Music WI: Black Sabbath Released a Concept Album?

Ive been tinkering mentally with musical evolution for my Kennedy timeline, and have arrived upon the evolution of Metal and Hard Rock, and Black Sabbath. And as I plan to have middle of the road rock and psychedelic rock and especially progressive rock keep chugging along and keep their prominence, this idea came to my head.

What if Black Sabbath (Ozzy era, mind you) created a concept album? What would be the overall story and mood and incorporation?
 
Ive been tinkering mentally with musical evolution for my Kennedy timeline, and have arrived upon the evolution of Metal and Hard Rock, and Black Sabbath. And as I plan to have middle of the road rock and psychedelic rock and especially progressive rock keep chugging along and keep their prominence, this idea came to my head.

What if Black Sabbath (Ozzy era, mind you) created a concept album? What would be the overall story and mood and incorporation?

The very first thing that popped into my head as an idea for a concept album was AC/DC's Highway to Hell. It's not what you asked for, but how's about butterflying a Bon Scott Black Sabbath? You could meld several heavy OTL metal songs into a Campbellian monomythical Satanic/Faustian "hero's journey" through hell. Done right, maybe mixing in a Who element, you could even work up a heavy metal opera: The Highway Through Hell, a rock opera...
 
Actually if you think about it, Black Sabbath's Sabotage could very much fit the mold of a concept album. There was some very musically operatic stuff on that album not to mention a lot of lyrics regarding the supernatural (symptom of the universe), internal struggles (megalomania, am i going insane) and futuristic elements (hole in the sky). I'm not saying there was a connecting theme like most prog rock albums in that time but it does have a lot of very progressive elements to it.
 
Based on their existing music, I think it would be done with a collection of songs on a similar theme, rathar than a rock opera with a coherent story behind it. They usually weren't ones to write songs that told stories. My guess is that they'd probably stick with a heavier sound throughout, as opposed to the more poppier/psych stuff that they did.
 

Caspian

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Do you mean that, instead of Black Sabbath (1970), the band releases a more traditional rock concept album, or would this album be released any time during Ozzy's tenure?
 
Actually, if Black Sabbath had expanded upon the concept of the band-titled song through their whole first album, then it is possible for them to accomplish this as opposed to a musically heavier version of Cream after the title-track (Yeah, I know, I may get flamed for saying this) with much darker and cynical lyrics.
 
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