10 Most Insane Controversies In Rock And Roll Music

In the world of music, there are those few notes that you tend to shy away from when making a song. Since you have to keep in the realm of music theory most of the time, there are countless rock songs that fit in the general rules of harmony, always avoiding the more dissonant notes that aren't pleasant to hear. Then again, Tony Iommi found out a long time ago that those dark notes are what make things that much more interesting in the music.

Though Black Sabbath were already making a name for themselves in the English club scene, they were still a blues band until Tony hit upon the ominous tritone that kicks off their first song. Taken from the Planets Suite from classical composer Holst, Geezer Butler recalled the weird feeling that they had when first playing the song, and needed to find some sort of dark imagery to fit with it.

Around this time, Butler had already been interested in the occult and was into the concept of mysticism, stocking up on different books about the subject. After reading one of them before bed, Geezer woke up in the middle of the night with a shadowy figure dressed in black at the foot of his bed pointing directly at him, which he turned into a demon sending Ozzy Osbourne to Hell in the actual song. Not many Sabbath songs are meant to be preaching the Devil's word or anything, but the fascination with the dark side of spirituality was enough to send them on their way to stardom.