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Station

Black Sabbath

1968 to 2017 · on Heavy metal

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Active years

192019401960198020002020

The journey

1965197019751980Heavy metal1970
  1. 1970Heavy metal · Where metal opens

1 platform, 0 moments and landmarks along the way. Lines the journey does not ride are dimmed, as they are on the map while a journey plays.

Platform

  1. Heavy metal1970 to 1979

    Where metal opens

    Black Sabbath and Paranoid (both 1970) are the usual opening of heavy metal: detuned riffs, doom-laden tempos and Ozzy Osbourne's voice. The station sits on the line's launch ramp because the band and the genre begin together.

    Key album: Paranoid, 1970

    Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Black Sabbath (opens in a new tab)

Line-ups

Black Sabbath has a line-up of its own: Black Sabbath, 1968 to 2017, every member and spell as a line diagram.

Connections

InfluencedMetallicaIron MaidenNirvana

The line

Heavy metal (Rock family)

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Black Sabbath (opens in a new tab)
  2. Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski (editors), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, 2001

Cite this page

The Metro Map of Music, ‘Black Sabbath: station’, /stations/black-sabbath.