This hand-drawn Black Sabbath poster is a tribute to heavy metal's most iconic founding band — illustrated entirely by hand in our Lisbon studio. Born in Birmingham in 1968, Black Sabbath invented a genre, and this print captures their world: gothic arches, hooded figures, twin crows, flying bats, and Ozzy Osbourne's cross — all drawn from the dark mythology that made them legends.

Black Sabbath, an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music.

The band's name and visuals are inspired by horror films, after seeing the public fascination with this type of cinema, their motivation was to capture the feeling of a horror movie in song.

The dark magic took centre stage on the album covers with this same hooded figure, depicted here holding the full moon to emphasize the mythical theme found in the lyrics. There are also two crows, associated with the supernatural, forming a spooky scenery representing how it all began.

Black Sabbath was often wrongly associated with the cult of the devil but the band were never drawn into the message of the Satanists, they actually penned many songs with Christian themes and all wore crucifixes, hence the gothic church window and columns.

The typography is inspired by the band's original logo, which was created with music-like letters, twisted spiral elements, like a treble clef.
Framing it are flying bats, a link to the time Ozzy Osbourne bit off one of their heads while he was performing after it was thrown onto the stage as a “gift” by a 17-year-old fan. The fan claimed it was dead when he threw it. To Ozzy's surprise, it was not rubber