BLACK SABBATH
Metal’s founding fathers turned the D onto the Devil
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“OZZY WAS LIKE THE TASTE OF BLOOD ON YOUR TONGUE”
JACK BLACK
Jack: “Ozzy Osbourne’s Blizzard Of Ozz [1980] was my intro to metal. Before that, I was listening to Journey, Styx and prog rock that didn’t go that dark. But once I had the flavour, once I got the taste of Ozzy, it was like getting the taste of blood on your tongue. I couldn’t shake it. Then I went back to his roots and checked out Black Sabbath.” “Black Sabbath invented metal. Before Black Sabbath, the only other band you could say invented metal was Led Zeppelin. And they rocked extremely hard – don’t get me wrong, I love Led Zeppelin – but that wasn’t metal. It was the thing right before metal.”