Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Tracklist
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is Black Sabbath’s fifth album and continue the band’s more progressive and less doom way, with songs like “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,” “A National Acrobat,” “Sabbra Cadabra” and “Killing Yourself to Live” being the most famous of the album, but songs like “Who Are You?” followed the band’s original doom metal style.
Tony Iommi was in writer’s block, as he said:
Everybody was sitting there waiting for me to come up with something. I just couldn’t think of anything. And if I didn’t come up with anything, nobody would do anything.
After some months, Iommi came with “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”’s riff, the other songs were made based on it.
“Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” Q&A
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What have the artists said about the album?
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was a real turning point for us. We started getting more involved in what we thought we should sound like, not what other people thought we should sound like. We had a good time in LA and we moved back there for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, hoping to recreate the sound of Vol. 4. Musically, we liked that drug-oriented sound. [laughs] So we went back to L.A. and rented the same house, the same studio, the same drugs, everything. But we weren’t able to create anything there, so we returned to England. We started thinking the band didn’t ‘have it’ anymore, and we knew we had to do something to get ‘it’ back. So we rented an old castle in Wales and rehearsed in its spooky old dungeon. After we wrote “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,” things just started coming fast and furious again.
