Black Sabbath - Iron Man (REACTION!) 

This song is 54 years old, wow just wow

Black Sabbath, the heaviest, hardest Jazz band, ever!🤘👊

Put some respect on Geezer, primary lyricist when Ozzy was in the band, and a dope ass bass player.

There’s an interview with Henry Rollins where he points out how bands starting out assume Iron Man would be an easy cover and then they try that one part where they kick back into the main riff after the solo section and they realize how tight you have to be as a band to do that.

Nah the fact Bill Ward was the first thing you shouted out on this one is complete proof that yall just straight up are metalheads by this point

I see Black Sabbath and Lost In Vegas, I click. It's that simple.

Sabbath bloody sabbath yall im telling you. Straight heat

When Ryan says "My god!", that's the only appropriate reaction for that part. One of the single greatest moments of any song in the metal genre. A descending riff into an ascending riff, with an abrupt tempo change, with perfect chemistry. Pure greatness.

Geezer is the glue,the concrete,the rivets,the steel girders of the band,his bass is always wicked. And as for Bill,wild man of Birmingham,he’s top 5 in the all time list of drummers for me.

Iron Man is the song that solidified the art of the “transition” in hard rock/metal. Legends.

Of course they're the greatest metal band ever. Imagine being so incredible that you single handedly found a whole genre! They're the Chuck Berry of metal

Children of the Grave? National Acrobat? Spiral Architect? Hole in the Sky? Looking for Today? Sabbra Cadabra? Under the Sun? You guys have only just begun. Still love watching you guys enjoy music for the first time and be as amazed as i was my first time.

Give some love to Geezer Butler, he's the straw that stirs the drink

Bill Ward deserves his place among the greatest drummers of all time. He hits at least as hard as John Bonham (RIP), has surgical precision that rivals Neil Peart’s (RIP), AND he could swing like Buddy Rich (RIP).

When it comes to not praising Bill Ward enough, by all means, let the world know if we aren't doing enough because he deserves much praise. Bill Ward is simultaneously heavy and funky. He's got the soul of a percussionist inside a beast of a heavy metal drummer. Love it.

Possibly the greatest Heavy Metal song ever... The bone crunching Tony Iomi riff is guitar godly excellence. 🎸 The first time I ever hears the riff for this I had insane amount of goosebumps & my mind was blown away from this song.

great reaction, but please guys, more recognition for Geezer Butler on the bass, amazing bassist

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath! It's time.

To me, BLACK SABBATH are the O.G. GODFATHERS OF METAL

Yall never give Geezer his credit. That feel is the bass lines setting you up for the nod.

"Are they The Greatest Metal Band Of All Time?" "Yep" ❤

Bill Ward, one of the most underrated drummers of all time.

Black Sabbath has so many iconic,groovy,funky songs

I was born in the 50’s, raised in the 60’s and married in the 70’s. Truly fortunate to have grown up with all of this amazing music.

it is recorded LIVE !!!!! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS? No studio magic....PERFECT !!!

Bill's funk is the money.

Black Sabbath are the GOATs and Paranoid is one of their best albums. I got this as my first CD when I was 12 years old! Each member is top tier with their instrument, Ozzy is even one of the best Harmonica players I've ever heard!

Now you understand when we have to choose recommendations on what to react to, how difficult is to choose which song. Some metal bands you just need to listen to all. Sabbath is one of those.

You guys help me rediscover and re-appreciate stuff I frankly took for granted.

It's 54 years old!! Pioneers, masters, infamous legends of metal. Your love for metal makes this geezer very happy.

Your Sabbath trip has been one of my favourite things on You Tube. You might want to round the album off (Rat Salad is only short) with their Paris 1970 live performance of War Pigs. It'll take you full circle and also give you the live experience of these young men as they started to blossom into rock gods. Thanks again, from Yorkshire, England.

Bought tickets to the last sabbath show in phoenix. Was on break from work and called the radio station to win tickets and won. Gave them to my best friends for free. Best band live

You guys are great! Your enthusiasm and how much you get into the music combined with your thoughtful and insightful analysis is awesome.

Hearing the entirety of We Sold Our Souls was my initiation into being a metalhead at 10 years old. This tune in particular carries you on a journey. You can feel Iron Man going on a murderous rampage through the outro. True musical greatness.

This is a well known super hit of Black Sabbath, it's often the "gateway" song for new listeners. At least, it was in my day - I was born in the 60s, and got to live through the 70s and 80s Sabbath and Ozzy. The best of times!

