Master Of Reality - Black Sabbath Reviews

Hot off recording the infernal heavy metal album classic ‘Paranoid,’ Black Sabbath listened to their fast-growing fan base over their numerous critics, and unleashed the heaviest, dingiest and most consistent record of their seventies heyday. Finally shaking off the ‘evil blues’ sound that sadly dates their first two albums, Sabbath refine, define ...  Read the complete review

In the space of a couple of years Black Sabbath released four of the greatest rock albums of all time. It's strange how bands seem to spend that long in the studio these days to come up with just one album. Master of Reality was the third of those seminal, genre defining classics. It may not be their best known album from the early ...  Read the complete review

The Sabs third album is no doubt their sludgiest and heaviest. It's supersonic and powerful, thick, almost leaden riffs display a terrific raw energy. More complete than the band's second recording, Paranoid, which seems to have significant holes in composition; Master is a masterful collection of songs made only more incredibly by Tony ...  Read the complete review

Building on the immense success of Paranoid was not going to be easy for Black Sabbath, but now they were a band in their prime, and could take on the world. They had gained a new, unwanted fan base in the screaming kids who revelled in the hit single Paranoid, and the image these kids sported did not suit the band at all. And so with the release ...  Read the complete review

Sabbath are awesome. I got into these through a crappy tape of the 1st two albums, and just had to buy the rest. And of them, this is my fave. Any of the Ozzy era albums blow all the (mixed quality) others out the water. But Master... has it all. It mixes the heavy, riffy classics Sweet Leaf and After Forever, then a ...  Read the complete review