Jacque T'fono

Jazz Sabbath: Vol. 2

by Geno Thackara
May 1, 2022

The story is almost worthy of the Onion: it turns out that Black Sabbath, the legendary outfit which practically invented heavy metal, was really a bunch of impostors who stole their early material. Iconic pieces such as “Iron Man" really came from a brilliant forward-thinking jazz combo which disappeared in the late '60s before they could make their stamp on the world, and the first of their long-lost albums only surfaced with the release of Jazz Sabbath (Blacklake) in 2020. ...