Black Sabbath - Hand Of Doom (REACTION!) 

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That's kind of the same as being ahead as well, its both.

@@daniellysohirka5079 "That's kind of the same as being ahead as well, its both." 🤓

did old people think it was satanic? lol

yes man, this album could be released 5 years ahead, would still be fresh, cool, innovative

@@tonoblanco1931 people still do. I'm pretty young and I grew up with neighbors who were oppressively religious Christians, and they would literally cover their ears if they came over and heard that I was listening to even just Led Zeppelin.

I agree. I think the case can be made that they are one of the very top greatest rock bands of all time. Not just heavy metal.

Hahas sort of like people think of post and pre Beethoven in classical music!

It's very interesting... They have no nostalgia for this. They "get it" from raw instinct. They get the groove, which is not slick or calculated, just very human and natural.

@@OFR it was their rhythm section that made me fall in love with metal as someone born in the late 90's

they should listen to the rest of their tracks. Of course there will be a lot that don't do it for them but there will be playlist worthy ones as well

Yes indeed. I'm no longer a heavy metal guy like I was when I was in my late teens, but Black Sabbath is an exception for me. So much musicality, so much groove......so much funk! Especially in their earlier albums.

@@hisholiness4537geezer and ward are an absolutely murderous duo

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Right, that is the best statement!!

Lol .. I'm not even a fan of Black Sabbath but yeah👌

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Thank you for your service and for your love of a Sabbath. I’m 61 and still listen to them weekly (or not daily!).

Never too old for Sabbath and metal period. You started on the ground floor with the first full fleged metal band. And you weren't scared to like it and embrace a new sound. This band still holds water. I see now how many bands were influenced by them.

Ozzy*

I can just imagine putting this shit on for the first time and hearing the song Black Sabbath. What an insane song that is. Really sets the tone for the album.

I grew up with this great music, then went into the Marine Corps in 72. God I am old as f**k now.

Zacly

...in *Music.

Only rivalled by Bonham and john paul jones in my opinion

What planet you live in? They are the MOST celebrated rhythm section in history. Maybe Tony Williams and Ron Carter comes second, all metalheads adore Sabbath.

Could not possibly agree more with you dude

@@danielcox9504 yes

😂😂 that's the best description I've heard

I am absolutely using that in the future, that is brilliant

Why is this so accurate 😂. This is by far the best way I’ve ever heard Ozzy’s voice described. Definitely using this in the future.

Truth

It's like God created a metal band?

Geezer wrote gr8 lyrics... & Ozzy came up with melodies for them that fit like puzzle pieces which ended up, literally creating the tune. And "Stony Tony" would tap into his library of riffs & DONE. TRAC finished. Bill Ward So underrated too!!!!! Without Bill Ward's DRIVING, JAZZ style A lot of SABBS songs just ain't the same.

It was actually in Hamburg where they met the American soldiers.

BS! You guys need to stop thinking everything is about you

Yes! My personal favorite Sabbath song

Good call, if they like The Groovy nature of these type of Sabbath songs, they will probably love it.

Hold on a second, they haven't even done Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

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Yes, A National Acrobat is my favorite Sabbath song. I do dislike the middle part, but nothing beats the starting riff and the ending.

What's stepping out of pocket?

@@chefboiardeeznutz9881 Being Able to subtilty change the rhythm and move out and around the "pocket" or proper time signature groove to play things that are technically not in proper time but sound good non the less.

@@Jaggedknife11 ohhh, I see. I like that.

And unlike today, they didn't had any pressure to sound extremely technical or extremely heavy. So they could do whatever they wanted to do.

Yeah, but the original Walpurgis lyrics were better than War Pigs'. If you told me ppl listened to that and started coming up with black metal I would not be surprised lol. A lot of anger in it.

One of the best in the 70s hands down

Bill wasn't underrated. The industry tried to ignore this band. They were still searching for another Beetles, or Stones. They had no idea what to do with these guys. Anyway, Sabbath's talent was widely known. Music executives have always done this crap to bands that didn't fit in their box, still to this day.

