Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
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Publication |
1st December 1973 |
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Castle Records (UK) Warner Bros. Records (US) |
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
40 min. 05 sec. |
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Black Sabbath |
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the fifth studio album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath and was released in 1973.
History of origin
After the tours to the previous album Vol. 4 , 1973 began as a period of rest for the band. Due to the extensive tours and the success of the four previous albums, Black Sabbath became stars.
The album was released in December 1973. It was first produced by the band themselves.
The title comes from a headline in Melody Maker . The cover was created by Drew Struzan . The motif is a recourse to the satanic image of earlier publications. Criticism brought the band the font of the album logo, created by Geoff Halpin. The two S in the record title were incorporated as Siegrune , which brought a resemblance to the SS mark .
The title track was released as a single , but this was not a success worth mentioning.
Music style and reception
The band uses synthesizers for the first time on the album , which is a significant change from the style of the first four albums. Rick Wakeman from Yes was responsible for playing the keyboard . He was a friend of the band and had already toured with them. At the same time, the album also shows some light jazz or fusion influences.
The album is considered a huge influence on the grunge movement.
The album reached # 11 on the US Billboard charts and # 4 on the UK charts.
In 2014, the album was ranked 94 on the list the 100 best metal and hard rock albums of all time of Rolling Stone .
Track list
All songs were written by Butler, Iommi, Osbourne and Ward.
- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - 5:45
- A National Acrobat - 6:15
- Fluff - 4:12
- Sabbra Cadabra - 5:59
- Killing Yourself to Live - 5:42
- Who are you? - 4:10
- Looking for Today - 5:03 am
- Spiral Architect - 5:29
Song info
The instrumental track Fluff was dedicated to the radio presenter Alan "Fluff" Freeman, who opened many doors for the band.
Killing Yourself to Live has often been misunderstood as a suicide anthem; the song merely criticizes everyday work. The rock critic Chuck Klosterman named one of his books after the song title.
Cover versions
- The thrash metal band Anthrax released a cover version of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath on their EP I'm the Man .
- The death metal band Amon Amarth covered Sabbath Bloody Sabbath on their first demo "Thor Arise"
- Metallica covered Sabbra Cadabra on Garage Inc. , their version also contains a longer excerpt from A National Acrobat .
- The Swedish band The Cardigans recorded a version of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath for the album Emmerdale .
- The Death - / black metal band Belphegor coverte the title song on her album The Last Supper .
- The Finnish music group Apocalyptica released a cover version of Spiral Architect on their 2010 album 7th Symphony .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Liner Notes by Hugh Gilmore, republished in 1996
- ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/sabbath-bloody-sabbath-mw0000194838/awards
- ↑ http://www.everyhit.com
- ↑ http://www.rollingstone.de/die-100-besten-hardrock-und-metal-alben-platz-100-68-619312/
- ↑ http://www.musicmight.com/ Nahrungsmittel/artist/ Genealogie3F545B39-F8C3-4439-90A9- F33EA37 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
