"Black Sabbath" is a song by the English heavy metal band of the same name, written in 1969 and released on their eponymous debut album in 1970.
In Japan and the Philippines, a 7-inch single on the Philips label was released with "Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games with Me" on the A-side and "Black Sabbath" on the B-side.
Butler, obsessed with the occult at the time, painted his apartment matte black and placed several inverted crucifixes and pictures of Satan on the walls.
Ozzy Osbourne gave Butler a black occult book, written in Latin and decorated with numerous pictures of Satan.
[9][10][11] The song "Black Sabbath" was one of the earliest examples in heavy metal to make use of this interval,[9] and since then, the genre has made extensive use of diabolus in musica.
[9][12] The riff was created when bassist Geezer Butler began playing a fragment of "Mars" from Gustav Holst's The Planets suite.
"[21] Nick Ruskell of Kerrang said "with this opening throw from their self-titled debut, Sabbath can be credited with not only drawing the line in the sand between heavy rock and the newer, more sinister sound of metal, but also defined a shadowy corner of it that would slowly bloom over the next half a century.