"I'd play a load of chords and I'd have to play fifths because I couldn't play fourths because of my fingers," Iommi explained to Phil Alexander in Mojo in 2013. Iommi created a pair of false fingertips using plastic from a dish detergent bottle and tuned the strings on his guitar down to make it easier for him to bend the strings, creating a massive, heavy sound. The key to the band's new sound on the album was Iommi's distinctive playing style that he developed after an accident at a sheet metal factory where he was working at the age of 17 in which the tips of the middle fingers of his fretting hand were severed. We never had a second run of most of the stuff." Ozzy was singing at the same time, we just put him in a separate booth and off we went. Iommi recalls recording live: "We thought, 'We have two days to do it and one of the days is mixing.' So we played live. We actually thought a whole day was quite a long time, then off we went the next day to play for £20 in Switzerland." Aside from the bells, thunder and rain sound effects added to the beginning of the opening track and the double-tracked guitar solos on " N.I.B." and "Sleeping Village", there were virtually no overdubs added to the album. Iommi said: "We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it. Black Sabbath is included in Robert Dimery's 2005 musical reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.Īccording to Black Sabbath's guitarist and founding member Tony Iommi, the group's debut album was recorded in a single twelve-hour session on 16 October 1969. Retrospectively, it is considered by many to be one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time. īlack Sabbath received generally negative reviews from critics upon its release but was a commercial success, reaching number eight on the UK Albums Charts and number 23 on the US Billboard Top LPs chart. The album is widely regarded as the first true heavy metal album, and the opening track, " Black Sabbath", has been referred to as the first doom metal song. Black Sabbath is the debut studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released on 13 February 1970 by Vertigo Records in the United Kingdom and on 1 June 1970 by Warner Bros.
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