The interplay between Geezer and Tony during the solo sections, while Bill is simultaneously holding everything down while being a maniac with the groove, is a microcosm for the greatness of Sabbath. Add onto that the utterly epic and groundbreaking songwriting, which spawned arguably the most expansive genre in all of music, and the icon in Ozzy, and you have absolute legends, who at the time were black sheep (at least by the mainstream), but have slowly gotten their due over time. I am STILL baffled that an album like Master of Reality came out in 1971... Still one of the heaviest albums of all time.

The thing that maybe amazes me the most is it is from 1970. When i was a kid I saw this cd in the CD bin at the dollar store, at the time kinda knew who black sabbath was, bought it and it blew my mind over the next 2 days.

This one is special to me... My friend died during Ironman marathon last year and this song (no vocal version) was played at his funeral... R.I.P.

I'm 100% with you on Bill Ward. To me, he's up there with Bonham, Moon and Ginger Baker as being the pioneers of sophisticated rock drumming.

I first heard Black Sabbath in 1971 when I was 11 years old. I had some older relatives who were really into them. Even at that tender young age, I could not believe what I was hearing. There are so many great bands from that era, but you can’t argue with the fact that they were groundbreaking. They took the blues and turned it on its head and Tony came up with some of the greatest riffs and rock history even to this day. They did some great things over the years but to me they just weren’t the same after Ozzie left the band. I’m at the surprise you guys are so blown away by them.

First song I ever learned to play. “Are they the greatest metal band ever?” “Yes” - sums it up Costing how much you guys are digging Bill, you’re definitely gonna like Rat Salad

Yes. The facts are incontrovertible. They've shown their metal and have stood the test of time. Black Sabbath stands atop Mount Metalympus looking down at everyone else.

Wait until you hear Sign of the Southern Cross with Dio on vocals. That song will blow you away!

My fave part is that last transition, the last segment, "just when u thought it couldn't get cooler," etc. The reaction channel "Vin and Sori" has the most amazing appreciation of "Fairies wear boots" where at the very end Vin really begins to groove on the cool-ass outro, and then they both just become increasingly gobsmacked as they realize the song's from NINETEEN SEVENTY, and it dawns on them how much Sabbath influenced their beloved Korn and Metallica and Iron Maiden, etc. Very satisfying!

Don't sleep on the bass. Geezer's playing adds so much to Black Sabbath's sound it's crazy.

Bill Ward put out a solo album in 1990, "Ward One: Along the Way" --- a song with Ozzy on vocals - "Bombers (Can Open Bomb Bays)" it's a pretty good early 90s (pre-grunge) hard rock song.

I'm 42 years old and have been listening to black sabbath since I was in a crib. This music is engrained in my dna, so even though I've heard it probably 10000 times in my lifetime, It just sounds like home. It's part of me. Black Sabbath is the GOAT

The reason everyone focuses on the iconic riff is because it's a great shorthand for the whole song. They start with the riff, wander off in a different direction, return to the riff, wander off in yet another direction, and return to the riff. When someone is doing a movie, they're not going to play the entire song. But they can play just a few seconds of that riff, and the people who know Black Sabbath will remember the variety in the whole song.

Y'all are gonna LOVE Electic Funeral.

The re-entry back into the groove from the solo is bloody hard to pull off and make it sound right and it's what makes this song one of the greatest metal songs ever.

SWEET LEAF, THE WIZARD, FAIRYS WEAR BOOTS, N.I.B, PARANOID there catalog has MASSIVE METAL CLASSICS

Classic. The Godfathers of Heavy Metal. Sabbath is one of the greatest bands of all time.

The Road Warriors brought me to Black Sabbath!✌️😈🤟

Children of the Grave guys

If you watched wrestling back in the day. This intro was the Road Warriors walk out song. I remember seeing them as a kid and freaking out at them first note. Love this song

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, fellas -- you gotta! and i will never tire of seeing you guys have your minds blown by Sabbath.

I'm sorry, I naturally thought it a given that BS is the greatest metal band of all time! THEY PAVED THE WAY! They pointed all musicians in the direction of heavy metal. I was in on the ground floor at age 14 in 1970 when I heard their 1st album.

@ 11:01 The reason all they advertise is that groove is because that's probably the most iconic groove in the history of heavy metal.

I love that you love on Bill Ward, and the reaction to when the turn around turns back around is gold.

Ryan was going off about wanting groove suggestions. Sabbath's The Writ has an amazing groove and is arguably Ozzy's finest vocal performance. You will dig it, I promise.

Sabbath is the Godfather of Metal music and this is the song that I think is the start of Metal music.

Busta Rhymes flip of this song with Ozzy on the hook is also cool. “This Means War!!”.

