Since Mario Bava’s 1963 film Black Sabbath inspired the Brummie band, metalheads and movie makers have shared a deal with the devil. We summon the filthy lyrics, moral panics and nostalgia of a genre that won’t die
Heavy metal and horror cinema, which have now enjoyed a mutually beneficial partnership for half a century, seem to be cut from the same unholy, blackened cloth. Metal as it is today wouldn’t exist had the likes of Hammer Films and 1960s European horror not been there to provide vital thematic and aesthetic inspiration at the beginning – the dimly lit castles, satanic allusions and ludicrous camp all fed into the look and feel of the genre’s early champions. In fact, without the guiding hand of Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath – the 1963 anthology film starring Boris Karloff – the Birmingham quartet who named themselves after it may have stuck with the original and infinitely more terrifying Polka Tulk Blues Band. The horror.
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