I've always said that Black Sabbath were like Old Testament prophets screaming about the end of the world. The thing is, they were a band for the people, and a lot of their music has something for everyone. If you don't like the message in After Forever? Check out God is Dead. If you're not a fan of drugs, like in Sweet Leaf, check out Hand of Doom which speaks about the dangers of drugs. You don't like the occult bent of songs like Black Sabbath? Maybe you'd dig the Sci-fi elements of Into the Void or Iron Man. You don't like little relatively filler songs like Tomorrow's Dream or Am I Going Insane? Dig on War Pigs, or Spiral Architect. You like fast, check out Symptom of the Universe. You like slow, check out the same song and wait about four minutes! You don't like Ozzy? Check out Dio. You don't like Dio, check out Tony Martin. You don't like Sabbath? You just haven't listened to enough.

@zex7689

5 жыл бұрын

S Toy Tomorrows Dream is hardly a filler song

@whatchatalkinboutwillis9894

5 жыл бұрын

@@zex7689 Tommorows Dreams is a Massive Stoner Rock song as well as WHEELS OF CONFUSION

@Serum462

5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Glenn Hughes and Ian Gillan! :D

@MrDeadstu

5 жыл бұрын

I think that deserves an "Amen"

@eduardovieira-3774

4 жыл бұрын

you win the interrnet today. one of my favorite comments ever!

Growing up, I had listened to this song probably thousands of times. Loved it. Then, that one time... that line "Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say if they knew you believed in God above"..... it hit me between the eyes like a ton of bricks... I cared more about what my friends thought of me than I did what God thought of me. One of the key moments of the journey God lead me through to salvation.

@BCBeyer61

11 ай бұрын

Yes that song is a favorite of mine for sure. Fantastic lyrics.

@KarlXByrne

7 ай бұрын

I hope you found what you were looking for.

@michaelbarr3039

7 ай бұрын

@@KarlXByrne Yep. 30+ years later and the relationship with Creator only keeps getting better and better, even when life doesn't.

@KarlXByrne

7 ай бұрын

Be well Brother.@@michaelbarr3039

Geezer Butler wrote music with his thoughts on religion on his sleeve. He had the balls to speak with his true thoughts

@pravolub8

5 жыл бұрын

This song, including lyrics, was written by Tony Iommi, though Geezer did most of lyrics in the early years.

@G.G14

5 жыл бұрын

@@pravolub8 nope, the lyrics were written by Butler

@ANationalAcrobat

5 жыл бұрын

boredror That’s true. Just a mistake in credits.

@ovidorion437

5 жыл бұрын

Wrong. This song was written solely by Iommi.

@ANationalAcrobat

5 жыл бұрын

Ovid Orion ”Butler also talked about his thought process behind writing the lyrics to the SABBATH song "After Forever", which some historians have called the first real Christian rock song.” www.blabbermouth.net/news/black-sabbaths-geezer-butler-i-always-felt-that-god-and-jesus-wanted-us-to-love-each-other/ ”The original album jacket credited Iommi as the composer for the song (including the lyrics), but this was later changed in the "Black Sabbath Black Box Set" where it changed all crediblity (including "Embryo" and "Orchid") to all band members.” blacksabbath.wikia.com/wiki/After_Forever

You guys should just just react to the whole master of reality album. It is a monster of an album and not to mention it came out in 1971 it must have been the heaviest thing in existence back then.

@robaquarian

5 жыл бұрын

First album they down tuned guitar

@robsonlsz

5 жыл бұрын

YESSSS!

@timmarshall2491

5 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine popping this album on the turntable in 1971. I honestly don't think I could have handled it. lol. I didn't listen to this until probably 1986 when I was still in school, and I was still blown away.

@parandersson6541

5 жыл бұрын

@@robaquarian yes it was

@Boxing.and.beyond

5 жыл бұрын

@Mr.Dirty Budgie yes, still nowhere close to the heaviness of Sabbath

Sabbath never had a song glorifying the devil, they always warned about him, I mean they all wore giant crosses.

@rickschroeder3127

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Vaughn NIB does not stand for Nativity in black. Bill Ward's beard reminded the rest of a pen NIB. The song is about the Devil falling in love with a mortal woman and changing back to good.

