Of course, lyrics, even when they have very specific ... Be Out Later This Year Why Judas Priest Won’t Be at Ozzy + Black Sabbath’s Farewell Show INTERVIEW: Sammy Hagar Unveils New Song ...

In the documentary Black Sabbath: Paranoid ... and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne started writing his vocal melody with scratch lyrics. While Osbourne’s initial celestial lyrics helped inspire the ...

Black Sabbath, a band from Birmingham, England, that formed in the late 1960s, is credited with the creation of the rock ‘n’ ...

Soon, concepts like poverty, pollution and famine would make their way into his lyrics, with Black Sabbath writing easily relatable songs during a time when such topics were anything but the norm.

Black Sabbath retired following an extensive farewell ... guitarist Tony Iommi used an ominous tritone while bassist Geezer Butler’s lyrics were themed around a demonic encounter.

It was Butler and Osborne who wrote the spooky, goofy and not-really-Satanic lyrics for “Black Sabbath,” the title song of the first album which was named after an early 1960s horror film.

Its lyrics address this directly: “Big black shape with eyes of fire Black Sabbath’s incalculable influence can be heard in almost every heavy rock band that arose during the ‘70s ...