Quoted from Da-Shaker:That's a scary ass song.
It was an A-bomb dropped right on the heads of the hippy-dippy peacenik crowd, the OPPOSITE end of the psychedelic spectrum!
No better way to not only kick-off a debut album and career, but also an entire musical genre than for Ozzy to enter the ring screaming like a madman about confronting Satan, set against the backdrop of Tony & Geezer’s diminished-fifth (called the “Devil’s interval” for good reason!) riffs and Bill’s seismic interpretation of Jazz drumming!