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When Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> passed away, tributes from plenty of artists and bands across the planet poured in, including Metallica. <\/p>\n On the band\u2019s social media page they didn\u2019t say much, just an emoji of a broken heart and a photo of the band with the Prince of Darkness attached. Not many words, but then what is there to say? Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath were the people who pioneered the original sound of heavy metal, so to put it simply, Black Sabbath wouldn\u2019t exist without them. <\/p>\n All of the members of Metallica were big fans of Black Sabbath. They played together on multiple occasions, and they studied their discography like it was a sacred text. Lars Ulrich was particularly fond of their 1975 record Sabotage<\/a>, saying that the way those songs complement one another and continue taking the record higher and higher make it one of the best LPs they ever put together. <\/p>\n \u201cI know for a lot of Black Sabbath people, it\u2019s Paranoid or Master of Reality,\u201d he said during an interview with Rolling Stone. \u201cTo me, the fucking one-two punch of \u2018Hole in the Sky\u2019 and then \u2018Symptom of the Universe,\u2019 that\u2019s where it peaked for me, and then the deeper tracks: \u2018Megalomania\u2019 is, like, a journey of just fundamental heavy metal.\u201d<\/p>\n So, you have Black Sabbath who pioneered that heavy metal sound, but then you have Metallica who helped evolve it and take it even further. The band have taken inspiration from plenty of different musical outfits when putting together their thrashy and metal sound. One was Black Sabbath, and another that people might not be aware of was Rush, who helped the band put together what is considered by plenty as Metallica\u2019s heaviest song. <\/p>\n The Rush song was 1980\u2019s \u2018Jacob\u2019s Ladder\u2019, a song which references the Bible\u2019s Old Testament. Rush were inspired by something wholesome, which was a break in the clouds. \u201cThis song simply describes the phenomenon of the sun breaking through the clouds in visible rays, as it sometimes does after a rain or on a cloudy day,\u201d said Neil Peart, \u201cThe actual name seems to be one of those traditional names for natural things which has probably been around for ages.\u201d<\/p>\n