Big Ears
Music Lover
No. Both Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi have said they did not like the term, 'heavy metal'. The albums were just heavy; anachronisms are often imposed on the seventies. The Sabbath Bloody Sabbath title track and Killing Yourself to Live are very heavy, I think. The rest of the album, Fluff aside (possibly named after DJ Alan Freeman), is probaby heavy, but it does not work for me.
If the statistics I have seen are correct, Sabbath played Killing Yourself to Live and Sabbra Cadabra a lot, with A National Acrobat occasionally, but not much else from the album on the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath tour. I could be putting two and two together here and making five, but the band may have been looking forward to the next album; they apear to have been playing it on the tour. Despite being delayed and management/record company problems, the follow-up was heavy from start to finish.
The band were on form at the California Jam, at least on Killing Yourself to Live:
If the statistics I have seen are correct, Sabbath played Killing Yourself to Live and Sabbra Cadabra a lot, with A National Acrobat occasionally, but not much else from the album on the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath tour. I could be putting two and two together here and making five, but the band may have been looking forward to the next album; they apear to have been playing it on the tour. Despite being delayed and management/record company problems, the follow-up was heavy from start to finish.
The band were on form at the California Jam, at least on Killing Yourself to Live: