Andrew L. Cope (ed.), Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music

Given the current, almost universally held belief, that Black Sabbath single-handedly invented the genre of heavy metal music, then a musicological study which closely examines the musical syntax and compositional aesthetics of the band’s classic period (the so-called “Ozzy Years”), is surely to be welcomed. Andrew Cope seems well-equipped to offer such an analysis, not only through spending ‘many years listening to’ and learning their songs, as a musician. But also being able to closely obse..