{"product_id":"black-sabbath-we-sold-our-soul-for-rock-n-roll-cd","title":"Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll gathers the essential Ozzy Osbourne-era Black Sabbath in one place, and this CD edition puts the thunder of the band's first six albums within easy reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReleased in the mid-1970s, the compilation arrived at a turning point, closing the book on the band's run of early classics just as heavy metal was becoming a genre of its own. For a generation of young rock fans it was the front door to Sabbath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selection reads like a field guide to the riff. \"Paranoid\" is still a two-and-a-half-minute panic attack, \"Iron Man\" lumbers in on Tony Iommi's famously monolithic guitar, and \"War Pigs\" turns wailing sirens and Geezer Butler's anti-war lyrics into a slow-burning, apocalyptic epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Children Of The Grave\" gallops on Bill Ward's thundering drums and a riff that has been borrowed by half the metal bands that followed. Elsewhere the set leaves room for the band's darker, stranger corners, a reminder that Sabbath were never only about volume, and that Ozzy's eerie wail could haunt a quiet passage as easily as a loud one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor newcomers it is the quickest route to where heavy metal began, and for longtime fans it is a reminder of how much ground four musicians from Birmingham covered in a handful of years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57453237666097,"sku":"075992730228","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/1200x1200bb_9d65ef4e-9976-4bb2-9723-10d3e615c664.jpg?v=1794228775","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/black-sabbath-we-sold-our-soul-for-rock-n-roll-cd","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}