Just throwing it out there. A National Acrobat is an amazing Sabbath song!

This was the song that made me a metal head in the 80s when i was 7 ! Not just the song either , the tag team of the Road Warriors used this coming to the ring while jacked to the gills wearing giant spikes , mohawks and face paint just bludgeoning fools ! What more could a kid ask for in the 80s lol !!!!!!

Early ‘70’s we would drag mattresses and stereos into the woods and jam to this over and over again…Real talk.

Sabbath!!!!

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. THAT breakdown will bring you to your knees.

This is my 3 year-old boy's favorite song. I dunno if I should be proud or concerned lol

Agreed. Been listening to metal for decades and black sabbath is the greatest metal band in my opinion

Rush had to have been influenced by this song when they wrote Working Man. I love both songs with the nasty grooves and change in tempo.

Paranoid is probably one of the greatest albums of all time. It just doesn't miss. A sonic masterpiece, all the way through. Not to mention that it literally created an entire genre of music.

This is why we consider Black Sabbath to be true Gods :D

The entire late era of Black Sabbath is finally officially on streaming services after 30 years and here we are doing goddamn Iron Man *sigh*. ‘When Death Calls’ guys please!

Symptom of the Universe, which you guys are already reviewed is the best rock song of all time. The first thrash riff ever followed by out Zeppling Zepplin in the middle and end with funkiest acoustic jam ever. They were amazing. I’m so grateful I saw them live. Sabbath is truly amazing

Black Sabbath are the Heaviest Jazz Band of all time. Geezer and Bill are my favourite rhythm section ever 🖤🖤🖤

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath all day long!

Fun fact: Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler were close personal friends with Robert Plant and John Bonham. They hung out together all the time, and it was actually Geezer and Tony who talked Robert and John into joining Led Zeppelin. I would never want to give up Sabbath or Zeppelin, but imagine if those four guys had formed a band together...

Bill Ward loves JAZZ!!!

What a joy watching you both be blown away by this song!!! 😍🥰 I knew you would love this one!

Bill Ward blazed trails. He gave everything to his drumming. Also, I would say the main guitar riff has something of a feeling of Beethoven's bombast.

Sabbath are the kings. They laid the groundwork for all this shit

I want to add that, even once the base groove gets old, by the end of the song you're right back into it again because of how the switch-ups and perfect transitions build it up once more.

Please react to Hole in the sky and Children of the grave. Two of their classic songs!!!

I remember laying on my bedroom floor and putting the large speakers on each side of my head and cranking this up in the 70's.

The craziest thing about it is that no one had done anything that sounded remotely like it before. Like, a few late 60s bands were kind of in the neighborhood but not close to this. Gotta check out T Pain covering War Pigs!

I can understand being burned on 'the riff' when that was all you knew. But now that you have heard the whole song, hearing 'the riff' will bring a smile to your face. Because now you can relate it to the whole.

That tempo control!! haha you're absolutely right man

Bill Ward was a jazz trained drummer who brought a whole new sound to the band in a way no drummer has since.

"The band" every rock/metal guitarist started playing early on, irresistible licks and Bill Wards funky blues/jazz inspired drumming is absolutely incredible. Master of reality is a beast!

He praising Bill on the first minute of the song, and I thinking: "Oh, wait for it!!!". Bill is the upmost reason i absolutely LOVE this song, and Geezer's basslines and his f*kin' TONE right beside it. And that ending is truly incredible.

GEEZER!!!!!

Bill Ward is a Drum GOD! And YES, Black Sabbath is the Greatest Metal Band Of All Time!!!

You gotta do national acrobat

THE LEGENDARY “BLACK SABBATH”!!!🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

You guys NEED to listen to A National Acrobat and Lord of This World

Bill Ward discovered big band jazz at like 7 years old. Count Bassie can change a mind at that age. LOL He was able to hear what the rest of the band was doing and find the drums to fill in the sound and make them sound full. He's also the reason they played so loud, so they could be hear over him beating the shit out of his kit like it was talking shit about his mom. 🤘🧙‍♂🤘

"Are they the best metal band?" - It's either Black Sabbath or Metallica. I'd have to give it to sabbath, cause there'd probably be no Metallica if it wasn't for them.

Tony has a gift for writing riffs that are simultaneously heavy and melodic. It’s rhythmic but also beautiful. You can whistle Iommi’s riffs.

"ONE OF THE BEST METAL SONGS EVER" This is an undisputed fact! Perhaps in the top five or even top three metal songs ever released.

I love how it hit them at 10:16....the classic sabbath is magical