Australia’s Wall Of Sound recently asked Kerry King to name the one Black Sabbath album he would take with him if humanity had to leave Earth and he was only allowed to bring a single one on the spaceship.
The guitarist replied, “I would take… It’s easy and it’s hard ‘cause I’m a super [Ronnie James] Dio fan. But I would take ‘Sabotage.’ Something about the vibe on that record. It’s cool. I mean, they’re all cool, but something about that one. Maybe ‘Symptom Of The Universe.’ I don’t know. It’s nonstop badassery.”
Black Sabbath’s sixth studio album arrived in July 1975 via Vertigo Records. Tony Iommi and Mike Butcher produced the record, which went Silver in the UK and Gold in the US. Dio joined the band four years after the release.
King included ‘Sabotage’ in his list of ten favorite metal albums in 2017, describing it to Rolling Stone as “a very hardcore record” that has “so much good stuff on there.”
“As I picked these records, I picked the ones I’m compelled to play if I’m working out or driving, and ‘Sabotage’ was my choice for Black Sabbath,” the guitarist explained. “It has ‘Megalomania,’ ‘Symptom Of The Universe,’ which has definitely got attitude, ‘Hole In The Sky.’ And it has the instrumental ‘Supertzar.’ I love that one. It grips me for some reason.”
Kerry King returned with new music in May, five years after Slayer’s breakup. His debut album, ‘From Hell I Rise,’ featured Paul Bostaph, Kyle Sanders, and Phil Demmel.
