The English band Black Sabbath represented a milestone in the history of music, presenting to the world, in the early 1970s, a dark and heavy sound and lyrical themes, giving rise to heavy metal. We seek to analyze, in this text, the presence of biblical elements, more specifically eschatological, in the songs of their first three albums. In the first section, we present some theoretical and methodological questions about music as an object of research in religious studies, having as main references the works of Marcos Napolitano on music and history and of Arnaldo erico Huff Jr. about religion and music. In the sequence, we seek to analyze the historical and cultural context of the late 1960s, within which Black Sabbath's work must be understood. In the last two sections we dedicate to the analysis of the musical production of the band in the beginning of the 1970s. initially, analyzing the characteristics of the work, taking into account the sound, the instrumental performance, the lyrics, the history and the beliefs shared with the audience. Finally, we analyze the biblical and eschatological elements in the lyrics of some songs.

The conjunction that joins the two nouns in the disciplinary ethnonym of Religions is not neutral filler. Religion is that discourse whose defining characteristic is its desire to speak of things eternal and transcendent with an authority equally transcendent and eternal. History is that discourse which speaks of things temporal and terrestrial in a human and fallible voice, while staking its claim to authority on rigorous critical practice. History of religions is a discourse that resists and reverses the orientation of that discourse with which it concerns itself. Cultural relativism is predicated on the dubious, fetishistic construction of cultures, as if they were stable and discrete groups of people defined by the stable and discrete values, symbols, and practices they share. Critical inquiry has become commonplace in other disciplines, but offends many students of religion, who denounce it as reductionism. Keywords: of Religions; cultural relativism