LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Black Sabbath's legendary debut album, originally released in 1970 is considered to be the genre's magnum opus, defining the seventies heavy metal sound and creating shock waves that would have an incalculably profound impact on rock music for generations to come. Thanks to Terence "Geezer" Butler's obsession with horror movies and the occult and an unfortunate industrial accident that left Tony Iommi without the fingertips on his left hand (forcing him to wear plastic tips on his fingers and tune his guitar to lower the string friction), the boys from Birmingham would soon develop a reputation for being the supreme masters of doom, taking on topics like the battle between good and evil, witchcraft and the nature of war.