1539 - Black Sabbath God Is Dead? 2013

No metal album in recent years was more anticipated than Black Sabbath's '13.' As the first full-length disc featuring Ozzy Osbourne in 35 years, there was a lot riding on the album for the metal legends -- and with its very first single, 'God Is Dead?,' Sabbath ended any doubts that they were back in fine form. The Grammy-winning song is an epic 9-minute opus that features some monster riffing from Tony Iommi, Nietzsche-inspired lyrics from Geezer Butler and a masterful vocal from Ozzy Osbourne. While people can debate whether God is dead, Sabbath have proven that they're very much alive.

1337 - Black Sabbath Computer God 1992

It was the first Black Sabbath studio album in over a decade to feature Ronnie James Dio on vocals and Vinny Appice on drums. It is also the first in nine years to feature original bassist Geezer Butler. Initial writing and demo sessions at Rich Bitch Studios in Birmingham featured drummer Cozy Powell; bootlegs of these sessions exist. Thus, the Mob Rules-era lineup of Black Sabbath, along with all its past energy and chemistry, saw its resurrection in the recording of 1992's terribly underrated "Dehumanizer". "Computer God" opens with some machinery sounds that fits the theme of the song, then it breaks into a great drum intro where one can witness already the intensity of Appice's drumming, followed by Iommi and Butler,and the crazy fast awesome ending.

1228 Black Sabbath After Forever 1971

Master of Reality is the third album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in July 1971. It is sometimes noted as the first stoner rock album. For the recording of this album, guitarist Tony Iommi, who had injured his fingers in a factory accident years earlier, decided to downtune his guitar down three semi-tones (or one and a half steps to C-sharp). This reduced string tension, thus making the guitar easier for him to play. Geezer Butler also downtuned his bass guitar to match Iommi. The result was a noticeably "darker" or "sludgier" sound that almost two decades later would prove hugely influential. “After Forever” starts with an ominous synthesizer, but soon unfolds into an upbeat, major-key guitar riff. This song is downright happier than anything else they had recorded at the time, and Ozzy especially sounds more confident than ever as he shouts out his lyrics. This song is about Christianity, the words must have been shocking to those people at the time who thought the band was all about devil worship.

1173 - Black Sabbath Sabbra Cadabra 1973

"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" is the fifth studio album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in December 1973. With this album, the band expanded upon their slow, crunching style of music by strings, keyboards and more complex orchestral arrangements. "Sabbra Cadabra" utilises a Moog synthesizer, a common instrument in progressive rock at the time. Ex-Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman guest performs on this pure rock n´roll track.

980 - Black Sabbath Symptom of the Universe 1975

"Sabotage" features fan favourites such as "Symptom of the Universe".
The song is divided into two parts, a heavier part and an acoustic portion at the end of the song. The lyrics were written by Geezer Butler about a dream he had, with many citations about the creation of the universe, the creator and creature and some mythological elements. The child cited at the end of the song is interpreted as the human creature and its travel, life.

826 - Black Sabbath Changes 1972

In June 1972, Black Sabbath reconvened in Los Angeles, California to begin work on their fourth album, "Volume 4", at the Record Plant Studios. This was the band's second album to be recorded there. The recording process was plagued with problems, many due to substance abuse issues. "Volume 4" demonstrates Black Sabbath beginning to experiment with the heavy sound they had become known for. Although some songs, such as "Supernaut" and "Cornucopia" are in their trademark style, others demonstrate a soft, orchestral approach. This is exemplified by the song "Changes". Written by Tony Iommi, it is entirely in the form of a piano ballad with mellotron.

772 - Black Sabbath Fairies Wear Boots 1970

1970 was an intense and highly satisfying year for Black Sabbath. February of that year saw the release of their eponymous titled first album and, by the end of that year, they issued their second album, the legendary "Paranoid". One of the favourite tracks is "Fairies Wear Boots".

735 - Black Sabbath Megalomania 1975

"Sabotage" is not only Black Sabbath's best record since "Paranoid", it might be their best ever. Even with the usual themes of death, destruction and mental illness running throughout this album, the unleashed frenzy and raw energy they've returned to here comes like a breath of fresh air.
This track is great and begins by a unusual smooth guitar and voice intro. 2 minutes later it begins to rock and a incredible guitar riff comes out.

687 - Black Sabbath Lady Evil 1980

"Heaven and Hell" is such an incredible strong album that shows both nerve, epic features, attitude, melody and fantastic composed and performed songs, tracks so tight and powerful that the temptation to turn up the volume and just surrender to the groove while the ground shakes beneath is too big. "Lady Evil" has a hard rhythm and a great direct approach. The chorus is very melodic and Dio's hard vocals are sung with great diversion. The bass is one element making this song a lot better than it otherwise would have been; the groove laid down is just amazing and ground shattering.

642 - Black Sabbath Voodoo 1981

"Mob Rules", Black Sabbath's tenth studio album and second to feature former Elf/Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio, sees the band making some changes from it's predecessor, "Heaven and Hell." Most noticeable is the addition of drummer Vinnie Appice, who replaced original drummer Bill Ward. Musically it seems the band is going for faster numbers and tighter song arrangement, although there is no lack of Sabbath's trademark gloom and doom. “Voodoo” has an excellent and catchy riff, perfect bass lines, Dio’s excellent vocal performance and a good solo.

