•Random Metal Fact•
(Yeah, I did this already at page 1970, but whatever) ^^
It's February the 13th. Exactly 50 years ago, on Friday the 13th 1970, Black Sabbath released their first album, which can be seen as the birth of Heavy Metal. Sure, influences go back to Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and of course much more back to blues, Jazz, Classical Music and Rock'N'Roll.
But that album is the first to be considered a Heavy Metal album.
It was still highly influenced by Bluesrock (Black Sabbath started by the name "The Polka Tulk Blues Band".
Bands like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin tried to get faster, and virtuous. This led to classic Albums like "In Rock" by Deep Purple and "Led Zeppelin II" by Led Zeppelin.
Black Sabbath went to the opposite direction. You see, they had their bandroom was across a cinema. They watched, as the cinema was sold out almost every time, when there was a horror movie. This wasn't the case with love movies and other genres.
So Black Sabbath thought: If people like to be scared with movies, this has to work with music too.
So they changed their sound to a slow and heavy sound and started to write darker lyrics including witches, wizards and people getting chased by Satan. They used occult influences from horror stories and early horror movies.
The concept worked, and it was mindblowing. You have to understand, that back then, music was happy and peaceful. It was the time of the Vietnam war, and music was generally anti-war.
Black Sabbath did that too, but instead of doing "make love not war", they sang "Reflects in the sky, warn you we're gonna die..." To show the cruelties of war.
Newspapers made fun of the album "Black Sabbath", and said that no one wants to listen to such occult and dark stuff. Oh were they wrong. The Album went into the UK charts and the second album, "Paranoid" was a huge international success.
So today we are celebration 50 years of Heavy Metal. Celebrate that by putting on your favourite record and blow your neighbours away!
*hugs tight*
