Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath was an English Heavy Metal band founded in Birmingham in 1968. Initially a Blues Band, they helped pioneer Heavy Metal alongside Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. While you can trace back the origins of Metal to all the Iron Butterflies and Blue Cheers you want, Sabbath was really the first Metal band to sound like what a Metal band should sound like.
They also jumpstarted the career of Ozzy Osbourne, who would become a huge celebrity to people even if they weren't in the metal scene
They started as a band called Earth (which Ozzy hated), after getting rid of two previous members, but changed their name to Black Sabbath in 1969 because they were mistaken for another band also named Earth. 
The name was partly inspired by an old Boris Karloff movie also called Black Sabbath, and they wrote a song named after themselves, inspired by Geezer Butler's vision of a man in black pointing to him at the foot of his bed.
Category:1960s
Category:Bands