Heavy Metal Origins

When people think of the origins of occult rock and heavy metal, the names Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, or even Aleister Crowley often rise to the surface. But long before Sabbath dropped their first doom-laden chords in 1970, another band had already summoned the Devil onto vinyl, flashing the horns of Satan and recording a [...] Continue Reading

Photographer: Keith “Keef” Macmillan Location: Mapledurham Watermill, Oxfordshire, England When Black Sabbath unleashed their self-titled debut on Friday the 13th, February 1970, it wasn’t just the music that sent chills through an unsuspecting world — it was the imagery. That eerie woman in black, standing still among the autumnal fog outside a centuries-old English mill, […]

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