@rickschroeder3127

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Vaughn this song, Satan falls in love with a human woman and tries to seduce her. He turns out to be very charming and the early lyrics are quite poetic. >> The title refers to drummer Bill Ward's beard. The band called him "Nibby" because they thought it looked like the nib on the end of a pen (Ozzy came up with the nickname when he on acid and thought Geezer Butler was turning into a fountain pen). Says Butler: Originally it was Nib, which was Bill's beard. When I wrote N.I.B., I couldn't think of a title for the song, so I just called it Nib, after Bill's beard. To make it more intriguing I put punctuation marks in there to make it N.I.B. By the time it got to America, they translated it to Nativity In Black.>>

@MrShadowofthewind

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Vaughn How exactly is a song about the devil falling in love, glorifying satan ? They meant that the devil seduced her, aka under his power, aka under his spell, you're just desperately fishing for something wich is not there.

@plasticgreenhead2273

4 жыл бұрын

Bottom line, no member of Sabbath worships the devil.

@shanerishell2761

3 жыл бұрын

Bill Ward the drummer who's life ended up all screwed up stated " This is the outcome of writing songs about devils and demons for 20 years " In the beginning they were promoting Satanism even as they all have said.

Geezer Butler has said about the lyrics: ”A lot of it was because of the situation in Northern Ireland at the time. There were a lot of religious troubles between the Protestants against the Catholics. I was brought up strictly Catholic and I guess I was naive in thinking that religion shouldn’t be fought over. I always felt that God and Jesus wanted us to love each other. It was just a bad time in Northern Ireland, setting bombs off in England and such. We all believed in Jesus - and yet people were killing each other over it. To me it was just ridiculous. I thought that if God could see us killing each other in his name, he’d be disgusted.”

@SWAATSFan

Жыл бұрын

The first metal band was christian and spread the word in their music, yet all the bands who were inspired by them later wrote about satanic crap. Ironic and quite disappointing.

@aaronmcmahon7462

6 ай бұрын

And then 23 years later, Tony Martin would write about this theme again with "Cross of Thorns".

Geezer Butler may be the most underrated lyricists of all time. It still blows my mind that four people can come together from such a small place and create such great music, led Zeppelin and the Beatles included.

@ryan7864

5 жыл бұрын

Bassists seem to be great writers. Look ar Bob Daisley, Juan Croucier etc...

@neonrain9563

5 жыл бұрын

+Maiden

@brucedickinson12

4 жыл бұрын

Neil peart . Excellent lyricist aswell as the greatest drummer

@TWANDTW

3 жыл бұрын

@@ryan7864 Lemmy...

@dopeybrew7006

Жыл бұрын

Black Sabbath forever!!!

Black Sabbath has a special place in my heart, it was my dads favorite band, he passed a few years ago due to a unbeknownst cancer, but every time i hear sabbath it brings me back to my childhood of him blaring it in the living room on the weekends, in turn it led me onto metal and my love for it

" After Forever " is my favorite Ozzy era Black Sabbath song. The lyrics are amazing and proof that they don't always glorify the darker side.

The look of pure confusion when you heard the lyrics was priceless. LOL Happy New Year Vin and Sori.

Black Sabbath - N.I.B.

Geezer is a true artist his lyrics beyond good.

Anybody that calls Black Sabbath satanic just hasn't listened to the songs. Even the songs from the point of view of Satan are about love and deceit. Humans being weak and susceptible to evil trickery. Ozzy routinely sounds terrified of the Devil when he sings about it. Which is a very Christian perspective.

Tony is known as the riff Master

@rickschroeder3127

5 жыл бұрын

@Sebastian wasn't a buzzsaw. I was basically a guillotine. Tony was on the machine press, wasn't very familiar with it. Brought the blade down to cut the sheet metal. Not paying attention brought it down on his fingers and instinctively pulled back. Pulling the tips of his middle and ring fingers off!

@ssmith87

5 жыл бұрын

Enter planet Iommia🤘

As a Christian and lover of Sabbath and all things heavy and rockin', this song attests to the fact that the band wasn't afraid to touch any subject. Gezzer, who writes most of the lyrics, is the bass player and a professed Catholic and lyricist of this song.

The bass always stood out to me in this song

@hmpz36911

5 жыл бұрын

The great thing about Sabbath was that all instruments stood out in every song. But you're right, this one in particular is bass-heavy.

@z-z-z-z

4 жыл бұрын

yep bass, yep lead/rhythm guitar, yep drums, yep vocals, yep lyrics, yep vibe, yep black sabbath: yep greatest band EVER...

Love Black Sabbath

Love it!!!! More old, old Sabbath!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! IN about 80-ish minutes here in Canada's west coast.

