The four founders of Black Sabbath are from Aston, an underprivileged area of Birmingham. In 2014, the group has more than one hundred million albums sold worldwide. In addition, MTV places Black Sabbath in first place in its ranking of the biggest metal bands. Inventor of the heavy and gloomy riff, perfectly in tune with his style "sombre", the band owes a lot to the guitar game developed by Tony Iommi, whose two fingers had been cut during an accident in his previous job as a metal worker>.īlack Sabbath remains a dominant influence in the heavy metal scene, and his first ten albums are considered classics of the genre in particular, Paranoid and Heaven and Hell, several times platinum discs.
Tony Iommi is the only member to be present from the beginning without interruption. However, the group is undergoing several reshuffles, with nearly twenty former members, among them Ronnie James Dio, Tony Martin, Ian Gillan, Cozy Powell and Glenn Hughes. The original formation of Black Sabbath is composed of Anthony "Tony" Iommi on guitar, John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne singing (who will later go back and forth between the band and his solo career), Terence "Geezer" Butler on bass and William "Bill Ward on the drums. He is often considered, as much by the specialized press as by the public, as one of the founding and precursor groups of heavy metal, or even as the first group of this kind of music. Black Sabbath is a British hard rock band from Birmingham.
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