For the classic era, they dabbled extensively with Blues Rock, Jazz Rock, Psychedelic Rock, early Doom Metal, and, of course, Heavy Metal. Their two most celebrated eras, the "classic" years (1969-1975) and the early Dio years (1980-1982), are marked by massive changes to the sound. Their sound has naturally changed over the decades.
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Their name did actually come from a 1963 horror movie named Black Sabbath, starring Boris Karloff. Apocryphally, this was the result of one of the band members seeing a queue for a horror film at a cinema and commenting on how people pay to be scared. They started out in 1968 as a blues band called Earth until changing their style to a darker tone. But that’s the beauty of what happens: it’s the fans who decided this was a great song.Black Sabbath was a band from Birmingham, England who are widely considered to be the first Heavy Metal band ( Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Blue Cheer are also cited, but Sabbath is the most common) formed by singer John "Ozzy" Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi (who briefly joined Jethro Tull in 1968), bassist Terrence "Geezer" Butler, and drummer Bill Ward. I don’t think we believed at the time that it would turn out to be so special. But, over the years, Iron Man has grown and grown. “We never thought of ourselves as a singles band anyway. “I think it worked best at the time in the context of the album,” Ward says. Although it reached No.52 in America (nine places higher than Paranoid), in the UK it make no impact at all. Sabbath released Iron Man as a single in 1971. “I suppose, because of the film, there’s also gonna be those who see a tie-up between what I wrote 40 years ago and the comic-book character. “When you have such a major film using it, then it does introduce it to a new generation, kids who perhaps aren’t aware of who Black Sabbath are but who might be tempted to go and check us out. “It was a recognition of just how much the song means,” he says with pride.
In 2008, Iron Man received another boost when it was included in the movie of the same name, based on the Marvel Comics creation. I think its popularity now is such that, in a way, it no longer belongs to Ozzy, Geezer, Tony and me, it’s now everyone’s song.” It’s very musical, but also so theatrical. People recognise it as soon as it starts up. It’s now a part of the culture of the country. “In America, if you go to most sports events you’ll hear it at some point. I’m very proud of what we achieved here.”īill Ward believes that the song’s stature has grown over the years, to the point where it has now gone beyond being just a great Sabbath song. “It’s fairly simple, yet also has a lot of depth. “I really do feel that when you listen to Iron Man, what you’re getting is the essence of what made Black Sabbath such a special band,” he offers. For Geezer Butler, it is perhaps the track that bests sums up the band. Over the years, Iron Man has become not only one of the cornerstones of the Sabbath catalogue, but also credited as one of the most important songs in the history of metal. Today it would be so easy for a band to get the proper sound on a song like this, because the technology exists.” In the end they did an excellent job under the circumstances. For Rodger and Tom, trying to make Iron Man work was so tough. I played very loud back then, and wanted a powerful bass drum sound that’s what the song needed.
“The trouble was that the microphones available to us in 1970 just weren’t up to the task of capturing the power and depth of the sound. “Technically, we had real problems getting it right in the studio,” Ward recalls. For me, the drumming was a real challenge to get right in the studio. As soon as you hear that ominous start, you know something’s building. Former Sabbath drummer Bill Ward reckons that, musically, the song was nothing like anything else the band had done up to that point: “For me, this is a special song for the band.
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