Music1968–2017
Black Sabbath
Birmingham heavy metal pioneers who invented the genre and gave Ozzy Osbourne a platform — Paranoid is the original heavy metal album.
Origin
Birmingham, England, UK
Genre
Rock
The Cultural Record
Discography
T
TYR1990
C
Cross Purposes1994
D
Dehumanizer1992
Black Mass1999
EP & MixtapeH
Headless Cross1989
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