Welcome to the first episode of the Heavy Metal History Podcast!

In our first episode we talk about the band that started it all, Black Sabbath! We go in depth of the bands start of their career between the years 1970-1975, their recording process for each album as well as interesting and little known facts about the band.

While maybe not the exact beginnings of Heavy Metal, Black Sabbath truly pushed the sonic boundaries of sound and shaped the way the genre would evolve and grow. Throughout the 70’s the band was an absolute power house in terms of writing, recording and touring. This cemented their legacy long before anyone in the band would realize it. Their output in the bands first 5 years see’s easily the some of the bands most well known and prolific work. I attempt to dissect and go behind the scenes of the making of each one of these albums, with various stories, audio clips and facts to tell the history of the Metal genres biggest fore fathers.

Albums I discussed this week:

• Black Sabbath - "Black Sabbath"
• Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"
• Black Sabbath - "Master of Reality"
• Black Sabbath - "Vol.4"
• Black Sabbath - "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
• Black Sabbath - "Sabotage"

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Welcome to this weeks episode of Heavy Metal History. This week we pick up where we left off in the history of the progenitors of the genre.
We go through the years 1976-1980 of Black Sabbath’s storied career discussing the drug fueled creations of Black Sabbath during a completely toxic and almost un inspired part of their career. A time that was mired by excessive drug use, lawsuits, divorce and a growing disolvement between original members of the band. This was during “Technical Ecstasy” and Never Say Die”.

These albums are a fascinating tale of excess and the inevitable toll it takes on creativity. And we finish of the bands history with a massive shake up in its original long lasting line-up that lead to a resurgence and one of the best albums of their career with addition of the legendary Ronnie James Dio taking over lead vocal duties after the departure of Ozzy Osborne.

Albums I discussed this week:

• Black Sabbath - "Technical Ecstasy"
• Black Sabbath - "Never Say Die!"
• Black Sabbath - "Heaven and Hell"

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Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast we move ahead in the wake of Black Sabbath to January through March of 1980.

The early days of metal, especially in 1980, the album releases weren’t as extensive as the later years would become. And the inclusion of punk rock and some of those early bands and releases are an equally imperative piece of the genre to talk about as it would later go on to fuse with metal and form Hardcore.

With Punk rock coming to the forefront almost 5 years earlier, 1980 would see some of the most iconic and well known albums from the genre to be released. The Clash would go on to have massive success with “London Calling” and later in the year with “Sandanista” due to a late release date in the U.S. Between the months of January and March we also see the beginnings of the Blackened Thrash genre with Witchfynde who would also release 2 albums in the same year. The Ramones put out their most successful and highest selling album of their discography. German band Scorpions continue along their already broad path or Rock/Metal with Animal Magnetism and Van Halen continues to storm the scene with their 3rd album, that album has a song that possibly later inspired and heavily influenced Slayer’s “Seasons in the Abyss”

The albums I discussed this week:

• The Clash - "London Calling"

• Girl - “Sheer Greed”

• Witchfynde - "Give Em' Hell"

• Ramones - "End of the Century"

• Scorpions - “Animal Magnetism”

• Van Halen - "Women and Children First"