Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath was the first band that revolutionized heavy metal.They originated from birmingham,England in the late 60's.The 4 original members of Black Sabbath are (Ozzy Osbourne,Tony Iommi,Geezer Butler and Bill Ward) these 4 men are the fathers of heavy metal. Tony Iommi,Geezer Butler and Bill Ward used such sludgy sounds with there instruments and Ozzy with his occult and negative lyrics are what made metal what its is today. Black Sabbath as influenced many bands in there career such as (Pantera, Venom, Lamb Of God, Eyehategod(actual band name), Iron Maiden, Metallica, Blue Oyster Cult and many more). A lot of people think that Sabbath broke up when Ozzy was fired in the late 79's but Sabbath was joined by lead singer of the band Dio Ronnie James Dio until the reunion of Ozzy in 96-06.The band continue till 2010 when Ronnie James Dio passed away of stomach cancer.

origins of metal

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that originated in the mid 60's to early 70's mainly in the UK and the US. Heavy metal music uses a lot of distorted guitars, crazy long solos and a lot of strong drum roles. The main influences for heavy metal are Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Heavy metal often copies there sound from classical rock and the blues adding in there own special sounds.Over passed decades heavy metal has devided into many subgenres including: Black metal, Death metal,Groove metal,Stoner rock etc... Over the years heavy metal has lost its popularity to the subgrenres because of cultural diffrences in the styles also the massive popularity rap has gained since the mid 90's. Over the next couple weeks i will be talking about all the different subgenres and the most popular groups in the history of metal.