Growing up, I had listened to this song probably thousands of times. Loved it. Then, that one time... that line "Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say if they knew you believed in God above"..... it hit me between the eyes like a ton of bricks... I cared more about what my friends thought of me than I did what God thought of me. One of the key moments of the journey God lead me through to salvation.

I've always said that Black Sabbath were like Old Testament prophets screaming about the end of the world. The thing is, they were a band for the people, and a lot of their music has something for everyone. If you don't like the message in After Forever? Check out God is Dead. If you're not a fan of drugs, like in Sweet Leaf, check out Hand of Doom which speaks about the dangers of drugs. You don't like the occult bent of songs like Black Sabbath? Maybe you'd dig the Sci-fi elements of Into the Void or Iron Man. You don't like little relatively filler songs like Tomorrow's Dream or Am I Going Insane? Dig on War Pigs, or Spiral Architect. You like fast, check out Symptom of the Universe. You like slow, check out the same song and wait about four minutes! You don't like Ozzy? Check out Dio. You don't like Dio, check out Tony Martin. You don't like Sabbath? You just haven't listened to enough.

Geezer Butler wrote music with his thoughts on religion on his sleeve. He had the balls to speak with his true thoughts

Geezer Butler has said about the lyrics: ”A lot of it was because of the situation in Northern Ireland at the time. There were a lot of religious troubles between the Protestants against the Catholics. I was brought up strictly Catholic and I guess I was naive in thinking that religion shouldn’t be fought over. I always felt that God and Jesus wanted us to love each other. It was just a bad time in Northern Ireland, setting bombs off in England and such. We all believed in Jesus - and yet people were killing each other over it. To me it was just ridiculous. I thought that if God could see us killing each other in his name, he’d be disgusted.”

You guys should just just react to the whole master of reality album. It is a monster of an album and not to mention it came out in 1971 it must have been the heaviest thing in existence back then.

Geezer Butler may be the most underrated lyricists of all time. It still blows my mind that four people can come together from such a small place and create such great music, led Zeppelin and the Beatles included.

Sabbath never had a song glorifying the devil, they always warned about him, I mean they all wore giant crosses.

Black Sabbath has a special place in my heart, it was my dads favorite band, he passed a few years ago due to a unbeknownst cancer, but every time i hear sabbath it brings me back to my childhood of him blaring it in the living room on the weekends, in turn it led me onto metal and my love for it

The look of pure confusion when you heard the lyrics was priceless. LOL Happy New Year Vin and Sori.

" After Forever " is my favorite Ozzy era Black Sabbath song. The lyrics are amazing and proof that they don't always glorify the darker side.

Anybody that calls Black Sabbath satanic just hasn't listened to the songs. Even the songs from the point of view of Satan are about love and deceit. Humans being weak and susceptible to evil trickery. Ozzy routinely sounds terrified of the Devil when he sings about it. Which is a very Christian perspective.

Black Sabbath - N.I.B.

Geezer is a true artist his lyrics beyond good.

Tony is known as the riff Master

As a Christian and lover of Sabbath and all things heavy and rockin', this song attests to the fact that the band wasn't afraid to touch any subject. Gezzer, who writes most of the lyrics, is the bass player and a professed Catholic and lyricist of this song.

Happy New Year! Love you guys. Sometimes you keep me up too late, though. You're the last thing I check when I lay down, and sure enough, there's a new one that I wind up watching right then.Lol.Iommi is amazing as are Butler's lyrics. Ozzy's vocal range improves when you get to some of the later stuff. I don't believe you have reacted to anything later than this, the 3rd album. Something off "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" like, "A Spiral Architect" or the incredible lyrics on "A National Acrobat." Happy New Year, guys!

The bass always stood out to me in this song

What takes Tony Iommi to the next level is the fact that on his last day at his factory job he sliced the tips of 2 or 3 of his fingers off. Instead of quitting he made plastic tips to go over the ends of his fingers. He plays like that to this day.

