Reviews Written by RESIST.

Sab's Greatest Effort

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 Cooper, 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. ...