@@bettyrose959 I don't think it's fair to say the industry ignored them. Sabbath did huge tours, and were signed to a major label

@@rorz999 Yes they were. Not my point. They hit US shores as a headliner, doin' shows at, and I quote Iommi, 'shit holes.' No radio airplay, and only UK sales to fund their tour. There was nobody the industry could pair them with. No one was doing anything like Sabbath at the time. Make no mistake though, no one in the industry underrated the talent in the band. The industry had a very difficult time with their first two album master pieces. It was against everything mainstream at the time. With them thinking they were 'heavy metal.' Which was a term used on all the bands that came out of the industrial areas in the UK. Sabbath had never even heard the term used before, along with everybody else. It was a term used on an article to describe where the bands came from, not the style of music they played. No one knew what they were listening to in Sabbaths beginning.

I watched the video of Black Sabbath performing 'War Pigs' in Paris in 1970. I was like "HOLY SHIT!!! BILL WARD!!!" A transcendent performance by a virtuoso.

I got the Paranoid album as a xmas present, when I was 11 years old, it still is by far my favorite BS album, and one of the greatest albums ever for me.

Paranoid was the album that taught Metal how to walk....

Master of Reality is mine. 😎👍🤟

hell yes

@@Midnightmidway "just 'cause you spend most of your time on your back, doesn't make you a missionary." 😄

Not only did thay shape metal but also hip-hop and other musical genres

@@jovanjovanovic3449 yeah, Black Sabbath were one of those first few bands that actually experimented with music. Really pushed the boundaries and expanded people's idea of what music can be. I heard a lot of older metalheads, who were around when Black Sabbath started, say "You young people can't imagine how boring music used to be"

@@barbarusbloodshed6347 I agree, popular music has a formula that people stick with that's why it's to repetitive and boring, that's why most of you and I listen to metal, punk, rock, jazz, blouse...

An SDM comment on a lost in Vegas video? This universe is great

None better

R u from Birmingham mate

except Never Say Die, that album needed some help.

@@kyleturner1359 Similar with Technical Ecstasy. But like Never Say Die, it still has some great stuff on it, along with the rubbish.

They are tied with Metallica for me. Black Sabbath though might win because of how innovative they were , there is no Metallica without Black Sabbath

Dude I feel you, nothing comes close to Sabbath

Everyone is hung up on Bonham, which I get, but I always preferred Ward.

@@titanjde I agree. Nothing against Bonham, but I always liked Ward's playing better

Ward is my favorite drummer

Ward had an edge that Bonham didn't have. No disrespect to Bonham he was a monster drummer.

That jazz influence is what links Sabbath to neo-soul. That sick GROOVE is why I love both Erykah Badu and Sabbath.

Yup i think the same, it is too bad that they dont react to the whole album, maybe some patreon can push them to do it XD

Even more so with Master of Reality - the songs flow into each other so naturally - it's an absolute masterpiece

Rat Salad gang rise up!

Yo man well said

@@Vaylash Master of Reality is so fuckin good lmao

Just pictured ginger Baker in sabbath. All gothed out

Agreed that Ward is the most underrated drummer in rock history

Bill murdered Bonham as a drummer!!

@@wesleyjames8645 let's not get too carried away here. MURDERED? equaled maybe, but murdered? nah

Bill Ward is my personal number one drummer of all time. He’s incredible.

Yeah I was thinking about that too, the whole Pixies/Nirvana with the quiet/loud/quiet could have started here?

@@Chadner I was talking about doom metal , but grunge bands (AIC, Soundgarden) definitely had a MAJOR crush on Sabbath. I don't know about Pixies, though.

@@Chadner Nirvana took Sabbath and Pixies and mixed them with The Beatles!

I also hear a lot of RATM in this as well.

@@HenritheHorse Please don't ever mention Nirvana in the same sentence as Sabbath again. The most overrated band in history. And to be clear, I am talking about Nirvana as the most overrated band in history.

