Into the Void

they were they really were and that's another reason why maybe they didn't embrace the metal thing quite as readily as as judas priest might do who jesus priests were off were a little bit more a bit less musically diverse than that

you mentioned war pigs there there's a few tracks that have a not quite a political theme but there's war pigs into the void children of the grave that have perhaps themes within the lyrics i think perhaps they don't get credited with so much

No, a lot of that is Giza Butler, who in the early stuff was more often the lyricist.

A lot of it was about apocalyptic themes, which actually have often had a really important part in metal.

It's not for nothing that the genre of metal that owes most to Black Sabbath is called doom metal because Black Sabbath do sound doomy, partly because of the down tuning of the guitars.

It feels like this is music that is sinking and it is disappearing and it is going towards some, well, to its doom.

So lyrics like War Pigs or Children of the Grave or Into the Void work perfectly with that sort of thing.

A track called Changes.

We have a lot of songs in common.

I'm sure there's a lot of Black Sabbath with Ozzy songs that, you know, Into the Void and all these, there's lots of good songs, but you know, I'm just a big Dio fan and a big Ian Gillan fan.

So they hit into my list for sure.

So what about your top 10 Sabbath songs?

Yes.

Various were foods, like you.

And Into the Void.

A lot of songs from Paranoid.

I mean, usually Ace songs are usually written by him.

I mean, only later, like Into the Void, where you think like Gene wrote that, right, for him.

But, you know, this song, from the kind of style that he wrote back in that time, it could be very catchy, you know, because he usually has those kind of cool guitar parts, you know, like, you know, getaway and stuff like that where he has like those it's simple but it's kind of ear catching you know so i think it could be good it's not very long so it's probably going to be one of those songs that's like verse chorus verse chorus guitar solo chorus out and you're done so and there's nothing wrong with that there's lots of great songs that have been like that throughout rock and roll history um But, you know, it's interesting.

Like Julia mentioned, that Dale Sherman book, that was one of my first books I ever got about Kiss way back in the day there.

And I used to stand there in the audience, and I would watch this unfold.

Particularly, I remember Children of the Grave or Into the Void.

Okay.

And I was just watching it, and I would see everybody get geared up and geared up for the beginning of the song, particularly the beginning of Children of the Grave.