Sweet Leaf

by Black Sabbath

Sweet Leaf cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Vertigo
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 10:29
  • Community rating: 4.09/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Rodger Bain

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Opening with a looped recording of Tony Iommi coughing on a marijuana joint, this monumentally heavy track actively pioneered the stoner metal subgenre. The sludge-laden, down-tuned guitar riffing and unabashedly pro-cannabis lyricism established an incredibly influential aesthetic blueprint for decades of heavy rock.

Genres

Descriptors: drugs, cannabis, melodic, christian, occult

Tracklist

  1. Sweet Leaf (5:04)
  2. Lord Of This World (5:25)

Credits

  • Black Sabbath - primary artist
  • Bill Ward - written-by
  • Geezer Butler - written-by
  • Ozzy Osbourne - written-by
  • Tony Iommi - written-by

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