Black Sabbath ↔ Slayer
Black Sabbath and Slayer share audio lineage through legendary producer Rick Rubin.
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Black Sabbath
📍 Birmingham, England
The fathers of heavy metal. Tony Iommi’s downtuned tritone riffs, Geezer Butler’s driving bass and dark lyrics, Bill Ward’s jazz-metal swing, and Ozzy Osbourne’s eerie delivery created the genre.
Rick Rubin
Record Producer / Audio Engineer
Slayer
📍 Huntington Park, California, United States
The darkest, fastest, and most uncompromising of the Big Four thrash titans, whose 1986 landmark Reign in Blood established the extreme metal standard with Dave Lombardo’s double-bass fury.
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