![]() ![]() For Doom the Bell Tolls: The title track starts this way.In both cases, these tracks were combined into one on North American pressings and padded out with extraneous subtitles. Fading into the Next Song: Happens twice: in the first example, the drums-only fade-out of "Behind the Wall of Sleep" leads straight into the bass solo that opens "N.I.B." in the second, the held guitar note at the end of "Sleeping Village" can still be heard for a few seconds after "Warning" starts up.Epic Rocking: "Warning" runs 10:32, doubling as Longest Song Goes Last.Darker and Edgier: Than anything else in rock and roll at the time.Crapsack World: "Wicked World." It's right there in the title.Cover Version: "Evil Woman" was originally recorded by Crow, and "Warning" was by Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation.Big "NO!": Ozzy's response to the figure in black telling him he's The Chosen One in the title track."Never troping, just keeps walking, spreading his magic": "A Bit of Finger" note despite its placement in the track list, there is uncertainty as to what section "A Bit of Finger" actually refers to, varying between the acoustic intro to "Sleeping Village", the instrumental section of said song, or the middle section of "Warning"/"Sleeping Village"/"Warning" (14:15)."Wasp" note intro to "Behind the Wall of Sleep" reprised later in the song/"Behind the Wall of Sleep"/"Bassically" note bass solo intro to "N.I.B."/"N.I.B." (9:44).Tracklist (original North American edition): Side One "Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games with Me" note often shortened to just "Evil Woman", including on the original UK LP's centre label (3:25).Tracklist (original European edition): Side One After its June 1970 release in the States, it peaked at number 23 on the Billboard charts and sold one million copies during the year that it was ranked there. ![]() The album was a commercial success, having gone to number eight on the UK charts after its release. The lyrics deal with far darker themes than their contemporaries, dealing with occultism, Satanism, and Lovecraftian horrors, and the trademark dark banjo-stringed guitar, alongside Ozzy Osbourne's vocals, made it even more radical and unique. Widely considered the first true Heavy Metal album, it was recorded within only a 12-hour period between a few European gigs. Black Sabbath is the debut album by Black Sabbath, released on Friday, February 13, 1970. ![]()
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