Black Sabbath

[GlitterRose]

Originally Posted by res

Yeah i also played sabbath a heap when i was younger. I think people started to think that it was devils music when songs like "Mr Crowley" came about. Singing a song about Aleister Crowley waiting on satans call etc would probably make you think it was satanic music but it was more of a explanation of the life Alistar lived. Given Aleister' wayward antics and delving in to dark mystical matters, drugs etc it doesnt exactly cry out to be played in church. Didnt Bart Simpson play a sabbath song in church during one episode?

The first symbol that i designed on my own ended up being the unincursive hexagram symbol that Alistar crowley had also designed as the symbol for his order of the silver star

The song is clearly not positive about Crowley.

Mister Crowley...what went wrong in your head
Oh Mister Crowley...did you talk to the dead
Your lifestyle to me seemed so tragic, yeah the thrill of it all
You fooled all the people with magick, yeah you're waitin' on Satan's call

etc.

[GlitterRose]

Even the song War Pigs is clearly anti-war.

It speaks of the politicians sending off the poor to fight and being damned for it.

I think Black Sabbath really got skewered and at least most of it was undeserved. Ozzy was blitzed most of the time and did some really stupid stuff, and the rest of them had guilt-by-association over it.

I know he is Rock'n'Roll deity, but he truly was blitzed beyond all recognition to the point of not being able to function. And if there's one thing that's true...the show must go on. If the show doesn't go on...that's the one unforgivable sin of Rock'n'Roll. They can get away with a whole heck of a lot, but not that.