“Black Sabbath – they invented heavy steel. And we must always all thank them for doing it. In steel, all of it started with them, and no-one has ever carried out it higher.” – Sir Christopher Lee

Thunderous steel bells are about to toll as BMG and Pitchblack Playback put together to kick-off the 50th anniversary celebrations of the band who invented heavy steel.

1970: 4 guys from Birmingham, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Invoice Ward and Geezer Butler launched their debut self-titled album and single-handedly created what would develop into identified perpetually as “heavy steel” – a singular second marking a paradigm shift on this planet of rock. The time period entered common vocabulary to explain the denser, extra thunderous offshoot of rock over which Black Sabbath nonetheless majestically preside.

It’s now 50 years on, over 70 million information bought worldwide and with an unimaginable musical legacy, the band, along with BMG and Pitchblack Playback verify two commemorative 50th Anniversary album listening periods for his or her debut self-titled album, Black Sabbath, to be held “at the hours of darkness” on February 11. The periods will happen at Quantity 10, Hackney beginning at 7:30 and eight:30 and the album will likely be performed again in MQA excessive definition audio.

Tickets out there right here.

Pitchback Playback is a sequence of listening periods the place music followers can hear to imminent album releases and basic LPs like by no means earlier than in cinemas and different intimate areas. Not solely that, they elevate the expertise of listening to the music by staging it utterly at the hours of darkness – offering essentially the most immersive, detailed and visceral sound expertise doable. Sabbath followers now have a possibility to completely immerse themselves within the debut album Black Sabbath in a uniquely heightened sensory expertise.

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