Into the Void
From Birth to Black Sabbath—And Beyond
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A rollicking, effusive, and candid rock and roll memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black Sabbath, covering his years as the band’s bassist and main lyricist through his later-career projects, and detailing how one of rock’s most influential bands formed and prevailed.
With over 70 million records sold, Black Sabbath, dubbed by Rolling Stone “the Beatles of heavy metal,” helped create the genre itself, with their distinctive heavy riffs, tuned down guitars, and apocalyptic lyrics. Bassist and primary lyricist Geezer Butler played a gigantic part in the band’s renown, from suggesting the band name to using his fascination with horror, religion, and the occult to compose the lyrics and build the foundation of heavy metal as we know it.
In Into the Void, Butler tells his side of the story, a behind-the-scenes music memoir that starts from the band’s beginnings as a scrappy blues quartet in Birmingham through the struggles leading to the many well-documented lineup changes while touring around London’s gritty clubs (Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and The Who makes notable appearances!), and the band’s important later years. He writes honestly of his childhood in working-class Birmingham in a family of seven, his almost-life as an accountant, and how his disillusionment with organized religion and class systems would spawn the lyrics and artistic themes that would resonate so powerfully with fans around the world.
Into the Void reveals the softer side of the heavy metal legend and the formation of one of rock’s most exciting 1970s rock bands, while holding nothing back. Like Geezer’s bass lines, it is both original, dramatic, and forever surprising.
The Origins of Heavy Metal: Discover how Geezer’s fascination with horror, religion, and the occult became the lyrical foundation for a sound that defined a new genre.A Black Sabbath Biography: Get the untold story from the band’s founding bassist, from their beginnings as a scrappy blues quartet to global phenomenon, with appearances by rock royalty like Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix.Heavy Metal History: An honest, no-holds-barred look at the band’s rise, from gritty London clubs to sold-out arenas, detailing the music, the mayhem, and the well-documented lineup changes.Rock Musician Autobiography: More than just rock clichés, this is a candid look at a working-class kid from Aston, his almost-life as an accountant, and the journey to becoming a legend.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Black Sabbath bassist Butler recounts his unlikely route from hardscrabble childhood to international rock fame in this intermittently revealing and frequently off-putting debut memoir. Born in 1949 Aston, England, to hardworking Irish Catholic parents in a household too poor to afford toilet paper, Butler was drawn to music early on. He built a guitar from a carpentry kit and began playing it around age 10, nurturing dreams of becoming a professional musician. He teamed up with friend Roger Hope to form the band Rare Breed in 1967; singer Ozzy Osbourne joined a few months later. In 1968, Osbourne and Butler left Rare Breed and joined drummer Bill Ward and guitarist Tommy Iommi to form Black Sabbath. Butler traces the band's ups and downs, including struggles to get booked and their fallout with a cheating manager, and recalls Osbourne's habit of depositing his waste wherever he felt like it. While the wealth of behind-the-scenes detail may prove tantalizing to some, others will be turned off by the author's creepier anecdotes (at age six, he dug up a buried pet dog to cut it open and look for its soul) and hyperbole ("Sabbath must be the most successful bunch of outsiders in music history"). This is best suited for diehard fans.
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Awesome read
This book is exactly what you want it to be, very descriptive, thought-provoking, detailed and explains all the ups and downs of being in a band and being in the band Black Sabbath. Geezer writes in such a way that he does not leave the reader wondering about anything but still tells his story as the gentleman that he is.
Having been a fan since the late 70s, I learned more about the band and all of the lineup changes that I was not aware of.
Decent Read
I found the content somewhat superficial. The first portion about his upbringing seemed more substantive than the years with Sabbath. The information on creation of the music was somewhat disappointingly light.