Most of the members of Sabbath were raised Catholic

Love it!!!! More old, old Sabbath!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! IN about 80-ish minutes here in Canada's west coast.

Love Black Sabbath

I had a great time in High School (class of 83') wearing my Black Sabbath tee shirt to school and getting harassed by the born again kids in my Republican Orange County home town. I would tell them Black Sabbath was a Christian band and play them "After Forever" and "War Pigs". I also had an art book of Gothic christian paintings to show them. That reminded me of the video you reacted to that scared Sori, but you explained that the imagery was Orthodox Christian. Anyway, play more Sabbath and have a great New Year. ED

I love Sabbath and this song. For another mind-blowingly good song related to the Lord, you should check out Steve Vai - For the Love of God (which is an instrumental, FYI). Thanks and happy new year!

Happy New Year! All the best to you and the family for 2019. This one was written by Geezer Butler the bass player, a Catholic. I loved your reactions to the lyrics during the song.

"For every positive comment there's a negative one to match it." Welcome to the Internet, kid.

Mr.Crowley by Ozzy Osbourne!!!

N. I. B. from this album. Another good one. Hell, the whole album is awesome.

Should have been Symptom of the universe imo 😜

I love this song, the entire record is good. Tony Iommi lost the tips of two fingers in an accident at the factory where he worked as a teenager, obviously, it had a major effect on his playing.

Soundgarden: Slaves and bulldozers or Rusty Cage

Under the Sun - Black Sabbath ? Edit: Or N.I.B

Yes, "Is your mind so small that you have to fall in with the pack, wherever they run?" is one of the greatest lines in music history!

Gizz Buttler is really amazing...the bass is fucking awesome...he never tried to stick to the root notes and strayed way beyond and never really missed a single thing...Toni is amazing ..but without Buttler...this song is nothing

Happy new year Vin and Sori and family!! May God bless you guys!!

Love me some Sabbath ;)

Geezer Butler is the bassist btw

I remember blasting this while I was pulling into Heavenly Doughnuts and some old dude was like "you need to save your soul" the Irony still makes me laugh to this day. So I saw he was in his car (he parked next to me) and broke out Slayer's South of Heaven and kind of did a devil horns on the side of my head in a mocking way. The look on his face was priceless. lol.

This is probably my favorite Sabbath song to watch reactions of... the utterly genius lyrics always catch people by surprise. What a fucking band mate.👏🏽💪🏽❤️✌🏽

N.I.B. & Children of The Grave by Black Sabbath is what i think you guys would enjoy!

T.F.M. TIMELESS FUCKING MUSIC. THE GROOVE, GODDAMN THAT GROOVE!

I always thoughts The Refreshments stole their "I'll be there for you " riff from this lol

Anathema - Internal Landscapes Anathema- Untouchable 1& 2 live from Bulgaria

Anathema - Internal Landscapes

In 1971 there was still prayer in public schools. I was in 3rd grade then. If you listen to and read the lyrics, You will see there is a underlying meaning to most of Black Sabbath's music. they were not the quote un quote "Devil Worshippers"

Tony FN Iommi the all time riff master GOAT. He'd put more badass riffs in one song than most metal bands/guitarists create in a career.

Black Sabbath The Mob Rules with Ronnie James Dio

We "humanity" were given the tools to create music. By God, which is so amazing to me.

Black Sabbath had a lot of critics saying that hey were into the occult and devil worship. One of the reasons they wrote this song was to put their critics to bed. They were much misunderstood in their time.

Great reaction. Would love to see you react to Black Sabbath - Spiral Architect. A very underrated Sabbath song, but lyrically, one of their most diverse.

I didn't come for Black Sabbath...I just came to wish vin and sori a happy new year!🤘🏼🍻🎉

Pink Floyd’s song When the tigers broke free is about the singer’s father who died at the battle of Anzio 1944

First heard this song when I was 16,,smokin pot with my buddy's,,,I'm 65 now,and still am a Black Sabbath fan,, the line ... Are you afraid of what your friends might say, If you believe in God above... Hit home with me back then,,,this song has been my anthem to my life to always believe.

