These
old Sabbath records are everywhere in abundance and picking one up is
retardly easy because they are so cheap. Any metalhead worth his salt
should appreciate the first four Sabbath records, in my rather
elitist and useless opinion. This is Sabbath record number three, and
is still lodged firmly in the category of "Good Sabbath",
thank holy fuck. As far as I'm concerned, Sabotage onwards things
start to go a bit pear shaped. As soon as Dio came into the picture,
well that's another story for another time. I can literally feel the
backlash of various opinions and arguements as I type this!
Master
of Reality opens with one of my favourite Black Sabbath songs, "Sweet
Leaf". At the price this comes at these days this record is
worth buying on this song alone. Whatever your opinion on da 'erb,
there is no denying the sheer excellence and rifftacularness of this
track. It is chilled out and heavy as fuck at the same time,
something we are (thankfully) used to thanks to the stoner and doom
genres of today but back in it's time it was something else entirely,
just like the whole Sabbath sound. Closing side A is "Children
of the Grave", another Sabbath favourite of mine, percussion
heavy and almost progressive in parts. Side B sexplodes into the
acoustic "Orchid" before giving way to another Sabbath
favourite. "Lord of this World".
I
could go into every single song but then that would be a bit boring I
think, especially on the subject of Black Sabbath. Sometimes I feel a
bit dickish reviewing albums that have been out for years, so
considering Master of Reality was out in 1971 and the world and his
fucking cat have heard this album please excuse me if I don't go into
too much depth. Classic shits, classic songs. If you haven't heard
this then...well your on the wrong website ha ha!
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