The very first metal song! Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath | FIRST TIME REACTION 

You can't imagine the reactions we had when playing this new in 1970. Their were 6 of us high schoolers crammed in my friend's bedroom when we put this on the stereo. My friends sister yelled 'turn it up' and we were mesmerized, never hearing anything like it before. You need to hear the studio original and the entire debut album in order to truly appreciate how shocked we were by the end. Start your Black Sabbath journey with this amazing album and enjoy! Pioneers of Metal for sure, they are the gold standard of Classic Heavy Metal. Enjoy! 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶🔥

Black sabbath have an amazing catalogue of fantastic classics. And Bill Ward must be one of the best drummers of all time

Fun to see you react to this one. You're spot on with The Exorcist comment. Black Sabbath seems pretty tame by modern standards, but it's the wellspring, the sourcce. That thick guitar tone, the sinister tritone (known as the 'devil's interval') of the main riff, the ominous vibe, the dark, occult lyrics, the thunder of the rhythm section once it kicks off - all the key ingredients of modern metal are there. Even now, I still love the audacity of that massive opening chord. That alone is metal as fuck to me! Love to hear you react to more Sabbath. I'd suggest Into the Void, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Iron Man, War Pigs, Supernaut, Children of the Grave, Symptom of the Universe...

The genesis of metal 🤘🏻 It’s also very fitting that this album was released on Friday the 13th.

It's really the first doom metal song. There were other songs that were arguably metal, but this song was slower and darker with really creepy lyrics. It's at least one of my favorites by Sabbath. The feel and imagery are quite unique.

Black Sabbath Ruuuuules! 🤘😜♥️

Sabbath is the reason I started playing bass. Dude, you have no idea just how much of a shock they were back in the early 70s.

Bill Ward, the drummer, is probably one of the most underrated in the business. You should delve into the collection just to hear how he fills out the songs.

The Sabbath rabbit hole is deep and beautiful.

Track for track what a album. You needed to be there the day it was released.

One of my favorite songs, it's beautiful. Thanks for sharing your first listen.

As more and more time goes by, I'm more convinced that the original Black Sabbath lineup is one of the best groups ever. This is another great example - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LqsycmKPSbY.html

WELCOME TO THE BEGINNING… OK NOW LADDY. SECOND SONG OF THE ALBUM, THE WIZARD. KEEP THAT BALL ROLLING. THE FIRST SIX ALBUMS ARE THE FOUNDATION OF HEAVY METAL. I GREW UP WITH THIS AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN N STILL ROCKIN IT AT 69. GREAT REACTIONS. ROCK ON 👊🖖

A genre born out of a workplace injury. Tony Iomi lost the end of his finger in a steel press. To help with guitar he fashioned a cover for the finger from melted plastic...the jiggling of that on the strings a major part of the metal sound. Tony suffered discomfort playing guitar his whole career...but did what he loved. Fkn Trooper 💪👌 You gotta hear War Pigs...I wouldn't bother with unrelated MV...black screen lyric video is powerful AF.

This should be labelled the first song that influenced a thousand Heavy Metal bands. Its not metal, its heavy rock.

If you are in to Black Sabbath and Rush, Then you are sorted.

I never really got metal until I discovered Sabbath when they released 13. Getting into them made metal click for me instantly. Each of the four musicians here are individually on any reasonable list of the best in their class.

There's actually a conversation as to what the first metal song was. It's either Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath...or it's Helter Skelter by the Beatles from what I'm hearing Black Sabbath I believe is credited as the first metal band, but they may not have created the first metal song.

"Master of Reality" was the first Sabbath album where Tony down-tuned his guitar. The first "Heavy Metal" album IMO.

They were the influence of every Metal band. And this was the first track of their first Album. Look at when it first came out

Loved your reaction. Honest and enjoyable. Yes this is actually musical. It is the birth of metal, although Black Sabbath has said repeatedly that they don't like that term applied to them. They consider their style to be hard rock. But this is good music, good songwriting, subtle in it's use of volume and heaviness, deeply rooted in blues and, .if you can believe it, jazz. A thorough listen of later Black Sabbath will show you that they have a lot of jazz influence, especially Bill Ward the drummer. I have been loving Black Sabbath since 7th grade when I first heard the vinyl of this song. It blew me away so much that I learned how to play the entire album by playing along with it for hours and hours. That's how I learned rock guitar. In middle school they had a talent show and my first band played N.I.B. at it. Surprised the hell out of everybody, I can tell you! Next you should listen to The Wizard and N.I.B. from the first Sabbath album. The Wizard is Sabbath's tribute to The Lord of the Rings and features Ozzy playing harmonica as well as singing. Is a good song. If possible, you must hear N.I.B. as it was originally done on this album, where there are 4 songs that go together into a single song: Wasp/ Behind the Wall/ Bassically/ N.I.B. They make for an amazing listening experience. Cheers!

Hearing this in 1970 3 of us at John Ogilvie High School Burnbank this was an eye opener along with Uriah Heep's first album. The greatest time in music along with Purple in rock.

