocals, command of the instruments.

[@wsn0009]

Yesss!!! This is a top 5 Sabbath song for me. Also, 'A National Acrobat' & 'Symptom of the Universe' are both excellent and worth reacting to 👍

[@s.willis8426]

NIB or and a bonus reaction of Primus and Ozzy doing NIB and then maybe Ozzy and Frank Zappa doing Staying Alive.

[@dopeybrew7006]

A National Acrobat are my favorite lyrics of all time

[@dunringill1747]

YES, Lex - BLACK SABBATH - TOP 5 BAND. 🤘

[@stephenrussell3834]

Bill Ward is an awesome drummer!

[@IceOnTheRocks]

One of the great things about Black Sabbath is how they were able to combine different grooves and tempos into their songs and make it work well. Most of their songs sound like 2, 3 , 4… songs combined into one.

[@Cadinho93]

You guys should react to… Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave 🎸🤘

[@davidgrider4302]

One of my favorite Black Sabbath songs. The song is smoky! Love the Sabbath reactions.

[@NeonNights80]

Tony Iommi has been referred to as the "riff master" on more than one occasion.

[@z-z-z-z]

that baby is blushing in your avatar, how sweet...

[@MovieGuy666]

@@z-z-z-z It's the album cover of another Sabbath Album.

[@aguirrethewrathoflog]

You all know why Sabbath and Ozzy are great. Love you 😊

[@bluetopguitar1104]

You can hear some of the jazz roots of drummer Bill Ward.

[@rlwetz4317]

Seeing Lex lost in a full Sabbath trance then exiting with "The sickest riffs in the land!" is Wizard of Ozzy stuff, for sure! Best thing to do would be deck the trailer in blacklight posters, eat three or four g of caps & stems, and delve right into."Planet Caravan" and "Electric Funeral" off that same album.

[@leetroy3129]

My favorite off of that album is Fairies Wear Boots. I collect fairies but I don’t have any that wear boots. LOL!

[@richardshort311]

LEX is the only reason I come here...

[@richardworton4597]

One of my favorite Sabbath songs 🎵

[@YouLoseSir]

same

[@michaelkearney2186]

It’s weird. The older I get, the more I love Black Sabbath

[@alrivers2297]

Same. Mainly because I used to just have their greatest hits album. Then I did a deep dive into all 8 of their albums with Ozzy and love all of them.

[@michaelkearney2186]

@@alrivers2297 the Dio stuff is damn good too 🤟

[@alrivers2297]

@@michaelkearney2186 So far I really only like Heaven and Hell and Lonely is the Word. I do like a lot of his Stuff with Dio and Rainbow.

[@demanufacture6675]

I definitely didn't appreciate Sabbath as much when i was a teenager.

[@seanhanratty9494]

Yea, I liked them but I was early teens and Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax were coming out and it was my generation so we rolled and focused on that. I mean knew all their songs and Led Zepp too, but we played the newer stuff. But like you said I really appreciate them and Led Zepp much more. I will rarely play those guys from my youth, well Slayer and Megadeth get played, but Sabbath and Zepp i get in to grove much more. Those two are masters, to have both those bands members whop are all at the top of their game meet up like that is incredible. For those two groups to fall in place like they did, wow!

[@andyknight7285]

Sabbath met alot of injured vets from Vietnam who were addicted to heroine . This song was written about them . Sabbath felt humbled by these guys who would turn up to their concerts in wheelchairs and stuff . Singing songs like Warpigs and this made Sabbath really unpopular with the media and governments , even some churches ,hense the crap about them being satanic , but the Vets loved them .

[@Pink_Chanel_Princess]

YESSSSSSS! this song never fails to give me multiple chills!

[@heathkelly7163]

One of my favourite Black Sabbath tracks. Thank you.

[@bobschenkel7921]

Anti-Drug doom rock. Black Sabbath leading the way yet again. 50 years ago.

[@Stefan-]

Well i dont know, i remember reading Iommis book and that they had more coke than Scarface at one point according to him. They definately did their share of drugs and then some.

[@FreeMTrider]

@@Stefan- you can be anti-drug and addicted. A lot of music depicts that truth

[@bobschenkel7921]

@@Stefan- The lyrics sound like Geezer was getting self-reflective, seeing what the white powders were doing to him and others. I bet he still liked weed though, ya know?

[@leetroy3129]

@@bobschenkel7921 Sweet Leaf is one of my favorite Sabbath songs. I think I heard the coughing in the beginning of the song was Geezer coughing.✌️

[@bobschenkel7921]

@@leetroy3129 It was actually Tony Iommi, but I'm sure Geezer was there.

