> live ɘvil Wrote:
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> In recent months ive been listening to old black sabbath and dio on a
> daily basis. Most of the sabbath (with Ozzy) ive not listened to since
> the early 90's. I find it interesting that by todays standards that I
> would not consider early black sabbath heavy metal. I guess that would
> be because of the influences from blues, rock and classical music that
> can be heard in sabbaths early work. However, Sabbaths influence was
> without doubt the beginning of what's known today as heavy metal.
>
> For this I love Pandora. Play a sabbath song or album and it will play
> more sabbath or bands with a similar sound. Next thing you know you're
> looking up details on the internet about who, what and when pertaining
> to Sabbath or any other band. Never Say Die was one of Sabbaths worst
> albums yet I find myself listening to it almost daily. I'm attracted to
> the more obscure and under rated albums and tracks. Everyone's heard
> "Iron man" or "warpigs", but few can recall "juniors eyes", "hard road"
> or "over to you".
Yea it is wild, i mean, i listen to a lotta metal especially sludge or stoner or doom metal and listening to early sabbath you can start to see where whole specific genres of metal spawned from just segments of their songs. the influence is huge