BLACK SABBATH – To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

The Recording Academy have announced that BLACK SABBATH are among the artists set to receive a ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award at the 2019 ‘GRAMMY Awards‘. That awards ceremony is expected to be held in Los Angeles, CA on May 11th, 2019. It is presently unclear if the pioneering heavy metal band, who called it quits in 2017, will be present to receive the award.

Other artists set to receive a ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award at the ceremony include George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, Donny Hathaway, Julio Iglesias, Sam & Dave, Dionne Warwick and Billy Eckstine.

Black Sabbath has been so influential in the development of heavy metal rock music as to be a defining force in the style. The group took the blues-rock sound of late ’60s acts like Cream, Blue Cheer, and Vanilla Fudge to its logical conclusion, slowing the tempo, accentuating the bass, and emphasizing screaming guitar solos and howled vocals full of lyrics expressing mental anguish and macabre fantasies. If their predecessors clearly came out of an electrified blues tradition, Black Sabbath took that tradition in a new direction, and in so doing helped give birth to a musical style that continued to attract millions of fans decades later.