Black Sabbath shaped in 1968, when 4 lads from Birmingham— Tony Iommi, Invoice Ward, Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne, who handed away on July 22, 2025, at age 76 —got here collectively to vary music without end. With a darkish sound and darker lyrics, the group created what we now know as heavy metallic.
The band related with rock followers who craved one thing more durable than the Flower Energy of the Sixties. All through the next decade, Sabbath would launch a run of albums—Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Grasp of Actuality, Vol. 4—that few metallic bands would rival. They’d strike concern within the hearts of involved dad and mom, whereas youngsters would band their heads and throw up the “horns” in salute to their rock idols.