You were expecting the beginning of Thrash/Death Metal, but you get the beginning of Doom Metal.

no doubt someone else has commented but the reason Bill Ward uses drum patterns youre not expecting is that hes not a metal drummer, hes a jazz man first and foremost. He fucking swings.

Don't be sorry very fair well balanced review, nice 1.

Don't forget that our parents had gone through serious shite through WW2 and Korea so the militaristic regime was how you were raised. Then this came along and I had to keep it in the garage , just in case

Always check out the original version first before listening to a live version.

If you were looking for a rabbit hole to fall down this wouldn’t be a bad choice

Trends in music and bands drop suddenly. Back then it felt like Sabbath sprung from the ground in an old decommishioned church yard. Some loved them and some feared them

Nothing sounded like this when it came out

The first metal song is "I Put A Spell On You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins in 1956.

The only almost "proto-metal" before this was Pink Floyd "The Nile Song" (yes Pink Floyd I know very Weird) and that followed the even earlier Beatles "Helter Skelter"

Bill Ward is a jazz based drummer like John Bonham was. Sabbath reformed and put out some more fire tracks like God is dead and End of the beginning. Ozzy's vocals still kill it and watching him play harmonica on The Wizard rehearsal (2017) is amazing.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath! 👈👀

The first time I heard this song I had a nightmare and in it I was screaming "oh please god help me" for someone to open a door

……remember, this came out shortly after The Beatles (Abbey Road) think of the contrast in the music ❤️🎸🤘🏼 #octopus’sgarden 🤣😂🤣

Do War Pigs studio version next.

If this was The Exorcist sound track people would have SHIT!

Better late than never. Seriously :D These guys made this song literally a 'Sabbath', hense it's slow and somber pace. They are very good at doing whatever they want.

Love the exorcist analogy. You get it

Check out Black Sabbath war pigs live in Paris 1970. The entire band is at 100% but bill Ward puts on a clinic on the drums. You absolutely nailed it with the exorcist analogy.

The outro is classic music s level creativity

This is the stuff we used to get high and listen to.

Yessss Black Sabbath were so cool! Good reaction, thank you and thank you to whoever requested it. Now when you think of Ozzy it's just that zombie shell of a man but back in the day fuck yeah! You've probably heard War Pigs but in case you haven't give it a listen because it's chef's kiss

Not Lemmy, Geezer Butler. And that's Bill Ward on drums.

Loved this reaction. Sabbath still the original and the best imo. I love loads of different metal genre’s but Sabbath stands the test of time and I’ve been listening to them for 45 years eeek The whole band complements each other the perfect line up.

metal/hard rock, doesnt rlly matter big grey area with iron miaden, judas preist etc. depends on ur def of metal or hard rock. good music is what it is

The subgenre of metal that specifically is inspired by this song (and a number of others from Black Sabbath) is called Doom Metal. Slow to mid tempo, fuzzy distortion, heavy riffs. Often clean vocals, but sometimes growls, too. Stoner Metal is a related subgenre with very heavy Sabbath influence, particularly from songs like "Sweet Leaf". If you end up enjoying more Black Sabbath, you might enjoy some other bands that follow in those genres, too. For more Sabbath songs, if you go chronological you could do "The Wizard", the second song off this album and another inspiration for later metal. Then go to the next album, Paranoid (from the same year), and do "War Pigs", "Iron Man", or "Hand of Doom". Their third album, Master of Reality, is many people's overall favorite with classics like "Sweet Leaf", "Children of the Grave", and "Into the Void". That's too many songs now. Don't worry, their recording techniques do become cleaner, this first album is very raw compared to the rest.

There was nothing remotely like this on the radio in 1970. Just think, all their stuff if like this. the next song on the album is The Wizard, you will not be disappointed, also they put a lot of effort into their studio versions to make every song a little musical journey. Thanks for a great reaction.

10 year old me was handed Black Sabbath-Paranoid on 8-track. That was a game changer.

The birth of heavy metal

Bill Ward.. One of the most wonderful drummers..

War Pigs is a great one also they had a ton of hits with him and without him, but he also did well by himself, welcome to the rabbit hole. and enjoy

Ozzy sings well even now. Check out Ordinary Man.

Regarding the recording. This was not the studio version. I believe this was from a show "live in Paris"

Some people would suggest that HELTER SKELTER by The Beatles was the first actual metal song. At least I've read and heard that suggested a number of times. The Beatles White Album was released a couple of years before Black Sabbath. Have a listen to HELTER SKELTER if you're not familiar with it. At the time there was really nothing else like it.

🤘🏻⚡️🔥 is all needs to be said.

I remember buying this album when it came out in the record stores. Took it home for a listen and life was never the same again. IMHO, it's the most impactful rock album ever made. There have been many better albums, but nothing sounding like this had ever come out before and it changed the game.

