Black Sabbath changed the world, opening the minds of our embryonic cells to the never-ending well that is inspiration, the spirit, and the soul. Let’s go on a ledge: Black Sabbath might be the most influential band of our lifetime, the band that introduced what we think of as heaviness and wrote albums that will never be matched, much less copied. If Sabbath did anything, it was save our lives. That’s the riddle of Sabbath a song like “War Pigs” can unite a stadium and create a makeshift family.įor most of the fans who loved Sabbath the T-shirt that read “Black Sabbath Ruined My Life” was the ultimate inside joke. It also made - and makes - you feel completely alive. Their music allows you to confront your primal fears and, in the course of listening, transcend them. Whereas blues offered a respite and a vacation from the dark night of the soul, Sabbath offered a trip to its heart. Sabbath wrested rock away from saccharine producers, naïve hippies, and idealists, and gave it back to the folks that inspired blues music: the lonely, the desperate, the fucked-up, and the hopeless. In the course of their long career (44 years and counting), Black Sabbath altered the sound of music, became a cornerstone for every teenager who didn’t fit in and, in the process, redefined what was possible in rock.
Black Sabbath, a band once filleted by rock critics like Lester Bangs and targeted by generations of parents for allegedly ruining their children’s lives, did. The Beach Boys and visionary writer and producer Brian Wilson didn’t do it. Few bands can claim to have invented an entire genre of music.
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