5/6/2023 0 Comments Black sabbath funko popSabbath’s sixth album, 1975’s Sabotage, was the last in a string of peerless LPs, and after the sophisticated, layered approach of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, this far heavier record put Iommi’s guitar centre stage. It’s not about the solos, though he could shred with the best of them when he wanted to. There is a reason metal fans revere Iommi as one of the greatest guitarists of all. Lyrically it’s one of the greatest songs ever written about being totally pissed off with everything, the line “Bog blast all of you” summing it all up. Musically it used the loud-quiet-loud formula a generation before American alternative rock was credited with inventing the idea, and Iommi uses half an album’s worth of riffs in a single song. Sabbath Bloody Sabbathīlack Sabbath’s fifth album saw them step away from undiluted metal with their most varied album to date, but the title track remains one of metal’s greatest anthems. This is one of the few songs that made that explicit, with lines like, “Could it be you’re afraid of what your friends might say if they knew you believed in God above”, and, “I think it was true it was people like you that crucified Christ.” It’s really an attack on atheism, though the line “Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope – do you think he’s a fool?” could easily be misconstrued, and it was. After Foreverīlack Sabbath are sometimes seen as the originators of black metal, but in reality their religious views were Catholic rather than Satanic.
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