BLACK SABBATH 1970 UK 1ST VERIGO SWIRL MONSTER

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Apr 3, 2010 Sold Date

Mar 27, 2010 Start Date

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BLACK SABBATH - 1ST ALBUM -

VERTIGO UK 1970 pressing, with date coded ‘April 1970’ (4/70)

SLEEVE - THICK NON-LAMINATED GATEFOLD

UK 1ST PRESS WITH SWIRL INNER SLEEVE

FANTASTIC ALBUM--A BETTER ONE IS HARD TO FIND FROM THIS MASTERPIECE BY THE BAND

VERTIGO SPIRAL VO6 847903 VTY ENGLAND IN 1970 FOC

condition

sleeve // disc : VG+ // VG+

** Review ( in allmusicguide ) by Steve Huey

Black Sabbath's debut album is given over to lengthy songs and suite-like pieces where individual songs blur together and riffs pound away one after another, frequently under extended jams. There isn't much variety in tempo, mood, or the band's simple, blues-derived musical vocabulary, but that's not the point; Sabbath's slowed-down, murky guitar rock bludgeons the listener in an almost hallucinatory fashion, reveling in its own dazed, druggy state of consciousness. Songs like the apocalyptic title track, "N.I.B.," and "The Wizard" make their obsessions with evil and black magic seem like more than just stereotypical heavy metal posturing because of the dim, suffocating musical atmosphere the band frames them in. This blueprint would be refined and occasionally elaborated upon over the band's next few albums, but there are plenty of metal classics already here.

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