Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath’s debut doesn’t feel like a band trying to invent a genre — it feels like a band accidentally opening a door that no one else knew existed. From the rain and church bells of the title track onward, the album moves with a slow, deliberate heaviness that still sounds unsettling decades later. The riffs are simple but ominous, the rhythm section swings with surprising looseness, and the atmosphere carries more weight than the distortion itself.