[@electricwizard3000]

One of Sabb's finest moments. This song still raises the arm-hairs on me, even after 40+ years of listening to it. *Edit: it is a song about death, from disillusionment and intravenous hard narcotics.

[@gadzwee8105]

My friend's older brother played this song for me in 1976. Explained it to me, and scared me to death about touching drugs. It worked! Very cool of him to take the time to scare an 11 year old kid away from drug culture. Thanks Joel.

[@jimparis5073]

It is known fact that geezers bass is so smooth it’s the original source of butter

[@WaterproofSoap]

Glad to see you discovering this gem. I play bass for a Black Sabbath tribute and we JUST added this to the set!!

[@uslegions2619]

What area?

[@rocksnob3]

"The Thrill of it All" is sooooo underrated. Y'all should really check it out.

[@jeffreylauzon7630]

Dude so glad you mentioned thrill of it all because I never hear anyone even talk about or request this song, definitely underrated and one of my favorites.

[@biffmalibu9488]

I've always said that!! I love the entire Sabatoge album but Thrill of it All is KILLER!!

[@rocksnob3]

@@biffmalibu9488 They are such a great band.

[@johndef5075]

That whole album gives me chills. Megalomania and The Writ omg.

[@shotty2164]

One of their best songs for sure.

[@thejoelrooganexplosion2400]

Lex was grooving to the Sabbath drum & bass. Fuck yes my dudes

[@mintstateamericana7234]

I am in my 7th decade of life and hard core Black Sabbath from the beginning. As a heavy surf/skate party animal in the 70’s this song scared the absolute Shiite out of me ad well as everyone around me. As with all of Sabbaths early work, it is not a glorification of saten and drugs but instead a WARNING. This piece stopped countless 70’s casual drug users dead in their tracks and saved countless lives!

[@Hixlol]

Everyone killed it on this song! Great riffs, sick bass, and amazing drumming, and of course ozzy's singing

[@tragene2250]

I love the drum sounds before they changed the recording effects. Crisp.

[@Valorius]

This is one of my favorite sabbath songs ever.

[@briantieken6718]

You'll love "Fairies Wear Boots "

[@franksmith3744]

So glad y’all did this. Just found this song myself. Just got nice jazz/hip hop and rock vibe

[@slimsantilli4476]

The Wizard is my favorite sabbath tune

[@jasonmiller2905]

I think the song is about a soldier from Vietnam turning to heroine to forget his past. Back in ‘85, I mostly listened to kick ass metal that was new, like Metallica, but now I think Black Sabbath is my favorite. You guys are cool to watch. You are like Yin and Yang. Lex, you’re so cute.

[@andersonlelis5641]

Black Sabbath the best of the world. Black Sabbath a melhor do mundo. Eu vi no Brasil em 2013.

[@tswizard13]

This is from their second album, Paranoid. Also Ironman, Faeries Wear Boots, and Paranoid

[@stephenvangelder3893]

My favorite Sabbath song. Hits home with my own personal demons from the past.

[@kelvinmeneely3116]

Love you guys... LOVE Black Sabbath !

[@TheManamba]

You youngsters tripping to 50+ year old grooves is the best tribute that can be made to Black Sabbath"s musicall brilliance.

[@joesmith8725]

Brad hits it! Very sad song about the drug epidemic back then for US Vietnam war vets. Sabbath was very blues rock influenced. common for older early metal bands back in the '60s, '70s. Kind of prog rock, too. Yes that was Ozzie. Randy Rhodes was a baby when this came out, not the guitarist yet. It was Tony Iommi.

[@shotty2164]

OZZY* It always amazes me how many people spell his name wrong.

[@jamescarlson3093]

Imagine the first kids that heard and loved this when it first came out. Then the next generation ('75, '80, '85 etc etc). I discovered this album when I was 12 in 1980. There is kids today discovering this masterpiece and enjoying it like we did! Crazy huh..

[@dcummings4834]

I was one of those first kids hearing this for the first time. It was truly life changing. I was 14 when this album came out and I bought it. I'm 67 now and I'm still on the journey that Sabbath started and I will be till I'm no longer breathing

[@timothybarham6374]

Next is *SNOWBLIND* the band absolutely killed it with that one.

[@Karl-ml5wc]

Bill and his jazz beats, fkn love it!

[@klaptongroovemaster]

YESSS!!! FINALLY!!! This is quite possibly my favorite Sabbath tune. Definitely underrated in the catalog. I don't know if I've ever heard this on the radio. As for epicness of composition, it's up there with "Warning" from their first album, which you should totally do.

