Black Sabbath: Soundtrack To The Apopcalypse

Black Sabbath is a group I have liked since the unusually young age of 8. I used to love scaring my friends with the intro to the song "Iron Man", I'd play it in the dark, and some used to run right out of the room. I lost a brother to drowning when I was 5 years old, and the song "Solitude" helped me to laern to grieve his passing. I also always loved how the dark introspective lyrics on "Paranoid" made it seem alright to frown some of the time. So I grew up literally relating to the lyrics and the vibe Sabbath created. The music was never boring, always challenging, and most of all, creative. There is some echo delay guitar work on the Paranoid LP similar to that which U2 is often praised for. There was also experimentation with new sounds, and rhythms that showed that they had strong musical ambition. The group wasn't dark or evil as much as they were sensitive people reacting to a seemingly insane world-Steve Engler