Black Sabbath
Rain, bells, tritone, “WHAT IS THIS THAT STANDS BEFORE ME” – there had been heavy before this, there had been spooky, there had even been songs called “Black Sabbath,” but nobody put it together like these four Birmingham dead-enders. While they were still finding their way out of the blues and into the black on their debut, the primal power of the sound they created can’t be denied.