It was like four kids let loose in Toys R Us,” recalls Geezer of the ensuing carnage. “As to be expected of four blokes in their early 20s, we went a bit wild. Booze, women, drugs, nice hotels, private planes – all of it paid for by what we loved doing. But as with everything, too much of a good thing has its downside.” The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. 18 November 2003. Archived from the original on 6 January 2007 . Retrieved 1 September 2009. Think I am just joshing? Being contrary for the sake of it? Then take off your obsession based nostalgia goggles and take a look at the album's artwork. This is the same band who managed to snag a perfect visual representation on their debut by having one of the best album sleeves in all of music history, yet just two albums later we get artwork with just the title and nothing else. I guess they thought we would be happy they are written in giant font but no, the font is ugly, the colors are weak and it reeks of laziness. About the only good(?) thing I can say about it is that it DOES perfectly represent most of the music herein quite perfectly. At least the music that most like the album for. How is that I know you are not asking, but this imminent slashing, could be repeated for most of the albums songs....

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Note that the timing of "Orchid" on revised US pressings is incorrect: it includes the "Step Up" introductory section of "Lord of This World." The timing of "Solitude" on these pressings is also incorrect, as it includes the first half of "Into the Void", whereas the timings of "Deathmask" and "Into the Void" from the original US pressing should have been grouped instead. The following is the 2010 Rhino / Warner Bros vinyl re-release. It shows the original raised “embossed” lettering used for “Master of Reality”. The true original vinyl looks like this (the vinyl in question has not held up well). Tell me how the first time I ever heard “Children Of The Grave” that I thought the eerie outro voices sounded like Jason Voorhees. What better way to capture such a dark and eruptive disc of what many call the first true doom metal album than with a horror movie figure? It’s no secret that Master Of Reality has a reputation for being the one that dropped everything down and executed its rhythms the way we know and love the genre today, even fifty years later. But how they managed to darken even the songs written in a lighter vein to a scarier degree is just mind blowing.

Taylor 2006, pg. 199, "Some say that Master of Reality was the first stoner metal album. The album as a whole is more late 1960s Heavy Psych in the vain of May Blitz, Grand Funk Railroad, and Leaf Hound." Terence "Geezer" Butler (bass) - With the mentality "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," Geezer continues in his trademark fashion. His detuned bass (relatively matching Iommi's tuning) lends a heaviness to the album not seen in other bands around the time. Highlights include Sweet Leaf, in particular in the under the guitar solo (more like band solo) Jaaroverzichten – Album 1971" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022 . Retrieved 26 July 2023. Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. 1971. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022 . Retrieved 2 April 2022.

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Huey, Steve. "Review Master of Reality". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 11 August 2019 . Retrieved 17 December 2019. No band could maintain such appetites. Remarkably, Sabbath’s hot streak lasted until 1973’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (“It was downhill all the way after that,” says Ozzy). But a half-century later, Master Of Reality marks the final time that metal’s founding fathers functioned as a fist-tight unit. Master of Reality peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart and number eight on the US Billboard 200. [ citation needed] Though negatively received by critics on release, the album is now considered one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time. It was certified double platinum after having sold over two million copies. [6] Recording [ edit ] Well, and the question is: is “Master of Reality” a good album? Yes, it is, no doubts about it. It's incredible how a band could release three top notch albums in two mere years, but, I tell you, Sabbath did it. While not being a long record (“Master of Reality” contains six songs and two interludes, with the total playing time being, roughly, 35 minutes), it is a very cohesive and strong piece, all the songs flowing well together and sounding fresh. Sadly, “Master of Reality” is often despised by the majority of the people, who constantly say that “Paranoid” is the “be-all, end-all” of Sabbath's catalogue. How wrong they are, indeed...

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US-made compact disc pressings of Master of Reality continue to list the incorrect timings of the Revised US LP pressing on the CD booklet. [37] However, the songs are not indexed on the CD using those timings – the breaks between songs are correctly placed. Larkin, Colin (1994). Guinness Book of Top 1000 Albums (1ed.). Gullane Children's Books. p.188. ISBN 978-0-85112-786-6. Master Of Reality is where we found ourselves,” Bill told music journalist and Hammer legend Malcolm Dome. “I know people feel that Sabbath invented heavy metal with our debut album – and that is true to some extent. But I believe that it’s with Master Of Reality that we proved the potential and power of the music.”

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As I wrote above that could describe the entire album. After Forever and Children Of the Grave are the albums stronger moments but like all the other numbers, they fall somewhat flat because of two problems. First are the vocals, the way he ends the lyric lines in the verses of After Forever, or the unbelievably awful delivery during the opening lines for Lord Of This World, which is a song that perfectly represents my second problem. The music.Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Rolling Stone. 2012. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019 . Retrieved 9 September 2019. John "Ozzy" Osbourne (vocals) - Ozzy's voice is continually improving, gaining a little strength and some range. The change is evident on Sweet Leaf. Of particular not is the rather un-Ozzylike performance on Solitude, which has even real fans in disbelief that it's really him. Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1sted.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5. Tony Iommi – guitar, synthesizer on "After Forever" and "Children of the Grave", flute and piano on "Solitude", acoustic guitar on "Orchid", cough on "Sweet Leaf" And right there I'd like to state a point. "Solitude" is one of my favourite songs ever. Not my favourite Sabbath song, och my favourite "soft" Sabbath song, but one of the songs that has affected me more than most things in life has. Maybe it's just because it has an personal meaning for me, but then again, it is an incredible song. Ozzy shows off his range as a vocalist, proving everybody wrong who said he could't sing - And everything instrumental is just perfect. The eerie flutes, guitars and pianos creates an athmosphere uncompelled in any song I've ever heard. It gives me images of a very suicidal person, sitting in a misty forest, bleak and misguided by love, ready to take his life. Chilling. beautiful and brilliant.