What takes Tony Iommi to the next level is the fact that on his last day at his factory job he sliced the tips of 2 or 3 of his fingers off. Instead of quitting he made plastic tips to go over the ends of his fingers. He plays like that to this day.

@ANationalAcrobat

5 жыл бұрын

That Metal Show | Tony Iommi: History Of Metal | VH1 Classic kzread.info/dash/bejne/c4SIzNpwabrNk6g.html

Happy new year Vin and Sori and family!! May God bless you guys!!

Yes, "Is your mind so small that you have to fall in with the pack, wherever they run?" is one of the greatest lines in music history!

"For every positive comment there's a negative one to match it." Welcome to the Internet, kid.

Happy New Year! All the best to you and the family for 2019. This one was written by Geezer Butler the bass player, a Catholic. I loved your reactions to the lyrics during the song.

Vin, I love seeing how pumped Black Sabbath makes you! Awesome!

Under the Sun - Black Sabbath ? Edit: Or N.I.B

I am glad you guys did this song, one of my favorite Black Sabbath songs. There is so much more to this band than their name.

Happy New year! This is another epic tune from Black Sabbath.

Mr.Crowley by Ozzy Osbourne!!!

@UKEYsPOWER

5 жыл бұрын

Live 1981

@lauren.xo.

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!

@darkscorpion-donzaloog

5 жыл бұрын

Studio version.

I had a great time in High School (class of 83') wearing my Black Sabbath tee shirt to school and getting harassed by the born again kids in my Republican Orange County home town. I would tell them Black Sabbath was a Christian band and play them "After Forever" and "War Pigs". I also had an art book of Gothic christian paintings to show them. That reminded me of the video you reacted to that scared Sori, but you explained that the imagery was Orthodox Christian. Anyway, play more Sabbath and have a great New Year. ED

@backstabbath2690

5 жыл бұрын

Ed Ursino orange, ca? That’s where I’m from times have changed my friend. I knew SOOOO many Sabbath fans! Went to Orange High

@johntrickey4188

5 жыл бұрын

Same year bro💀🤘

Most of the members of Sabbath were raised Catholic

@romanf.9600

5 жыл бұрын

@Great White So you hate Sabbath then? Metallica? Megadeath? Iron Maiden? At least one member of each of these bands believes in God so.... that's sad buddy you must not know what real music is if you don't like any of these bands. You can't say you like metal but not sabbath cause without them, you wouldn't have metal and their sub-genres in the first place you ignorant moron

@romanf.9600

5 жыл бұрын

@Great White You said catholics.. implying people who follow the religion not the religion itself.. you obviously don't even know what you wrote as your original comment cause thats what I'm going off of

@romanf.9600

5 жыл бұрын

@Great White If u said fuck religion in general than that would have made more sense than the Catholics part... y'know basic English don't you? Obviously not

@michaelsexton70

4 жыл бұрын

when you say "raised Catholic" you mean "nominally Catholic, at best," right? Bill was the most superstitious and Geezer probably the most religious but even he had quit going to mass in his teens. Regardless, being raised in the western world it's pretty much a given that you'll have been associated with a christian religion as a child being "raised in a religion" means nothing unless you choose to continue letting religious beliefs continue to influence your decisions later in life.

@adrianshephard378

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelsexton70 the point is they ain't demonic, to say about their beliefs is a different debate

Happy New year's Vin and sori hope to see more of your videos this new year :)

First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR guys, I hope you have a killer 2019 with your kids and family. Second, congratulations for 88 k subscribers. Man this guys are unbelievable, there's probably no other band in history more influential than Black Sabbath, where would we be without them... God bless them. Please react to "Nothing Is Not" by Morbid Angel and "In Their Darkened Shrines" by Nile.

THANK YOU!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!! For reacting to this song. You guys are so awesome! Your channel always delivers such great songs and commentary. Loved your reations. Keep it coming and God Bless

Love me some Sabbath ;)

Facial expressions during listening are just PERFCT. Yes I subscribed on that alone. Blessings and success.

Gizz Buttler is really amazing...the bass is fucking awesome...he never tried to stick to the root notes and strayed way beyond and never really missed a single thing...Toni is amazing ..but without Buttler...this song is nothing

LOVE YOU GUYS HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy new year to you both all the best for the new year keep up the good work

I follow you Sori. Happy new year both of you!!!

