1001 Albums Summary

This is my first time ever listening to Black Sabbath, and to be honest, I’m glad this album was my introduction to both the band and the sub-genre doom metal as well, it honestly makes me regret not looking into the band any sooner. A main thing that I love about this album is the dark and sinister tone/vibe that’s created with Ozzy’s vocals, guitar riffs, and drums, along with other background sounds that help bring it altogether. Now, out all of these 5 songs, it was really hard to choose, but my absolute favorite has to be Black Sabbath!! And to expand more on this: I believe this song was the song with a sound that truly captured me out of all of the other 4 on the album. The song is in a way, the embodiment of doom itself with its devastatingly slow rhythm to a sudden switch to a faster one near the end, Ozzy’s haunting vocals with the add of his screams and wails, the melodic riffs, faint sound of a ghostly ring of a bell, and the heavy, and slow beats of drums. All of these elements really tie together to create the essence of a heavy feeling of impending doom that you just can’t shake off, as if you know something devastating is bound to happen, but you don’t know how or when it will. And up until near the end of the song when the slow and depressive mood that you feel suffocated in is suddenly switches to something more tensive and dread starts to creep in as it feels as if time is running out. Overall, this album was amazing and has made me interested in checking out more of Black Sabbath’s music!