Bill Ward , former drummer and founding member of Black Sabbath , told Metal Hammer about the band's beginnings, including dreams of apparitions and the certainty of doing something completely innovative.
Formed in Birmingham, England, in 1968, Sabbath revolutionized music history with their debut album, released in February 1970, which marks the birth of heavy metal .
“When we finished rehearsing for Black Sabbath at the community center in Aston, I had a feeling that told me a few things: we were different and it didn’t matter if we became famous,” the musician said. “I knew that what we did would cause some problems, but it also earned us a lot of affection and I’m fucking proud of that.”
Ward considers himself a "ghost guy" because of his fondness for the supernatural and recalls an apparition that appeared in the dreams of all the band members in the early years. "Black Sabbath was so close-knit that we dreamed about the same things. This happens when you're in a room, transferring musical ideas all day, so our dreams were similar," the drummer explained. "One of the dreams we had was being visited by a priest, or a specter, and I just saw it as a guardian angel."
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