blues

In his coinage, plastic soul referred to the band’s penchant for transforming musical forms — often American rhythm and blues — into their own image, retaining their fundamental qualities in the process of making them their own.

But I love blues and soul and rock and roll.

Souris observes that the song “. . .is a blues song, not because of any chord progression, but because Sinéad sees the world for what it is and laments its hypocrites.”

The sludgy and foreboding take on electrified blues music, coupled with sci-fi stories and witch tales, laid the groundwork for decades of hard rock music across nine albums with Black Sabbath.

They developed a unique sound, inspired by the blues but slower, louder and more sinister - with frequent references to the occult.