Top 10 Ways Black Sabbath Created Heavy Metal

1Black Sabbath introduced darkness into metal


2Black Sabbath combined hard rock, blues, jazz, and classical music to create heavy metal


3Black Sabbath was the heaviest band ever when their debut album came out


4Black Sabbath unarguably created doom metal


5Black Sabbath invented Progressive Metal with the album Sabotage


6Black Sabbath created Christian Metal with the song After Forever


7Black Sabbath made Proto Thrash songs like Symptom of the Universe


8Most metal bands say Black Sabbath are an influence to their band


9Their imagery inspired many metal bands


10Black Sabbath introduced stoner lyrics to metal


11Each member of the original lineup inspired many metal musicians