Vin, I love seeing how pumped Black Sabbath makes you! Awesome!

THANK YOU!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!! For reacting to this song. You guys are so awesome! Your channel always delivers such great songs and commentary. Loved your reations. Keep it coming and God Bless

Facial expressions during listening are just PERFCT. Yes I subscribed on that alone. Blessings and success.

1989.. Cozy Powell went to become drummer and producer for Black Sabbath.. again.. he went to Toni's house and just said: "I have some ideas..".. Toni went to a cupboard, took out like 5 big shoppingbags full of cassesstes.. all having like 30 riffs onthem..unused.. Cozy said: "Well Toon..you should open a shop: : Toni Riffs"

You have 143K subscribers...You 2 are great and yes I have criticized your opinions. Yet they are "Your Opinions" and though I may criticize them I respect then b/c they are honest and how you believe, so you aren't lying to anyone or yourselves. I promise you by the end of this year your subscribers will go from this 134K to a million. The both of you do great things to open people up to music and ideas. Yet I may not always agree with them you still get people to think. To be a catalyst to helping people think for themselves is, well what do you 2 think that is. I will leave that answer up to the both of you. Vin and Sori always praying and wishing the best for you unconditionally. Peace and Love to you and your family and friends.

Have you ever seen the film "Ghost"? The white angels and the black angels are on the same side. At your time if death, you will know if you have led a good or bad life, because of the colour of the angels. The white angels will look after you, whilst the black angels will drag you off and treat you accordingly. When it's your time to go, what colour angels would you want to greet you?

Skid Row - Quicksand Jesus

I am glad you guys did this song, one of my favorite Black Sabbath songs. There is so much more to this band than their name.

i love watching you guys react all the time i know you dont like to do request in your comment section but and its a big but you havent heard nothing in metal until you hear the blusy insane song off there first album black sabbath the song is warning it will leave you speechless it was a warning to every band out there this is special i swear i hope you listen, marty s

Arch Enemy - We Will Rise + Fields of Desolation (LIVE Tyrants of the Rising Sun)

Sabbath wrote songs about the things they saw and felt most of the lyrics were written by Terry geezer butler and the topics were what they saw and dealt with growing up during that time period coming from a factory town and most of them poor they created the sound of sabbath themselves and you would be surprised to find Tony iommi cites his influences as the shadows and jango Reinhardt . They were a blues and jazz based band who discovered their sound by creating it using pioneering techniques and a diy attitude . Especially after Tony’s accident he had to completely change the way he played guitar and that helped shaped the sabbath sound .

Speaking as a US Citizen and an atheist theology has a place in public education as a study on how all religions effect human society. The problem has always been with certain Christian sects thinking the Bible should be the basis for not just education but for all aspects of living in the U.S. Your personal mythology or thoughts on supernatural belief should be just that. Matthew 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Happy New Year you two! Great song by the evil riff lord! Hail Toni Iomi!!! By the way, CHECK YOUR DAMN POST!!! :P

No VIN, he was of our time(us old rockers).You just turned up late at the station and missed the train.Your on the same track just a later service.Peace and a Happy new year to you both.

This is the second time I’ve watched this video. It shocks me that Vin would say the lyrics were to simplistic for him. As a Christian he should know that salvation thru Jesus Christ was designed to be simple so that everyone could be saved.

"I'm a believer"🎵🎶

Happy new years

Finally!!! Love you guys. I actually used the lyrics during a bible study with our youth group. Matched up with biblical texts then played the song. We had 20 very sheltered church kids banging heads and educated at the same time.

Best Sabbath song and I have been a fan since 1970

I love you, Sori. So, now theres five of us and not four anymore.

Always love to hear the Iommi love. he is a genius

Hate to say it Vin and Sori you two grew up in the wrong century. Going to a Black Sabbath concert back in the mid 1970's nothing compares.

Happy New year! This is another epic tune from Black Sabbath.

