Music|Review: Black Sabbath’s Metal Séance of Fear, Dread and Joy – New York Times


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Music|Review: Black Sabbath's Metal Séance of Fear, Dread and Joy
New York Times
The freaked-out entrance line of the first song of the first Black Sabbath album, sung by Ozzy Osbourne over the guitarist Tony Iommi's creepy-crawly interval of a tritone, is: “What is this that stands before me?” When Mr. Osbourne, 67, sang the words

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