![]() Lyrically and musically, “Sweet Leaf” marks the birth of stoner metal. The cough would be used as the intro to the appropriately titled “Sweet Leaf”. The album opens with the iconic cough of Tony Iommi, candidly captured by the rest of the band as he was hitting a joint. All this a good 15 years before each genre found its foothold within the metal pantheon. ![]() “Black Sabbath”, “Electric Funeral”, “Hand of Doom”), but Master of Reality is the first album where every song can fit within the stoner, doom, or sludge label. There were proto-doom elements on past Sabbath releases (i.e. For this album, Sabbath went darker, slower, and heavier, subsequently laying the groundwork for stoner metal, doom metal, and sludge metal. Just as Paranoid was a musical deviation from their debut, Master of Reality was a musical deviation from Paranoid. This led to a two month stint at Island Studios in London, where they’d record their third album, Master of Reality. knew they had to strike while they iron was hot to keep interest alive. Yes, a pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac. By early 1971, they were opening for bands such as Grand Funk Railroad, Mountain, and Fleetwood Mac. helped them do exactly that.īy late 1970, Sabbath was performing residencies at the famed Fillmore East and Whisky a Go Go. The next obvious step was to break into the American market. The latter earned them a spot on the legendary English television program Top of the Pops, on which they performed a live rendition of “Paranoid”. Both their self titled and Paranoid broke onto the British charts. Within less than a year, they had written and recorded two full length albums. Are you ready to step “Into the Void”?īefore they became known as the godfathers of heavy metal, Black Sabbath were once another example of the old music industry’s endless “album, tour, repeat” cycle. Today’s essay will attempt to explain Master of Reality’s significance to the development of heavy metal, as if the music doesn’t already speak for itself. And on this day 50 years ago, Sabbath upped the ante yet again with the release of album number 3, Master of Reality. On September 18, 1970, Sabbath shed their blues and jam band leanings with the release of their second album, Paranoid: an album that fully embraced the new leanings of their debut. On February 13, 1970, they singlehandedly and unintentionally invent heavy metal with the release of their self titled debut: a collection of dark and demonic blues rockers. It’s been a busy year and a half for Black Sabbath. Today we go back in time exactly half a century to July 21, 1971. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.Welcome to another edition of From My Collection. It was certified double platinum after having sold over two million copiesĮach record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.Īll items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Negatively received by critics on release, the album is now considered one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time. Master of Reality peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart and number eight on the US Billboard 200. Guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler downtuned their instruments during the production, achieving what Iommi called a "bigger, heavier sound". Produced by Rodger Bain, who also produced the band's prior two albums, Master of Reality was recorded at Island Studios in London from February to April 1971. It is regarded by some critics as the foundation of doom metal, stoner rock, and sludge metal. Master of Reality is the third studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released on 21 July 1971 by Vertigo Records.
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