Black Sabbath threw together one of the most popular songs in heavy metal history in an afternoon as an afterthought.

Here is the most and least played song live off each of Black Sabbath‘s studio albums ... How many times the most played song is connected to the album title ・How often the band dipped ...

But it wouldn’t sound nearly as menacing or as dark (or as awesome) if Black Sabbath didn’t set the template in the early ‘70s. Starting with their self-titled debut album in 1970 ...

Credit: Getty Images/Chris Walter Black Sabbath’s first album is effectively ground zero for heavy metal - and as guitarist Tony Iommi recalled, it was an album made under intense pressure.

Black Sabbath’s 1975 album Sabotage is one of the band’s very best - but it also includes some of their weirdest music. Guitarist Tony Iommi recalled in an interview with Classic Rock: “We wanted to ...