Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

From the famous Music journalist Lester Bangs quoted "sounds like Cream, only worse" - referring to the Black Sabbath debut. In general, the press was not very gracious with the album when it was released in 1970. Only years later the quality was recognized and the Rolling Stone revised: "the album eats the hippies for breakfast". In any case, the band remembers the recordings made in 1969 with benevolence. In - according to own Only twelve hours recorded, one was still punctual enough in the evening in the Pub, in order to have a beer order. Tommy Iommis guitar playing is influenced by the fact that he was hit by an accident fingertips ozzy Osbourne let himself be drawn from the literature of R. R. Tolkien or H. P. Lovecraft when he wrote the lyrics inspire.