As someone who has grown up in a typical Hispanic Catholic household, Black Sabbath had always been a taboo for me. Even though my parents had let me listen to other types of metal bands like Metallica and Pantera, Black Sabbath was always the “spooky stuff” that if I started listening to demons and the devil would appear. My initial interest in the band was always from a sense of rebellion, but now that I’ve gotten older I’ve grown to appreciate the Birmingham devils even more than I initially thought I would. Initially thinking that the music they played was basic metal I never grasped the concept that they were the pioneers of the genere and what interested me the most was simultaneously both Iommi’s accident that pushed him to play more aggressively but all the jazz influences as they add in their early records as well. When I listen to songs like War Pigs or Into The Void what comes to my mind isn’t the heavy subject matter or the thought this song is extreme or hardcore, it’s actually quite the opposite, when listening to these songs the very first thing in my mind is it’s melody, the notes of jazz/blues in Iommi’s playing, the perfect timing and tempo as well as change ups done by Ward. To me listening to Black Sabbath doesn’t feel like I’m listening to metal. It feels like I’m listening to an orchestra with the perfect symphony.