[@dmead4106]

Black Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne scared the living hell out of the parents in the 70s

[@gmac8852]

My pops would always scream Why you listening to that SHIT

[@djl9919]

Rock on Brad & Lex

[@bmeggs19]

Bill Ward laying down a hip hop beat on those drums.

[@reggiedaphnis4316]

Oh yes it is my friend and you are listening to the best musicians in there prime

[@67Aquaholic]

I love looking at the video, Brad is deep in thought trying to figure out the lyrics, and Lex is over there just thrashing away......lol, I love it.

[@MrJeddYoung]

YES !!! Lex just said that Black Sabbath has crawled up into the TOP 5 of her FAVORITES !!!! I've been waiting for almost a year to hear her say that. Next on my bucket list: Brad turns to Lex and says: Slayer has just catapulted into my Top 5 list. Then I can die a happy man. All of my wishes will have been fulfilled. Great reaction to a great song. Thank you.

[@jameslam1759]

Great drumming and bass.

[@ericpoirier9735]

Paranoid was my first Black Sabbath album my mom got it for me for Christmas when I was in 6th grade lol yeah there's was no turning back after that been a Rocker ever since, wild went from James Brown and soul to Rock, I love it all, Another great Brad & Lex show

[@mikehardesty98]

Lex u have good taste in music that's all I'm going to say

[@patricklapointe4979]

The funkiest drums maaaaan

[@astonsfan]

Hell Ya !!!! Every song on the first four albums are gold !!!! They have some good tunes afterwards but the first four albums......just damn!!!

[@nostrilnick]

This song is so f*cking badass, and with a great message.

[@BLSdarrin]

Can never go wrong with Sabbath ! I've been hooked on them since the 70's !

[@OneofMyTurns]

Yes that is definitely Ozzy. That’s his outstanding fog horn voice!!!

[@bsideberg6082]

If I could only listen to 25 albums for the rest of my life the first 5 Black Sabbath albums would be on that list. Love your reviews, greats songs I grew up with.

[@chriscoote2690]

First 6 albums…what, no love for Sabotage…? 😁

[@bsideberg6082]

could do more but have to leave some space for Rush, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden and such. Okay 6 Sabbath albums, I think Sabotage is actually my favorite

[@67Aquaholic]

The words and the rhythm are very meaningful. Its about a guy in line, joins the military, see's a lot of crap that he cant deal with tries drugs(Slow, down beat) - In the early part of the addiction everything is still a party, he's having a good time (faster, upbeat) - Then the addiction takes over, your all alone, your body just falls apart, you die.(back to slow, down beat)

[@amwilliams1502]

Way ahead of their time. My favourite band. Ozzy is powerful on this. Drum beat inspired hip hop for sure.

[@nonplayerzealot4]

Brad, write down "Behind The Wall Of Sleep" on the whiteboard. Great Sabbath song that is more of a mid-level hit, not one that gets played a ton, but one all fans of Sabbath know/like.

[@Bman-xy2vh]

And the vocals through headphones are amazing.

[@neillynn8459]

Yes Lexi , top 5 ! I dig it !🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@Roh_Echt]

*I loved playing this on guitar....one of my favorite Sabbath songs to play. "Sweet Leaf" being my most favorite. Really good ones to play are Sabbath Bloody Sabbath__War Pigs__Electric Funeral__Into The Void__The Wizard__Black Sabbath...and many more.*

[@ronwalker403]

Oh, the room was Smokey alright. I can still smell the black hash. The reality is that many rooms all over the neighbourhood were filled with smoke when the great bands of the 60’s were playing on the stero’s. Bought this album when it came out in 1970. It quickly became a favourite for the neighbourhood kids! 🇨🇦

[@warrickcoe5576]

Sabbath visited an American military camp (during the Vietnam War) in England which was used to help soldiers adapt back after their tours to "normal civilian life". The song tells of how many of them had addiction problems related to what they had seen and done.

[@ianpodmore9666]

I heard that they met returning American servicemen addicted to Heroin when performing in Hamburg Germany.

[@michaelduran8627]

What a brutal drum track. This is from the golden era of British drummers. Bill Ward, Keith Moon, John Bonham, Mitch Mitchell, Ginger Baker, Bill Bruford etc etc etc. British drummers rule.

[@robertcochran7197]

I have to admit that they are my number one band from all times

[@kimzwolinski9919]

I can’t believe you guys are doing this song today 😂 I just rewatched your reaction to Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath from Halloween about an hour ago. Great reaction by the way which is why I was watching it again today

[@fenderchamp8241]

Tony Iommi, the man of a thousand killer riffs. He says he has a 1000 more.