Should have been Symptom of the universe imo 😜

@jaydespirited

5 жыл бұрын

Becky Leavitt Meh. Still think Symptom should shine

@spyralarchytect

5 жыл бұрын

The Writ or Spiral Architect, also.

I love Sabbath and this song. For another mind-blowingly good song related to the Lord, you should check out Steve Vai - For the Love of God (which is an instrumental, FYI). Thanks and happy new year!

Happy New Years to you and your family🎆🎉

Pink Floyd’s song When the tigers broke free is about the singer’s father who died at the battle of Anzio 1944

Soundgarden: Slaves and bulldozers or Rusty Cage

@arthurbishop3173

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!!

@thewitchfindergeneral4015

5 жыл бұрын

Or Jesus Chris pose

@thewitchfindergeneral4015

5 жыл бұрын

All good shit^

N. I. B. from this album. Another good one. Hell, the whole album is awesome.

@ANationalAcrobat

5 жыл бұрын

N.I.B. is on their debut album.

@aaronstephen6952

5 жыл бұрын

Nib is on their first record, this is their third.

@L.A.W.Studios

5 жыл бұрын

Check your facts before you speak.. thanks in advance.. ; ^ }

Black Sabbath had a lot of critics saying that hey were into the occult and devil worship. One of the reasons they wrote this song was to put their critics to bed. They were much misunderstood in their time.

Happy New Year! Love you guys. Sometimes you keep me up too late, though. You're the last thing I check when I lay down, and sure enough, there's a new one that I wind up watching right then.Lol.Iommi is amazing as are Butler's lyrics. Ozzy's vocal range improves when you get to some of the later stuff. I don't believe you have reacted to anything later than this, the 3rd album. Something off "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" like, "A Spiral Architect" or the incredible lyrics on "A National Acrobat." Happy New Year, guys!

@macgibbon

5 жыл бұрын

Technically, they have, when they did the Dio-era Sabbath, though I don't count that

@ANationalAcrobat

5 жыл бұрын

”The Writ” off Sabotage would be great too.

@catawbawarrior

5 жыл бұрын

@@ANationalAcrobat one of my favorites

@RebornSlayer08

5 жыл бұрын

@@ANationalAcrobat Sabotage is my favorite Sabbath album. They should really react to "Symptom of the Universe" too, it's proto-thrash after all!

@troyv8302

5 жыл бұрын

@@ANationalAcrobat Love that song. I'd add Megalomania and Thrill of it All to the list of must listen to songs from that album.

Happy new year from 🇩🇪to 🇺🇸🤘🏻😊

Happy New year guys .....love this song 🙂

This is probably my favorite Sabbath song to watch reactions of... the utterly genius lyrics always catch people by surprise. What a fucking band mate.👏🏽💪🏽❤️✌🏽

Glad you guys reacted to this one :) Knew you would get something from the lyrics !

Love your show!!!!!

HEAVY NW YEAR VIN AND SORI!!!

In 1971 there was still prayer in public schools. I was in 3rd grade then. If you listen to and read the lyrics, You will see there is a underlying meaning to most of Black Sabbath's music. they were not the quote un quote "Devil Worshippers"

Absolutely love this ❤️ song great message

HAPPY NEW YEAR VIN AND SORI AND FAMILY!!!

I love this song, the entire record is good. Tony Iommi lost the tips of two fingers in an accident at the factory where he worked as a teenager, obviously, it had a major effect on his playing.

happy new years!

Love this reaction! I can see you were surprised by the lyrics.

HAPPY NEW YEAR FELLAS, KEEP DOING YOUR JOB, VERY WE'LL COUSE THERE'S NO BODY LIKE YOU ANY WAY. JUST THAT , MAYBE I'M SO CRAZY RIGHT NOW , I DON'T KNOW, PURA VIDA. we

Happy new years

We "humanity" were given the tools to create music. By God, which is so amazing to me.

N.I.B. & Children of The Grave by Black Sabbath is what i think you guys would enjoy!

I remember blasting this while I was pulling into Heavenly Doughnuts and some old dude was like "you need to save your soul" the Irony still makes me laugh to this day. So I saw he was in his car (he parked next to me) and broke out Slayer's South of Heaven and kind of did a devil horns on the side of my head in a mocking way. The look on his face was priceless. lol.

T.F.M. TIMELESS FUCKING MUSIC. THE GROOVE, GODDAMN THAT GROOVE!

