In Collection
#195
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Sweet Leaf |
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After Forever |
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Embryo |
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Children Of The Grave |
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Orchid |
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Lord Of This World |
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Solitude |
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Into The Void |
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| Drums and Percussion |
Bill Ward |
| Bass Guitar |
Geezer Butler |
| Guitar-Electric |
Tony Iommi |
| Vocals-Lead |
Ozzy Osbourne |
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| UPC (Barcode) |
075992725323 |
| Packaging |
Jewel Case |
| Spars |
DDD |
| Sound |
Stereo |
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine With Paranoid, Black Sabbath perfected the formula for their lumbering heavy metal. On its follow-up, Master of Reality, the group merely repeated the formula, setting the stage for a career of recycling the same sounds and riffs. But on Master of Reality Sabbath still were fresh and had a seemingly endless supply of crushingly heavy riffs to bludgeon their audiences into sweet, willing oblivion. If the album is a showcase for anyone, it is Tony Iommi, who keeps the album afloat with a series of slow, loud riffs, the best of which - "Sweet Leaf" and "Children of the Grave" among them - rank among his finest playing. Taken in tandem with the more consistent Paranoid, Master of Reality forms the core of Sabbath's canon. There are a few stray necessary tracks scattered throughout the group's other early-'70s albums, but Master of Reality is the last time they delivered a consistent album and its influence can be heard throughout the generations of heavy metal bands that followed.
