Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath is an English heavy metal band formed in 1968 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, originally comprising Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums). In the early 1970s they were the first to pair heavily distorted, sonically dissonant blues-rock at slow speeds with lyrics about drugs, mental pain, and abominations of war, thus giving birth to generations of metal bands that followed in their wake. They are often credited with creating the heavy metal genre as well as the doom metal subgenre. Read more about Black Sabbath on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL. Recorded Live From Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia on 29 April and 1 May 2013.