BLACK SABBATH MASTER OF REALITY VERTIGO 1st UK PRESS
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Black Sabbath’s third abum from 1971, ‘Master Of Reality’ on the VERTIGO SWIRL label, catalogue number 6360 050. First press matrices are 1Y // 1 and 2 // Y1. Kicking off with Ozzie’s ode to the weed, ‘Sweet Leaf’ slams in with the usual sledgehammer riffing from Iommi and Butler. This FIRST UK PRESSING has so much more weight to the sound than the weak re-issues on other labels !! It really is awesome !! Showing that more positive approach, ‘After Forever’ fades in with a swirling synth before Iommi and Butler fire off another stomping classic Sabbath riff. This song contains the immortal, “ Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope” line. Probably only slightly less memorable than “ Generals gathered in their masses……..”. The rollicking live favourite ‘Children Of The Grave’ is up next. Powered along by Bill Ward’s thundering drums it just shudders out of the speakers at you with tremendous power !! Side two opens with the delicately melodic Tony Iommi guitar composition ‘Orchid’. But its only a short interlude to the detuned groove of ‘Lord Of This World’, with Ozzie lambasting the Luciferian rulers of Planet Earth. The lovely ballad ‘Solitude’ follows with its beautiful melodies and dreamy flutes (yes, flutes !). Ozzie showing great sensitivity with a wonderfully fluid vocal. Once again its only the calm before the storm and ‘Into The Void’ announces itself with a crunching guitar stab from Iommi that rips into yet another classic Sabbath epic !! Ozzie once again bemoaning the state of Planet Earth and the search for a better world. A fantastic album that still sounds SO HEAVY !! Amazing stuff !! The vinyl grades VG+ condition but plays as EXCELLENT for the most part. NO GROOVE WEAR OR DISTORTION, just that awesome Sabbath sound as only these FIRST UK VERTIGO pressings have. The sleeve grades as VG condition. All in all, axample great sounding of this classic Black Sabbath album.
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