Hole In The Sky and Symptom Of The Universe are some of the heaviest songs the band had ever done, the former bashing away on a leaden groove, while the fast, punch riff of the latter bristled with anger.īut the band continued to experiment and expand as they had brilliantly learned to as success hit and afforded them more time in the studio from Vol. Tensions not helped by the amount of booze and drugs going around (draw your own line between this and Bill Ward forgetting his trousers and having to be photographed in his wife's tights for the album cover, itself a cock-up that was only meant to show the idea, rather than be the finished product), it's unsurprising that Sabotage feels more aggressive than Vol. "Any time we needed money, we had to ask the manager to send us some." "We never had more than a grand in the bank," Geezer said at one point. and Europe almost endlessly, they might have played to 300,000 people at 1974's California Jam and found themselves living in nice houses, but financially they were on their arses. Having made five hugely successful records, and toured the U.S. As the band worked on their sixth album, they were in the middle of a year-long legal battle to free themselves from their manager, Patrick Meehan. And anyway, bands weren't meant to last a decade – The Rolling Stones were still holding on, albeit not without tragedy, but The Beatles hadn't managed it, Hendrix hadn't managed it, and it seemed like Sabbs' time had simply come.īut if those last two albums of the 1970s marked something of a low point for Sabbath before firing Ozzy and recalibrating themselves with Dio (with both parties having a stunning second wind as a result) 1975's Sabotage is the album that saw them using the tension of these emerging cracks to make something as powerful and creatively magic as anything they'd done to that point.Įven Sabotage's name is telling, so named because the band felt like they were being sabotaged, according to bassist Geezer Butler. The reasons are many and well known: personal differences, musical differences, boredom, management problems, money problems, too many drugs, not enough drugs that did the magic in the same way they had for Vol.
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