Hear Zakk Sabbath cover Black Sabbath's namesake song
is the trio’s reverent take on the album’s lead track, “Black Sabbath.” Just like the original, it opens with the ominous sounds of rain and church bells until Wylde hits the crushing three-note riff that gave birth to heavy metal. Although he doesn’t stray far from Iommi’s guitar lines, he inserts his own drama into the riffs with guitar effects and some extra noise.
“Going back to high-school keg parties, we’d be playing songs by Rush, Sabbath, Hendrix, whatever [in a cover band], and one person would sing the Rush stuff, someone could do the Doors, and I’d end up doing the Sabbath or Ozzy stuff,” Wylde says. “It’s hilarious to me, because we were 17 years old playing keg parties at a friend’s house and now I’m 53 years old and I’m still playing ‘N.I.B.’ and Sabbath songs at keg parties, except there’s a couple more people.
The trio had already been playing “Wicked World,” “N.I.B.,” and “Behind the Wall of Sleep” live, but they had yet to dig into some of the record’s more out-there tunes like the downtempo “Sleeping Village” and guitar jam-a-thon “Warning.” “Ozzy told me, ‘Zakk that was our live set, pretty much,'” Wylde says. “I was like, ‘Oh, wow.'” With that in mind, Wylde made it a point not to overthink the record too much.
The trio knocked out the session as quickly as they could, as a nod to the way Sabbath recorded the album in just a matter of hours. And despite the pressure of reinterpreting a collection of songs that gave birth to a genre, Zakk Sabbath had fun with it. “It was arecording this,” Wylde says. “How could we have a bad time? You’re playing music by your favorite band.”
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