 Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath (1970) Vertigo Records 1-Black Sabbath (6:18) 2-The Wizard (4:24) 3-Behind The Wall Of Sleep (3:38) 4-NIB (6:06) 5-Evil Woman (3:25) 6-Sleeping Village (3:46) 7-Warning (10:32) Hot damn this is a legendary album. The cover and the title track are the creepiest metal-related things ever! Still, every last song on here is sludgy, blues-y goodness, heavier and darker than anything else at the time and anything since! Favorite Tracks: All Of Them  Black Sabbath-Paranoid (1970) Vertigo Records 1- War Pigs/Interpolating Luke's
Wall(7:55) 2-Paranoid (2:50) 3-Planet Caravan (4:30) 4-Iron Man (6:00) 5-Electric Funeral (4:50) 6-Hand of Doom (7:10) If you need a review of this record, you've obviously never heard it. Sabbath's most famous album, containing their three biggest hits (War Pigs, Paranoid, and Iron Man). These are all great tunes, but really, the whole album is great! Most of it is straight up doom-metal, but "Planet Caravan" is a mellow, psychedelic number that I've always loved. It makes me feel like I'm walking through the Arabian sands on a camel....or some shit. Favorite Tracks: All Of Them  Black Sabbath-Master Of Reality (1971) Vertigo Records 1-Sweet Leaf (5:02) 2-After Forever (5:25) 3-Embryo (0:28) 4-Children of the Grave (5:15) 5-Orchid (1:30) Third great album in a row for the Sabs. On this one, they kick the heaviness and the intensity up a notch and even show their diversity with the gentle "Solitude" and the two instrumentals ("Embryo" and "Orchid"). The rest is 100% face melting heavy MEHTUL. It's loud, down tuned, distorted, sludgy, doomy, dark, and just generally BAD ASS. Favorite Tracks: All Of Them  Black Sabbath-Born Again (1983) Vertigo Records 1-Trashed (4:16) 2-Stonehenge (1:58) 3-Disturbing The Priest (5:49) 4-The Dark (0:45) 5-Zero The Hero (7:35) 6-Digital Bitch (3:39) 7-Born Again (6:34) 8-Hot Line (4:52) 9-Keep It Warm (5:36) This is one of those "love it or hate it" albums, and certainly the album that divides Black Sabbath fans the most. Surely the hideous cover, poor production, and the addition of Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan are all stumbling blocks for people, but if you can look past those you'll find that "Born Again" is actually a damn fine metal album. Gillan does a great job, and fits the music perfectly. This album has a distinctively muddy feel to it (thanks in part to the NONEXISTANT production) that makes it sound bone-crushingly heavy, and of course the songs are all well-written and memorable. Best album I ever got from a cut-out bin. Favorite Tracks: Trashed, Disturbing The Priest, Hot Line, Born Again, Zero The Hero |
BLACK FUCKING SABBATH!!!! The first and best heavy metal band of all time! |
