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"Black Sabbath" is a song by the English heavy metal band of the same name, written in 1969 and released on their eponymous debut album in 1970. In the same year, 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.
The song won spot number 317 in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time as of 2004, and number 7 on their "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time" list in March 2023. [9] [10] "Iron Man" was ranked the sixth best Black Sabbath song by Rock – Das Gesamtwerk der größten Rock-Acts im Check. [11]
"Man on the Silver Mountain" is a song by English-American rock band Rainbow, released as the first track of their 1975 debut studio album, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. Written by Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio , it was their debut single .
The album is widely regarded as the first true heavy metal album, [4] and the opening title track, "Black Sabbath", was named the greatest heavy metal song of all time by Rolling Stone, [5] and has been referred to as the first doom metal song. [6] Black Sabbath received generally negative reviews from critics upon its release but was a ...
Ronnie James "Dio" Padavona was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, [13] to Italian-American parents [4] Patrick and Anna from Cortland, New York.His family moved to Portsmouth from Cortland as part of his father's service in the U.S. Army during World War II, [14] and they resided there for only a short time before returning to Cortland.
On 11 November 1969 Black Sabbath recorded a 4-song session for John Peel's Top Gear radio show. [39] The four songs were "Black Sabbath", "N.I.B.", "Behind the Wall of Sleep" and "Sleeping Village". Broadcast on 29 November 1969, this gave them their first exposure to a UK wide audience. [19]
Dehumanizer is the sixteenth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath.It was first released on 22 June 1992 in the UK by I.R.S. Records and on 30 June 1992 in the US by Reprise Records.
Technical Ecstasy is the seventh studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, produced by guitarist Tony Iommi and released in October 1976 by Vertigo Records.The album received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success, peaking at number 13 on the UK Albums Chart [4] and number 51 on the US Billboard 200 Album chart, [5] later being certified Gold by the RIAA in 1997.