I was 11 n had been listening to Elton John n Kiki Dee n it was breaking my heart. I heard my uncle playing this song, I stole his 8 track, brought it home n within a couple months had all their albums up to Sabotage. N yes I returned his 8 track n then asked him what his poster meant. 'A friend with weed Is a friend indeed Another turning point in my young inexperienced life. Opiated Tie Sticks had me buying lots of black light posters Sabotage will always be my favorite album of all time. It reminds me of 7th grade algebra homework

I was born in brum 1960 the greatest place to be to watch live music so many venues to play the big bang of metal sabbath, priest

My fav sabbath song of all time

Yes... Children of the Grave. I especially love the way the drums sound in this one. So cool.

NIB has to be on that list as well I would think

Agree with your take on it I was a huge fan too (in my pre Christian days) didn't see Sabs live but saw Ozzy 4 or 5 times was superb. Interview with Bill Ward revealed that Geezer was dabbling in satanism Ward is a former alcoholic but is my favourite member lovely honest guy and an AMAZING musician 🥁

@@RevGary just out of curiosity, not trying to be rude, do you not like them anymore, or you just can't/don't wanna listen to them?

@@jolaguem seldom listen to them but do still appreciate them and many secular songs AC-DC were my favourite and Whitesnake (been listening to the early stuff for the last hour on YT) Rush, MSG, Van Halen but I'm 57 now usually picking Hymns for Sunday services lol but LOVE contemporary Christian praise music with a rocky edge I find surpasses my rock classic favourites because they play to my spirit whilst secular music plays to my flesh (human hedonistic desires) lyrics no longer mean anything as they don't often glorify righteousness. I was massively into the Dance and clubbing scene in the 90s loved uplifting House music trance etc but after my conversion 1999 repented of my old ways and adopted the wonderful Christian music available on CD. I play guitar (poorly) as a hobby still dip into my old Rock bands now and again nostalgic tbh. I stay close to where Angus and Malcolm Young were born and raised North East Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🇬🇧

@@jolaguem BTW you're certainly not rude the opposite you're gentlemanly 👍😎

@@RevGary interesting to me, some of Sabbath’s lyrics, especially on Masters of Reality and SBS I felt they were, in their way, spiritually searching. I could be wrong, and never dig deeper into the lyrics, but some sounded as if there was more of a despair toward mankind but intentionally not blaming God. I could have romanticized my interpretation of the lyrics, we all do to some extent, but I felt like there was a search for some meaning, at least some of the songs.

Damm straight William! Supernut off Vol 4 was my idea best song from Sabbath! Of course there’s so so many! Love this band since 76/77 in my late 50s today!

The white zombie cover of children of the grave on the nativity in black tribute album is just insanely good.

@@johnharris6676 snowblind my favorite

Yeah he's really funny.

Ryan's my man, bro!

What you mean is hip-hop sounds like heavy metal Beats. After all Black Sabbath was here long before rap

Its a swing beat, Slowed down.

@@ryanmcguire9951 really

@@johnadams1856 is that a question? If so, I don't understand why in the age where you have all of the modern information at your finger tips, we don't do any kind of research. Yes, google it

@@ryanmcguire9951 laughing my ass off. So you're one of the many morons who believe everything on Google to be truth. What a foolish individual you are. Read books because all the information you are getting from Google has been censored and no longer represents actual truth.

Black Sabbath is a band that weather you're a teenager, a pre teen, in your 20s, 30s, or even a middle-aged or an old guy, you'll like it. That's the power of this band.

i liked the fact you said 1965 to 1995. The Ozzy era will always be #1 to me - those first 6 records are works of art (TE and NSD i also enjoy). The Dio records were brilliant. Born Again with Ian Gillan is criminally overlooked and underrated. The Tony Martin era gets no love or respect which is a shame because there's so much quality there. 'Tyr' in particular is my favourite from the era and that album is superb from start to finish. 'Forbidden' ain't even that bad either, has some gems. ('Seventh Star' with Glenn Hughes is pretty killer too).

Can't Get Close Enough To You is one of my all time favourite sabbath songs, same with When Death Calls(feat Brian May)

Yeasss or the title track, they haven’t touched that album yet

DUDE RIGHT????? WHEN I HEARD IT LIVE IN 2013 I WAS LIKE =O

@@12poopie dude you need to see in the end from 2017

@@12poopie definitely, I saw them at their last show in the states ever (supposedly) in San Antonio and I was floored. I had always liked that song but hearing it in a modern live setting vs the old LP or CD was vastly different in power. Afterthat concert, the original recording was like sucking on a titty through a t-shirt.

