{"id":85648,"date":"2025-08-21T07:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85648\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:16:08","slug":"debate-whats-the-best-black-sabbath-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85648\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate: What’s the best Black Sabbath album?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stop for a moment and picture what the world would be like if it weren\u2019t for Black Sabbath<\/a>. Sucks, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Without hyperbole, this Birmingham four-piece invented heavy metal<\/a> as we know it today, their work throughout the 1970s being so tight, sludgy and heathenistic that a whole new genre was needed to characterise it.<\/p>\n

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The original run with Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>, before the singer was dismissed due to excessive substance use in 1979, provided some of the most iconic metal songs and albums of all time, but truth be told the band continued to make excellence up to and including their final album 13 \u2013 their first with their classic frontman in 35 years.<\/p>\n

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In the wake of Osbourne\u2019s passing last month at the age of 76<\/a>, and in tribute to a pioneering force that enriched the lives of so many enamoured with alternative music, we want you to tell us: what\u2019s the best album that Black Sabbath ever made?<\/p>\n

The options are pretty diverse. The band\u2019s 1970 album laid the blueprint for metal music with such tracks as Black Sabbath and N.I.B., but its successor Paranoid<\/a> (which dropped only a matter of months later) is just as revered, containing the standout hits Paranoid, Iron Man and Fairies Wear Boots.<\/p>\n

The rest of the Osbourne run is full of now-legendary releases, including 1971\u2019s Master Of Reality, 1972\u2019s Vol. 4, 1973\u2019s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and 1975\u2019s Sabotage. The departure of the Prince Of Darkness didn\u2019t signal the end of their top-notch music-making, either, with the albums Heaven And Hell (1980) and Mob Rules (1981) also becoming beloved, recognised for Ronnie James Dio<\/a>\u2019s towering voice.<\/p>\n

Though the mid-80s and 90s are broadly recognised as Sabbath\u2019s \u2018wasteland\u2019 years, people will still bat for albums of that era. Headless Cross (1989), featuring the underrated Tony Martin, is a dark-horse favourite, as is Dehumanizer (1992), which marked Dio\u2019s return for one album only. 13 (2013) ended Sabbath\u2019s tenure by reuniting Osbourne, long-serving guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist\/lyricist Geezer Butler.<\/p>\n

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Let us know which of these classics, or maybe another not mentioned here, is the best by writing your arguments in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stop for a moment and picture what the world would be like if it weren\u2019t for Black Sabbath.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-85648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}