After the bursting of the mythology their previous band in 1968, guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward has been trying to form a heavy Bluesband in Aston, Birmingham. Both grandmother saved the bassist and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne Butler, who played together in a band called Rare Breed, Osbourne has placed advertisements in the local music shop: "Ozzy needs Gig Zig-PA has its own" This new group was initially appointed. The Polka Tulk Blues Band (after a discount brand of talcum powder in the bathroom Osborne saw his mother) and also featured slide guitarist Jimmy Phillips and saxophonist Alan "Aker" Clarke. After shortening the name Polka Tulk, the band changed its name to the Earth (which Osbourne hates) and continued through four no-Phillips and Clarke. While the band performed under the Earth, the title, they recorded some demos, written by Norman Haines as "The Rebel", "Song for Jim", and "when I arrived."
In December 1968, Iommi abruptly left Earth to join Jethro Tull. [14] Although he has worked with the group would be short-lived, Iommi made an appearance with Jethro Tull on the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus TV show. Not satisfied with the direction of Jethro Tull, Iommi returned to Earth in January 1969. "It is not true, so I left", Iommi said. "At first I thought a great Tull, but I do not like going to have a leader in the band, which is how Ian Anderson. When I came back from Tull, I came back with a new attitude all they teach. I do this to get you to work for her. "
When playing shows in England in 1969, the group discovered they were mistaken for another English group named Earth, and decided to change their name. A cinema hall in front of the band practice showed Sabbath 1963 Boris Karloff horror directed by Mario Bava filmBlack. When you watch a line of people see this film, Butler noted that it was "strange that people spend so much money to see horror movies." After that, Osbourne, Butler and wrote the words of a song called "Black Sabbath", which was inspired by occult writer Dennis Wheatley works with Butler's vision of a black silhouette of a figure standing at the foot of his bed. Using music tritone, also known as name "Devil's Interval", the ominous sound of songs and lyrics of dark push the group toward a darker, contrasting with the popular music of the late 1960s, which was dominated by flower power, folk music and hippie culture. Inspired by new sounds, the group changed its name to Black Sabbath in August 1969 and decided to concentrate on writing the same material in an effort to create the musical equivalent a horror movie.