@@j.p.lovecraft1826 - fingering/blue jeans, also?

Definitely. The first time I saw them with Ozzy they opened with War Pigs, Into the Void, then Under the Sun… trifecta of the heaviest songs ever written

100%

Exactly no digital. All recorded raw

True story!

My most favorite way to record!

@@normansawatzky4778 especially when you get that magic take!!

No protooles, just men and instruments, real music and real felling in ever note

Interesting you say that. They were originally a blues band. With a slide guitar player and a saxophone player. "The Pola Tulk Blues Band". They shortened that to "Polka Tulk", and then changed the name to "Earth". THEN Tony Iommi left the band and joined Jethro Tull for like...LOL...a month. He quit and went back, and then they started Black Sabbath.

Planet Caravan- Iommi rips one of the best jazz solos I have ever heard.

This.

Bill Ward w/Geezer Butler are/were? unbeatable!

My personal favorite Sabbath song🤘

My favorite Black Sabbath song period

keep pressing, I am trying to get them to react to Under the Sun as well, Ryan will lose it when that killer riff kicks in!

One of the nastiest/sickest riffs from Mister Iommi himself 🔥

I dont think people who say underrated understand what that means. Underrated means never really made it as a band, but the drummer is to good for the unsuccessful band as a whole. Bill ward was never underrated.

Foundational rock, indeed! You might even call them a hard rock!

Foundational Rock could be a genre reserved for bands like Sabbath bro

Well said💯💥

They already did snowblind.

my favorite band also, been enjoying for 51yrs.....as individuals theyre all tops at what they do, collectively their masters, for originality and sound, any disrespect shown to them are people that dont deserve to listen cause they dont get it......i did love Dio with them also....a different but also great vibe....

Greatest band ever!!! forever!!!

Never thought about it but you’re right! Un saludo desde Colombia 🇨🇴

I can hear that too.

thank Bill Ward for that

brasileiro também kk

They definitely had some Brazilian influence in their sound. The bridge of Supernaut has a distinct bossa nova rhythm, which is something that was a total curveball that elevates the song far beyond being just another classic metal song.

Agreed. I love Dio’s voice, but when you listen to the Ozzy stuff, I find that Geezer’s lyrics cut much deeper when Ozzy sings just because of his overall tone.

yep, ozzy is Black Sababth, but I still have to say Heaven and Hell is top 3 of Black Sababth albums ranked.

Dio was one of the greats but when talking Black Sabbath, the gloom & doom, that's Ozzy's voice!🤘

Tony Martin is super underrated. 🤘🏻

I'm actually into Ian Gillians one record stint with them, "Born Again". Ian Gillians trademark scream fits Digital Bitch and Hotline perfectly, killa stuff. Peace

They make a lot of sense and the there's so much humour in this channel😂

Ozzy could barely sing an Ozzy song if you put a gun to his head lol. But he is still my favourite of the 2. Even though the Dio albums were awesome. But Live Evil was terrible.

@@KirkMeighooChannel I like to think of the Dio era as just RJD featuring Black Sabbath. Ozzy's Sabbath was untouchable and they're two completely different sounds. Love em both

@@JungleJuiceJoey Ozzy said that Sabbath with Dio was Rainbow, and he was right. They had two awesome albums, but it was not the same band at all. And Rainbow is great. But they're not Sabbath. Ozzy with Randy Rhodes was a truer heir to Sabbath. Ozzy did like the Gillan album, and I love it too. He said that that sounded more like Sabbath, and I agree. It was totally fitting that they did just one awesome, chaotic crash and burn album. I saw that tour, and then saw the Spinal Tap movie, where they made fun of the Stonehenge set lol. But that Gillan album/tour was perfect, over-the-top, ham-it-up, taking-the-piss, but brutal af.

