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Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (Remastered) (CD)

Master of Reality (Remastered)
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Album Details: Master of Reality (Remastered)

Release Date:09/22/1998
Label:Castle Music Uk
UPC:5050159100521

Track List: Master of Reality (Remastered)

  1. Sweet Leaf  
  2. After Forever  
  3. Embryo  
  4. Children Of The Grave  
  1. Orchid  
  2. Lord Of This World  
  3. Solitude  
  4. Into The Void  

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    Sab's Greatest Effort

    By PLEH.  Jan 22, 2007

    Pros: Every track.

    Cons: None.

    Great album. It takes me back to 1971, when I was an impressionable 4 year old boy. While my dad was on his second tour of duty in Vietnam, and my mother was working, my brothers and my sister were smoking pot and listening to Deep Purple, Alice Coop...er, Led Zeppelin, and especially Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality. I must say, as a small child, those gothic tones really had a strange effect on me, and it profoundly influenced me later in life, when I learned to play guitar as a teenager. I disagree that they used the same formula on this one, because Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler tuned their instruments down (I do not read music, but I am thinking they are tuned down to C#, which you will hear on newer metal CD's like Korn, Sepultura, and a host of dark metal bands), giving the overall ambiance a deeper, darker, maybe even more sinister tone. As always, their lyrics (a good majority written by Butler) were strong and fit well within context of the music. Made me a Sabbath fan to the core. Read more Less

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    Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (1971)

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jan 15, 2006

    Pros: Some of sabs best work.....

    Cons: Not really anything....

    The 3rd Sab release...."Master of Reality" find the sabs using the same formula as the first 2 albums...gloomy doomy slow hypontic guitar riffs and Ozzy's usual over the top singing voice with darker themes in the songwriting department.... Couple of the best songs in the sabbath cannon are here... Starting off with Tony Iommi coughing and being played in a manipulative echoey kinda way...into "Sweetleaf"..ki
    nda thumps along with a lil mid song jam that picks up the song and puts it into overdrive...a definate sab classic, but not my favorite on here...That would have to be the next one "After Forever"...The lyrics to this are pretty awesome and Ozzy sings it like he was put here on earth to do it...the song never gets dull or repetitive and has some awesome soloing in it by Iommi as well. The next is another well known classic "Children of the Grave"...the little instrumental piece that preludes it..."Embyro" always fasicnated me too...it's top of the line sab on these cuts..."Orchid" is another tiny instrumental and they seem to kinda balance out the entire album. "Lord of this world" is a song that's pretty hypnotic...the riffing just kinda keeps you in entranced in it...doesnt get dull, also has more awesome lyrics..."Solitude&q
    uot; is a more differnt kinda song, not usual sabbath stuff...kinda like on the previous album 'Paranoid'...&quo
    t;Planet Caravan"..is what this song reminds me of...just slow and ballady but interesting enough to keep your attention (is this Ozzy or Bill Ward though?...I think Ozzy)...another favorite here "Into the Void"...closes off the album with some excellent soloing and music changes within the song...perfect way to close it. Summing it up...Pretty decent album from the sabs...by the 5th album they'd shot their load basically with Sab Bloody Sab...Sabotage is another bona fide classic too however...review coming on that. Pick this up...actually pick em all up with Ozzy at least. RR     Read more Less

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  • All Music Guide

    With Paranoid, Black Sabbath perfected the formula for their lumbering heavy metal. On its followup, 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. - Stephen Th...omas Erlewine, All Music Guide Read more Less

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