A while back ago a friend of mine gave me a couple of tapes, Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger and A Nativity in Black: A Tribute to Black Sabbath, very cool. One of my favorite songs from NiB is Selputura's cover of Symptom of the Universe.
Of course you really can't beat Black Sabbath playing this song, specially the version that follows. Symptom of the Universe starts off at 4:50, but you should really really to the whole thing. Ozzy sounds particularly insane throughout the whole thing yet he manages to top the madness during SotU, actually the whole song is great as it sounds like barely controlled chaos.
Can you imagine listening to that in 1975? According to Wikipedia, the lyrcis were written by Geezer Butler based on a dream he had. I first heard this song way back when I bought the Black Sabbath compilation We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll. Of course that was the first time I've heard a lot of Black Sabbath songs other than Iron Man and Paranoid, I have yet to recover.
I have never heard this until today:
Supa-Hero by sHeavy was one of the first songs, that wasn't Black Sabbath, which further exposed me to stoner metal, back in 1999 or so. I have yet to recover.
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