Black Sabbath , "Wheels of Confusion " Great comment on Iommi

Vin & Sori, I just checked info on this song. Lyrics or words is written by Geezer Butler while Tony Iommi written the music. Butler, raised an Catholic; he write lyrics focused on Christian Themes.

Riffs and Hooks made the music for most of the day. Riffs were concoctions mostly born from classical music blues and Cajun soul music. Main suspects were Tony Iommi Jimmy Page Jimi Hendrix Pete Townsend

Y'all should definitely do Black Sabbath Megalomania from the Sabatoge album!

Tony Naomi is missing the tips of his string fingers on his hand from a sheet metal accident when he was a kid. He wears metal thimbles which you could hear, scraping up and down the strings occasionally in different size.

Am I crazy or did the theme song for Friends steal this riff?

Rob Zombie said that every metal song after Black Sabbath is just their songs played faster, slower, and/or backwards.

Glad you guys reacted to this one :) Knew you would get something from the lyrics !

You didn’t see that one coming did you? Happy New Year V&S!

First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR guys, I hope you have a killer 2019 with your kids and family. Second, congratulations for 88 k subscribers. Man this guys are unbelievable, there's probably no other band in history more influential than Black Sabbath, where would we be without them... God bless them. Please react to "Nothing Is Not" by Morbid Angel and "In Their Darkened Shrines" by Nile.

Toni Iommi is the foundation upon which heavy metal was built. A lot of great music was released in 71' including the Iconic Led Zeppelin IV-but nothing comes close to matching the heaviness of Iommi's tone, Children Of The Grave is a testament to this, not to mention that this album begat Sludge, Stoner and Doom genre's all in one album.

That's exactly true. When you spawn a genre you can't help but be a genius. Tony Iommi is a force of nature with the power of his SG and Geezer Butler was the perfect foundation for Tony to stand on. I believe it took the two oif them to creat that power that changed music. The planets were in alignment, God was looking at the earth for a group of men to show his power to the Earth's youth and he found them.

They were the pioneers of Heavy Metal

Black sabbath the first metal band to influence Christian metal

Falling Off The Edge Of The World - Black Sabbath

Son of Sam wrote the lyrics of this song on his wall. The police found this album on his record player during their investigation.

HEAVY NW YEAR VIN AND SORI!!!

Geezer butler was raised Irish catholic and still is and also liked to read about the occult and darker aspects of life ( old school Catholicism tends to be pretty dark and scary , my mother is German catholic ) it leads to a lot of great story content for heavy music , quick sabbath facts , Toni Iommi lost the tips of his fret hand fingers in a accident and used thimbles to protect his nubs and tuned down to C# to make it easier to play and really could only play two note bar chords which have become the rock and metal norm , the band name and direction came from a Boris Karloff film called Black Sabbath that was playing down the street from there house and they decided to take a dark heavy style to separate themselves from the hippie Blues based bands at the time , Ozzy only got the gig in sabbath because he had his own PA , sabbath and priest are both from the same town Birmingham and started about the same time - heavy metal was called acid rock then

FINALLY!!!!!!

Tony Iommi IS A GENIUS!!! Well said Vin and so true. I'm so glad that you totally appreciate my favorite musician of all time.

Hyper Secularist Nazis??? Is it any wonder Christians get a bad rap when you come out with nonsense like that? It should be remembered that Ozzy was hoovering up Bolivian marching powder like it was going out of fashion at the time this was written. Just because a person sings something, it doesn't mean they actually believe it themselves.

Most of the prevalent bands of the 1970s grew up or were adolescents in the aftermath of post World War II Europe. So they grew up in households where there parents were used to doom and gloom death and destruction was everywhere.

You have to remember these guys were only in their very early 20s when they come out with this stuff

HAPPY NEW YEAR FELLAS, KEEP DOING YOUR JOB, VERY WE'LL COUSE THERE'S NO BODY LIKE YOU ANY WAY. JUST THAT , MAYBE I'M SO CRAZY RIGHT NOW , I DON'T KNOW, PURA VIDA. we

One of my favorite Black Sabbath songs I want it played at my funeral