![]() ![]() The song has an extra verse with additional vocals before the bridge. ![]() The song starts with the lyrics:Ī version of this song from Black Sabbath's first demo exists on the Ozzy Osbourne compilation album The Ozzman Cometh. Butler related this story to Osbourne, who then wrote the lyrics to the song based on Butler's experience. The figure vanished and Butler ran to the shelf where he had placed the book earlier, but the book was gone. When he woke up, he claims he saw a large black figure standing at the end of his bed, staring at him. Butler read the book and then placed it on a shelf beside his bed before going to sleep. Ozzy Osbourne gave Butler a black occult book, written in Latin and decorated with numerous pictures of Satan. ![]() Butler, obsessed with the occult at the time, painted his apartment matte black and placed several inverted crucifixes and pictures of Satan on the walls. History Īccording to the band, the song was inspired by an experience that Geezer Butler had in the days of Earth. In Japan and the Philippines, a 7-inch single on the Philips label was released with " Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games with Me" on the A-side and "Black Sabbath" on the B-side. In 1970, the song appeared as an A-side on a four-track 12-inch single, with " The Wizard" also on the A-side and "Evil Woman" and "Sleeping Village" on the B-side, on the Philips Records label Vertigo. Kane’s 4 Bed Detached Home of Metal at The New Art Gallery Walsall, (until September 1) is a replica bedroom house recreating the bedrooms of some of Metal’s most devoted super fans, incorporating a ‘Metal Lounge’ which features new work from Una Hamilton Helle and Mark Titchner, as well as a range of contemporary artists including Jeremy Deller, Jim Lambie, Sarah Lucas and David Shrigley.Īll This Mayhem at MAC (Midlands Art Centre) (until September 8) sees US artist Venom use traditional quilting and Heavy Metal aesthetics to create textile-based pieces which contrast the counterculture components of gangs, punk/metal music and the occult with the comforts of domesticity.Īlongside, Hand of Doom (also until September 1) a further collection of portraits shows Black Sabbath fans wearing the ubiquitous battle jacket.Ĭhetwynd’s Hell Mouth 3 at Eastside Projects (until July 27) is a homage to Penelope Spheeris’ three-part film series The Decline of Western Civilisation (1981 to 1998), which explored the LA music scene through punk and metal, via a typically large-scale sculptural and performative spectacle while Branas’ exhibition at Centrala (until August 11) sees the award-winning Polish artist present an archival and research-based display of letters, cassette tapes and zines, collected by Polish fans at a time when Heavy Metal music was banned in Poland." Black Sabbath" is a song by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, written in 1969 and released on their self-titled debut album. The BMAG show forms part of a season of exhibitions in a range of venues across the city celebrating Birmingham and the Black Country as the birthplace of Heavy Metal, with artworks from acclaimed artists including Alan Kane (UK), Ben Venom (US), Monster Chetwynd (UK), and Przemek Branas (Poland). ![]()
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