Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath’s debut album was recorded in a single twelve-hour session on 16 October 1969. Tony Iommi said: “We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it. We actually thought a whole day was quite a long time, then off we went the next day to play for £20 in Switzerland.” Aside from the bells, thunder and rain sound effects added to the beginning of the opening track and the double-tracked guitar solos on “N.I.B.” and “Sleeping Village”, there were no overdubs added to the album. Iommi recalls recording live: “We thought: we have two days to do it and one of the days is mixing… so we played live. Ozzy was singing at the same time, we just put him in a separate booth and off we went. We never had a second run of most of the stuff.”

The album is one of the very first metal albums ever made. For sale is a 2022 reissue on coloured vinyl.