@@KirkMeighooChannel yup hit the nail on the head!!! RJD has a specific sound that doesn't really match anything else out there.

Yep! I like both! Both ozzy and dio were fantastic!

💯💯💯 a GOAT amongst the bassist universe

They had their own magic. Black Sabbath are like Zeppelin's ugly cousin.

Two monster seventies bands. Sabbath is my personal choice between the two, because of their quantity of tracks vs. Zeppelin. But, zeppelin had quality. Sabbath had more good albums, song for song, IMO. But, zeppelin’s best songs are better than Sabbath’s best, if that makes sense.

Add to that the fact that he had to fashion prosthetic fingertips to play. There are a lot of fine players out there, and I play a bit myself, but to this day I cannot fathom playing the guitar without feeling the strings. Iommi’s drive and determination are really something to behold. He has my undying respect.

Tony's job lead/boss introduced to Django Reinhardt's music. Django had badly burned his ring and little finger on his left hand and learned to work around it. Tony said that encouraged him to find a way to continue. Adversity can lead to great thing.

And he had to use banjo strings because light gauge guitar strings weren't available at the time.

The first two Sabbath albums were recorded in standard tuning. Master of Reality was done in C#, as was Vol.4 and much of Sabbath Blood Sabbath. Sabotage's "Symptom of the Universe" was standard tuning. Now, "Heaven and Hell" and later were recorded 1/2 step lower in E flat.

This song is in E standard tunning - first 2 albuns E standard, then they changed to 1 1/2 step down.

YESS!!

Masterpiece of a song

One of their best and it's a cover🤣

Yeah great tune , spent many doobies priming this song up.

The original was great but the Sabbath cover is incredible

He s better than people think. Sabbath bloody Sabbath, Supernaut and Snowblind , The Sabotage, Technical Ecstasy stuff, its far from beign easy. The feel, the attack, the tone. He s in full voice and the keys are hard. Its a lot more high and tough to hit than people think. Its hard, like Diary of madman, is nit easy to sing at all

Learned something new, I didn’t realize that. Thanks man 🤘🤘

Holy shit! I'm a bass player and I had no idea. Incredible.

Yeah he was like 20 when he switched from rhythm guitar to bass. Literally borrowed a bass from someone who played in the band before them and went ahead

@@paxonearth thats why heaps of his early tracks are played in the higher register. His playing was half way between a conventional rhythm guitar and bass playing, which was great for a band without a rhythm guitarist

@@B---tw3kh All this great classic rock created by guys in their 20's. There is something to be said for not yet knowing the "rules" of musicianship.

Regarding the Ozzy-vs.-Dio vocalist discussion near the end of the video, I think the fundamental reason why Ozzy sounds right for a song like this while Dio sounds right for a song like Heaven And Hell comes down to STYLE: - Ozzy had jazzy components in some of his singing, and these earlier Black Sabbath albums were jazzier. - Dio had a more classical, operatic quality to his singing, and later Black Sabbath songs like Heaven And Hell were more classical & operatic. - Both singers and both styles were monumental, and served each of their purposes well.

Definitely my favorite from that album, and maybe my favorite BS song of all time as well. 🤘

Bingo. Plus the heroin epidemic starting back up in the UK.

1970, a fuckin great year for music.

Even on their debut album the ending of the song behind the wall of sleep sounds like early hip hop.

@@78vinyl97 yeah I know what u mean

You're a natural😌

At this point they are MORE influential. Total beasts.

@@BockwinkleB As much as I love Sabbath Aaa..not really. Beatles post- Rubber soul stuff changed the game in 60s and is still THE bar for that kind of music.

The difference between Sabbath and Beatles in terms of influence is just a of a few inches in any case, Black Sabbath kickstarted EVERYTHING heavy-wise, as you rightly put there

@@BockwinkleB even though I love sabbath to death, beatles still influence too many artists today that do even different genres. So beatles beats sabbath in the influential aspect.

@@BockwinkleB The Beatles influenced Sabbath. They are still Ozzy's favorite band.

Told you once about your friends and neighbors They were always seeking but they'll never find it It's alright

I think he sang Swinging The Chain off Never Say Die as well.