Iommi said: 'We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it.
Black Sabbath is included in Robert Dimery's 2005 musical reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.Īccording to Black Sabbath's guitarist and founding member Tony Iommi, the group's debut album was recorded in a single twelve-hour session on 16 October 1969.
Retrospectively, it is considered by many to be one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time. īlack Sabbath received generally negative reviews from critics upon its release but was a commercial success, reaching number eight on the UK Albums Charts and number 23 on the US Billboard Top LPs chart. The album is widely regarded as the first true heavy metal album, and the opening track, ' Black Sabbath', has been referred to as the first doom metal song. Black Sabbath is the debut studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released on 13 February 1970 by Vertigo Records in the United Kingdom and on 1 June 1970 by Warner Bros.
