10 Greatest Rock Frontmen Of All Time

10. Ozzy Osbourne - Black Sabbath

With metal rapidly growing a following in the early 70's, Black Sabbath were the prime source of all things evil in the hard rock world. Even though Tony Iommi's guitar work sends chills up and down your spine, Ozzy Osbourne's visceral shouts left audiences absolutely terrified.

Starting out, Sabbath's records sounded almost demonic with Osbourne's booming presence as he told tales of darkness from "Paranoid" to "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath." When Sabbath hit the stage, Osbourne would become something else entirely.

Suddenly, the dastardly voice present on the records had a face, and it screamed pure insanity. Whereas most of the band tended to stand fairly still, Osbourne felt like a madman that had recently escaped from an insane asylum. As the band delivered riffs of doom, Osbourne would stand there with an expression of off-kilter euphoria. It felt almost as if every word coming out of his mouth was a trance-like initiation into Sabbath's world of madness.

The aura that Ozzy created led him to an equally successful solo career after Sabbath which involved even more tales of Satanic debauchery. After Sabbath, rock went from party music to sonic witchcraft, with Ozzy as the High Priest of Darkness.