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Released in the UK on Friday the 13th of February, in the first year of the dawning decade, Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut (named, like the band itself, after Mario Bava’s 1963 horror film) was the distorted “shot heard ‘round the world” of occult/doom rock. Not only did these working class boys from Birmingham, England deliver a haunting, gloomy album cover …

I recently found myself attending, in the span of a week, concert performances by two classic hard rock/heavy metal bands, arguably two of the most successful and influential exemplars of the form, Black Sabbath and AC/DC. Both of these veteran groups were on what is likely the final major tour of each act’s lengthy career (the outing officially announced as …