Hope you guys have a happy new year with your family! And looking forward for a new year with reactions 🤘🏻 maybe some Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys when you get the time? 😁🎃

Finally!!! Love you guys. I actually used the lyrics during a bible study with our youth group. Matched up with biblical texts then played the song. We had 20 very sheltered church kids banging heads and educated at the same time.

Black Sabbath The Mob Rules with Ronnie James Dio

I always thoughts The Refreshments stole their "I'll be there for you " riff from this lol

You didn’t see that one coming did you? Happy New Year V&S!

Happy New Year! Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus!

i love watching you guys react all the time i know you dont like to do request in your comment section but and its a big but you havent heard nothing in metal until you hear the blusy insane song off there first album black sabbath the song is warning it will leave you speechless it was a warning to every band out there this is special i swear i hope you listen, marty s

Your best one yet

One of my favorite Sabbath songs...Black Sabbath forever🖤

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1989.. Cozy Powell went to become drummer and producer for Black Sabbath.. again.. he went to Toni's house and just said: "I have some ideas..".. Toni went to a cupboard, took out like 5 big shoppingbags full of cassesstes.. all having like 30 riffs onthem..unused.. Cozy said: "Well Toon..you should open a shop: : Toni Riffs"

Happy New year y'all! Another great song/vid. I would like to get your take on the Black Sabbath song A National Acrobat if you decide to do another Black Sabbath reaction. I have my thoughts but would love to hear what you think. 😊

Happy New Year's

Never tired to listened to this forever even After Forever

First heard this song when I was 16,,smokin pot with my buddy's,,,I'm 65 now,and still am a Black Sabbath fan,, the line ... Are you afraid of what your friends might say, If you believe in God above... Hit home with me back then,,,this song has been my anthem to my life to always believe.

@vapoureyes

2 жыл бұрын

Too right ,a lot of people laugh at you when you say you believe in god , the problem is man thinks there’s nothing bigger than himself . God is love You should watch some videos of Anthony DeMello on KZread Hope you have a good life

great reaction , tnx..

Good to see some head banging fun you guys.

Geezer Butler is the bassist btw

@joddeurter2448

5 жыл бұрын

are you sure?

Tony FN Iommi the all time riff master GOAT. He'd put more badass riffs in one song than most metal bands/guitarists create in a career.

One of my favorite Black Sabbath songs I want it played at my funeral

Anathema - Internal Landscapes Anathema- Untouchable 1& 2 live from Bulgaria

"I'm a believer"🎵🎶

Have you ever seen the film "Ghost"? The white angels and the black angels are on the same side. At your time if death, you will know if you have led a good or bad life, because of the colour of the angels. The white angels will look after you, whilst the black angels will drag you off and treat you accordingly. When it's your time to go, what colour angels would you want to greet you?

AWESOME SONG

Anathema - Internal Landscapes

@keelinmetaljam923

5 жыл бұрын

I'd choose Suicide Veil

@BlackRoseImmortal

5 жыл бұрын

YES,! Internal Landscapes

@keithholm7493

5 жыл бұрын

GREAT BAND!

Happy New Year ca 12019 !

congrats on baby, this song is positive even define loving Christian message

Black Sabbath , "Wheels of Confusion " Great comment on Iommi

My most favorite reaction video from y'all. While I'm a Theravada Buddhist, I do so appreciate the teachings of Christ and His message.

Great reaction. Would love to see you react to Black Sabbath - Spiral Architect. A very underrated Sabbath song, but lyrically, one of their most diverse.

Rob Zombie said that every metal song after Black Sabbath is just their songs played faster, slower, and/or backwards.

This is the second time I’ve watched this video. It shocks me that Vin would say the lyrics were to simplistic for him. As a Christian he should know that salvation thru Jesus Christ was designed to be simple so that everyone could be saved.

Best Sabbath song and I have been a fan since 1970

Hate to say it Vin and Sori you two grew up in the wrong century. Going to a Black Sabbath concert back in the mid 1970's nothing compares.

Sabbath wrote songs about the things they saw and felt most of the lyrics were written by Terry geezer butler and the topics were what they saw and dealt with growing up during that time period coming from a factory town and most of them poor they created the sound of sabbath themselves and you would be surprised to find Tony iommi cites his influences as the shadows and jango Reinhardt . They were a blues and jazz based band who discovered their sound by creating it using pioneering techniques and a diy attitude . Especially after Tony’s accident he had to completely change the way he played guitar and that helped shaped the sabbath sound .