Black Sabbath to me is the ONLY band in the "heavy metal" genre worth listening.
Tony's killer riffs; playing semi-tones (maybe because he chopped of his finger) which give it that Middle-Eastern sound. Add distortion, and it's great.
People never seem to talk about Bill Ward's jazzy drum style, which gives the band a very unique sound. I was just listening to "Fairies Wears Boots" (by accident) and thought I'd post here.
"Hero the Zero" was an awful song.. To me, Black Sabbath died when they fired Ozzy. It's very hard to replace the voice of the band. It's obviously Tony's band, but you could find a guitarist on the street who could replicate that on stage. Bass is even easier to replicate. Keyboards especially, since there isn't any bending. When you hit middle C, it's always going to sound like middle C... Outside of vocals, drums are on instrument where it's not so easy to replicate....
But I should add that coming up with the stuff is the amazing part, not simply replicating it note for note, beat by beat.
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