484 - Black Sabbath War Pigs 1971

Written as a protest against politicians' emotional removal from war matters, "War Pigs" opens with a sludgy power-blues intro before changing tempo and heading into the first verse with drummer Bill Ward's hi-hat as the only instrument that can be constantly heard. The verse ends, giving way to a power chord riff in which the drums take the lead that will occur throughout the song. Two verses crunch by with a great metal groove before heading into one of guitarist Tony Iommi's trademark dueling-overdub solos. Ozzy gets one more quiet verse before the song slows down even more for a great minor-seventh riff that Iommi uses to bookend the second solo/outro riff. The song ends by accelerating both the speed and pitch of the minor-seventh riff before an all-too-abrupt halt to the perfect Black Sabbath song.

368 - Black Sabbath Supernaut 1972

By the time they reached 1972, Black Sabbath had already released three excellent albums. The band was beginning to realize that they needed to broaden their horizons. And thus, Black Sabbath's experimental era began. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward all knew that their fans loved the sound they had used so far, but they knew they couldn't just keep doing the same things over and over again. The first album to emerge from their experimental era was their fourth studio album: "Vol. 4". The glorious "Supernaut" is one of the most notable songs of the album.

289 - Black Sabbath Headless Cross 1989

The music in "Headless Cross" is epic, powerful Doom and Tony Martin's voice sounds great. "Headless Cross" stands in one line with the long series of classics and after a short keyboard-intro the title-track impressively shows what is Black Sabbath: Majestic riffs, a very good flow of the song and, of course, Martin's brilliant vocals.

256 - Black Sabbath Black Sabbath 1970

Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham. The original band line up of Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Terence "Geezer" Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums) is the same as the current line up (2007) although there have been many shifts of personnel over the years. The band found success beginning with their first album, the eponymous "Black Sabbath", released on Friday the 13th, February, 1970. They signed to Warner Bros. Records in the U.S. and Canada, and Vertigo Records for the rest of the world. As the first song by "the first metal band", Black Sabbath is often considered a pioneer of heavy metal. The song appears to be about the protagonist facing Satan during the Apocalypse. The protagonist is Satan's "chosen one", and seems paralysed with fear. Along with "N.I.B.", this song added to the perception of the general public that the band members were devil worshippers (which the band has always denied).
According to the band, the song was inspired by an experience that Geezer Butler related to Ozzy Osbourne. In the days of Earth, Geezer painted his apartment matte black and placed several inverted crucifixes on the walls. Then, one day, Ozzy brought round a book about Witchcraft, which Geezer became extremely fascinated by. One night, he read the book and fell asleep. He recalls waking up and seeing a black figure and, as he put it, "crapped myself". He then told Ozzy, who wrote the lyrics to what would become Black Sabbath: "What is this that stands before me? Figure in black which points at me".
The main riff is constructed with a harmonic progression including an interval of tritone, that is to say the augmented fourth. That interval was banned from medieval ecclesiastical singing because of its dissonant quality, which led monks to call it diabolus in musica—"the devil in music." Because of that original symbolic association, it came to be heard in Western cultural convention as “evil.” Today the interval continues to suggest an "oppressive," "scary," or "evil" sound. Heavy metal has made extensive use of diabolus in musica because of these connotative qualities;And this riff is one of the most famous example of its use in heavy metal. The Black Sabbath song was one of the earliest examples in heavy metal to make use of that interval.

174 - Black Sabbath Children of the Grave 1971

"Master of reality" is certainly the heaviest album in the entire Sabbath catalog. "Children of the Grave" talks about how next generations should not do the same mistakes has their predecessors and that they should use peace instead of war. The subject of this song is just insane and the music is great. A pretty heavy guitar riff that almost sounds like trash metal, nice lyrics and vocals, nice drumming and bass and guitar completely matches. Iommi´s solo is also great.

104 - Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 1973

"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" is the fifth studio album by the British hard rock/heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in 1973. Sabbath expanded upon their slow, crunching style of music and added synthesizers and orchestral arrangements.
After the recording of their previous album, Black Sabbath, Vol. 4, the band hit a dry spell and could not come up with any songs for their new album. After locking themselves away to focus and come up with new ideas, guitarist Tony Iommi stumbled upon the riff to the title track, which has been called "the riff that saved Black Sabbath." After this song was completed, the others flowed freely.

59 - Black Sabbath Iron Man 1970

"Iron Man" is a signature song of Birmingham heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath. It was first released on their second album Paranoid (1970) and later included on their initial greatest hits compilation We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll (1976).
This song features one of the most popular riffs of all time.

36 - Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell 1980

Classical heavy metal song, it may belongs to the best Sabbath album ever. An incredible strong album that shows both nerve, epic features, attitude, melody and fantastic composed and performed songs. Heaven And Hell has those genius vocal parts in the songs slower parts, not to mention the fantastic bombastic refrain, poetic philosophical lyrics that makes you twist your mind, Iommi's stellar guitar work in the mid-section and the up-tempo ending part with outstanding lead guitar passages.
One of the biggest Metal anthems ever created, every single element making up a genius whole.

19 - Black Sabbath Paranoid 1970

By the end of 1970 Black Sabbath had released "Paranoid", which was to bear them a UK-Top Ten-single and on this album deliver perhaps their most revered set of songs. The band attracted a following with an unhealthy obsession with the Occult. Some of the most famous guitar riffs in history are on this album. "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" have been heard anywhere and everywhere. Black Sabbath come to find themselves as a heavy metal band. They are the pioneers in the journey of metal.