#black sabbath

[rastronomicals]

Black Sabbath

[cosmonautroger]

Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules (1981)

[chronivore]

There is a deluxe "Supa" reissue of this collection that includes A FULLY PLAYABLE BOARDGAME!

Going out into left field again with a double LP, Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles, from Numero Group. It is a 16-song collection of obscure 1970s bands with names like Stone Axe, Wizard, Medusa and Hellstorm. The D&D connection should be self-evident.

Heavy metal is, in a lot of ways, Dungeons & Dragons’ older brother. Born out of Led Zeppelin’s obsession with Lord of the Rings and Black Sabbath’s thunderous occult riffs, metal is a natural soundtrack for roleplaying games (seriously, listen to the first Bolt Thrower album and try to not think of Warhammer). Metal and RPGs attracted outsiders of similar stripes. They also courted controversy by embracing a certain amount of sinister imagery. Both got burned, yet both went on to become mainstays of the cultural landscape.

You’d probably be hard pressed to describe the tracks on Warfaring Strangers as heavy metal. This is early stuff, made by kids who never went anywhere, who were imitating their musical heroes and acting out sword and sorcery fantasies through music. It is about as removed from modern metal as the modern gaming industry is from the wargaming scene of the early 70s. Check it out on Spotify, though, you might find a solid groove or two (my favorite is probably “Sorcerer,” by Junction or “Slave of Fear,” by Stone Axe).

The art direction is kind of worth the price of admission on its own. The cover looks like the back of a million school notebooks from the 70s and 80s. The interior art is drawn on blue lined graph paper. It is glorious.

[balkanparamo]

Raoof Haghighi: The Witch on a Sabbath

[seven-worlds]

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[bigmsaxon]

Almost forgot to draw a bad habit for the Black Sabbath.

[undergroundrockpress]

Black Sabbath, 1972.

Photo by Duffy.

[goryhorroor]

“60s horror movies reflect an era of rapid change and uncertainty, and a yawning generation gap. the social stability of the post-war years crumbled as attitudes to everything from hemlines to homosexuality underwent a seismic shift. horror movies, especially those made for low budgets outside the mainstream studio system, offered ways to process and interpret the rapid pace of change. they often served as cautionary tales about the dangers of abandoning traditional values.”

[cimmerian-war-shrine]

[asortofqueerfeeling]

i love when music makes me feel so many indescribable emotions simultaneously

[classichorrorblog]

10 Anthology Horror Movies To Consider For October/Halloween

[rastronomicals]

Tony Iommi

[oldmanpeace]

[nightisthenotion]

Black Sabbath, 1971