[@fhare666]

This song hits so hard!

[@antonballard2212]

Great reaction! Sabbath at its best!

[@randomsteveh8373]

The end of this song then into Rat Salad is one of rocks all time best.

[@gustavodb20]

0:50 hand of doom acting 😂. Btw, goood reaction guys!!!!

[@Sammylu-greenbeatsred]

That opening groove is timeless! Amazing as the transitions are in this song, great musicianship, I feel that it's Ozzy's vocals that hold it all together. And the lyrics speak nothing but facts concerning the drug addiction surrounding war.

[@RGRG3232]

For some of the best guitar from Black Sabbath check the song "Warning" from their debut album. Keep in mind that the long guitar solo was done in one take, supposedly.

[@klaptongroovemaster]

I just suggested that in a comment. Hand of Doom has a similar epic feel to the composition - changes in groove, etc. Warning is more epic though. Lex would LOVE that solo. And Brad would be like, "This dude is creepin hard, man."

[@ShawNshawN]

Ya one of my favorite by Black Sabbath. I've heard this group and Zepplin the same amount, but still love Sabbath first two albums are so damn good and timeless. Overdose on Heroin is so brutal. My sister in law got caught up in it in the 80s in Spain when the market opened to more drugs. That generation got decimated by that drug. Now its coming back as people forgot how bad that drug can be.

[@mrnobody9104]

Most definitely is Oz in this one, and Bill Ward on those drums is next level!

[@phw6526]

This was birth of heavy metal! The musicianship was ground breaking.

[@gilbertla852]

My favorite song to blast it on the radio, on my way home ,LOVE IT

[@frankmartell1894]

This song is about the opium used in Vietnam by soldiers to cope with fear of the unknown there's another Vietnam song came out in the 80s called 18 the legal age to get draft to fight the war in vietnam

[@philragu5298]

I used to argue with my, shall we say, more chemical friendly friends about this songs meaning. I came to a conclusion at 13 tripping my ass off in the attic of an abandoned house we were partying in one night, this song blasting on our boombox (Yes, it was the early 1980's) that the song itself is about addiction and a running commentary on lives (and subsequent deaths of others artists at the time it was written, Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin, etc.) how it starts out with a general lack of interest in the world as it exists, war potential nuclear war, civil rights, etc. then finding drugs that bring a happy high with little or no risk of death from overdose, LSD, Weed, DMT, Mescaline, and the constant partying which leaves the mind drugged and happy but the body starting to show the strain of the lifestyle. Then come the darker more dangerous drugs, Coke, Hereon, PCP, Meth etc. and those drugs abuse leading to the body getting sicker while the mind stays sedated and eventual death. The overall stupidity of it and the disregard of the addicts to the efforts and advise of friends trying to sober them up so they can get healthy and stay in this world and the addicts eventual decision that the drugs mattered more and that choice leading to their deaths. I could be wrong but I don't think so, if I am it will be on a finer point not the bigger picture. Convince me I'm wrong....

[@jrobwoo688]

Black Sabbath - Under the Sun

[@bricks8374]

Most excellent tune from my misspent youth 💀💀

[@LordEriolTolkien]

This was the first CD I ever bought

[@brentgreen468]

I have the vinyl since 1976

[@robertheaney1685]

My favorite song on the Paranoid album. A great point 1st point view of American solider in Vietnam.

[@raymondreid4987]

I love it I was just about to text about the incredible transition of Bill Ward on the drums and how he just did this slight change up perfectly and Lex makes the complement of I like the drums. You both get it, but Lex just blew my mind at that moment. You are a rock queen little lady, highly impress you have both grown to notice the little subtle things in the music that we grew up on. Very glad I made you guys my number one reaction couple.

[@jaymacleod2441]

GEEZER!

[@ΝικοςΡαπτης-ξ2ψ]

It s impressive for musicians at their 20s to write a song about soldiers coming back from war and waste their life in heroin and the music of the song to paint the struggles of an addict.Slow start then tempo going faster as the addict try to find the stuff and someone to help him with the needle then a solo almost desperate with drumms making a heartbeat and then the end because of overdose.Brilliant.One of greatest moments in history of Rock music

[@momoski68]

"Ride the riff" is the best explanation for how I listen to Sabbath also :-)

[@shaneabel9976]

Although this was the first Sabbath album I heard, Master of Reality is my favorite. I like them all, really.