BLACK SABBATH S/T 1st ALBUM INSANELY RARE 1970 UK VERTIGO SWIRL LP VG+
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BLACK SABBATH s/t THE FIRST , SELF-TITLED BLACK SABBATH ALBUM . ULTRA-RARE BRITISH PRESSING - 1970 VERTIGO RECORDS UK STEREO LP VO-6
· GENUINE U.K. PRESSING
· ULTRA-RARE VERY EARLY PRESSING CIRCA LATE 1970/EARLY 1971 ON BLACK AND WHITE 'VERTIGO SWIRL' LABEL
· THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, RECORD CLUB RELEASE OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING .
· ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER (UNLIKE AMERICAN COVERS, WHICH ARE A REGULAR, SINGLE-POCKET VARIETY, THE BRITISH COVERS ARE GATEFOLDS)
· THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
· MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (SEE SCAN..!)
PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER , LABEL , INNER SLEEVE Etc..
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 .
CONDITION :
VINYL : VG to VG+ visual VG (few marks..) but play well VG+ to EX
SLEEVE : VG+ (some signs of normal time , but still in very good condition
INNER SLEEVE : VG+
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