GMD Poll: Black Sabbath’s Discography Ranked

[CiG]

Heaven and Hell? Top Sabbath?

Easily top Sabbath.

 

[The Butt]

I can see a case for top-five. But saying it's the best Sabbath is just... it doesn't compute.

 

[CiG]

Computes for me without much effort at all. Combining the glorious riffs of Iommi with the glorious vocals of the greatest heavy metal singer of all time? Gold.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Title track, Turn To Stone, and Heart Like a Wheel are worth more than your life.

How can you love the Seventh Star title track and not Dio Sabbath?

Those other two are two of three songs I consider good, though.

 

[The Ozzman]

It's because it's not the popular choice, right @Dak ?

 

[Baroque]

I don't agree with H&H at #1 but I respect it. Dio is probably objectively a better singer, but Ozzy's is the voice of metal to me, attached to it at an early age and it just works man.

 

[CiG]

Dio's voice is definitely more typically metal or more similar to what became normal metal vocals so I don't understand that at all, but I love Ozzy's vocals, especially as a massive doom metal fan.

 

[The Ozzman]

Ozzy is the worst vocalist objectively of any Sabbath vocally. He is, however, their best frontman in terms of charisma and spirit.

 

[CiG]

I think that's certainly true of the first few albums, but I think he developed into a reasonably good singer by Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

 

[J.]

H&H is awesome in its own right, but it's not even the best Dio fronted album, let alone the best Sabbath

 

[CiG]

Rainbow's Rising for me and also Sacred Heart.

 

[The Ozzman]

Sacred Heart

Probably the most underrated of the first 5 Dio albums

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Probably the most justifiably dismissed as an uninspired, draining-the-well type album of the metal canon

Fixed.

 

[J.]

i meant dio fronted Sabbath. sorry

sadly, ive never ventured beyond Dio Sabbath. I need to hear his solo outings

 

[The Butt]

How can you love the Seventh Star title track and not Dio Sabbath?

Those other two are two of three songs I consider good, though.

I adore Dio Sabbath. Not sure where this is coming from.

 

[The Butt]

Computes for me without much effort at all. Combining the glorious riffs of Iommi with the glorious vocals of the greatest heavy metal singer of all time? Gold.

I dunno, I just reeeeally think that Heaven and Hell doesn't do anything SBS or Sabotage don't do better.

 

[Baroque]

H&H is a great album but now that I think of it, the feel is more rock than the early ozzy albums. H&H is so radio friendly and sing songy while something like vol 4 or SBS feels more like true metal, to me. It's dark and the lyrics make you think about the state of the world. Better guitar riffs too.

 

[The Butt]

More rock? lmao. Lady Evil maybe.

 

[J.]

that is precisely one of the reasons i prefer Dehumanizer. it upped the metal while retaining strong song writing

 

[J.]

as far as Glenn Hughes goes, the Iommi album Fused is much better than Seventh Star. much better songs