With Paranoid, Black Sabbath perfected the formula for their lumbering heavy metal. On its follow-up, Master of Reality, the group merely repeated the formula, setting the stage for a career of recycling the same sounds and riffs. But on Master of Reality Sabbath still were fresh and had a seemingly endless supply of crushingly heavy riffs to bludgeon their audiences into sweet, willing oblivion. If the album is a showcase for anyone, it is Tony Iommi, who keeps the album afloat with a series of slow, loud riffs, the best of which -- "Sweet Leaf" and "Children of the Grave" among them -- rank among his finest playing. Taken in tandem with the more consistent Paranoid, Master of Reality forms the core of Sabbath's canon. There are a few stray necessary tracks scattered throughout the group's other early-'70s albums, but Master of Reality is the last time they delivered a consistent album and its influence can be heard throughout the generations of heavy metal bands that followed.
"So you children of the world, listen to what I sayIf you want a better place to live in spread the words todayShow the world that love is still alive you must be braveOr you children of today are Children of the Grave."Children of the Grave - Master of Reality 1971http://www.black-sabbath.com/index.htmlCLICK ABOVEThis is the World Wide Web site for the premiere heavy metal band, Black Sabbath....
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"So you children of the world, listen to what I sayIf you want a better place to live in spread the words todayShow the world that love is still alive you must be braveOr you children of today are Children of the Grave."Children of the Grave - Master of Reality 1971http://www.black-sabbath.com/index.htmlCLICK ABOVEThis is the World Wide Web site for the premiere heavy metal band, Black Sabbath....
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A room full of denim and leather. Neon light reflected posters on the wall. Feathered hair and black suede moccasins. The aroma of beer cans, cigarette smoke and the faint perfume of unrecycled whiskey bottles...Somebody walks over to the stereo and switches the toggle from tape to phono. After sliding the record from the sleeve I hear the crackle of the needle coming through the speakers. All ...
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| 1 Sweet Leaf |
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| 2 After Forever |
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| 3 Embryo [Instrumental] |
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| 4 Children of the Grave |
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| 5 Orchid [Instrumental] |
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| 6 Lord of This World |
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| 7 Solitude |
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| 8 Into the Void |
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