Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath talks about metal in 'Into the Void.'
The song opens unlike anything else that had been heard in rock music to date. The sounds of a howling wind, drizzling rain, thunder, and then the slow, repetitive tolling of a bell. Just when you think it’s a Halloween sound effects record, instruments kick in—most prevalent the deep notes of an ominous, eerie guitar. Then, the vocals of a seemingly unhinged and unbelieving narrator.
They had a career spanning decades, commercial and critical highs and lows, an interchangeable lineup, and a body of work that still inspires and horrifies listeners today. But toward the end of the [original lineup’s first] time together, he says that Osbourne started losing interest in Butler’s words. “He wouldn’t eventhem! And when [Osbourne’s replacement after he was fired] Ronnie James Dio came in, he could write his own lyrics.”
“Then horrible things started happening to me and I blamed it on me getting into black magic. So, I quit it. That’s where the song ‘Black Sabbath’ came from. Don’t get involved what you don’t have control over! But it wasn’t a glamorous place where we grew up. And the music reflected that.”
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