The Godfather of Heavy Metal, Ozzy Osbourne is the man whose involvement in the music industry led to the discovery and development of the Heavy Metal as a musical genre. A founding member of the legendary Black Sabbath, Ozzy has had an instrumental role to play in the branching out of Rock into an art that was neither heard and interestingly nor sought. Well, the heavy metal wasn't so much like art as the parade of aggression.

The Black Sabbath started off as a Rock band but the transition to dark heavy metal was inevitable given Osbourne’s presence in the group. That brings up why the Black Sabbath are the instigators of heavy metal music. The band was too loudly good at what they did that they developed an unparalleled reputation based on their style.

The machismo group produced some of the loudest and fiercest songs of the era. Once you listen to songs like Children of the Grave and War Pigs, you just can't unlisten them.

The adoption of "Prince of Darkness" as his primary nickname signals that the dark subjects for the music were rooting in Ozzy's head both for his solo and group projects. Ozzy was fired from Black Sabbath due to drug abuse but this stoppage couldn't bring his dark train to a halt. He went on to set a heap of multi-platinum hits. Osbourne was as good solo as he was as a member of larger than life group. His solo career was nothing short of magnanimous.

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The Godfather of Heavy Metal doesn’t find any particular fondness for the term Heavy Metal. That is sickening! Ozzy gave his voice and solidified heavy metal history with songs such as Suicide Solution and Mama I’m Coming Home amongst loads of metal hits.

The man is less ordinary, decades passed by but his voice remains more or less in the acute range. His twelfth and latest studio album Ordinary Man can work as a great example to follow and authenticates his nicknames.

Notwithstanding, his thoughts on Heavy Metal are not as metallic as his sonorous songs.

Heavy Metal is a term that has been in use for centuries in metallurgy and chemistry and probably has nothing to do with musical genres. Well, still that doesn't make up for Ozzy's take on the genre.

“I have never ever ever been able to attach myself to the word ‘heavy metal’ — it has no musical connotations… If it was heavy rock, I could get that… People come up to me and say, ‘Your Sabbath work was a big influence on me.’ I could go, ‘Oh, yeah, I can see that.’ But other bands … what part of that is inspired by us? Some of it is just angry people screaming down a microphone”, says Ozzy Osbourne when asked about how Black Sabbath shaped the genre and his views on heavy metal.

The singer is not a conventional artist, he goes off-beat. Earlier in the 70s, at times when the bands were supposed to be rainbow hippy and complete thrill, Black Sabbath was all about games of shadows that got fans dark struck. Ozzy would be the main vocalist splashing magic on and possessing a distinctive voice capable of contacting the core.

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