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Top 10 Ways Black Sabbath Created Heavy Metal

Created by Kyle Evans Staff · May 2024 · Updated May 2025

Top 10 Ways Black Sabbath Created Heavy Metal: 11 items ranked by popular vote. Browse more in Metal.

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Black Sabbath introduced darkness into metal

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

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

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Black Sabbath unarguably created doom metal

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Black Sabbath invented Progressive Metal with the album Sabotage

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Black Sabbath created Christian Metal with the song After Forever

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Black Sabbath made Proto Thrash songs like Symptom of the Universe

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

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Their imagery inspired many metal bands

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Black Sabbath introduced stoner lyrics to metal

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Each member of the original lineup inspired many metal musicians

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Created: May 14, 2024
Updated: May 2025
Items: 11
Topic: Metal

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