Patriarchs in Black are not interested in the obvious. While most bands mining the Black Sabbath catalog reach for the anthems, this heavy music collective went straight for “Supertzar,” one of the most ambitious and underappreciated compositions in the Sabbath canon, and turned it into something cinematic, crushing, and entirely their own. The single is out now on NoLifeTilMetal Records, and it arrives with serious pedigree behind every note.
The lineup assembled here is not incidental. Johnny Kelly, the powerhouse behind Type O Negative, drives the track with the kind of drumming that reshapes a room. Dan Lorenzo of Hades delivers the riff weight, while former Pale Horse Named Death member Eric J. Morgan layers keys that push the track toward genuinely epic territory. Over all of it, Sarah Sovak’s haunting, angelic vocals give “Supertzar” its rock opera dimension, a quality the original always hinted at but rarely received in full.
The track carries a remarkable stamp of legitimacy. Original Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward heard the rendition and gave his approval. That is not a detail to gloss over. Lorenzo traces the song’s origin to a conversation with Kelly during sessions for an earlier project, a casual mention that sent him back to a track he had not revisited in years. “I fell in love with it,” he says. “Sarah Sovak and Eric J. Morgan really helped us bring the song to life.”
They did more than that. “Supertzar” as reimagined by Patriarchs in Black is a fully realized heavy music statement, the kind of cover that justifies its own existence by expanding what the source material suggested was possible. Bold, atmospheric, and built to last, it is one of the most convincing heavy music releases of 2026 so far.