Ozzy was 21 when he recorded this. All the excessive booze and drugs hadn't taken a toll on his voice or body yet. It's not so much the pace of Black sabbath songs that make it metal, it's the overall sound of the band that inspired metal. Also, there was only bass, guitar & drums with Ozzy's voice over the top. Cheers!

I grew up with Black Sabbath. I suggest you react to a studio lyric video of Into the Void, Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath and Symptom of the Universe. of Tony Iommi (eye-OWE-me), lead guitar, Geezer Butler, bass, Bill Ward, drums. You should have reacted to the album studio version, which is much more metal. and is heavier, and the drums sound much much better. Metal has nothing to do with speed.

Bom enquadramento de vídeo, a luminária bem centralizada

Black Sabbath 1968-eternity🤘

FIRE!🔥🔥🔥

Wow. Great reaction. Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" would be the next step. ;)

Type O Negative did a follow-up version of this song. From the Satanic perspective, it's pretty awesome.

The devil's Tri Tone, the 3 notes banned in medieval England from fear it conjured the devil

Oh! It's a live version- Great. If anything probably doom metal. Saw Black Sabbath 1971 & 72 and Ozzy solo during the 80 and 90s, many times, then Black Sabbath again in 2000s including the End Tour. Ozzy is a treasure- bless him. Bill Ward was/is a fantastic drummer and well recognised as such now. You'll see- wait until the end. The final bit of which you missed off the last four notes.

Most definitely need to watch War Pigs Live 1970 it is disgusting the best down that Bill Ward does to a classic Jazz kit.

👉 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath!👈

Born is the first heavy metal song cause of the lyric heavy metal thunder but black sabbath created the genre

The album was recorded in 12 hours. When I was a lid innthe 1970s, there was just heavy Metal. Now there are tons of dubgenresof metal. On the furst several Sabbath albums, just about every third song was the birth of one of those future subgenres.

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Bill ward is one of the greatest drummers ever i put him easily in the top 5 combined with tony iomies prosthesis on hus finger tips he had to tune the guitar way down and it became his trademark sound and geezer on bass ozzys personal demons caused him to be kicked out but 50 yeara later thr reuinion tour sounded just as good

All versions of metal came from this band

A true classic! Can you do a reaction for my favorite band Sinister Ghost please?

I haven’t seen this so it was cool but the drum sound on the studio version are much better.

I was 11 when this was released and had it played to me by friends throughout the seventies. I always thought it was a shame the great music wasn’t matched by the lyrics which I found a bit obvious and only creepy in a schoolboy way. Sabbath influenced punk more than the Ramones or garage music, I think, and had a good laugh when the New Musical Express magazine declared the Sex Pistols album Never Mind The Bollocks the best heavy metal album of 1977 (or 78, can’t remember). Good reaction though. The album really was unlike anything knocking about at the time.

I tell you what, it was a nightmare dancing/moshing to the first half on metal nights 😂

Black sabbath, by black sabbath on the album black sabbath

Excellent album. The witch is actually Ozzy on the cover. You criticize it, but they are rich from this lol

You need to listen to the first eight albums hand of doom next

React to Black Sabbath - N.I.B. , 100% recomended.

Actually 1st metal song 1969

Was a big Black Sabbath fan when they came out, and got tickets to see them when they came to town, it was an awesome show, but miss matched Genres, a new band called Yes opened for them, and by the time Sabbath came out, i was like fffff that i want more Yes, but Sabbath Killed it also, just a miss match of bands.

Many years now since I listened to it, but isn't this slower than the studio recording on the first album*? Maybe my memory fails me, but I like it though. *UK release on Friday 13th (February 1970) if you are superstitious...

You should react to Pappo's Blues Volume 1, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jMWQCDPs8Vo.html ... it is from 1971, although it was probably generated before, so it is totally parallel and contemporary to Black Sabbath... Pappo is a pioneering guitarist and singer of Argentine national rock... he will explode your head and It will lead you to reconsider where heavy metal really emerged.

Try the song Sabbath Bloody Sabbath!

Ozzy was the SHIT!

Actually, you shouldn’t really separate the song from the whole album

If this 'IS' your first ever time listening to Black Sabbath then you should have listened to the album version, not the live version. Oh well..... still good but this version is perhaps more for those who already know it.

Snowblind off of volume 4

Black Sabbath? Haha. What about led zep?

Ozzy has autism when he speaks its incoerrwnt but put a mic in front of him you can make out what he says the first black sabbath album ozzy is mostly monotone with the screams thrown in but as time past and the more he sings he developed a wide range but take away the mic incoherent

Put yourself in the 1960's not 2024.

Sad that you are from the UK and don't know the music of your own people. And by the way, Ozzy still sings just like this, I have seen him and/or Black Sabbath 24 times. You better embrace your culture and heritage as your government is destroying it.

Toni Iommi is the riff master general. Black Sabbath were dark and heavy and moody....but were they the first ones to do it? I think not. Stephen Wolf with their first album did it first. It's rock and it's heavy, plus it has born to be wild. The first time someone mentioned heavy metal thunder.