Sabbathhave influenced so many bands, they’re akin to The Beatles of metal. You don’t play this music without a debt to Black Sabbath. Even so, some notables are:
JUDAS PRIEST
Fellow Brummies Priest were geographically close enough to see Sabbath’s spoils of war: guitarist KK Downing remembers being wowed by Tony Iommi parking his Lamborghini outside his mum’s house. The bands don’t really sound similar, but there’s a mutual respect. Priest frontman Rob ‘Metal God’ Halford says: “Sabbathare in the same league as The Beatles or Mozart. They’re on the leading edge of something extraordinary.”