Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler ( also of Irish descent ) wrote the lyrics to the Black Sabbath song " Sabbath Bloody Sabbath " on the album of the same name in 1973.

Black Sabbath's " Behind the Wall of Sleep " appeared on their 1970 debut album and is based on Lovecraft's short story " Beyond the Wall of Sleep ".

Some of speed metal's earlier influences include Black Sabbath's " Children of the Grave ", Deep Purple's " Fireball " and Queen's " Stone Cold Crazy " ( which was eventually covered by the thrash metal band Metallica ), from their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack, and Deep Purple's song " Highway Star ", from their album Machine Head.

* February 13 – Black Sabbath's debut album, Black Sabbath released ; often regarded as the first true heavy metal album.

" From Out of Nowhere " and " Falling to Pieces " saw releases as singles, and a cover of Black Sabbath's " War Pigs " was also produced for non-vinyl releases.

None of Walker's lyrics were used for Black Sabbath's resulting Never Say Die!

Geezer Butler thus resumed his traditional job as Black Sabbath's primary lyricist, and completely new lyrics for the album were written, including what became " Junior's Eyes ".

Bonham was the best man of Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi at his wedding ceremony.

Black Sabbath's music is itself stylistically rooted in blues, but with the deliberately doomy and loud guitar playing of Tony Iommi ( who often used the tritone in his playing and composition ), and the then-uncommon dark and pessimistic lyrics and atmosphere, they set the standards of early heavy metal and inspired various doom metal bands to come.

However, the magazine's initially harsh opinion of the album seems to have softened over time, as they would later place the album at number 298 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, compiled in 2003 while also describing Black Sabbath as " the greatest sludge-metal band of them all ..." The magazine described the album as " the definitive studio relic of Sabbath's golden-hellfire era ( 1970-74 )..."

Jourgensen and Barker also formed Lard with Dead Kennedys lead singer Jello Biafra, Acid Horse with Cabaret Voltaire, 1000 Homo DJs ( which featured Nine Inch Nails ' Trent Reznor doing vocals on a cover of Black Sabbath's Supernaut ), PTP with Chris Connelly and Pailhead with Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi.

Thrash metal band Anthrax, at the end of their cover of Black Sabbath's " Sabbath Bloody Sabbath " from their 1987 EP I'm the Man, launch into an abbreviated version of Sabbath's " Sweet Leaf " which fades to silence after several seconds, an homage to Metallica's Iron Maiden tribute contained on The $ 5. 98 EP.

After In Rock, he went on to buy Black Sabbath's debut, Jethro Tull's Aqualung and Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

The record was originally to be done with drummer Cozy Powell, then Black Sabbath's current drummer, but he was immobilized by a broken pelvic bone he had sustained in a horse riding accident.

They subsequently recruited Vinny Appice, who had served as Black Sabbath's drummer during most of Dio's previous tenure with the band, from 1980 – 1982.

During the latter half of the 1970s, Black Sabbath's popularity dwindled, although the group continued on in the early 1980s with ex-Rainbow frontman Ronnie James Dio and then with ex-Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan.

They are also known for recording several fast-paced punk covers of classic rock songs, including the Moody Blues ' " Nights in White Satin ", Black Sabbath's " Paranoid ", The Monkees ' " She ", Barry McGuire's " Eve of Destruction ", and the Isley Brothers ' " Nobody but Me ".

Originally conceived as a radio-only single, the EP contained three previously released songs (" Melancholy ( Holy Martyr )", " Watching Over Me " and " I Died for You "), as well as two new ones ( cover versions of Bad Company's " Shooting Star " and Black Sabbath's " Electric Funeral ").

Rubin has been reported to be the producer for Black Sabbath's 2012 album.

The band tried out for new drummers, such as Bob Fernandez who only appeared on a cover of Black Sabbath's N. I. B.

The live portions of Black Sabbath's video for the song " Zero the Hero " were filmed in 1983.

* 1970 – Roy Mayorga, American drummer ( Stone Sour, Soulfly, Amebix, Black President, and Nausea )

* 1970 – Killah Priest, American rapper, producer, and actor ( The HRSMN, Sunz of Man, and Black Market Militia )

DFLP was badly hit by the 1970 September crack-down in Jordan ( Black September ).

* 1970 – Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.

Black Dance in the United States from 1619 to 1970.

Born in Philadelphia, Abu-Jamal became involved in black nationalism in his youth, and was a member of the Black Panther Party until October 1970.

* To Markos III 1970 / Black Flower ( reissued in 1987 under original title with bonus tracks )

They then fought in the late 1960s War of Attrition ( against Israel ), and the 1970 Black September invasion of Jordan.

Black suburbanization grew between 1970 and 1980 by 2. 6 % as a result of central city neighborhoods expanding into older neighborhoods vacated by whites.

In 1970 a series of marches and strikes led to the declaration of a State of Emergency and the arrest of 15 Black Power leaders.

* In 1970, Czech writer Ludvík Vaculík made many references to " A Descent into the Maelström " as well as " The Black Cat " in his novel The Guinea Pigs.

* Knowles, David ( 1970 ), Thomas Becket, London: Adam & Charles Black.

These cross border broadcasts have also been used in special circumstances to broadcast emergency messages to British subjects abroad, such as the advice to evacuate Jordan during the Black September incidents of September 1970.

Between 1968 and 1970 the Black Power movement gained strength in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Black Power Revolution got started during the 1970 Carnival.

The Black September Organization ( BSO ) (, Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-aswad ) was a Palestinian terrorist organization, founded in 1970.

The group's name derives from the Black September conflict begun on 16 September 1970, when King Hussein of Jordan declared military rule in response to a fedayeen coup d ’ état to seize his kingdom — resulting in the deaths or expulsion of thousands of Palestinians from Jordan.

In 1970 – 71 the Flyers returned to the playoffs, but were swept by the Chicago Black Hawks in the first round.

Nevertheless, due to the PFLP's spectacular successes, including the Dawson's Field hijackings ( September 1970 ), Lod Airport Massacre ( 1971 ), and coordination with the Fatah-backed Black September group in the Munich Olympic killings ( September 5 – 6, 1972 ), Habash continued to be the first among equals among the Rejectionist Front, the groups that refused any permanent settlement in a framework other than military victory.

Black Flag was founded by Albert Meltzer and Stuart Christie in 1970, with the name of the periodical being drawn from the traditional anarchist symbol dating back to the 1880s.

* Putnam Memorial State Park — at the junction of state Routes 58 ( Black Rock Turnpike ) and 107 ( Park Road ) ( added 1970 )

In 1970, the notorious H. Rap Brown, a member of the Black Panthers, was charged with instigating a riot after a rally in Cambridge ; a change in venue brought his trial to Bel Air.

With this change, the Black or African American population has been diminishing, making up 17. 1 % in 1970, 19. 8 % in 1980, 18. 2 % in 1990, 15. 8 % in 2000 and 12. 6 % in 2010.