#355 Black Sabbath, 'Black Sabbath' (1970)

With the release of this record, the Heavy Metal genre was born by former blues musicians and hippies. Opening with the sounds of rain and ominous tolling of a bell, the eponymous ‘Black Sabbath’ is widely regarded the first ever Doom Metal song. I just love Ozzy Osbourne’s cries and pleas of “Oh no! Please God help me,” before the tempo change and Tony Iommi’s guitar solo.