When we're talking about influential metal bands, there is no more single influential band to heavy music than Black Sabbath ...

Black Sabbath are the undisputed godfathers of heavy metal. Beginning with their eponymous debut and seminal sophomore LP, ‘Paranoid’ (both released in 1970), the quartet from Birmingham ...

Loudwire Nights wants to know which early Black Sabbath album classic you think is better - 'Paranoid' or 'Master of Reality.

Would there be heavy metal without Black Sabbath? Possibly. But it wouldn’t sound nearly as menacing or as dark (or as awesome) if Black Sabbath didn’t set the template in the early ‘70s.