Black Sabbath

:This article is about the British heavy metal band. For the 1946 British arrests of Jewish paramilitaries, see Operation Agatha. For the 1963 film see Black Sabbath (movie)

Influence on later musicians

It would probably be futile to catalogue the later bands influenced by Black Sabbath; a starting point in such a list would be "every heavy metal band".

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Doom Metal, a metal-subgenre, takes its name directly from a Black Sabbath song, Hand of Doom.

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Joey Jordison of heavy metal band, Slipknot also credits Black Sabbath as being the heaviest band around.

Related Topics:
Joey Jordison - Heavy metal - Slipknot

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The band rarely received any critical praise ("blundering bozos" was one description) but nonetheless, they are widely acknowledged as some of the most influential pioneers in the heavy metal field. Ozzy Osbourne himself received an NME award for "godlike genius" in 2004.

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Some of the incidents and characters in the spoof rock documentary This Is Spinal Tap are based on Black Sabbath. For example the Stonehenge stage set idea in the film was taken from a real stage used by Black Sabbath for their Born Again Tour. In contrast to the set in the film, in which Stonehenge was made too small to be very imposing on stage, the Black Sabbath version of Stonehenge was in fact too large to fit in many of the arenas the band played in. The eventual fate of the set is not clear, although Iommi has said it was probably abandoned on a loading dock somewhere.

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